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joetastic2739 · 3 months ago

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Someone accessed my Gmail 2 days ago, compromising my linked accounts like Twitter and YouTube. Here's how it happened, why I fell for it, and what you can learn to avoid making the same mistake:

The scam I fell victim to was a cookie hijack. The hacker used malicious software to steal my browser cookies (stuff like autofill, auto sign in, etc), allowing them to sign in to my Gmail and other accounts, completely bypassing my 2FA and other security protocols.

A few days ago, I received a DM from @Rachael_Borrows, who claimed to be a manager at @Duolingo. The account seemed legitimate. It was verified, created in 2019, and had over 1k followers, consistent with other managers I’d seen at the time n I even did a Google search of this person and didnt find anything suspicious.

She claimed that @Duolingo wanted me to create a promo video, which got me excited and managed to get my guard down. After discussing I was asked to sign a contract and at app(.)fastsigndocu(.)com. If you see this link, ITS A SCAM! Do NOT download ANY files from this site.

Unfortunately, I downloaded a file from the website, and it downloaded without triggering any firewall or antivirus warnings. Thinking it was just a PDF, I opened it. The moment I did, my console and Google Chrome flashed. That’s when I knew I was in trouble. I immediately did an antivirus scan and these were some of the programs it found that were added to my PC without me knowing:

The thing about cookie hijacking is that it completely bypasses 2FA which should have been my strongest line of defense. I was immediately signed out of all my accounts and within a minute, they changed everything: passwords, 2FA, phone, recovery emails, backup codes, etc.

I tried all methods but hit dead ends trying to recover them. Thankfully, my Discord wasn’t connected, so I alerted everyone I knew there. I also had an alternate account, @JLCmapping, managed by a friend, which I used to immediately inform @/TeamYouTube about the situation

Meanwhile, the hackers turned my YouTube channel into a crypto channel and used my Twitter account to spam hundreds of messages, trying to use my image and reputation to scam more victims

Thankfully, YouTube responded quickly and terminated the channel. Within 48 hours, they locked the hacker out of my Gmail and restored my access. They also helped me recover my channel, which has been renamed to JoetasticOfficial since Joetastic_ was no longer available.

Since then, I’ve taken several steps to secure my accounts and prevent this from happening again. This has been a wake-up call to me, and now I am more cautious around people online. I hope sharing it helps others avoid falling victim to similar attacks. (End)

(side note) Around this time, people also started to impersonate me on TikTok and YouTube. With my accounts terminated, anyone searching for "Joetastic" would only find the imposter's profiles. I’m unsure whether they are connected or if it’s just an unfortunate coincidence, but it made the situation even more stressful.

#youtube #scam alert #scam warning

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words-for-holland · 5 years ago

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Happier (3) | T.H.

Summary: Harrison is looking for answers. More unknown text messages and blackmail. A phone conversation takes place. Wait...who’s the new guy?

A/N: Don’t be shy let me know all your theories! Again, thank you for the support on Happier! The story continues!

Puzzle

This whole thing was just a giant puzzle that needed to be solved, but the closer one got to solving it, another complication comes around. The story wasn’t clear for anyone, but for Harrison it was a mess. He had so many questions that needed to be answered, so many clues he wish could have been solved at the snap of a finger.

Tom was too lost in himself to even comprehend the puzzling reality, Y/N while also lost in heartbreak had been awefully quiet since she left London, Kate was lying to Harrison, and Natalie had been too friendly with Tom.

Harrison replayed the conversation with Kate over and over again in his mind, trying to remember every little thing she said that night. He knew Kate was aware of something. Her tone said it all.

“Listen I dont know who you are, but if its the same person that sent my best friend a threatening message that she’s better off breaking up with her boyfriend”

“She received a few messages...from Tom.”

“Oh my god.” Harrison said to himself in realization. How could he have been so dim to not recognize what Kate had said in the first place? He paced around as he continued to think it through. But a threat message? Who would send a threat to Y/N? And what did they threaten her with? Tom and Y/N’s relationship has been secretly hidden from the public for as long as they’d been together. No one knew she even existed...right?

