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Daily News Stuff 31 August 2024

Attack Of The Forty Dollar Chicken Edition

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  • Brazil's spiral into becoming the North Korea of the Southern Hemisphere continues to accelerate. (AP News)

    Tomas de Torquemada of the country's Supreme Federal Court has ordered all ISPs in the country - presumably somehow including Starlink - and all app stores to block access to Twitter.

    Torquemada also ordered app stores to remove VPN software, and ordered a fine of $8900 per day for any company or individual using a VPN to access Twitter.

    The justification for this is that Twitter doesn't have a legal representative in Brazil. (Nor I should note does this blog. Does Torquemada know how the internet works?)

    The reason Twitter doesn't have a legal representative in Brazil is that Torquemada threatened to jail her, and when she resigned, froze her bank accounts.


  • Space rocks.


Tech News


Satire Is Dead

I was doing some reading for my planned item on the video game industry implosion happening right now, and I ran into this:




Disclaimer: I have a fever, and the only cure is more space rocks!

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Apple pies are delicious. But never mind apple pies. What colour is a green orange?




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