Entire poster could be summarised as: treat other people with respect and empathy.

This article is all over the place.

The author points out from the outset that Warner Brothers has been a disaster for both creatives and profiteers under Zaslav for the last 5 years; he’s a wrecking ball of man and his friends (personal and political) paint a picture of a piece of shit.

It then points out that equally huge (or hugher?) piece of shit David Ellison had made a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros to merge it with Paramount, which would be assisted by his pals Trump and Kushner, which he quickly moves on from without mentioning that it would definitely be bad for the future of cinema, and media competition creating a huge media conglomerate.

Next there’s some Netflix history which is more than a little slanted towards the Hollywood elitist, and the Netflix CEO (Sarandos) is painted as the bad guy for pointing out that cinema is dying because everyone has pretty good, large TVs and fast internet nowadays and the cinema is expensive as fuck. Only to state that these statements “are misleading”… but then back it up with… Agreeing?

The theatrical industry is dominated by oversize multiplexes that program bad movies, charge too much money, and are in inconvenient malls and suburban lots that can only be reached by car.

But what Sarandos fails to say is that legacy Hollywood studios like Warner Bros. are largely responsible for creating this paradigm.

Like… If your counterargument to Sarandos’s statements about the cinema industry dying is “yeah well only by most metrics and you’re twisting it because it’s largely Warner Bros fault” that is a terribly counter-argument.

Even more baffling is the claim:

Warner Bros., for its part, has managed to find continued success with theatrical releases, both blockbuster franchises (the DC universe) {and two small budget indie films that turned into hits and tripled their budgets, for a business nonetheless still bleeding profits}

The DC Universe is WB’s leading success story? The universe with famously more flops than box office winners??

I agree with his assessments that the buyout and merger will be bad for cinemas, competition, are likely in breech of antitrust laws, and I agree with his assessment that the companies should be broke up - but the meat of this article feels like it’s so out of touch with reality.

In reality, antitrust will not happen - Trump hates regulations and he loves bribes, so one of three things will happen. And if the choice is between Zaslav continuing to fuck WB, Ellison buying out and merging it with Paramount, or Netflix absorbing WB… The least-shit choice to me is obvious.

If you’re worried that this may have hit your PC I’d say first of all be aware that this is a state-level backdoor, intended to be persistent and evade detection. You are likely not the target and are very unlikely to find any evidence even if you were targeted, as it is capable of clearing its tracks.

Actions I’d suggest if you’re still worried this could have hit your PC:

1. Grab the list of Indicators of compromise from the bottom of this article. Disconnect the PC from the Internet now that you have the list.
2. Search for any instances of these files locally and SHA-256 hash them if found, and match to the hashes on the list. If you find any matches, your system is compromised.
3. Check the DNS cache for any hosts mentioned in the indicators, and if you have network traffic logging you could check there also. Indicators are very likely signs of prior/active attack on your PC.
4. If nothing found, reconnect to the net and continue…
5. uninstall Notepad++, or if you want to keep using it, update Notepad++ via a method other than their internal update method. I suggest powershell using winget as its preinstalled in Win10 & 11.

PS > winget list -q Notepad++
(will show you available updates)
PS > winget upgrade -q Notepad++
(Will install the update if available) 

6. (Optional) disable Notepad++ internal update mechanism, and use winget or another method moving forward. Settings -> Preferences -> MISC: Auto-updater: Disable.

This advice is not accurate:

The Rapid 7 post says if you have a hidden folder in “%AppData%” named Bluetooth. You got hacked. So if you don’t have said folder, you’re good.

Their post says that the Bluetooth hidden folder in AppData was only used as the initial access vector.

After initial access, an advanced persistent backdoor they’ve named “Chrysalis” is delivered and installed via significantly obfuscated methods to minimize chance of detection. The backdoor allows arbitrary code execution via a CMD.exe reverse shell, with additional modes for remote file write, read, and a full self-removal mechism that attempts to delete any trace it was ever on the system.

The Indicators of compromise section at the bottom contains a list of any files you can check for on your system, and their corresponding SHA-256 values, as well as network indicators if you have logging or wish to check your DNS cache. If you have any files that match or other indicators, then your system is/was compromised. But there is a very good chance that many systems which were compromised now have no remaining trace of breech.

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-chrysalis-backdoor-dive-into-lotus-blossoms-toolkit/

So the Fediverse options are better because they ask for and rely upon donations - whereas all the large social network platforms are “free”?

Probably just make their fairly crap job worse. The new, more conservative government is pushing this as a pro-women “equal rights for both buyer and seller” policy, when really it just takes rights away from customers and furthers the goals of their puritan mindset.

