It may not even be that they advertised kayaking to you. They may just have a very good model of your behaviour that predicts you're likely to be interested in kayaking.

Almost everything just works after installing sandboxed Google Play Services. For a few apps you have to tweak a setting to turn off some of GrapheneOS's exploit protections. But I've found very few that refuse to run, and nothing indispensable. If you don't like your main profile having Play Services you can set them up under a second profile or a private area and keep the apps that use them away from your main profile.

There are already enough cases of people showing their papers to ICE and discovering that ICE don't care and aren't held to account. But the people supporting it tend to be the "pay no attention until it happens to me" type.

Well at some point the camps will become overcrowded and they'll want a solution that's a bit more final.

Iran and the USA were in the middle.of negotiations and very near an agreement when Trump and Netanyahu started this war, killing the Ayatollah and many of the more moderate Iranian government officials who might be more amenable to an agreement. It's not just a hypothetical but something the USA has done already.

"You close [the Strait of Hormuz] and you won't have a country," Mr Trump said he'd told Iranian officials, during a phone interview with Fox News. "You won't even make it back to your f***ing country."

Such dignity, such diplomacy.

It runs on theft and planet-scale destruction.

You could argue that this is the very nature of capitalism: theft because it always means owners extracting value from other people's work, and ultimately planet-scale destruction because it depends on infinite growth while externalizing (not paying for) the true costs of its activity.

In that sense, AI companies are just a faster-growing strain of the global cancer that is capitalism.

I live in Canada and still meet older Canadians whose goal is to retire to Florida, even after all we've seen from THE USA in the last decade. I don't understand these people.

the AI/drobe warfare age.

Is a drobe used in war a wardrobe?

“The skilled craft segment of every economy is going to see a boom. You’ve going to have to be doubling and doubling and doubling every single year.”

Doubling every year? For how many years, Jensen? Enough for all these people to finish trade school and make a decades-long career? And how are the AI companies who already can't see any way to make a profit going to fund this exponential growth in their costs?

He kicked all the remaining left wing out of the Labour Party at a time when left-wing policies were very popular with the members. He has overseen some pretty regressive social policy, particularly in catering to transphobes. He's a liar and has no charisma. He put Peter Mandelson back in a powerful position though he was known to be a bad guy and an Epstein associate. He has taken Labour to the right, abandoning its base while offering nothing but more of the vaguely Thatchery stuff the UK has suffered from for decades. He committed the government to more austerity than even the Tories had dared to implement, at a time when poverty is a massive problem in the UK. He handed chunks of the NHS to Palantir. Conservatives don't like him and left-wingers don't like him and no one trusts him. He's been so uninspiring that the electorate is sleepwalking towards fascism. Plus there's the Israel thing and the crackdown on anyone who expresses sympathy with Palestinians. It'd be quicker to list what he has done right.

Some VPN providers say they're getting out of Canada now too. It will be illegal in Canada to run encrypted services the authorities can't tap into, or services that don't log your activity for the authorities to inspect at will. When you start thinking through the implications of that, they're dramatic, even before you think of the many security vulnerabilities it introduces.

I expect it's still such a tiny proportion compared to those using stock Android and iPhone that the dip in traffic won't even register for most sites. It's just an inconvenience for those of us who use privacy-focused phones for now, but it's also one more brick in the wall being built globally to lock us out of online life.

They also need to stop handing the UK and its people over to Palantir.

Right-wing politics is dominated by losers turned grifters.

A great success: the dirty, smelly, green pond with chunks floating on the surface from some cowboy MAGA contractor whose work lasted one week will be a perfect symbol of the USA on its 250th birthday.

It's definitely the style of this government's legislation. Bill C-22 is full of the same kind of thing: granting a sweeping power then advising that it shouldn't be abused, though that abuse will be legal. We're supposed to not notice, or to just trust them because they said they'd be nice.

For information about fingerprinting techniques there's this site:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

It has been around for a few years so there are almost certainly other techniques it doesn't mention.

I see it as a battle for human rights. Some people have been pushed into the front lines of the battle, but the fascists have us all in their sights. Are the rest of us going to leave them there to fight alone, hoping they win and all our rights stay intact, or are we going to stand and fight with them? If the front line falls the fascists won't stop there. We really are all in this together.

See also Iran, his cancelled "Freedom 250" concert, some bankrupt casinos, and pretty much everything else he ever did. And never forget Four Seasons Total Landscaping.