For a moment, Harrison stopped in his tracks, thinking of Natalie. Though he quickly shook the idea off. Natalie may have wanted Tom, but she wouldnt go as far as threatening Y/N. He had been friends with her since they went to primary school, and knew she wouldn’t go that far. “Maybe a stalker fan?” He questioned himself. Though he also quickly ruled it out, but something about it just didnt feel right.

In the kitchen, Harrison took out his laptop and started googling Y/N’s name. If her name didn’t show on the News or one of those Tom Holland fan accounts, it would at least answer one theory. As he scrolled through pages and pages, nothing showed up until...he found on account. He logged into the site and browsed the history, realizing it was all about Y/N and Toms life. Not as a couple but seperately. It all seemed too strange. Only very few accounts followed it and yet no other accounts in the world had mentioned Y/N. Harrison quickly shut his laptop when he saw Natalie enter the room.

“Oh don’t mind me just...grabbing a water.” She giggled, making her way to the fridge.

“Hey mate...uh..I guess everyone got hungry at the same time?” Harry asked, a bit surprised to see Harrison and Natalie in the kitchen.

“Yeah. I guess.” Harrison muttered.

“Well aren’t you a ray of sunshine. If i didn’t know I’d say you were the one more affected by the break up then Tom and Y/N themselves.” Natalie commented.

“No. It’s just that I dont think Y/N broke up with Tom just because of some rumors about you and him.” He explained rubbing his face from exhaustion. Natalie’s smile dropped, when she heard Harrison mention his potential theory.

“Well...did you talk to Y/N about it?” Harry asked him, also intrigued by the theory. “Now that I think about it she —“

“Oh come on. Just leave the poor girl alone. Im sure she knew what was best for the both of them. You’ll only make it worse.” Natalie interrupted, taking a sip from her water. “Well since you boys are all talk, Im gonna go find something more worth my while.”

Out of sight and out of mind, Natalie made a quick call about what she heard. “Harrison’s getting suspicious, and so is Harry.”

“Time to clean up then.” The unknown number spoke out before hanging up on Natalie completely.

Meanwhile, Kate had managed to get Y/N out of the apartment and walk the streets of the city. Her heart and spirits were still low, but she appreciated the efforts. Kate and Y/N went around stuffing their faces with crepes and ice cream. It was the cure to any bad days, but it wouldnt have been a Kate and Y/N date if they didn’t hang around the New York Aquarium. It was also the perfect time to crack out what Y/N really knew about the unknown text message, and who was harrassing the both of them. “Look, I know I promised you a stress free outing, but I saw a text from your phone the night you came back home.” Kate confessed.

Y/N’s face became pale almost as if she’d seen a ghost. She knew, and now there was no point in going back. “So you know then.” She says quietly looking at the fishes.

“I only know they threatened you.” Kate states, leaving out that she, herself, was also threatened. Y/N had enough on her plate to worry about, and it wouldn’t be the best time to being up how her message also threatened their friendship. “How long?” She continues.

“Weeks maybe. They started around the time I was fighting with Tom.” Y/N vents, she takes a deep breath before she continues. “Each message was worse than the last. They threatened that if I didnt leave, Tom would lose career, and I...I couldnt do that to him.” Tears were falling slowly, but Y/N was quick to pick them.

“Why didnt you tell him?”

“Yeah, Kate let me just tell him the truth of why I left him because the messages weren’t offensive nor threatening enough. And let’s just assume that the person texting wouldn’t blackmail either of us if they knew I said something. Anyways, maybe it was for the best...I could never fit in his world and those past few months just proved that.” Y/N’s words continue to spill out every fear and thought she had bottled up within her. It felt good..for a moment, but nothing can really erase a heartbreak of losing the one you loved.

As the pair walked through the shark tunnel, Y/N bumped into a tall figure. “Oh my god, Im so sorry...Matt?” she asked in confusion. The moment Y/N looked up into those familiar brown eyes hidden behind the thin glasses, she knew. How could she forget?

