Hard Pass

Video https://files.xeiaso.net/talks/2025/surreal-joy-homelab/index.m3u8

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A week out from a crowded and contentious Democratic primary in Illinois’s 9th Congressional District, Amanda Informed, an online influencer in Florida received an email with an offer: one negative post about candidate Kat Abughazaleh on Instagram and TikTok, for $1,500.

The request, which came from a secretive political organization called Democracy Unmuted, was forwarded to her by Matt Anthes, founder of Advocators, a digital marketing agency focused on politics and advocacy through micro-influencers.

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It’s unclear how many creators were ultimately part of the Democracy Unmuted campaign.

MS NOW found several recent creator videos that seemed to follow the Democracy Unmuted brief targeting Abughazaleh.

One, from Justin Kralemann, a Missouri creator who posts about progressive politics, recited whole sentences from the Democracy Unmuted brief. Kralemann, wearing a white hat with “WOKE” emblazoned on the front, mispronounced Abughazaleh’s name and told his combined one million followers on Instagram and TikTok that it was important “to look past viral personalities and ask who is running and why” — a quote matching a suggested quote in the brief.

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A joke of course, please do not throw your car batteries into the ocean.

Just think, you might hit a sea turtle with it!

Then they've got to go to the doctor and you know they don't have health insurance!

According to more recent Pentagon figures, it's actually even worse.

background: got a fairphone 5, stock android version 15 because of digital ID necessity or else i effectively lose citizenship (we gotta push back against this in the nordics but that's sociology & bureaucracy so saving it for another thread)

i got: • zero amount of TikTok YouTube etc. apps • greyscale • brightness turnt down • screen usage tracker apps

here's my screentime stats for this week

it's literally all from ThreadiVerse (PieFed with Interstellar client), FLOS dating apps (Alovoa & Duolicious) + a regional non-free dating app forum suite and lastly reading manga watching porn...

i've never been this much bedrotting since i was a teen in the 2010s and not even then.

what i need is a way to enforce recommended guidelines that do exist for phone (ab)use: • that the phone shuts off after 2 hours of screentime per day. alternatively blank screen or just annoyance. • second-long breaks/timeouts every few minutes.

that is literally all. on a linux OS like PostMarketOS, SailFishOS, UbuntuTouch this is guaranteed doable, right? i can make the OS switch and appreciate insight into an operator implementing this in comments so that all can learn. it's surely a meagre >=99 LoC shellscript source code to implement.

but on android? idk if that's allowed or even possible to implement on stock android.

what are your thoughts? abhorring situation, all replies welcome. let's keep it a constructive thread since this is a public health issue i wanna bring up in the open

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tenforward/p/952401/make-it-slow

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