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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026

Fun times. Even America.gov knows that Biden won the 2020 election. Also, if you want a wild ride, tell it to play minecraft

After asking who won the 2020 presidential election according to Whitehouse.gov documents, the AI responded

I’ll look up official White House and related records on the 2020 presidential election result.

WhiteHouse.gov does not publish an official 2020 Electoral College results record like the National Archives.

Federal Electoral College records list Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 2020 winner (306 electoral votes to 232).

National Archives: 2020 Electoral College Results
FEC: Official 2020 Presidential General Election Results (PDF)
Current WhiteHouse.gov pages discuss election integrity and related 2020 topics; they are not the certified vote tally. Archived Trump White House remarks from 2020 are statements, not the Electoral College count.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 31/08/2026

This is the most amazing thing I've read today, hands down.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 15/07/2026

Oh ffs. I appealed with the following:

This is a historical piece of art from the late 19th century personifying dependency. My article is not pornographic in the slightest, unless you get off on EU tech policy. If so, weird.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 30/05/2026

The burn unit has been notified.

One half of Milli Vanilli's public-facing duo, Fab Morvan, said he will also perform as scheduled. The voices behind Milli Vanilli's music said in a statement on X that they will not be performing.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 20/01/2026

I did not actually think this was a thing (not the X spat, because that's like a Tuesday). And then I went to the Ryanair site in Ireland and, lo and behold. Michael O'Leary is a terrible human being, but honestly? This is A++ trolling.

A banner ad from the Ryanair dot com website which reads 'Ryaniair's Big "idiot" seat sale -- Only available for Elon Musk and Any Other Idiots on X!!! Book today before Musk gets one!'

There's also a picture of what appears to be bobblehead Musk & O'Leary characters.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 07/01/2026

Hi. Just saying that this would be a more believable statement if you weren't y'know, patronizing white supremacists and billionaire oligarchs websites. Why are so many politicians/candidates still on X?? Is CSAM and NCII okay now?

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 05/01/2026

Oh they hate cleaning off the poop so much. My Max gives me a look like I've violated the Charter on Feline Rights and he's going to report me to the EU Court for infringing his dignity.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 22/12/2025

I am so sorry. We lost our Joi a few days ago, and the pain is immeasurable. They are so important to us, and they live shockingly short, brief lives and it's just not fair. But I'm glad Heidi and Joi are at peace. (And now I'm going to cry again...)

My most sweetest baby Joi, a white, black and brown short haired perfect boy, sitting on a cat perch just exuding chillness. RIP <3

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2025

Our pee terrorist Rosie must be sequestered in a room because she insists on peeing everywhere when she is near other cats. But she's so needy that she screams bloody murder until we come up and snuggle with her. And then she makes us feel guilty by looking adorable.

A brown mackerel tabby cat sleeping on me adorably, and trying to get me to forget she's a naughty pee terrorist.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2025

Also, this is a gem: As a cat person, I approve.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 21/09/2025

Dunno what happened to Taylor's research skills, but it's clear she isn't even doing the basics here.

Highlighted text from Wikipedia entry on TikTok ban. Text reads

In 2020, President Donald Trump proposed a ban of the app as he viewed it as a national security threat. In August, he signed an executive order instructing that ByteDance divest from the app, though the order was blocked by a court injunction in September and was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 17/09/2025

Watching a presentation on TEEs and it was fine until this stupid slide.

Slide says 38% lift, 0 identification, and 100% GDPR compliance.

No. Just no.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 04/09/2025

Hey @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team can you tell me what law you're obligated to follow in the Netherlands requiring age verification? I received this popup, but there's no law here, and the DSA doesn't mandate age assurance, much less uploading an ID!

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 31/08/2025

My most adorable baby knows I'm feeling unwell today and is playing nurse cat. This is the only good thing about being sick.

A black and white cow-patterned domestic long-haired cat, just chilling and looking outside the window.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 16/08/2025

I was eating, and got up to get more, and my cat was like 'no, this is my sits spot now'. Reasoning was ineffective, so I had to violate cat law and move him.