“Y/N? Wow, it’s been so long how are you?” Matt greeted as he wrapped her into a hug. “Kate, it’s good to see you again too.”

“Yeah, we’re great, just you know...navigating life.” Kate responded to him. “We haven’t seen you since what? High school?”

Matt smiled and nodded at Kate’s response, his focus remaining on Y/N. He didn’t remember much with Kate back in high school, but Y/N was a different story. They were good friends at the time, always competing in classes, but as junior year rolled by things got awkward. Y/N was falling for Matt while he didn’t return the favor at the time. Though he’d be lying if he didn’t say he may have felt the same at one point, but just never committed. Now all grown up, he didn’t realize how pretty she turned out, but her personality wasn't there. He must have figured something was wrong. After all, a girl with that kind of spunk back in the day, didn't seem like the one to lose hers so easily. “Yeah, look. I know it’s kind of a spur in the moment, but maybe we can all hang out sometime? I’d love to catch up.”

Kate was all for it, but Y/N felt a tension she wasn’t sure if she wanted to act upon. After all, breaking up with your boyfriend after 2 weeks, because of threatening messages and still loving him deeply, it wasn’t an easy thing to move on from. Then again it’s not like Matt was asking for a date, it was just to catch up after not seeing each other for 6 years. “Uh, maybe. I have to check my schedule, and see when Im free, but I can let you know” Y/N answers him.

“Great, well..here’s my number, and hopefully I hear from you guys. I gotta get back to my brother, so hope to see you around.” he quickly says as he walks away.

“Wow. Matt Brynne, who would have guessed?” Kate says, breaking the silence.

“I know...Funny I used to be so head over heels with him at the time, and now I barely feel a thing.”

“Well yeah, cause you still love...you-know-who.” she teases, though it probably wasn't the best time to be making that type of joke with everything going on.

“And I don't think I’ll ever stop.” Y/N mutters to herself. As Y/N and Kate make their way forward, Kate’s phone began to vibrate.

Unknown

Set up a date and take a picture of Y/N and that boy you posted on your insta story. Or Y/N finds out the truth about what you did. XOXO

Kate looked up as she cursed herself, realizing she forgot to keep her story private. It was supposed to be a harmless post of old friends reuniting and now the unknown number has used it as blackmail. It would have been easy to find the culprit, but her view count was up in the thousands with unfamiliar faces. It’s what she gets after gaining a decent following on TikTok. Kate couldn’t let Y/N know what she did, and she’d make sure she would hide that truth from her for as long as she can. “Hey, Y/N...I think we should hit up Matt.” she says, running after her best friend.

At the same time, another texted popped from Y/N’s phone. She picked up thinking it might have been a group chat with her close friends, but it was from the only person who could make her heart flutter and break simultaneously.

Tom

I can’t stop thinking about you. About us. I still love you.

Y/N almost called him..almost, but she knew better. She couldn’t...not unless she wanted to continue to hurt each other.

Meanwhile, back in London, Harrison was ready to come clean to Tom about what he’d found out. He watched as Tom finished typing on his phone, and throwing it on the side of the bed, rubbing his face. This was the new normal. Tom being alone in the dark, reflecting on his sadness and exhaustion. Only stepping out when needed and keeping up smiles for appearances.

It was then Harrison was ready to knock on the door, when his phone received a notification.

Unknown

Don’t even think about it. Or I’ll make sure you and your lads careers are over for good.

Harrison sighed deeply, as he put his phone down, and walked away. Until he came to a most probable conclusion. “Natalie.” he says anger. “I should have fucking known.” At this point he no longer cared, about who she was before and how they were friends. The timing of it all seemed too perfect. Her arrival, the eavesdropping, the flirting. It had to be her but with what proof other than unknown numbers and good timing? Another part of him feared...what if it wasn't her?

Meanwhile, Tom was still unaware of what was really happening behind his door, but he did know, he had to take a chance now and try to contact her instead of sending these useless messages. In the moment, he showed no signs of regret, only praying Y/N would pick up so he could hear her voice.

“Tom?” Y/N answers hesitantly.

Tom closes his eyes, as he takes in her soft and gently voice. “Y/N.” he speaks softly into the phone.

