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Monreal retweeted
‘Can you explain this gap in your resume?’
Lana Rhoades was voted the most popular adult star in the world two years after she quit. She’d been paid $1,200 a scene. Years later, on her own podcast, she tried to explain what they made her do and broke down before she could finish a sentence.
She entered the industry at 19 in 2016 and was out by the end of 2017, with about $100,000 to her name. Around the same time, she says, an influencer she knew got $155,000 for one Instagram post with a Jeep. After she quit, she says she grew her own Instagram past 10 million followers in a single year. Then she launched a podcast with two friends. It was filmed in a kitchen.
In the video below, she’s explaining what happened once she hit number one. “Everyone wanted to make money off me, so they pushed me.” Mid-sentence, she stops. Her friends tell her not to cry.
“I told myself no. Now I’m crying.”
She keeps going. She describes watching another girl sob on set while the cameras kept rolling, because her agent told her it was this or the highway. She talks about friends who were choked until they passed out mid-scene. In another interview she admitted that whenever the camera was behind her, she was crying too.
The videos are still online, still making money. “A lot of the videos I have no rights under,” she said, “otherwise I probably would have deleted them all by now.”
In April 2026, she became creative director of a new platform competing with OnlyFans.
So who should answer for those tears: the 19-year-old who signed, or the industry still selling her?
Monreal retweeted
Lana Rhoades was voted the most popular adult star in the world two years after she quit. She’d been paid $1,200 a scene. Years later, on her own podcast, she tried to explain what they made her do and broke down before she could finish a sentence.
She entered the industry at 19 in 2016 and was out by the end of 2017, with about $100,000 to her name. Around the same time, she says, an influencer she knew got $155,000 for one Instagram post with a Jeep. After she quit, she says she grew her own Instagram past 10 million followers in a single year. Then she launched a podcast with two friends. It was filmed in a kitchen.
In the video below, she’s explaining what happened once she hit number one. “Everyone wanted to make money off me, so they pushed me.” Mid-sentence, she stops. Her friends tell her not to cry.
“I told myself no. Now I’m crying.”
She keeps going. She describes watching another girl sob on set while the cameras kept rolling, because her agent told her it was this or the highway. She talks about friends who were choked until they passed out mid-scene. In another interview she admitted that whenever the camera was behind her, she was crying too.
The videos are still online, still making money. “A lot of the videos I have no rights under,” she said, “otherwise I probably would have deleted them all by now.”
In April 2026, she became creative director of a new platform competing with OnlyFans.
So who should answer for those tears: the 19-year-old who signed, or the industry still selling her?
Monreal retweeted
Her solution to the abuses of the pornography industry was to make a pornography platform that takes 2% less from creators than onlyfans
Lana Rhoades was voted the most popular adult star in the world two years after she quit. She’d been paid $1,200 a scene. Years later, on her own podcast, she tried to explain what they made her do and broke down before she could finish a sentence.
She entered the industry at 19 in 2016 and was out by the end of 2017, with about $100,000 to her name. Around the same time, she says, an influencer she knew got $155,000 for one Instagram post with a Jeep. After she quit, she says she grew her own Instagram past 10 million followers in a single year. Then she launched a podcast with two friends. It was filmed in a kitchen.
In the video below, she’s explaining what happened once she hit number one. “Everyone wanted to make money off me, so they pushed me.” Mid-sentence, she stops. Her friends tell her not to cry.
“I told myself no. Now I’m crying.”
She keeps going. She describes watching another girl sob on set while the cameras kept rolling, because her agent told her it was this or the highway. She talks about friends who were choked until they passed out mid-scene. In another interview she admitted that whenever the camera was behind her, she was crying too.
The videos are still online, still making money. “A lot of the videos I have no rights under,” she said, “otherwise I probably would have deleted them all by now.”
In April 2026, she became creative director of a new platform competing with OnlyFans.
So who should answer for those tears: the 19-year-old who signed, or the industry still selling her?
Lana Rhoades was voted the most popular adult star in the world two years after she quit. She’d been paid $1,200 a scene. Years later, on her own podcast, she tried to explain what they made her do and broke down before she could finish a sentence.
She entered the industry at 19 in 2016 and was out by the end of 2017, with about $100,000 to her name. Around the same time, she says, an influencer she knew got $155,000 for one Instagram post with a Jeep. After she quit, she says she grew her own Instagram past 10 million followers in a single year. Then she launched a podcast with two friends. It was filmed in a kitchen.
In the video below, she’s explaining what happened once she hit number one. “Everyone wanted to make money off me, so they pushed me.” Mid-sentence, she stops. Her friends tell her not to cry.
