This episode is centered around a discussion with political scientist Eric Oliver, who wrote a 2018 book called "Enchanted America" on how Trump seems to have consolidated what was once a divided "intuitionist" electorate that once had many left-leaning people.

Since Trump came along, the small number of "rationalist" Republicans exited, but a larger number of intuitionist Democrats like RFK Jr. or crystal people have moved in.

Rationalists (mostly left-leaning): Believe in facts, science, logic, consistency.

Intuitionists (increasingly right-leaning): Trust their gut. Fear vaccines. Love "natural remedies". See conspiracies everywhere.

Trump didn’t create these people. He harnessed them.

He speaks their language: fear, gut instinct, grievance. He doesn’t debate. He feels. That’s why he connects.

Meanwhile, Democrats still show up to a knife fight with a pie chart.

“You’re not affected if (and only if)

• You access Facebook and Instagram via the web, without having the apps installed on your phone
• You browse on desktop computers or use iOS (iPhones)
• You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile”

this is so creepy!

it's like those "i know what you did" crypto scan emails but for real

lately id noticed that ive been getting ads for shit on Instagram for stuff ive been internet searching on my tablet. been wondering why this is, since i use cookie blocking browser extensions.

now i know why — my tablet is the only place i have the Instagram app.

not making that mistake again

and you just know they were telling their investors “oh yeah youre getting good results from it our ads because our AI is SOOO GOOOOD”

nope. just literal wiretapping

the moment Facebook begun raking in billions from advertisers for targeted surveillance of their idiot, consumerist "product", we entered the Twilight Zone.

Or maybe that happened when corrupt politicians the world over saw what happened and said: "hey there, Zuck, nice biznis you came up with, too bad if we were to regulate it".

Whatever the precise moment we got trapped, we will not exit the Twilight Zone unless Meta goes bankrupt. It is so simple and stark.

#surveillancecapitalism

@Gargron@mastodon.socia

I think it was brazil who blocked Twitter/X as a punishment and to force them to toe the line, fines won't stop META at all, but what would stop them is to block them fully until they get their act together and comply with our laws end of story. It did seem to work.

Time for TOUGH action rater then pussyfooting around.

Oh and raise awareness of what Meta are doing in the context of various laws and suggest people make their own minds up if they should stay on META products.

a more technical explanation is available there: localmess.github.io/

With more Facebook shenanigans when the researchers disclosed the information.

Yandex applications are also using the same trick.

It would be a bonus if Android now dropped Zuckerberg- but of course they've been getting paid for hosting Fb & Insta too, like Apple.

FB were always fearful of & vulnerable to Android & Apple wims.

@EUCommission please just ban #Meta from the EU.

@Gargron

"You're not affected if you always used the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile"

How would using DuckDuckGo have prevented this? Seems like the issue is happening on any site you end up on, regardless of your search engine of choice.

I think the term we are looking for is "Malware".

The software was explicitly designed to circumvent security mechanisms of the OS in order to implement undesired extra functionality.

of course it does.
I used to not have any fb app installed on my phone, and rarely used it on browser.
Once I did installed messenger, it collected everything it could, and almost instantly recommended bunch of fb profiles of mine discord friends it didn't knew about before.

fuck meta

This is why I never have a social media app on my phone and sim swapping is why I never have a financial app on my phone.

BTW, Google could be open to an even larger lawsuit.
wired.com/story/a-researcher-f…

A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account

Phone numbers are a goldmine for SIM swappers. A researcher found how to get this precious piece of information through a clever brute-force attack.

^{Joseph Cox (WIRED)}

so where is all this cash going? To the users who have been spyed. Right?

Is just me or this is actually bribing authorities?

Guess what. I can't uninstall it on my phone. I can only quote disable it.

sensorstechforum.com/unable-un…

And I never installed it so I didn't even know it was there.

This only means that others are also doing it. So everyone should be very careful with what apps they install.

Sure, I'd say this is a android only exploit for now. I'd be curious if this exploit can be done on GrapheneOS, instead of Google Android.

But if I was running iOS I wouldn't gloat too much. Apple has been sharing still unencrypted push notifications to governments for quite a while.

Pick your poison.