Yeah, it takes something like the California data brokers opt out to do that.

Or actively poisoning their data sets at scale

ICE regularly uses fake license plates. You can do a bit, in that they dont swap constantly, but its not going to be as good as the tracking of private citizens

No idea what level of defense is actually necessary; not having a phone, or any bills or official correspondence sent in your name to your home will suffice, but I don’t know what it takes which is less than that

I suspect they’re depending on data brokers who collect name and location from 3rd party apps. Set up fakes of a bunch of their metrics sending data, and you can fill it with junk

California has a universal opt-out for data brokers now

Why the &#**### is California putting Amber Alerts on a porn site?

That kind of choice is quite unusual in the US.

In particular, its a failure of state utilities commissions, which have power over electric pricing.

Realistically you need to get them banned.

Get flock banned at a local level.

Get to protests on a bicycle or a bus. Carpool if you must.

Somehow read that as a snail onion

They’re using it to fill out regulatory paperwork instead of making sure they satisfy the requirement that you establish actual knowledge about the plant to be built to show that it is safe

From xkcd

Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable…but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the ad revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies

I’m a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don’t cover the cost of providing news anymore

They dont let sites opt-out, and they do a much more seamless job of enabling people to archive paywalled content

If there’s an edit that alters a detail that doesn’t matter to the witness, it probably isn’t important. And that kind of replacement is hard to do at scale without getting caught.

What you end up stuck doing is deciding to trust particular sources. This makes it a lot harder to establish a shared reality

The kind you write birthday letters for

Let’s say it halved. That’s visible light, which at low wattage, is harmless.

If it quadrupled, its still infrared. Also harmless at those wattages

Remember here: youre dealing with something that is less harmful than visible light. So whatever fear you have must be much worse when it comes to things like daylight, indoor lighting, headlights, etc