The larger problems sex workers face (than equal penalties) is that they don’t do a ‘real job’ according to the govt, so cannot get social security coverage, no unions, and very limited legal protections for their high risk job. A situation ripe for exploitation by a criminal class.

If the government really wanted to protect them with equal rights they would follow the example of many/most western countries and legalize prostitution completely, granting tax status, social services and welfare, regulation of the industry, and legitimizing the work (thereby reducing the social stigma eventially).

NB: I was just reading that only intercourse is illegal, and even that was pretty lax law because the fine is only ~$130 US - less than prostitutes would generally earn from an individual client. So; oral sex, anal sex, etc: fully legal - this allows brothels and prostitutes to operate quite openly, advertise etc with few legal issues.

TIL Asahi was named by an epic alcoholic I guess.

Don’t worry, they have enough YouTube videos of Roblox gameplay to keep them entertained with nostalgia until long after the sun burns out.

TFW regular lottery money isn’t enough for an average apartment in Seoul, let alone living expenses and upkeep costs.

Its likely this is designed with a plan to push advertising or self-promotion.

Eg: step one is done - figure out how to both find threads early & get your content picked up as a good answer regularly and consistently. Step 2 - start inserting ‘first hand’ recommendations or even just mentions of products and services.

I’ve already seen webpages with the most esoteric or niche product/service recommendations (like some random Indian consultancy with 2 people listed in it, and no other significant web footprint) pop up in first page web results. Its another AI deathblow to the utility of search engines.

The Trump companies have been sued and lost dozens of times - and as figurehead and CEO of most of them I presume civil damages cases could wipe out a lot of the Trump family fortune. But, Trump has been working with the mob since the 80s and had Roy Cohn (mob laywer) as his personal laywer back then and for many years, so being career criminals (essentially a mob family), I’d not be surprised if most of the money and assets are carefully squirreled away in offshore accounts and trusts and whatnot.

Also given that the US is doing everything it can to pull apart legislative protections against the billionaires class, it would probably all be a major uphill battle without a sweeping change of government and an expansion of the supreme court.

Truth Social post, 2024: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane”.

Documents subsequently released in 2025 show he was on the plane at least 8 times.

Nov 18, 2025 to reporter on video interview in the Oval Office: “I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert.”

Epstein files (once heavily redacted by Trump’s own admin): 5300 mentions in emails, letters, cards, itineraries, manifests, etc.

Trump, MAGA, and most Republicans: “Democrat hoax!”

Gosh, it’s like there’s been a coordinated effort to downplay the link, whitewash Trump, and deceive the public.

Wait… is this you, New York Times - just five weeks ago?

“An examination of their history by The New York Times has found no evidence implicating Mr. Trump in Mr. Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of minors.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html

The FBI could release a 10 TB archive of evidence tomorrow showing Trump with Epstein directly abusing minors recorded in all possible recording mediums and vetted real by third-party experts, and it would still be written off as a hoax by enough people to still win him another election.

My partner calls it “Febry” and I have given up correcting her.

In/from

I checked 10 reviewer accounts from the first few pages. Literally all of them had only one rating on their account: Melania, 5 stars.

At least try to look like you’re not astroturfing, lol.

See for yourself: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania/reviews/all-audience

Can relate.

I feel like one of these panels should say, “I find out how much the US impacts Aussie lives & politics”.

It’ll be in your YouTube view history you silly duffer.

Me, who didn’t even recognise the icon on the left:

Why is this blue clock guy so mean?

Is this post from LinkedIn?

I haven’t been on there for ages and I’m not sure what their site looks like anymore. But I’m pretty sure LI was Ken’s stalking ground for onion-eaters in the past.

Oh hey, sorry I just remembered I never replied to this.

If you have a song in mind that you can’t find anywhere - which definitely happens sometimes, no matter the artist - then you can always grab a copy to keep locally as long as they have it streaming somewhere eg Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. The quality will only be whatever the streaming provider offers, but it’s usually good enough if it’s nowhere else.

So for instance YouTube has heaps of easy to use downloader apps such as Grayjay, yt-dl/yt-dlg on desktop pc. Or if on android there’s ‘yt-dl kivy’ on the IzzyOnDroid repo for F-Droid, or Grayjay, or Gyawun Music.

If you need advice for downloading from specific platforms there are plenty of Lemmy communities that have knowledgeable people like the piracy community on dbzer0. This is their wiki - https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/music/

P. S. its not a bad idea to download streaming files only from a VPN by the way, just in case you get your IP blocked by the service (very rare and usually temporary, but i thought I’d mention).