“I told myself no. Now I’m crying.”
She keeps going. She describes watching another girl sob on set while the cameras kept rolling, because her agent told her it was this or the highway. She talks about friends who were choked until they passed out mid-scene. In another interview she admitted that whenever the camera was behind her, she was crying too.
The videos are still online, still making money. “A lot of the videos I have no rights under,” she said, “otherwise I probably would have deleted them all by now.”
In April 2026, she became creative director of a new platform competing with OnlyFans.
So who should answer for those tears: the 19-year-old who signed, or the industry still selling her?
holy sh*t. claude code turned my airpods case into a mouse…
my trackpad died this morning and i didn't have a mouse anywhere. i looked at the airpods case on my desk and asked claude code a dumb question: can this be a mouse?
turns out airpods have motion sensors inside them. the same ones that make spatial audio follow your head
claude code found a way to read them straight from my mac, 50 times a second, and turned every tilt into cursor movement
here's what it does now:
> tilt the case · the cursor follows, smooth enough to drag windows around
> quick flick · that's a click
> hold and move · that's a drag
> set it down · the cursor stops dead, no drifting
no app, no extra hardware, nothing to buy. the airpods i already had in my pocket
my friend thought i'd bought some new apple accessory. i told him it's the case he has in his pocket right now
took me one evening and i didn't write a single line of code
the full prompt is in the comments, try it on yours tonight ↓
here's the prompt. paste it into claude code on your mac:
"Build me a small macOS app that turns my AirPods into a mouse using their built-in motion sensors. Explain each step in plain language and ask before installing anything.
1. Read the motion
Use CMHeadphoneMotionManager to stream my AirPods' motion data (pitch, roll, yaw) live, about 50 times a second. Check first that my AirPods support head tracking and tell me if they don't. Show me a live readout so I can see it working.
2. Move the cursor
Map tilt to cursor movement with CGEvent. Tilting left/right moves the cursor horizontally, tilting forward/back moves it vertically. Add a small dead zone so the cursor doesn't drift when I hold still, and smoothing so it doesn't shake.
3. Gestures
- a quick flick down = left click
- a quick flick and hold = drag until I flick again
- set it down and stay still for 1 second = pause the cursor
4. Calibration
When the app starts, give me 3 seconds to hold the AirPods in a comfortable neutral position and use that as center. Add a sensitivity slider.
5. Controls
Add a menu bar icon to turn it on and off, and a keyboard shortcut to toggle it instantly in case it goes crazy.
6. Permissions
Walk me through allowing Accessibility and Motion access in System Settings, since the app needs both to read the sensors and move the cursor.
Build it, run it, and show me how to test each gesture."
works with airpods that support spatial audio head tracking. keep the earbuds connected to your mac while you use it ↓
Claude Code just scanned 1.2 million grocery products, my iPhone, and every device on my home network in one night. it found yoga mat chemicals in my son's bread, 347 secret microphone activations on my "closed" TikTok, 94,000 photos i deleted years ago still sitting on my phone, and a live connection sending my passwords to North Korea.
you have at least 20 of these products in your kitchen right now. your phone is listening to you right now. and there are files on it you thought were gone three years ago.
i gave Claude Code one prompt and told it to audit everything. it ran overnight and came back with things i was not ready to read.
the kitchen:
→ our bread had azodicarbonamide, the same chemical they use to make yoga mats and shoe soles
→ the white coating on my son's cereal bars was titanium dioxide, the powder they put in white wall paint
→ our shredded cheese was coated in wood pulp so it would not clump in the bag
→ the preservative in his cereal is also added to jet fuel and rubber tires
→ 63 products had petroleum dyes that made kids more hyper and restless in clinical tests
→ 71 out of 80 products in my kitchen were flagged, including all 9 snacks i packed for school
the phone:
→ TikTok activated my microphone 347 times while the app was "closed"
→ Instagram 211 times. Facebook 189. Snapchat 94
→ every activation lasted 3 to 15 seconds, tagged a keyword, and cached it with a timestamp
→ i mentioned a flight to Tokyo at dinner. never searched it. had travel ads within an hour
→ my sister told me she is getting engaged on a private call. next day my explore page was engagement rings and venue tours
→ Claude Code pulled the keyword cache. every single entry matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone
the deleted photos:
→ 94,712 files going back to 2021 sitting in a hidden Spotlight cache
→ a passport photo from 2023, bank screenshots with full account numbers, a crypto seed phrase i took "temporarily" in 2022
→ iOS removes them from the camera roll but keeps a compressed copy forever so Spotlight can search by text
→ 17 apps had Files and Folders permission to read that cache. weather apps. free games. a calculator from 2021
the network:
→ Claude Code found a connection i never made, quietly sending data to a server it traced to North Korea
→ it had copied photos, saved passwords, and the codes my bank texts me
→ it got in through one Bluetooth file and was jumping between nearby devices on its own
→ no tap, no download, no notification
Claude Code killed every connection, wiped the hidden caches, revoked mic access from 13 apps, locked Bluetooth to manual-only, and built a live dashboard that flags anything new in real time.
