I fully believe that this happened, but holy hell is it unbelievably fucked up that, if I am reading this correctly, this man possessed photographic evidence of the sexual abuse of an underage girl (itself illegal to possess!) and managed to use them to blackmail the victim’s mother with the threat to reveal them. The threat of the victim being revealed as a victim was considered blackmail material, while Atkins was absolutely secure in the idea that he could just possess child sexual abuse material and wasn’t going to get busted for it.

Fuck this world.

Swim across the Atlantic Ocean.

Some particularly popular venues will have parking farther out and run shuttle buses to get people to and from their cars, and it’s just like, you’re so close…

On the one hand, perhaps this is my own fault for browsing all while eating spaghetti. On the other hand, what were the odds.

What a sweet world, where even football referees can find love! 🥰🥰🥰

Are you thinking of this?

Democrats in Congress have been pushing for sweeping reforms to ICE operations, including requiring judicial warrants for home entries by federal agents, body camera mandates and bans on masks worn by officers during raids.

including requiring judicial warrants for home entries by federal agents

Hang on, this is absolutely already required by the law though. This is the most basic of Fourth Amendment things. This is not a reform to change existing policies, this is already the law, and they are just breaking it.

I keep reading it as “slurp-ink,” personally.

Thanks!

Aw, that’s a way more mundane answer than I was hoping for, but I appreciate you explaining. (And I find myself doubting that it does much to AI scrapers, yes.)

Does anyone have a paywall-free version?

Hang on, you have successfully thorn-baited me. Are you typing them manually or do you have a macro or something swapping them in? For what purpose are you doing this? Give me your villain monologue.

Got it on both IronFox and LibreWolf. Not perfect, but neither was Brave dark mode. Probably going to have to disable LibreWolf’s anti-fingerprinting feature just so I can tell sites to use dark mode, though.

I got the export step on my own, but I swear IronFox does not have the Manage Bookmarks option anywhere. Starting to think I’m just going to need to grab a Mozilla account, upload my bookmarks to LibreWolf on desktop, sync bookmarks, and pull them to IronFox that way.

I feel like the only person here who actually thought the voiceover and music presentation was hilarious. I do agree that the full text should have been added for accessibility, though.

I hope WaterFox pans out for you! Do you mind sharing the issues you had with LibreWolf?

Currently trying mobile IronFox. I’m liking the privacy options and how stuff like unlock origin is literally included in the setup process. Their dark mode is nice and they offer a lot of compatibility options.

Biggest downsides I’m seeing so far (I’ll see about keeping this updated as I go):

1. Can’t seem to figure out how to import my bookmarks from Brave, and I have looked extensively.
2. No tab groups (not the end of the world, but it was a nice feature). EDIT: Looks like Collections does that! EDIT TWO: Not really good for Incognito mode though.
3. Clears your browser history by default on close, which may be undesired behavior. (I personally tend to use incognito for most things and then transfer sites over to tabs in non-incognito (cognito?) modes if I want them available regularly, so for me this was undesired, but it was easy to turn off.)
4. Brave had a built-in experimental dark mode to dark modify websites that I am not seeing in IronFox. I’m sure there are extensions that will do it for me, so I’ll go looking, but I just discovered so many sites I did not realize were light mode all along. Reading mode also does the trick for most articles.

LibreWolf looks promising. No mobile app, but they recommend IronFox for that, so I just downloaded that to play with. Thanks!

Edit: mobile IronFox is looking pretty good so far. Made configuring privacy settings an option just out of the box, which I appreciate. Biggest problem right now is that I can’t seem to figure out how to import my bookmarks from Brave.

I have been using Brave for its out of the box ad and tracker blocking. I’d been uncomfortable with the new AI features and had always been skeptical of the crypto integration, but it wasn’t until this post that I realized it was appreciably worse than Firefox on those counts, nor how bad the people running it are.

Obviously, I’m now looking for other options. I’ve seen some good recs for desktop browsers elsewhere on this post, but what I’m not seeing is a lot of good mobile browser suggestions that will have the desired features. What would the folks here suggest for an e/OS browsing experience with similar or better privacy and ad blocking options? I know there’s Firefox, but A. With all the AI it keeps pushing, I’m sure there has to be better and B. I do also have mobile Firefox but have found it substantially less usable for my habit of browsing with a zillion tabs both non-incognito and incognito, so I mostly had only been it when I couldn’t get a video to play in Brave.

I am, obviously, willing to run de-Googled Chromium, but if something else is going to actually support 100+ tabs in a performant fashion I’d be happy to totally de-Chromium too.

I also use the shit out of profiles on Brave desktop, though mobile doesn’t support it. Do the Firefox forks like Waterfox have a similar option on desktop? Does another browser? I know it’s a feature Chrome has because I do sadly have to use Chrome for work, so I would expect at least the de-Googled Chromium-based ones would?

This is a very insightful article. One thing that I noticed which I haven’t really seen discussed or have myself considered before that gets mentioned near the end and which I think probably merits its own consideration:

Evolutionary psychologists proved particularly useful in legitimizing Epstein’s grooming, trafficking and raping of girls and young women, and in return he provided support for the Ivy League academics in this field in the form of huge research grants and new buildings. This circle of money and prestige proved irresistible to many, especially at a time when research funding is being reduced all over the world, but there was more to it than that.

With all the cuts to government research funding, these kinds of incentives only give the Epstein class further leverage over the direction of research and further privilege their chosen researchers. I do not believe that to be a coincidence.