Thursday, 10 July 2025
quote [ Victims think they?re talking to Keanu Reeves. Or Kevin Costner. Then come the pleas for cash. The brazen AI-fueled con that fleeces lovestruck fans and has Hollywood finally fighting back. ]
Bitcoin scam send to this address
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Sunday, 29 June 2025
quote [ Jason Landry?s disappearance confounded the state?s top investigators. When thousands of online sleuths got involved, intrigue turned into obsession. ]
We're on a cold case mission
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Sunday, 8 June 2025
quote [ Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ]
He bucks like a sea horse
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Saturday, 5 April 2025
quote [ t?s Thursday, and a sizeable crowd has gathered at the corner of Plaza de la Virgen in Valencia, Spain, near the Apostles Gate of the city?s central cathedral. Mostly tourists, they have come to witness the Tribunal of Waters?an ancient court that convenes to resolve disputes over water distribution in the plains of Valencia. ]
In the old part of Valencia, on the coast of Spain
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Wednesday, 18 December 2024
LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
quote [ The act is too broad, and it doesn't matter that there's never been an instance of any of the proclaimed things that this act protects adults, children and vulnerable people from... the very broad language and the fact that I'm based in the UK means we're covered. ]
From a bike forum: looks like new UK digital law in effect next spring seems to have been set up too vague, damn.
thumb via Clawmarks
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Tuesday, 26 November 2024
quote [ The Polaris explorer Charles Francis Hall has long been rumoured to have been poisoned in 1872. A preserved snow bunting might be crucial evidence for the theory ]
The birds are stuffed with poison
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Friday, 22 November 2024
quote [ ?The court is taken aback by the lengths to which Google goes to avoid creating a paper trail for regulators and litigants,? Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote. Google, he noted, had clearly learned Microsoft?s lesson: It had effectively trained its employees not to create ?bad? evidence. ]
Was a bit taken aback when the top comment of the hacker news ref defends them with something like: ?under legal assumptions, no company is able to have honest communication?, but maybe that's US laws for me.
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Wednesday, 9 October 2024
quote [ Once a reluctant law student, Jeremy Cohen is now one of the country?s fiercest advocates for canine clients and their owners. ]
Can't win on the streets dog you need a lawyer
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Friday, 13 September 2024
quote [ [The] shopping comparison service had broken competition rules ? hitting Alphabet, Google?s parent, with an at-the-time record-breaking [?] penalty [?].
[?] By September 2018, [Apple] had had to wire $15 billion in back taxes and penalties to the EU [?]. However, in July 2020 Apple (and Ireland) won an appeal when the General Court annulled the EU?s decision. [?] The Commission appealed that reversal and on Tuesday the CJEU set aside the General Court?s judgment ]
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Wednesday, 21 August 2024
quote [ It's one of the strangest?and fastest-growing?gatherings in America. I went to see it for myself. ]
True crime, true crime True, true, true crime
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