two weeks later my 3pm energy crash is gone. my ad feed went completely random. and nothing connects to my phone without my say.
the full prompt is in the image. copy it before your next grocery trip.
Monreal retweeted
i gave Claude Code access to audit my phone and found something that genuinely made me want to throw it out the window
i thought my phone was private because i never downloaded sketchy apps, never clicked suspicious links, and always kept everything updated
turns out i'd been giving applications access to some of the most sensitive parts of my device without even realizing it
so i opened Claude Code with Opus 5.5 and asked it to help inspect my privacy settings, app permissions, and background network activity
what the fictional audit uncovered was genuinely disturbing:
→ 17 applications had retained microphone permissions, including several i hadn't opened in months
→ 9 apps could access my camera under permissions i'd granted and completely forgotten about
→ 23 background services were configured to collect analytics, diagnostics, or other usage information
→ multiple applications had location access that could potentially reveal patterns in my daily routine
→ a weather app had more permissions than i was comfortable giving to something that literally just tells me when it's raining
→ dozens of network connections were active while my phone was sitting untouched on my desk
the microphone permissions were what really got to me
i started thinking about all the conversations i'd had with my phone sitting next to me, completely unaware of which applications still had access to sensitive hardware
and the uncomfortable realization was that i couldn't explain why half those permissions were still enabled
the camera permissions were somehow even worse
i'd been covering my laptop webcam for years while casually giving random mobile applications permission to access the camera on a device i carry everywhere
the craziest part was that none of this required some sophisticated zero-day exploit
the privacy settings i'd ignored for months were sitting right in front of me
what Claude Code helped me investigate:
→ reviewed microphone and camera permissions to identify unnecessary access
→ analyzed available network diagnostics and flagged connections worth investigating
→ identified tracking and telemetry settings that could be restricted
→ checked background activity and applications with excessive permissions
→ generated a security hardening checklist for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux
→ prepared safe configuration changes with rollback instructions
and here's the part that most people don't understand about their own devices
an application doesn't necessarily need to hack your phone to collect sensitive information when you've already granted it extensive permissions
having microphone or camera permission doesn't prove an app is secretly recording you, but it gives you a very good reason to review whether that access is actually necessary
the whole experience made me realize that most people have absolutely no idea how much information their devices are configured to share
and the scariest part isn't some mysterious hacker watching through your camera
it's realizing how much access you've already handed out yourself
Take Total Control of Your Device with Claude Code.
i attached the full privacy audit prompt sheet below, including checks for data leaks, microphone access, camera permissions, tracking, and device security
the prompt i used in comment ↓
i gave Claude Code access to audit my phone and found something that genuinely made me want to throw it out the window
i thought my phone was private because i never downloaded sketchy apps, never clicked suspicious links, and always kept everything updated
turns out i'd been giving applications access to some of the most sensitive parts of my device without even realizing it
so i opened Claude Code with Opus 5.5 and asked it to help inspect my privacy settings, app permissions, and background network activity
what the fictional audit uncovered was genuinely disturbing:
→ 17 applications had retained microphone permissions, including several i hadn't opened in months
→ 9 apps could access my camera under permissions i'd granted and completely forgotten about
→ 23 background services were configured to collect analytics, diagnostics, or other usage information
→ multiple applications had location access that could potentially reveal patterns in my daily routine
→ a weather app had more permissions than i was comfortable giving to something that literally just tells me when it's raining
→ dozens of network connections were active while my phone was sitting untouched on my desk
the microphone permissions were what really got to me
i started thinking about all the conversations i'd had with my phone sitting next to me, completely unaware of which applications still had access to sensitive hardware
and the uncomfortable realization was that i couldn't explain why half those permissions were still enabled
the camera permissions were somehow even worse
i'd been covering my laptop webcam for years while casually giving random mobile applications permission to access the camera on a device i carry everywhere
the craziest part was that none of this required some sophisticated zero-day exploit
the privacy settings i'd ignored for months were sitting right in front of me
what Claude Code helped me investigate:
→ reviewed microphone and camera permissions to identify unnecessary access
→ analyzed available network diagnostics and flagged connections worth investigating
→ identified tracking and telemetry settings that could be restricted
→ checked background activity and applications with excessive permissions
→ generated a security hardening checklist for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux
→ prepared safe configuration changes with rollback instructions
and here's the part that most people don't understand about their own devices
an application doesn't necessarily need to hack your phone to collect sensitive information when you've already granted it extensive permissions
having microphone or camera permission doesn't prove an app is secretly recording you, but it gives you a very good reason to review whether that access is actually necessary
the whole experience made me realize that most people have absolutely no idea how much information their devices are configured to share
and the scariest part isn't some mysterious hacker watching through your camera
it's realizing how much access you've already handed out yourself
Take Total Control of Your Device with Claude Code.