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evilcatgirlwizard · 5 years ago

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damn... i thought the mention of michael would work /j

anyway i do think ill go into more depth actually .

Daisy - Jon

Daisy only joined up with the Magnus Institute because she lived right across from the old, creepy-ass building and it had a "Help Wanted" sign up after one of (??? whoever subs in for Gertrude. I ironically wanna say Gerry.)'s final assistants goes missing. She ONLY joins because Basira was already there helping with the library. Once (whoever subs in for Elias. whos old and shitty. Ah. Leitner.) spots Daisy, almost 6'4" and bulkier than three of ANYONE else who works there, Leitner decides Yep, That's The Archivist. That, and she's easy to manipulate bc shes down on her luck, and she already knows about freaky shit. And Basira is there. That's... Yeah that's a good bonus.

Jon is a cop marked by the Slaughter. Same shit! John tries his best to only gunmurder the awful folk, but he has a short fuckin' temper and literally no one but Martin, his platonic partner (at this point) knows how to calm him down. He's bitter that his English degree meant nothing. He met Michael in college, and they dated for a while until a lil bit after graduation, where Jon dumped him literally seconds after a Slaughter avatar did some freaky shit in front of them.

Martin - Basira

Basira's just vibing. She's having a good time ngl? She's a fierce librarian and is just kinda here to chill. She brings coffee to the office every morning so people like her. She's, occasionally TOO chill. Not that she'll be pushed around, but she's painfully aloof. It's the trauma.

Martin's also kinda just vibing? His mom's an ex-cop so he just joined up to make HER. happy. He joined up just a year out of highschool, and only bc of his mom. She pulled some Strings. He's used to dealing with Jon's shit and is his braincell. Met Michael and is buds with him, but does NOT realize its. The same Michael.

Georgie - Michael

Georgie is the avatar of the Spiral! And it is ALWAYS fun. She can't feel fear, she can't stop giggling. It's fun! She makes the Spiral a bit more about twisting your emotions. Instead of making doors--which she can still do?--she makes peoples emotions change in wild ways they did NOT want them to go. She did work for Gerry before he died, and Gerry only sacrificed her to the Spiral when she begged him to let her at least try to reason with it.

Michael is a Normal Boy. A Regular Lad. Sure, he's six foot eight and hasn't cut his hair since middle school, but he's fine! He owns a little apartment where he writes screenplays for haunted house documentaries. He has six cats. He goes to tea with Martin a lot! As platonic buds. He also doesn't realize that Martin's crush Jon is his Jon.

Gertrude - Gerry

Why not? God is dead. Gertrude's father, Jared Hopworth, is obsessed with collecting weird bones, which meant that (enter Gerry's sad backstory here except all Evil Magic Leitner Books are Evil Magic Jonah Bones). Gertrude said Fuck This Noise and left to go be punk and try and destroy old burial sites. She died trying to help Gerry take down some bullshit The Flesh was up to.

Gerry is. Here. Well he isn't. Leitner found him and said "ah. My goth now." to which Gerry responded with "What?". He was appointed Archivist, and was immediately suspicious because you don't just hire some random nobody off the street and make him your head anything. He found some Hella Dirt on Leitner's past, and in return Leitner threatened his life and the lives of everyone he knows to keep quiet. Also go stop all these others from doing shit. The second part Gerry was actually into so he went and did it. He hired a group of three, and didn't purposefully kill them, unlike Gertrude. But like Jon, they died anyway. He tried to send Georgie away, but she got got. He tried to protect Gertrude, but she refused to let HIM die and died herself. He eventually found his way to get into the tunnels and met Jonah, who said "i mean i didnt do the carvings on the evil bones, i just collected them" and then Gerry died.

Jonah and Leitner

Jonah sucks less ass! Finally! You're morally allowed to be horny for Onceler Three: Now Hes British! In his youth, he tried to collect bones of Evil note, usually carved with Evil symbols. He learned how to read only part of the bones etc etc. Gertrude tried to kill him once, but he screamed like a wimp so she said fuck it. Wanted in fourteen American states for theft and graverobbing.

