Rights/Drug activist. Legal M.C. user 23.3.22. Confirmed July 2014 my medical condition due to Cannabinoid deficiencies: (CECD) https://xitter.cf/t.co/losF82bJsA
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@sajidjavid @UKLabour @Conservatives "The published data on the health impact of Cannabis use clearly show that future arguments should take the form of “how many lives are saved by Cannabis use”, not the current argument of “how harmful is Cannabis use”. scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/b…
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a user (u/Crunchy-Nut1) on our r/claudecode subreddit community connected claude code to his honda civic's chinese head unit.
he found that:
- a voice assistant was always listening for its wake word and running a hidden webview that consumed ~30% cpu even when nobody was talking
- a call recorder was preinstalled on the device handling his bluetooth calls
- the firmware had a root backdoor left by the vendor.
- a startup script silently installed any apk placed in a hidden folder, then deleted the file.
- the vendor's update app could push new firmware remotely.
- baidu location services and a vendor log collector were running in the background.
- the listing claimed device had 8 cores and android 15. the actual hardware had 4 cores and android 9, with a security patch from october 2021.
he then used claude code to:
- disable the always-listening assistant and other unwanted apps, then remove 18 packages after backing them up.
- shut down the root backdoor and hidden apk installation mechanism.
- disable the vendor's cloud updater.
- configure adguard private dns to block ads and trackers.
- upgrade android webview from version 66 to 138.
- build a custom civic launcher, generate its icons, and recalibrate the backup camera guidelines
- install open-source apps with sha-256 verification and lock down network access
debloating your cheap hardware is a pretty sick usecase of claude code
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"Q. How democratic is the Israeli vote – and who is being disenfranchised?
A: About 15 million people live in areas under Israeli control. Just over 7 million Jewish Israelis and 1.7 million Palestinian citizens of Israel live within the country’s pre-1967 borders, known as the “green line”, and have full voting rights.
In the occupied West Bank, more than 500,000 Israeli settlers can vote. They live among 3.1 million Palestinians who are subject to military rule and do not have the right to vote.
In occupied East Jerusalem more than 230,000 Israelis with voting rights live among 350,000 Palestinians who cannot vote.
Two million Palestinians in Gaza, who live under Israeli military occupation, according to the international court of justice, also have no vote."
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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I have spoken out for years about the inhumane slaughter of pigs!
As intelligent as our domestic dogs
Now I am delighted to say that the UK Government has launched a consultation on ending CO₂ slaughter for pigs
It’s about time and let us hope that this could truly bring about significant change
📖 Read more: bit.ly/4yCynQR
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Halloween artificial cobweb material:
It may be a bit of fake fun for you, but it's a very real and terrifying death for them.
And it's not only birds.
Last year I had my first call of the season of a hedgehog trapped in this horrific fake 'cobweb', made especially for gullible halloweeners to spread over their greenery, trapping all unsuspecting birds, insects and mammals, including hedgehogs.
The fine synthetic fibers are difficult for animals to see and can quickly wrap around their legs, spines, and neck, leading to severe injuries.
When a hedgehog struggles to free herself the web tightens, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
These constriction injuries often lead to permanent damage or death.
Unfortunately the call was from Manchester, so all I could do was talk them through getting the poor creature to a rescue.
Clearly she had been trapped there for at least one night, and her struggles had pulled the strong nylon strands so tightly that one of her toes had been amputated.
Can you imagine the pain and the sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted to the point of near death, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, please take it down now.
Please don't be conned by the greedy makers and sellers of this rubbish into hurting defenceless animals.
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Claude Code just found proof that every app on your phone is listening to your conversations. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. they're using what you say out loud to build your feed. i have the data to prove it.
i've suspected this for months but last week something happened that made me finally check.
i was on a call with my friend and told him i'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend. didn't text it. didn't search it. just said it out loud with my phone on the table. two hours later she opens TikTok next to me and her entire feed is breakups. "signs your relationship is over." "how to heal after a breakup." she looked at me and said "why is TikTok showing me this." i said i don't know. but i did know.
i connected my iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code that same night.
it scanned every app's background microphone activity for the last 90 days. not just the apps that asked for microphone permission. apps that were supposed to only have access to photos or location but were activating the microphone anyway.
what it found:
→ TikTok activated the microphone 347 times while the app was "closed" in the background
→ Instagram → 211 background activations
→ Facebook → 189
→ Snapchat → 94
every activation lasted between 3 and 15 seconds. enough to catch a sentence. every one of them tagged a keyword and cached it locally on the phone with a timestamp.
