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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • TLDR; Scammer/creep is using a woman’s photos, possibly stolen from a webcam hack, and her social media links to privately message people.


    People were getting private messages with a few links and a picture from someone claiming to be Nicole the Fediverse Chick.

    Of course this becomes a meme and spreads as people talk about it.

    It gets weird because there’s multiple different pictures. 1 or 2 stolen pic online, that’s expected for these types of scam. But there’s a whole collection of them out there. Its suspected to be pulled from a live stream or a hacked webcam.

    Like usual, the chance that the woman in the picture is actually Nicole sending messages is pretty low. Having her image and links shared to randos online makes an easy target for a lot of people to harass her.

    .world admins are saying no more. All references to “Nicole” will be purged.











  • Agreed, news needs to be held to a higher standard than it is now. There’s a whole list of journalist code of ethics that basically distils to be truthful, minimize harm, be independent, and be accountable.

    *some example of minimize harm;

    • don’t dig through a celebrities trash looking for condoms
    • if there’s an accident you don’t show pictures of the dismembered victims
    • don’t identify victims of abuse
    • don’t claim an accusation as fact until proven (this why every news stations says “allegedly” all the time)

  • I hate those arbitrary cut offs for aid. Oops, you got a raise and now make $28,100 sorry no more medicare. It locks people into low paying jobs because if they make too much, they instantly loose all the benefits that their little raise doesn’t match.

    if we’re not going to do free-for-all, it should at least be on a very large scale,

    make less then 28k = 100% covered,

    29, 99% covered

    30, 98% covered

    All the way up to when 128k = 0% covered

    (You’d have fix healthcare prices too, procedures/medicines are priced so insurance looks like they are doing you a favor “you only had to pay $700 for this $25,000 procedure and the $600 follow up medicine will only cost you $100 a week”)