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"Moment Engineering by Moment Technology wants to access your {GitHub account name} account Personal user data Email addresses (read-only), profile information (read-only) This application will be able to read your private email addresses and read your private profile information."



Do we get digital stickers for the numbers we found? ;)

This is fun to see :) thanks!


Duh!


Yes, governments are going to track.


Kellanova, formerly known as the Kellogg Company, got the message and are now making Pop-Tarts with extra protein ;)

https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/products/new/pop-tarts-protei...


For some more APL history see the "50 Years of APL" at the Dyalog URL

https://www.dyalog.com/50-years-of-apl.htm



I didn't know the existence of Grokpedia. From this page alone it's much more interesting than what I'd expected from an AI-generated site.


Wow. This is so biased. And it's just the first month.

> Joe Biden

> These outcomes, alongside visible signs of cognitive impairment that prompted his July 2024 decision to forgo reelection, defined a presidency criticized for prioritizing progressive spending over fiscal and security prudence.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Joe_Biden

> Donald Trump

> His first term featured economic policies such as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and individual rates for many brackets, contributing to pre-pandemic unemployment lows of 3.5% and stock market gains exceeding 50% on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Donald_Trump

I bet the people contributing to Wikipedia did not consent to this. I certainly had no idea my contributions would be used to bootstrap something like this.

Like with the hyperscalers' rip off of Open Source, it turns out that the things you give away can be weaponized against you.

I could have never imagined this outcome. Their free labor created something to use against you.

Just like those Redis and Elasticsearch commits that now fund a trillion dollar conglomerate's takeover of American journalism and media.


You consented to CC-BY-SA 3.0 (or 2.0)


Nobody dreamed of CC-BY-SA being used like this.


That's the risk of using open licenses. You don't get to restrict much.

It's ok to be outraged and to project norms or organize against it in various ways. But contractually it was consensual


... which is pretty weak sauce. And legally moot; there is no "undreamt-of" protection in Black's Law Dictionary that I'm aware of.


Edit history on each is quite interesting!


"“When you read content on X, you should be able to verify its authenticity. This is critical to getting a pulse on important issues happening in the world,” posted Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, back on October 14, 2025."

That feature of showing where an account was created was on for a bit and then turned off... it highlights that many accounts implying they are in the USA are actually not and probably not who they claim to be.


> That feature of showing where an account was created was on for a bit and then turned off... it highlights that many accounts implying they are in the USA are actually not and probably not who they claim to be.

I recall that Twitter had a serious account takeover problem which reached the point that eve high profile accounts were hijacked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking

Of course owners of dead accounts don't complain.

The way Elon Musk's Twitter decided to render blue checkmarks useless leads me to believe this is by design.


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