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"if tumblr dies you can find me on bluesky" "if tumblr dies you can find me on Instagram" if tumblr dies you cannot find me. It's over. I'm free.

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Miles Teller as Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw Top Gun: Maverick (2022) dir. Joseph Kosinski

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your blorbo sucks

indeed! not only does he suck, he also swallows

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my career advice isn't "do what you love" it's "do what will give you the most money without making you want to kill yourself"

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Watching The Expanse: One Ship for the first time: Win or Lose

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THE GORGE (2025) dir. Scott Derrickson

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im making this its own post actually

found family is "i have endured the fucking horrors with these guys. i would both kill and die for them. i would rip my own bones out to make splints to heal theirs. there is no name for the bond we share"

found family is NOT "this guy is so dad-coded and these guys are so sibling-like and—"

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people think that sci fi is about actors throwing themselves around spaceships but it's also about being bald and goth

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Once—once I give you the signal for air, you’re gonna flip this switch until the needle gets to 1-20. When the engine starts, you gotta pull all the pins and disconnect everything.

You understand?

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ok, so, I'm starting a new thread because every other posts is getting never-ending. I want to talk a bit, again, about Mozilla and the changes that are happening around firefox ToS and commercial model.

So, I won't go again about why I don't trust the changes they are doing and why. I wanna go into something deeper, and worse, I've found out during my conversation with @ms-demeanor.

So, long story short, when Mozilla announced they were acquiring a "privacy" startup called Anonym several months ago, I didn't think much about it. Tech companies acquire startups all the time when they want to do something this or that early stage startup does already. They buy the company, sometimes even for token amounts, and the entire startup joins them as their new "division of Whatever". So, as I said, when Moz announced their acquisition of Anonym, I barely paid attention: sure, sure, mozilla just acqui-hired a bunch of privacy-focused engineers, great.

But ... this morning I started looking in deep, and holly shit. Before I even started looking into the Anonym, I just saw who founded it:

Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood. Two ex-facebook executives, who had been top heads on facebook's advertising and marketing divisions. These are the people who founded Anonym and now work for Mozilla. WHAT. THE. FUCK. These are people who has lead the worst division of Facebook in the worst years of the company. The years that made Zuck to entirely change the name, because "facebook" was considered too toxic. These are the guys who spearheaded converting the entire internet in a surveillance capitalism subproduct. These are THE BAD GUYS of the internet. If enshittification had a face, it would be those two guys up there.

So! Maybe they regret being an absolutely waste of human beings deserving to go to hell a thosand times over and now they want to redeem themselves?? ok let's look at what anonym do.

Mozilla let our guy Brad to write a blog post about this, nice! I can't totally trust his words, but hey, there has to be some kernel of truth in what they are trying to sell, right? so let's check! here's the post:

Holly fuck. HOLLY, FUCKING, FUCK.

Let me copy paste an excerpt:

First, it’s important for us to be clear about the specific problem we’re trying to address. Digital advertising is highly reliant on user level data sharing between various industry participants. A simple example: Ad platforms collect information about the browsing and buying behavior of individuals from millions of websites and apps. That information is often associated with a user’s  “profile” and then is used to determine which ads to show that user. This practice is referred to by a number of terms – tracking, profiling, cross-site sharing, etc. Whatever the term, this approach typically isn’t aligned with people’s reasonable expectation of privacy. And it’s actually not even necessary to drive ad performance. Anonym’s goal is to develop a better approach for the industry.

ok, not bad start, yeah, we all want more privacy, for sure. But then THIS happens:

excuse me, WHAT? so your approach to "better privacy" is:

We shouldn't leak the private data we have from you

The data we mine from you should be anonymized and not linked your personal information when we sell it

We have to be transparent with advertisers so they trust us

We have to be able to met any demand from advertisers

WHAT THE FUCK?

So, 1 & 2 ARE FUCKING LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, at least in the EU (and I think in some states of the US, too). And 3&4 have NOTHING to do with user privacy, but with them being trustable for the people who pays for the ads.

This is FUCKING FACEBOOK. They have created an startup so anyone can use the facebook model for advertisement (data mining, anonymized data selling, scalable to the infinite). They left the monster they build to create a smaller version of that monster that anyone could use for their own company. And then, Mozilla bought them and put them, and their mini facebook, as their new advertisement division.

What the fuck. What THE FUCK.

This is WAY WORSE than what the terms of service changes seemed to point to. They have put the fucking wolves in charge of the sheep.

This is fucking disgusting. Those bastards never, ever, should have got their dirty greedy little hands close to a project like firefox.

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Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

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i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

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do you ever look back at your relationship with someone on the internet and just think oh my god i’m so fucking glad i clicked follow they make my life so much better

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All we're trying to do is survive, but the only way we can do that is by trusting the other people stuck in the same shit as we are. (Silo 2x10 | Into the Fire)

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DO NOT speak to me while untouched by the veronicas is on

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Thank you so much for the tag @thepunkpanther!!

I had a blast making this list, so in turn, I tag everyone who is interested!