Age gating the internet is not about protecting kids. It's entirely about creating an ID barrier for everyone as a form of tracking and privacy invasion putting our data in the hands of private companies that have already proven insecure.
This only hyperfuels scammers and makes everyone less safe.
In the wake of Belfast riots, I just sent this to @mayor.nyc.gov to implore him to require the city post NOTHING on X except emergency notices.
Please contact your own reps.
There has to be a line. This is a public safety issue. They must get the hell off of X.
www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
The Old Court House is a significant heritage building on Victoria’s Bastion Square. It has been boarded up/closed for more than a decade. In the last couple years Ive been the lone voice calling for its restoration. That changed this week with a council motion from @susankimyyj.bsky.social /1 🧵
Montreal City Council will soon be voting on an important motion to recognize the genocide in Gaza and sever institutional ties with Israel. Send an email now and tell them to vote “Yes”: www.cjpme.org/montreal_cut...
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Tonight’s #movie - CASABLANCA, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre; dir. Michael Curtiz (1942)