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ich glaube ich besorg mir mal ne schöne alte enzyklopädie aus besseren zeiten. die deutsche wikipedia ist ja komplett banane und politisiert inzwischen.

@mametsuko i think i am! things are a bit uncertain but it would be very ungrateful to say i'm not happy - it's hard to notice sometimes over day-to-day life. thanks for reminding me with this question! :blobheart:

@ambulocetus @jeffowski
i ask because the original post speaks about "violently traumatizing".

the problem with "anti-billionaire" is that removing billionaires by whatever means doesn't magically makes everyone else more rich or happier. it just removes billionaires, either by stripping them of their wealth (most of which is virtual anyway!) or their life.

most often the "anti"-action is radically different from improving things.

@cjd
> I think these LED lightbulbs are getting slightly dimmer over time

gaslit by leds :P

@graf @harblinger it appears that they are super interested in @jeffcliff and have stupidly attempted to scrape his profile almost 54,000 times. It has tried to retrieve one particular post over 75,000 times. Anyway, now it is blocked.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins but his comments reminded me of that technically part of one already was born by ones grandmother as the mothers egg cells already were present there :)

@freemo @realcaseyrollins
> He clearly thinks he is way more important to other people than he is.

he says men don't know about and can't have an opinion about issues of women while using his daughter as leverage in an argument..

there is currently a bot inside MIT IP space, address 18[.]4[.]38[.]176, scanning fedi at large. i have confirmed this with 5+ unrelated instance admins, large and small instances, across mastodon/misskey/pleroma/akkoma.

the bot is poorly behaved. i have observed it making repeated requests, multiple times per second, for the exact same paths (the paths being, generally: user profiles, specific posts, and sometimes following links in posts). returning 403s does not stop this activity. one of my domains received hundreds of additional requests despite replying with 403 to all of them. i have also seen it make requests for paths containing html tags - seems like a badly written parser. the purpose of these requests and what data is being gathered is unclear.

PTR on the ip returns
sts-drand03.mit.edu. a quick web search for "mit drand" brings back https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/david-g-rand and his personal website: https://davidrand-cooperation.com/ (note: other IPs in the /24 also have names in the PTR which match up with names of MIT faculty, but only the .176 IP appears to be involved in this activity).
seems he's doing research into "misinformation" and "fake news" on social media. he also appears to be on fedi! so
@Drand@techhub.social, given this activity is sourced from an IP with your name on it, could you share the purpose of this traffic? what data is being collected and how is it being used? do you plan to respect robots.txt or identify yourself in your useragent? is there a process for instance admins to opt out of this activity other than blocking the source IP?

@Zennblack
> It’s no satisfaction for us to say, “We told you so.”

> Our hearts are breaking daily as we witness our predictions playing out.

everyone who participated did so out of own volition. i won't feel shit about others who didn't want to listen and enabled the whole scheme by participating. the only ones i feel bad about are the kids and others who couldn't decide themselves and got caught up in this. everyone else has to deal with consequences just like i was told i will have to.

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