Claude Code pulled the full keyword cache:
→ "breakup" — tagged 4 hours before her feed changed
→ "moving out" — from a conversation with my mom last Tuesday
→ "wedding venue" — from a call with my sister about her engagement that i never searched once
→ "protein powder" — said it out loud to my roommate, had ads for it within an hour
→ "flight to tokyo" — mentioned it at dinner, saw travel ads the same night
those keywords were sitting in a local cache on my phone organized by app with timestamps. TikTok had the most entries. Instagram was second. every single keyword matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone.
the scariest one was "wedding venue." my sister told me she's getting engaged on a private call. i never searched it. never typed it. within a day my explore page had engagement rings and venue tours.
then Claude Code checked a second phone in the same room. my girlfriend's. same keywords. same timestamps. both phones were picking up the same conversation and tagging it independently.
i asked Claude Code how to shut it down. it mapped every app's microphone access and built a permission audit.
what i did:
→ revoked microphone access from every app that doesn't need it to function
→ disabled background app refresh for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat
→ turned off "Hey Siri" which keeps the microphone in passive listening mode 24/7
→ revoked "nearby interaction" permission which uses ultrasonic audio between devices
Claude Code confirmed all four apps lost background microphone access after the changes. i checked her phone too. same steps. took about 3 minutes per phone.
within 48 hours both our feeds went completely random. generic content. nothing personal. nothing from our conversations. that's when i knew for sure it was real.
the full step by step and the prompt are in the first reply. takes 3 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone who's ever said "my phone is definitely listening to me." it is. now you can prove it and shut it down.
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Dear @andyburnham You can no longer ignore this.
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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CBDA-rich cannabis extract slowed colorectal cancer cell growth better than a pure CBD + CBDA mix.
The entourage effect?
Pure CBD was clearly the strongest at killing the cancer cells and stopping them from growing in both cell types.
The CBDA-rich real cannabis extract surprisingly worked better at slowing cell growth than just mixing pure CBDA + CBD together — suggesting other natural compounds in the plant help make it more effective.
Bottom line / Conclusion:
CBD had the strongest overall effects on stopping cancer cell survival and changing gene activity.
CBDA alone showed only weak activity.
The whole-plant extract rich in CBDA worked better than a simple mixture of pure CBD + CBDA — hinting that the natural combination of compounds in cannabis might be more powerful than isolated ones.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4154…
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It actually bothers me more that this isn't AI 🤣 xitter.cf/_a9ia/status/211458098…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video is AI-generated (watermarks from @DanieleG.AI/@danielag.ai accounts using Seedance/CapCut tools) featuring a fabricated dance by a likeness of real person Susan Dell from her actual White House appearance.
ibtimes.co.uk/susan-dell-ai-…
instagram.com/danielag.ai/
x.com/AnnieGotAGun_1…
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I don’t think I ever believed I’d see a newspaper paragraph like this: President Trump ‘said he would welcome immigrants from Denmark but not from Norway “because I didn’t get the Nobel Prize, so I don’t want anybody from Norway”.’
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Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
We knew that by crossing into the occupied Palestinian territories, we risked being detained, interrogated and turned away by Israeli authorities. And that, alas, is exactly what happened.
For more than eight hours, we were held, interrogated and made to feel as though we had done something wrong simply by attempting to enter.
The simple truth is we had done nothing wrong. We went to show our support for the Palestinian people and highlight the terrible injustice and violence being perpetrated against them. We want to ensure that people back home do not look away from the reality of what is happening.
Ultimately, we went to show solidarity. But we left with an even greater determination to speak out. We will not be silenced, and we will not look away. None of us should.
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I took about 50,000 photos through a 14" telescope last night to produce this: A hyper-detailed photo of the full moon. The fidelity of the photo was great enough to allow me to greatly enhance the color, revealing a hidden world of geological diversity.
Chris Brown only given a suspended sentence for smacking someone 4 times with a tequila bottle, twice in the head, in a London club in 2023.
This isn't good enough. It sends a message you can violently attack someone but avoid prison.
theguardian.com/music/2026/o…
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Over the weekend I have been taking ever deeper dives into Sir David Bell's “Independent” Review into Antisemitism in Schools and Colleges.
There is zero doubt in my mind that this sloppy, misleading, and inaccurate report is contribution to a systemic, legal, and institutional dismantling of any support for Palestine, or any education and discussion about Palestinian history and existence within the UK education system.
A 🧵
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Out today!
CBD slashes aggressive prostate cancer cell survival by up to 37% in lab tests!
CBD 'unlocks' a hidden cancer-fighting gene to STOP melanoma spread!
CBD shows serious promise against gliomas (brain cancer)!
And more! Stay tuned!
