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In case you think you can do anything in the Meta app world and retain privacy. https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-killing-end…

Got involved with setting up infrastructure on AWS for a fresh startup. Used claude code to do much of the detailed finagling and write terraform and docs on everything. HOLY SHIT. This would have taken me a week, perhaps two to fully do and validate the old way. With claude I have done the majority of it in 5 or 6 hours and it would have been even faster id I had written a full spec up front instead of winging it and changing my mind on a few things.

They want to control all of your computing and access to the internet. This is horrendous. Colorado Senate Bill Would Require Apple and Google to Embed ID Checks in Operating Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colorado’s latest attempt to regulate minors’ online access differs from its predecessors. Senate Bill 26-051 doesn’t target adult websites directly. Instead, it targets the operating system sitting on your phone. The bill, currently before the Senate Committee on Business, Labor, and Technology with a hearing scheduled for February 24, would require operating system providers to collect your date of birth when you create an account. https://reclaimthenet.org/colorado-operating-system-age-v…

Not a conspiracy theory any more. The “camps” are here in all but name ICE is actively buying and converting at least 20–23 massive warehouses around the country into detention “mega‑centers,” each projected to hold between roughly 1,500 and 10,000 people. These sites are on top of an existing network of more than 200 detention facilities, including tent camps like Camp East Montana and “Alligator Alcatraz,” which have been cited for dozens of violations and reports of abuse, medical neglect, and overcrowding. With new funding from the 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill,” ICE capacity is on track to nearly double, from about 70,000 to potentially 150,000 people locked up at one time, overwhelmingly in for‑profit facilities. How it matches the old “conspiracy theory” Journalists and historians are now explicitly describing this as a system of mass incarceration of civilians outside the ordinary legal process, with warehouse‑scale sites and tent cities whose stated purpose is to enable faster mass deportations. ​ The key elements people used to call “tin‑foil hat” ideas—repurposed prisons and warehouses, large‑scale camps in the desert, legal gray zones where people can effectively disappear for months—are all now documented features of U.S. immigration enforcement. This is not misreading the moment: the infrastructure, funding, and legal doctrines to “toss people into” mass detention already exist, and they are being actively expanded under color of law even as conditions and abuses are being documented in mainstream outlets. Feeling horror and a profound loss of trust in this context is not catastrophizing; it is an accurate moral response to what the record shows is actually happening