Leitner sucks ass! He made the Leitner Institute, and is pretending to be his own grandson. He still collects evil books, but now in the name of beaurocracy and The Eye. Tries to use his Old Man Charm to make people not want to beat his face in. But when they DO still want to beat his face in, he knows his way around an evil ass book and Will threaten deadly, or extremely painful, repurcussions. He's old friends with Agnes (Peter's replacement).

Peter Lukas and Agnes

Peter was an alright dude before he died! He was born made to be the avatar for The Lonely but never really... Wanted to be alone. He demanded his family to stay with him and threw fits about being alone until he was well over 14. Then they sent him to Hilltop Road to live with the lone Pastor there, which later disappeared in a flood. Sad. He's oceanophobic and dated some guy from a McDonalds for a while until Peter was murdered for not being anything The Lonely wanted him to be.

Agnes sucks and I am sorry. The Flame guides The Eye, and shows it the way. That's the deal made forever ago. She's buds with Leitner, they used to go threaten people with existential harm in their "youth". >:3c

Melanie - Sasha

Melanie is a soon to be dead archival assistant! Woop! She's tough as nails and really, really wishes she hadn't met Basira, got a little gay, and joined the Institute JUST to meet her. It's the impulsive nonsense, 's why she's Not Melanie and then Not Alive.

Sasha came in late, thankfully! She was too busy making a spooks and creeps blog. She's like, one of those weirdly popular Tumblr blogs that has a Patreon that actually gets patrons. It's wild and it's how she lives, baby. Until, well. She gets Scooby Doo'd, reports on it, then goes on a posting tangent and whoops there goes her followers. She's sad! She's even sadder she went to the Leitner Institute to give a statement and also got a little gay. She also got a very haunted.

i dont know what to do with tim. hes tim? hes tim. tim gets swapped with tim. im tired

(At this point i paused to type the tags)

*HELEN*

Helen and Tim

Helen is a nice but kind of sassy archival assistant! She originally did field work for the Institute, going out on long trips to gather other countries statements, but was brought back when Daisy became the Head Archivist. She's the level-headed one, whereas everyone else is Angry And Wlw. She has the braincell, thank god someone has to, and tries to keep everyone from going batshit.

Tim? Tim on the other hand? Barista. Georgie asked him to show her the bathroom at 3:33am and got abducted for a while. He escaped, made his statement--he and Daisy almost got into a fight before Georgie popped up again and stole that lad. When Georgie attempted on Daisy's life, Tim took over and said "Don't You Fucking Dare". Now Tim's Fuckhands McTimbs and he's here to be >:::::)))))))))))))))))

youre the only blog i could find that would accept this dumbshit(perhaps) au where jon+martin+georgie are swapped with daisy+basira+michael. daisy is the new archivist and shes pissed that she took 10 YEARS of practical fighting school and gets stuck with a shitty desk job. but the Eye likes her anyway bc she'll beat info outta ppl. basira is in a similar boat to daisy but basiras accepted that she did library science so this is her fate. theyre friends who stop the apoc. michael is also there.

sadly if you think i’d accept anything purely by dint of michael being there you have the wrong gerry delano

no though oh SHIT archivist daisy that sounds like it would take a HELL of a lot of wiggling stuff around and i’d be interested in seeing how the heck you made it work out like!!!! if you make a post writing out more of your thoughts/plans for this type of thing i’d be down to read it for sure!

#TMA #the magnus archives #peter lukas #tma sasha #tim tma #jon tma #jon sims #jonathan sims #the archivist #jonah magnus #elias bouchard #elias bitchard #michael distortion #FUCK WAIT #helen tma #helen distortion

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theconservativebrief · 7 years ago

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It’s been a hard few weeks for Twitter. Following its initial refusal to ban controversial far-right conspiracist Alex Jones and Infowars, the ensuing backlash sent the company scrambling to rethink its policies, as both users and members of its own staff grew frustrated with its seeming inconsistency in enforcing those policies. Eventually, Twitter did suspend Jones and his Infowars accounts — but only temporarily.

