Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and death. These can be the consequences for vulnerable kids who get addicted to social media, according to more than 1,000 personal injury lawsuits that seek to punish Meta and other platforms for allegedly prioritizing profits while downplaying child safety risks for years.

Social media companies have faced scrutiny before, with congressional hearings forcing CEOs to apologize, but until now, they’ve never had to convince a jury that they aren’t liable for harming kids.

This week, the first high-profile lawsuit—considered a “bellwether” case that could set meaningful precedent in the hundreds of other complaints—goes to trial. That lawsuit documents the case of a 19-year-old, K.G.M, who hopes the jury will agree that Meta and YouTube caused psychological harm by designing features like infinite scroll and autoplay to push her down a path that she alleged triggered depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidality.

TikTok and Snapchat were also targeted by the lawsuit, but both have settled. The Snapchat settlement came last week, while TikTok settled on Tuesday just hours before the trial started, Bloomberg reported.

Police officers are being told to “be as vague as permissible” about why they are using the Flock surveillance system in order to not leak sensitive information via public records requests, according to records obtained using a public records request. The warning originated from a Houston-area police intelligence center that includes members of the FBI and ICE and suggests without evidence that people are using a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com to “potentially retaliate against law enforcement.”

The warnings were shared with 404 Media by researchers from Southerners Against Surveillance Systems and Infrastructure and Lucy Parsons Lab after our article about police unwittingly leaking the details of millions of surveillance targets nationwide due to public records redaction errors made by several Flock automated license plate reader system customers. This data was aggregated into a searchable tool called HaveIBeenFlocked.

Rather than looking at this incident as a huge operational security failure associated with using a massive commercial surveillance system, police see this as something that puts their officers directly in harm’s way. The data released by police departments includes the agency doing a search, the officer’s name, time of search, the license plate searched, and a “reason” field, which is the justification for doing a specific search.

Archive: archive.today/DtKt4

flatpak run org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent
bwrap: Unable to open lock file /app/.ref: No such file or directory

I tried flatpak repair, with --user and --system, that did not fix it, and I did a system re-install, or rather reinstalled all the packages
Nothing worked.

I am using nixos on unstable, recently I broke the nix part of my system, and was advised to do a re-install, I did a re-install which involved usb booting into nixos, and running a command to reinstall all the packages and rebuild in my nix directory, but afterwards, no flatpak is running. There is a possibility it broke beforehand and I didnt notice that, but i think it might have been after the re-install.

Flatpak version:
1.16.1

Distro:
NixOS

Distro version:
/nix/store/8hx8jwa24q6rkzhca9iqy5ckk9rbphi1-source

Architecture:
x86_64

EDIT:
Some flatpaks run but alot of them dont with the same error

EDIT (x2) SOLVED:
I think the issue might have been the kde platform, as the apps that crashed were on kde platform 6.8 or 6.9, possibly some broken version, most likely the platform and bwrap didnt play well with nixos, these commands worked, I ran this for users (not system). Possible system might work, point is, I dont have the issue anymore.

flatpak uninstall org.inkscape.Inkscape org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent com.obsproject.Studio org.kde.kdenlive org.wireshark.Wireshark com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer com.rafaelmardojai.Blanket io.github.seadve.Mousai net.codelogistics.clicker org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync

flatpak uninstall --runtime org.kde.Platform//6.8
flatpak uninstall --runtime org.kde.Platform//6.9
flatpak uninstall --runtime org.gnome.Platform//48

flatpak uninstall --unused -y

flatpak repair --system
flatpak repair --user

flatpak install flathub org.inkscape.Inkscape
flatpak install flathub org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent
flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio

If you're already renting content access, why not rent your TV as well?

LG has launched a subscription program in the UK that allows people to make monthly payments in order to rent LG TVs, soundbars, monitors, and speakers.

LG Flex customers can sign up for one-, two-, or three-year subscriptions to get lower monthly payments.

“At the end of your subscription, you can apply for a free upgrade, keep paying monthly, or return your device,” the LG Flex website says. Subscribers will have to pay a £50 (about $69) fee for a “full removal service,” including dismounting and packaging, of rental TVs.

LG also claims on its website that it won’t penalize customers for “obvious signs of use, such as some scratching, small dents, or changes in the paintwork.” However, if you damage the rental device, LG “may charge you for the cost of repair as outlined by the Repair Charges set out in your agreement.” LG’s subscription partner, Raylo, also sells insurance for coverage against “accidental damage, loss, and theft” of rented devices.

As of this writing, you can buy LG’s 83-inch OLED B5 2025 TV on LG’s UK website for £2,550 (about $3,515). Monthly rental prices range from £93 ($128), if you commit to a three-year-long rental period, to £277 ($382), if you only commit to a one-month rental period. Under the three-year plan, you can rent the TV for 27 months before you end up paying more to rent the TV than you would have to own it. At the highest rate, your rental payments will surpass MSRP after nine months.

suppose you were the national security advisor of a major state

is supposing a political yes man, like economists/historians, who promote every warmongering lie the establishment has already injected into reality.

The national security establishment wants Skynet, and even though OP warns about the sovereign-level power of big tech controlling AI companies, they are all begging to be picked (paid) to develop Skynet, and all want a political order that pursues Skynet, with whatever oppression and genocide required to give all of nation's money to Skynet. There is no AI bubble because Skynet will buy all of the datacenter tokens. There is no risk of Skynet opposing oligarchist supremacist tech providers, because Skynet will reward them handsomely.

OP's AI safety measures for Claude models is only for individuals. Establishment oligarchy corporate employees should be free to develop bioweapons for Skynet, of course.

Democracy is perfect, and so a warmongering ZIonazi ruled US and all of its colonies, conveniently/purely coincidentally described as the only democracies, deserve to dominate the world through the pure love of Skynet

A perfectly valid humanist American reason to not sell chips to China is that it increases Nvidia extoriton power/prices over Americans. Still, OP is a piece of shit, for validating US/Zionazi oligarchist oppression of humanity... or China wins, as the ultimate argument for Skynet.

The moral failure of praising democracy is that it has demonstrably more evil results than countries that choose to limit divisive speech, which is why CIA speech determines all election outcomes. Placing as axiom, that US is a force for good/humanism is inherently exposing the essay as one for demonic evil.

solutions to massive labour displacement are everything other than freedom dividends/UBI.

The US cannot continue a Zionazi-first rulership unless it is a hateful divisive shithole, where the ZIonazi political duopoly fight over making the US a bigger shithole vs addressing some of the shithole symptoms.

Closes Feb 18th.

Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled

Whereas:

• Postmedia, one of Canada's largest media companies, is controlled by Chatham Asset Management, an American hedge fund, placing a key part of Canada’s news media under foreign influence;
• Foreign ownership introduces perspectives shaped by American political and cultural priorities, which often do not reflect Canadian values or concerns;
• Independent Canadian journalism is essential to democracy, ensuring accountability, accuracy, and representation of Canadian voices;
• Foreign control risks skewing news coverage, undermining media integrity, and eroding public trust; and
• Other countries, such as Australia and France, have established policies to safeguard domestic control of media, providing workable models for Canada.

We, the undersigned, Residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership and control of print, digital and other non-audio-visual news media, to protect Canadian sovereignty, ensure journalism integrity, and guarantee that our media reflects Canadian priorities and values.