My adorable and extremely clever baby, Bunsen. He is looking very fisheye lens here, but I assure you, his head:body ratio is normal.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 07/08/2025

RIP to Daisy, a Methuselah in cat-form, who was dumped on our doorstep 5 years ago, age 300, hated everything (including us until about a year ago), and genuinely scared all the other cats, despite being old and frail. You put up a good fight, and had a mean purr.

A mostly black cat with white socks and chin stares annoyingly at you. She wants pets, but she also hates everything.

Same cat, doing the tiny bit of cleaning she could. She tried, but we still had to bathe her anyway.

A younger Daisy, forgetting that she hated the world, caught enjoying a sunny day in 2021.

Daisy in a more fuller form, back when she would glare at anyone for daring to exist. Don't let that relaxed look fool you: She would demand pets and then completely lose her shit and maul anything in range.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 31/07/2025

I think the @irishtimes.com editor went on holiday a little early...

Title reads: Ireland gets energy warning and should you buying a home if you aren’t married

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 19/07/2025

Just a cat, getting a drink at the bar, as you do.

An orange tabby cat in focus. He is drinking water out of a beer goblet at the bar. He is unconcerned by the noise, the people, or the fact that many are very drunk and trying to pet him. Including me.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 30/06/2025

Not entirely sure this test was meaningful for me. I was pretty much down for eating everything listed, with the exception of defrosted pizza because why? Still it says I'm upper middle class food-wise. I just think I'm an omnivore.

One of those radar charts, and while basically all 3/4 of it is almost entirely filled in, the text says 'Your food choices resemble those of the upper-middle class (96.43%)

Fancy

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/06/2025

This guy's Wikipedia is a ride. Absolutely bonkers.

Text from Curtis Sliwa's Wikipedia Page. Relevant text reads:

After his loss, he brought two cats outside the Brooklyn home of Adams in January 2023, after the latter had been fined for rodent violations, and suggested that feral cats could address the rodent problem in the city.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 24/06/2025

And somehow this place is less than 1M EUR?

Yet another split image -- two angles of a hallway that leads from the beautiful airy green tile room I mentioned above. The walls are a blood red, with red fernish flower patterns. Also, there's a red chair, and a painting of women who appear to be getting their hair dried at a beauty salon in one of those old style dome blowdry heaters. I mean, I think that's what it is, or maybe they're hats? IDK.

Another one of the many bathrooms (there are 3 full bathrooms and two separate toilets). This bathroom matches the black subway tile and white floor motif of the Tweety room, but the shower is MURDER RED and it screams KILL ROOM. There are bath massage roller things that look like atoms, and way too many mirrors for comfort.

One of the many banisters on the stairs of the house. Each one is accented with precise carvings, like this diamond/flower combo. It's beautiful, and clearly a reminder of what the old building once looked like.

This room is, reasonably sedate. There are some color choices that would be easily fixed. The red rug is actually gorgeous. But inexplicably, the room is well appointed, save for two just .. bare matresses along the wall?

Also there is a very strange stand which has the words 'The End' in stylized font. It's huge and reaches to one of the wall joists in the ceiling.

CHOICE

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 24/06/2025

Periodically I like to view houses in different places, and today I came across this. I have no words. It is both beautiful and deeply, profoundly frightening. I can only describe this as McMansion Hell, Dutch Edition. Thoughts? @mcmansionhell.bsky.social Link: www.funda.nl/en/detail/ko...

So, this place was built in 1909, restored from a former rectory that is apparently famous in the town. The description in Dutch mentions that during the restoration, they kept many of the original features, including the beautiful stained glass and railings. Overall, the room is beautiful and bright, with some bold, but reasonably tasteful turquoise and pink color added in, with black framing. So far, so good.

So, there are at least 3 kitchens in this place. This is the first one, I think its on the ground floor. It's mostly fine, modernized with white doors and a black backsplash. But take a look at the paintings above. A random assortment of oil paintings of faces. There's one in the middle which has nightmare fuel people laughing in the most awkard way possible. A painting of a nude woman is staring at them confused, while a picture of a dour old white man stares off into the middle distance.

I feel you, painting.

I think this is the second floor. Again, I wouldn't go out of my way to lay out a room like this, but I can appreciate the aesthetic choices that were made. Actually, there are many pictures of the green floral tile work, and pictures of the sheer scale of this room, which is a long open floor plan kitchen+dining+living room. I actually adore this room now.