In the midst of all of this, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a flurry of press appearances in an apparent attempt to be transparent about his company’s decision-making, and to explain what’s been happening from his perspective.

None of these interviews give a clear explanation for why Twitter can’t just ban Alex Jones, as it has right-wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos and numerous hate groups. But they do give us a glimpse at how convoluted and strangely dated Twitter’s decision-making process is — even as the company seems to be striving to enact more convoluted policies it’s not prepared to enforce.

Dorsey has given multiple contradictory explanations for Twitter’s approach to handling Jones, but above all, he’s been consistent on one point: not bowing to public opinion and pressure to act.

On Sunday, in a follow-up to an exclusive report last week on an internal Twitter staff meeting, the New York Times published a brief interview with Dorsey. In it, he responded to a Times opinion piece written by Kara Swisher (who also writes for Vox sister site Recode) that argued that Twitter should be operating from a consistent value system rather than prioritizing free speech. Dorsey’s response to the Times was that the company needs more values.

“She wanted to see values over rules,” Dorsey told the Times. “And I think what is missing in that discussion is that I think it is a false dichotomy. Our rules derived from our original values. I think we might have focused too much on one value without looking more broadly at other values that we should integrate, but also how we should prioritize those values.”

If that all sounds vague and noncommittal, things get weirder from there.

On Wednesday, a preview of an interview Dorsey gave to NBC set tongues wagging about his assertion that putting Jones in “timeout” via a temporary suspension might make the longtime conspiracy theorist rethink his behavior. Dorsey responded on Twitter to one critic of this viewpoint, BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel.

I’d argue that this line of thinking from @jack is part of the problem. Jones and others are not normal users. Jones has been doing this for 20+ years (and it’s been very lucrative!). A suspension is not going to make him rethink his behaviors pic.twitter.com/jAaZFItjdt

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) August 15, 2018

Dorsey argued that “there will never be a perfect endpoint” in the evolution of Twitter’s content policies and enforcement actions.

We have some evidence to show this does work. It won’t in every case. And we need to constantly evolve our enforcement actions. There will never be a perfect endpoint.

— jack (@jack) August 15, 2018

In the fuller version of Dorsey’s NBC interview, which aired Wednesday night, Dorsey insisted that “we hold every account to the same standard, to the same rules,” and that he felt the many other companies that had banned Jones, including Facebook and YouTube, had been inconsistent in their decision-making — which, in fairness to Dorsey, did come after some flip-flopping on the parts of the other platforms. But Dorsey also admitted that “We do sometimes feel like we’re behind the circumstances that are pushing us.”

Finally, also on Wednesday, in an interview with the Hill, Dorsey attempted to put Jones’s suspension-but-not-ban into concrete terms.

“Our model right now relies heavily on people reporting violations and reporting things they find suspicious, and then we can act on it,” he stated. In essence, because people massively reported Jones’s latest incendiary tweets and videos after the backlash, Twitter did something about them. That may seem like a recipe for inconsistency, but Dorsey insisted that Twitter’s goal is to automate this process.

He also insisted this automation will be unbiased and fair. “We want to be open and available and accessible to all perspectives and viewpoints,” he said in the interview. “We don’t want any of our policies or enforcement or products to make decisions based on viewpoints and ideologies.”

While Jones’s account is suspended, Jones obviously can’t post new content for Twitter or his fellow users to respond to. But his previous tweets are still available for public perusal, and his feeds will doubtless continue to come under scrutiny by Twitter users as well as content moderators.

Dorsey’s answer to Twitter’s consistency problem seems to be to pile on more rules and changes rather than consistently enforcing what rules are already in place. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that in addition to looking into a new policy against “dehumanizing speech,” Twitter is now thinking about trying to “promote alternative viewpoints in Twitter’s timeline to address misinformation and reduce ‘echo chambers.’”

This drew immediate response from frustrated users who pointed out that studies on the “echo chamber” phenomenon suggest that echo chambers on social media are primarily self-selected out of a wish to avoid harassment, challenging of one’s ideals, and other intense conversations. One popular thread argued that attempting to cross-pollinate Twitter’s ideological streams would only increase harassment while fortifying ideological polarization, rather than combating it.

