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Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think

Anywhere else in the country, Newsom would have run as a Republican.

Genuinely, if Newsom is selected by the Democratic party in 2028, nothing will change and we'll be staring down the barrel of trump 2.0 the next fake populist/fascist in 2032.

There are only two ways for the Democratic party to be relevant at this point:

  1. Support politicians who bring actual change to improve people's lives
  2. Actually punish Republican politicians for all of the crimes that they are doing in broad daylight right now.

But the Dems showed in NY how they feel about #1, and are refusing to do anything with #2 in Minnesota (and completely fumbled the opportunity they had over the last few years decades nationwide)

Edit: for the pedantic twats that couldn't infer my meaning

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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

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Here's the actual relevant part

These are security risks to be sure, and while these permissions are (mostly) on the surface, possibly defensible, together they do clearly represent an app trying to gather all of the data that it can.

However, a lot of info from this report is overblown. For example code compilation is sketchy to be sure, but without a privilege escalation attack, it can't do anything the app couldn't do with an update.

Also, there's some weird language in the report, like counting the green security issues in other apps (like tiktok) as if they were also a problem, despite the image showing that green here means it doesn't present that particular risk.

All of this to say, if you have temu, probably uninstall it. It's clearly collecting all the data it can get.

But it's unlikely to be the immediate threat that will have China taking over your phone like this report implies.