And then there's this -- a split frame showing the ddaesque horror hall that leads to the toilet room (the Dutch love them some separate toilet-only rooms). The wall has ... various art? including paintings I cannot reasonably describe with words. There's a painting of wind up teeth, and a lipstick dispenser in a Chinese to-go box? And some deeply horrifying man on all fours.

As for the bathroom. Imagine all black subway tiles, a black toilet lid, a pull out window and then... a large bust of Tweety Bird just ... hanging out over the toilet for no fucking reason.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 20/06/2025

Great piece by @simonwillison.net on agentic misalignment, summarizing Anthropic's recent findings about how models can go rogue in certain conditions, and even 'kill' (in a simulated environment, at least). simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...

This research also shows why developers and users of AI applications should be aware of the risks of giving models both large amounts of information and also the power to take important, unmonitored actions in the real world.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 04/06/2025

Seconded. Rosie here is the smallest of our gang, and by far the most vicious when it comes to bug extermination. She can jump 4-5 feet vertically to catch whatever she sees. She also rides shoulders!

My vicious murder machine Rosie, chilling in an orange box which now is used as a cat bed. She's a brown mackerel tabby and very petite

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 03/06/2025

Sometimes, the spam content is so amazing it would be criminal not to share.

Text reads:

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 31/05/2025

I say this in seriousness, the Irish courts quite literally shut down for nearly three whole months every year. Including the entire months of August and September. www.courts.ie/content/high...

A brief bit of text explaining why the Irish courts only sit for 9 months a year

Christmas: 24th December to 6th January.

Easter: Monday of the week preceding Easter week to Saturday of Easter week.

Whitsun: Friday of the week preceding Whitsun to Saturday of Whitsun week.

Long vacation: 1st August to 30th September.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 30/05/2025

Ooof. No wonder very little changes.

Since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, the DPC has imposed fines of more than €4 billion on big tech firms.

Just €20 million of that has been paid, as most of the rulings are under appeal.

In May 2023, the DPC imposed a record fine of €1.2bn on Meta for breaches relating to the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US.

Earlier this month, the DPC fined video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million over the transfer of the personal data of European users to China.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 18/05/2025

Dear Ireland & the UK: I promise, you can absolutely have outlets in the bathroom and nobody is gonna die. Case in point: Barcelona

Photo demonstrating that a wall in the bathroom has a plug and a light switch inside the bathroom. Ireland is convinced you'll die if either is present

Another Photo demonstrating that a wall in the bathroom has a plug and a light switch inside near the sink, no less!

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 08/05/2025

This is a headline I really never thought I'd see written. Trump is a greater threat to the UK than terrorist organizations. I mean, it makes sense, but putting it on the page like that is...

What. Brits are more likely to view Trump as a greater threat to the UK than terrorist organizations.

Full text reads

Also a concern: Polling shows that residents of old Blighty tend to want a closer relationship with the EU than with Trump’s America — and a Good Growth Foundation report today finds that Brits are narrowly more likely to view Trump as a greater threat to the U.K. than terrorist organizations. That isn’t a typo. The polling also shows that 67 percent of Labour’s 2024 voters back joining forces with the EU against unpredictable partners (such as Trump, innit).

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 08/05/2025

How did you not include this mind-blowing nugget.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 08/05/2025

He may well have been doing this for longer. From Ballotpedia:

Before being elected to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, Bonin was Traffic Court Division C judge and Civil District Court ad hoc judge. He is known for being the first to use ankle bracelet technology to detect alcohol use by underage and repeat DWI offenders.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 02/05/2025

Now to get it hosted somewhere (which Anthropic also provided instructions for). This shit is magic and scary at the same time. FWIW before folks complain: there's still lots to fix -- it's very raw, and I need to use my brain parts before this is go live. But still, it's very cool.

An early version of my legal case summarizer -- it uses anthropic to process cases that I upload or paste in, and output a summary. The secret sauce is in the summary (which I still need to heavily tweak).

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 01/05/2025

The Trump who stole Christmas.

An AI generated image of Donald Trump looking like the Grinch, weirdly with a full suit and coat, but no pants.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 26/03/2025

These kittens have now grown up and while they're still insanely adorable, they are also giant pains in the ass.