i attached the full privacy audit prompt sheet below, including checks for data leaks, microphone access, camera permissions, tracking, and device security
the prompt i used in comment ↓
paste it into Claude Code:
"I want to perform a comprehensive privacy and security audit of a device I own. Identify the operating system, inspect available application permissions, camera and microphone access, location services, background processes, network connections, tracking mechanisms, and telemetry settings. Begin with read-only diagnostics and clearly distinguish confirmed findings from potential risks. Identify unnecessary permissions, recommend privacy improvements, and provide safe changes with complete rollback instructions. For Android, use supported ADB diagnostics when available. For iOS, guide me through Apple's supported privacy and security tools."
claude code recovered 175,623 photos and videos that were permanently deleted from my old iPhone…
5 years of my life sank to the bottom of a lake on my birthday in 2021. no backup. a repair shop told me to throw the phone away. i couldn't, so it sat in a drawer for 5 years
i dried it out one more time, plugged it into my macbook, opened claude code and asked one thing: is anything still alive on this phone?
the screen flickered, the apple logo came up, and claude started pulling files. 175,623 of them
here's what came back:
> the last voicemail from my dad, the one i'd been trying to get back for 5 years
> the video of me proposing, filmed by my best friend from behind a tree
> my grandma singing happy birthday, 2 months before she passed
> the seed phrase for a wallet that held *****$
> 2,140 photos from the lisbon trip i thought were gone forever
> the first time my son said "dad", 14 seconds i would have paid any amount for
> 11 GB of videos from my first apartment, back when we had nothing and were happy anyway
a phone i thought was dead for 5 years was holding all of it the whole time
claude sorted everything by year and put it in one folder on my desktop. i opened 2019 and sat there until morning
took me one night and i didn't write a single line of code
the prompt is in the comments. check that old phone in your drawer before you throw it away ↓
claude code recovered 153,359 photos and videos that were permanently deleted from my old iPhone…
5 years of my life sank to the bottom of a lake on my birthday in 2021. no backup. a repair shop told me to throw the phone away. i couldn't, so it sat in a drawer for 5 years
i dried it out one more time, plugged it into my macbook, opened claude code and asked one thing: is anything still alive on this phone?
the screen flickered, the apple logo came up, and claude started pulling files. 153,359 of them
here's what came back:
> the seed phrase for a wallet that held *****$
> the last voicemail from my dad, the one i'd been trying to get back for 5 years
> the video of me proposing, filmed by my best friend from behind a tree
> my grandma singing happy birthday, 2 months before she passed
> 2,140 photos from the lisbon trip i thought were gone forever
> the first time my son said "dad", 14 seconds i would have paid any amount for
> 11 GB of videos from my first apartment, back when we had nothing and were happy anyway
a phone i thought was dead for 5 years was holding all of it the whole time
claude sorted everything by year and put it in one folder on my desktop. i opened 2019 and sat there until morning
took me one night and i didn't write a single line of code
the full step-by-step is in the comments. check that old phone in your drawer before you throw it away ↓
Step 7 → check your old icloud too. claude can help you find out if anything from that phone was ever synced there without you knowing
Step 6 → once the backup is done, ask claude to sort everything by year and put it in one folder, so you're not digging through 100,000 files with names like IMG_4821
Step 5 → let claude walk you through making a full backup to your laptop first, before you try anything else. if the phone dies again halfway, the backup is what saves you
Step 4 → open claude code and tell it what happened to the phone, which model it is and what you want back most: photos, videos, voice memos
Step 3 → plug it into your laptop. if it asks "trust this computer?", tap trust and enter your passcode. you'll need to remember it, nothing works without it
Step 2 → charge it with the original cable for at least an hour. even if the screen stays black, the phone can still be alive inside