u/Electronic_Dream8935

Is Conner O'Malley a friend of the pod?

Horrible security practices on part of The Intercept for protecting anonymous sources. Just an incredible level of neglect on their part. Not sure how long it takes for signal to recycle a username after the account goes dormant, did The Intercept possibly not use that username for almost 4 months?... Unless maybe somehow someone captured it in a security breach, its very unclear.

I understand how username recycling helps with anonymity and are meant to be ephemeral (although most people use them for extended periods) but this is clear that perhaps signal should develop some sort of program to not recycle certain usernames? Maybe it wouldn't work with the architecture...but it seems like this opens up a rather big security flaw for journalists and most tip lines where the usernames are posted on numerous websites online.

Regardless, I still find it crazy the tip line was taken over in February 2026 by the "investigative Intake" impersonator X account and wasn't changed by The Intercept on their website until late June 2026. June 19th being the last snapshot on Archive.org to have their old tip line under source. Wild.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260619184055/https://theintercept.com/source/

People have literally been screaming about this at the top of their lungs for years. Capitalism's gonna capital.

I was trying to figure out if there was a way to share web links from a browser on IOS to another mac on the Tailnet. Currently there are no share sheet options for Tailscale when utilizing share from the IOS browser.

This is a feature of Airdrop and I was curious if anyone's built some kind of shortcut work around for the time being.

Any Swedes know more about the Örebro Party for us foreigners?

From the Article:

The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

Five million dollars. So much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. It shows the party's revenue report, which Flamman has received.

Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad.

“This is a donation from me personally,” he wrote in an email to Flamman.

The company also writes in its social media after Flamman’s disclosure that the donation is “a private matter and is not part of Mullvad’s mission” and that Berntsson and co-owner Fredrik Strömberg are “evil in many issues” but share “basic values” when it comes to “freedom of speech, free information and privacy”.

Mullvad VPN has gone with big profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPNs, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had sales of SEK 314 million.

The five million from Berntsson make up the majority – as much as 72 percent – of the Örebro Party’s revenue last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025.

I was curious, stoned, and made a dumb post on askreddit...it blew up...

I'm certainly making more beans and perpetually underemployed. Also my city has businesses closing every month that have been open anywhere between a year or 20 years. You can have a James Beard award spot just shutter months later. Also grocery prices and shrinkflation is extremely exploitative at this point - at 2-3-4 times the cost it was 10 years ago for the same product.

Highlights so far (adding more as they come in):

>An uptick in Bob Seeger songs on the radio.

>I work in automotive, seeing the highest rate of declined repairs i’ve ever seen in years. Even repairs labeled dangerous to drive are declining and signing the waiver. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to make my paycheck and management still hasn’t caught up to the fact that no one can afford their labor rates

>Im a gym manager. We only sell recurring direct debit memberships. I can see the percetage of failed payments each month due to insifficiant funds...When that number starts accelerating.

>Im a recruiter for a temp agency (warehouse) and I keep getting people who are managers who were laid off or the company shut down or the warehouse was burned down. They are all applying to entry level warehouse jobs like packing or unloading trailers.

>Influencers saying beans are having a moment

>Armed forces recruitment adverts on TV and Radio

>Garage sales in my town increased.

>I start stealing.

>My personal indicator which may just be fake to me but seems well in my mind. Local gunstore has a consignment wall, used to be just old military rifles and shotguns with a mix of older hunting rifles. Now there's an entire rack for ar15s amd that sort of rifle. Call it dumb but 2 years ago there wasnt any or if there was it was one or two.

>I see people paying their rent in installments

>Noticing a lot of toilet paper is missing from my job lately lmao

>Librarian here. Our daily checkouts decrease, but people needing to print increases. If people cannot afford to eat, they don’t have mental space to get books and attend programs - even when everything is free. A lot of people needing to print and fax as they apply for assistance though. Gas prices have also made a noticeable dent in how many patrons come visit.

>Every car dealership has loads of untouched "new" vehicles from like 2024 that are overpriced and still haven't sold. They literally don't have room for new inventory.

>I work by 2 railroad when there aren't many trains move that's when I know the economy isn't good....I have a friend who works at a quant firm and they are licensing satellite data to track freight. In other words, you are correct.

>Half a dozen new multistory storage unit rental places in 2 years. Instead of building manufacturing facilities and job creating entities these get green lit. Im in the top three most unaffordable housing areas in the US. They are planning on preying on desperate people who lose their homes and have no where to put their stuff.

>People are playing hacky sack again.

>(One of the creepiest ones) The rise in plasma donations. We use the data to help determine if a recession is coming or going. I can input patient information and form a heat map. When individuals in higher income neighborhoods start to “donate” then you know it hitting harder for high income areas. When you donate i get your sex, age, address and if you are employed. Using this information we build models across the country and sell the data to brokers. Interesting enough the data is now more valuable than the product ( plasma).

>How long it takes me to decide to buy a bag of Hot Cheetos

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>(super bleak) People using their vacation time so they won’t have to spend money on gas or public transit going to work that week.

>I’m an electrical estimator. Best recession indicator is project values. During a recession the $1M to $5M projects disappear. The only projects we see are less than $1M or over $10M. The middle vanishes. I’ve seen it twice. The first time Trump was elected and the second time Trump was elected.

>Hiring freezes usually follow the “loss of the middle”. Then reassurances in monthly meetings with corporate. My previous employer cut 1% of total work force 6 months into Trumps first term. My current employer had the solvency reassurance meeting 2 weeks ago. I don’t know where this is going, but right now, it’s not looking good

>(wtf?) "Crab leg shoulders" covered in garlic and lemon sold for 3 dollars at the dollar tree

>the sound of the change machine at the front of the grocery store. it used to be a rare noise, but now that metallic rattling is constant.

>Seeing myself and my friends moving back in with parents despite having a graduate level degree

Not sure what its trying to tell me... Whats a niche echo chamber its been trying to push you into lately?

I'm gonna go check out how to make hot ham paninis on my engine block and the ethics of shitting exclusively at planet fitness brb.

The Small Farmers Movement urged the Venezuelan government to defend food sovereignty by tackling the “cartelization” of the countryside.

Rice growers, particularly in agricultural states Barinas, Cojedes, Guárico, and Portuguesa, have warned for months that agroindustry conglomerates have been importing massively since February.

According to agribusiness lobby FEDEAGRO, Venezuela has received more than 300,000 tons of imported rice in recent months. The amount is nearly half the 683,000 reportedly produced in the Caribbean country in 2025.

Meanwhile, campesinos have repeatedly denounced that local agribusiness corporations outright refuse to receive rice crops or attempt to impose prices as low as US $0.30 per kilo. Venezuela’s Agriculture Ministry established $0.40 per kilo following meetings with agroindustry and campesino representatives. Producers complained that the price did not take into account rising production costs and risked driving them bankrupt.