Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation’s top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States surveillance law—a classification that would strip them of constitutional protections against warrantless government spying.

As if Snowden didn't already prove constitutional protections don't matter to the glowies anyway. Also, don't expect privacy by placing your trust in strangers. Use trustless systems for that.

Huh. That write up seems pretty useful. It's so weird that the redesigned app is just an alias to the old and untouched app that's still sitting in system32

Glad this was posted here because I thought his script sounded really AI generated (or at least super PR speak). The below quotes really stood out as jarring having heard and read through a lot of AI slop, but the overwhelming praise given throughout the script to the concepts of youtubers and their viewers and finally his new product all also gave me that weird AI deja vu.

1:29 "Soon, the press wasn't just a press; it was information traveling in waves through the air.

7:35 "Newpress isn't just another media channel or media company. It's more of an idea. An idea that journalism can be done differently..."

8:21 "It's not breaking news; it's nourishing in-depth journalism that teaches you how the world works."

I generally enjoy Harris' content (the bunker video is something I actually sent to a friend and had a whole conversation about - incredible video), so I'm really not trying to be a hater. What I'm actually hating is that picking up on stray deja vu is sometimes the only real way you can know something is AI anymore, and because it's such a vague reference point I come away with an uneasy feeling about sources like Harris that I would otherwise have been comfortable to treat as trustworthy.

Saw your instance domain and thought I'd add something from home that Malcolm Turnbull has repeated a lot about American politics, which is that when you lack compulsory voting, government parties no longer have to appeal to a broad majority but instead can gain election by exciting a crazed minority with whatever sticks at the wall. Hate wins

Not a huge loss as they pretty neatly tied the story back into The Boys. For those that didn't click through, the showrunners have noted that some of those character's stories will still be explored:

“While we wish we could keep the party going another season at Godolkin, we’re committed to continuing the Gen V characters’ stories in The Boys Season 5 and other VCU projects on the horizon,” said VCU executive producers Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg. “You’ll see them again.”

::: spoiler Gen V Season 2 Spoilers I kinda disliked the forcing of the characters back into Godolkin University in S2. It felt strange as the characters seemed to have developed well past that university storytelling device. If they were to announce a Season 3 and did the same thing of bringing them all back to GodU then it could absolutely risk existing just to beat the money horse and sour fan's enjoyment of the series. :::