Twitter’s plan to discourage echo chambers by having tweets from outside your follower network show up in your feed is a horrendously disastrous idea on its face, but fundamentally does not understand what echo chambers are, how they work, and how they are maintained.

— Down With The Slothness (@CaseyExplosion) August 16, 2018

Other Twitter users are doing their best to be heard amid the noise, most notably through a viral blockchain colloquially known as the #block500party. Created by marketing activist Shannon Coulter, the movement makes it easy to mass-block the Twitter accounts of Fortune 500 companies, thereby directly targeting Twitter’s most lucrative potential advertisers in an attempt to get Twitter to ban Jones.

Reminder to all the Fortune 500 executives watching my Tweets right now, the moment Twitter drops Alex Jones, I’ll immediately unblock all the companies on the list, which means 70,000+ Twitter highly engaged Twitter users will too. Reach out to your account rep at Twitter today.

— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 17, 2018

So far, it hasn’t worked. But that could change at any moment; after all, as Twitter has shown us time and again, its most consistent policy is inconsistency.

Original Source -> Twitter’s Jack Dorsey spent the week responding to backlash. It didn’t clarify much.

via The Conservative Brief

#IFTTT #The Conservative Brief

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Open thread: what books do you find most attractive in a potential partner?

An online survey found while most people like a well-read date, women are more attracted to bookish men than vice versa. Have you ever fallen in love or rejected someone based on their reading list? Share it in the comments below

I once went on a date with a man who, instead of writing a full online dating profile, listed his four favourite books. When asked, he said it seemed simpler than writing a lengthy bio.

It was and it wasnt: the titles hed included offered a tantalising glimpse into his personality. While I didnt end up discovering whether he was as intriguing as the selection, it was a good place to start the conversation.

Im not the only one scrutinising the books included in a dating profile. Reading itself is an attractive pastime, according to research released by online dating site eHarmony. However, while well-read men received almost 20% more messages than their peers, women who listed reading as a hobby received 7% less. So much for all those men who are into sapiosexuals.

Whether it be online or in conversation, the books we choose to identify ourselves with say plenty about us. Its shorthand for what we want to signal about our interests, intelligence and levels of engagement with the world.

What then does it say that, according to eHarmony, some of the most attractive books a man can read are Walter Isaacsons biography of Steve Jobs, and George Orwells 1984; but the unattractive titles are the Harry Potter series and second world war novels?

Conversely the Harry Potter books are precisely those men find most attractive on a female reading list, along with The Hunger Games series, Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice and Stieg Larssons The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Despite the fact they were global bestsellers about luurve in all its lurid forms, the Twilight series and Fifty Shades of Grey is a no-go for most men.

While theres a consensus that listing cookbooks or The Bible is a turn-off, theres an astonishing amount of bonding going on over Anthony Kiedis autobiography Scar Tissue and the Game of Thrones series.

Unsurprisingly, book lists are a good indicator of compatibility for Guardian staffers, whether it be forewarned by way of The Fountainhead or clicking over Harry Potter. And so we ask you to share your thoughts below what books do you find attractive in a potential partner? And why?

If I saw The Fountainhead, I ran a mile

Call me negative but when I was online dating I mainly used the books list as a warning rather than an attraction. I love a well-read man, and there are infinite wonderful books in the world that could attract me to someone if listed on a dating site (Id have fallen over backwards for a man who listed Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan series, for instance).

But there was one common well-loved book among men that if I saw, I ran a mile: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I have since discovered it is one of Donald Trumps favourite books, one of the few works of fiction hes ever read. Its nice to be right. Gabrielle Jackson

I steer clear of men who revere books in which women are only ever bit-parts

I am deeply suspicious of men who profess a profound love for Bret Easton Ellis, Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S Thompson, any Beat poet but especially Kerouac, and to a lesser extent Hemingway.