A pair of black and white cats are sparring on a very cluttered kitchen table. They are in mid attack, heads cocked sideways.

Beaker, a mostly all white cat with black spots on his head, has found the huge dry food container we store his food in and he is ready for a feast.

Bunsen, a black and white moo kitty, is posing adorably next to a vase of roses.

Two cats, one a mackerel and white tabby named Max, and Beaker, mostly white with black spots on his head, sit at the windowsill watching the world go by. The windowsill is framed by bricks.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 18/01/2025

Hmm... So someone should fix Wikipedia then?

Text of Wikipedia Page reads

Under Article 18 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann consists of 60 senators, composed as follows:

Eleven nominated by the Taoiseach.
Six elected in university constituencies by the graduates of certain Irish universities:
Three by graduates of the University of Dublin.
Three by graduates of the National University of Ireland.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 16/01/2025

This was the tweet that really pisses me off

Andy Yen writing a tweet that basically demonstrates he's a true believer.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 16/01/2025

Yeah, the thing I don't understand is in Proton's case, why? They're too small-time to be under serious threat from the administration. They can't provide any (meaningful) benefit to Trump. They're not in the US. Why kiss his ass unless it's genuine? In which case, why should I trust Proton?

Tweet from Andy Yen: "Most people probably thought Trump would crawl away at the first sign of danger. The contrast with Biden who can hardly walk off stage when not being shot at couldn't be stronger. This could be the moment that decides the election (if Dems don't change candidates)."

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 16/01/2025

It's ironic, given the company's policies of "Swiss neutrality" regarding Trump in 2016. Guess that neutrality no longer holds.

A post, written by the CEO of Proton in 2016, after the announcement of the first Trump administration.

Earlier this week, Donald Trump won a stunning election victory that will put him in charge of the world’s most powerful mass surveillance infrastructure.
Regardless of which side of the political spectrum you are on, Trump’s control over the NSA is now an indisputable fact, and we think it is worth taking a closer look at what this means. It is important to note that as a Swiss company which benefits from Swiss government support, Proton Mail follows the Swiss policy of neutrality. We do not take any position for or against Trump, nor any position for or against any particular country or government. We believe privacy is an universal value, so we do not take any sides.

However, given America’s significant influence on the world, and the large number of Proton Mail users who come from the US, we are not a disinterested party. Furthermore, we realise that the implications of a Trump presidency also interest a large proportion of the Proton Mail community, so we are here today to offer our opinion.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 15/01/2025

Looking over the CEO's other tweets doesn't inspire much confidence. Sure, Switzerland has solid data protection and privacy laws, but if he's brainwormed, what's to stop the company from turning things over willingly?

Andy Yen
@andyyen
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Dec 5, 2024
Trump illegally entering Switzerland would be ironic, our immigration laws are tougher than his wildest proposals. Jokes aside,
@ProtonPrivacy
doesn't comply with US subpoenas, it doesn't matter if it's Biden or Trump in power.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 15/01/2025

The cowards deleted their ass-kissing tweets, but here's the original post. I'm going to think hard about whether I want to keep using this service. Not sure I buy that they give a shit about #privacy if they're that excited about a dictator.

A long ass-kissing tweet from the CEO or proton, which was followed by an even longer message praising Republicans and blaming Democrats for big tech, now since deleted.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 15/01/2025

I'm so sad to hear that this national treasure of Dublin, nay Ireland, may be only a memory in our hearts. I'm glad I was able to pay a visit before tragedy fell.

Iconography from Cherry Tomato Bridge in Drumcondra, Dublin. A line of red cherry tomatoes is along the stone bridge, along with a photo of a tomato head wearing a suit in various poses, and a candle.

Another view, with better framing of the railroad tracks below.

A smaller memorial to cabbage across the other side of the bridge. 4 cabbages are present, and perhaps they will last longer.

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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 14/01/2025

What an adorable baby. And he agrees with your assessment, by the looks on that face. Here's one of mine, who enjoys my lap when I'm reading.

Bunsen T. C. Cat, a black and white cow cat, sits on a book on the AI Act that I was attempting to read. I'm fairly sure he thinks this is a table.

He does not concern himself with trivial things like being considerate, or letting me actually hold the book. It is all about him, being cat. In the moment.

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