An unnamed source told the Post it was like “hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert.”

What the hell is this analogy? "It's like [thing], except if [thing] were totally different." This is like a bad movie script.

To find a heartbeat, a quantum Ghost Murmur tool would have to contend not just with Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic noise from natural and human-made electric currents but also with “the heartbeats of the sheep and dogs and jackrabbits—whatever else is running around out there,” says Chad Orzel, a professor of physics...

I'm glad someone brought this up, it was the first thing that came to my mind.

"Leaked in advance?"

What reason is there to think that it's not just him (or his family, trusted stooges, and other intermediaries) doing this deliberately for his own profit?

It could be. The point of bringing a case like this probably isn't to win it, necessarily, but to demonstrate loyalty to dear leader. Dear Leader wants the case in order to push the Overton window. Its a can't-lose situation for the regime; they get some benefit from either judicial decision.

Seems like an appropriate companion piece:

The 49MB Web Page

I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.

I guess I must have seen that here in the Fedi.

This is a great story to illuminate the large number of problems that could be addressed by decent public transit, better options for walking and biking, etc.

I think a post like this would be more useful with some kind of geographic hint in the title:

[Hawaii, USA] Wahiawa dam failure expected! Haleiwa, Wahiawa: Get to higher ground now!

Of course, best of all would be to post it to a Hawaii community, but I don't know if there is one.

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Remember when the alt-right guys were prosecuted for their khakis-and-polo-shirts, escape-by-blending-into-a-crowd uniforms that demonstrated malice aforethought?

No, me neither.

Its not climate its just weather, bro. The climate has always been changing, bro. Solar? The sun doesn't even shine at night, bro. Your insurance company is just ripping you off, bro. Not every species deserves to make it, bro. How about this April snowball, bro?

That annoys me as well. They call it "astroturfing" because it's fake grassroots. I wonder if we should call this "cyberturfing."

It would be very helpful for my understanding to be able to see this content.

I can understand being curious, I'm curious too.

But it's hard to imagine any circumstance that would make TikTok support's responses seem reasonable in context. They're claiming a right to remix your stuff (where "you" are a paying customer mind you) without your knowledge or consent, and then to disseminate that remix at their discretion.

The specifics of how they altered this ad are almost incidental by comparison.

If they abduct you and disappear you without a trace, that's not really "arresting" you in the first place. It's just kidnapping. They're claiming an expansion of their power to commit kidnappings.