Speaking as someone who finishes about four books a year, its not a requirement that my partners are well-read. It is that they are properly, profoundly feminist not card-carrying ones whove learned that claiming affiliation is a prerequisite to gaining access.

Its a delicate balance to strike. In my experience of online dating, men who semaphore-signal their feminist credentials with an extensive reading list as soon as theres the opportunity are to be avoided as much as those who freely wear their misogyny.

My strategy is to steer clear of men who revere books in which women are only ever bit-parts or accessories and always lesser. Reading books by women is a point in their favour; youd be surprised by how many men dont. Elle Hunt

I avoid women who hang out in the self-help section

Books have played a trifling role in my search for love, certainly beside bonding moments over music and karaoke specifically.

My true love told me just this week she has no time to read books, and who am I to argue? But as the son of a bookseller, I was raised to avoid women who hang out in the self-help section. And yes, that includes Paulo Coelho. Joshua Robertson

I bought all his favourite books and read them

Years ago I had a Titanic-sized crush on a man I worked with and looked up his MySpace. I had not read any of the favourite books he listed so I bought them all and read them. One of them, Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, remains a favourite of mine today. When I eventually got my crush into my bedroom he noticed two of the books on my shelf, commenting how much he liked them. Me too! I responded, perhaps a little too enthusiastically.

Reader, I successfully tricked him into loving me and now we are married. Bridie Jabour

Harry Potter is an excellent litmus test

Im a Ravenclaw because the Pottermore quiz is fairly easy to manipulate, although tricking an online quiz into sorting me into the smart house probably makes me more Slytherin. I think Id like to date a Slytherin but usually end up with Hufflepuffs, which ends badly for all involved.

Following? Good. If youre not, we probably shouldnt date. My personality is 90% pop culture references and about 35% of that is Harry Potter. As Rob Fleming says in High Fidelity (10%, both book and film), what really matters is what you like, not what you are like. As a general rule I dont judge people who havent seen or read my core texts, but it does make me harder to understand.

The exception to the no-judgement rule is Harry Potter. Not because its so central to my identity (though it is), but because its an excellent litmus test. The Venn diagram of people who are proud they havent read Harry Potter, not just couldnt be bothered with it but actively think that shunning a book written for children makes them intellectually superior, and people who are insufferable wankers is a circle. Calla Wahlquist

She had a book on Russian political assassinations on her shelf

Finding something surprising has always piqued my interest. With my partner I found a book she had on Russian political assassinations and fake terror campaigns. When I eventually borrowed it, Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror was an interesting read.

Miles Martignoni

I was struck by his engagement with little-known Australian poet Lesbia Harford

My partner piqued my interest with his literary proclivities months before Id even met him but with his writing, not his reading. When we eventually started seeing each other, we naturally talked a lot about books, and I remember being struck by his deep engagement with the work of little-known and under-appreciated 20th century Australian poet, Lesbia Harford.

But what sealed the deal was when, on a weekend away early in our relationship, I watched him peruse a bookshelf ladened with various macho literary heavyweights, and eagerly pick up the Georgette Heyer novel instead. Stephanie Convery

He was teaching himself English via Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

Years ago while backpacking I met an Israeli whose English was rudimentary. But he was determined to improve, and was teaching himself English via a book hed picked up at a hostel Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. Consequently, his speech was speckled with bawdy 14th century turns of phrase, which made him sound like a Middle Eastern-accented Middle English poet. It certainly won me over. Janine Israel

I was brutally rejected for failing to read War and Peace

I was once brutally rejected on a Tinder date for failing to read War and Peace. Ill never forget the look of disdain and disappointment when I confessed that Tolstoy was just not really my thing. My date bristled and, a short time later, excused herself. She needed to meet a friend for dinner. Funnily enough we had just eaten. There was no second date.

So I try not to be too judgmental about what others read.

But I do love science fiction and fantasy. And if Im on a date, and Neil Gaiman or Ray Bradbury come up, then Im sure well have enough to talk about for a few more drinks.

But its best not to be too snobby about it. Its a strange thing that we place so much romantic stock in the shared love of a pastime that is really such a solitary activity. And I really dont want to read War and Peace. Paul Farrell