That Anonymous Coward's Second Techdirt Favorites Post Of The Week
OHAI Tourists!
pulls on orange vest
For those of you not shaking your heads in disbelief that I’m here
again, I’m That Anonymous Coward.
People mostly just call me TAC, my current claim to fame is appearing
in 4 sets of exhibits submitted to Federal Courts by Pretenda and its
agents, as well as suing to unmask me for intentional infliction of
butthurt… or something.
I coined the term Pretenda.
I am harsh, snarky, and pretty entertaining.
I am a legend in my own mind, and the stuff of nightmares for copyright
trolls.
Now if you’ll all take your seats here on the short bus, the tour can
begin, as soon as I get past this pesky club Mike put on the
wheel.
Hand me that canister… a little liquid nitrogen works wonders on
stuck locks.
Multitool please….
Now we connect wire 1 to wire 3 and… we’re off.
Palantir (named for that creepy orb from Lord of the Rings that lets you spy on hobbit beauty queens changing), got $196 Million in funding. Let’s ignore the absolute failure of the people behind it, and how they planned to use the tech to undermine Wikileaks for private customers. And they would have gotten away with it, if not for those pesky kids in trendy masks. So a company, who has no problem creating fake information, is being funded to gather more ‘real’ information for the government or anyone else with a briefcase full of cash.
Oh everyone smile at the traffic camera, it’s gathering our images to
update your status on NSABook.
Given the errors most data aggregators have… you are probably
all George Takei.
Everyone smile and say Oh My!
Everyone wave at that nice policeman
hiding in that alley… being anonymous online is okay for him, but
everyone else should register themselves.
I wonder if he works for this guy.
I guess its open minded thinking like that, that leads to
stuff like this.
Ok everyone roll up the windows, this is a bad neighborhood. Those dark forbidding towers, the fire, the brimstone… Nope its not Mordor, one does not just tour Mordor… this is the Surveillance Suburb. DUMDUMDUMMMMM
I’d bother to narrate but this neighborhood is like the most insane HOA
ever.
Pouring money into companies, making us all less safe, with nothing to
show for it.
If you question them, you’re a freaking terrorist.
They scare everyone with ZOMG the terrorists will win, even as they do
way more harm.
Protecting
the cash cow is more important than people knowing the truth.
Ok this place depresses me… here let’s just do a doughnut in Rep. Rogers lawn…
BaBang
Whoops sorry that was a pretty big speed bump, oh wait no it’s just
EA’s latest fail.
Let’s pay a visit to my favorite place, the Copyright Troll
Cul-de-sac.
We should be safe, with the Government shutdown those nice men from ICE
are cooling their heels at home.
Just up here on the left, and this clicker I “found” opens the gates….
Given the amazing lengths some countries are going to appease the IP
cartels, well this is confusing.
And well this just seems to fly in the face of the horrible times they claim…
They have given up buying the laws they want, they just think they can say
it and make it law.
Yes it’s time to hit the wayback machine Peabody for background, as you should have learned last time I had the wheel… I go where I want, last tour I went offsite to Ars.
I was talking about this lawfirm, Steele
Hansmeier LLC and their boy wonder lawyer Brett
Gibbs.
They stood before a Judge and admitted they mislead the court in the
original complaint, that the discovery wasn’t enough to identify the
infringer and wanted the court to allow them access to pretty much
anything with a computer in it in the target’s house.
My crystal ball is that good, I saw what was happening and well popcorn
futures are way up as the comedy keeps coming.
It would be funny haha but the wheels of justice are slow, so its more
funny utoh.
See that battered McMansion? The one that looks like its been hit by
the wrecking ball a bunch of times, and somehow is still
standing? Prenda Prime, it’s pretty much Steele Hansmeier with
new siding.
HA.
I think the upcoming holidays might be a little chilly.
HA.
They ‘represent’ him, and their best answer is we think he’ll have a
good answer?
HA!
And the cash they owe, piles up higher.
I guess gaming the justice system will finally catch up with you.
The irony, it burns. How big does the lie have to be when
even a staunch copyright advocate calls you out?
What is this little dark alley… oh this is where the patent trolls are breeding.
Much like the copyright trolls they are filling peoples heads with dreams of imaginary dollars… that never seem to make it to their greedy hands.
It is almost like some people want these trolls to succeed and keep the world from moving forward.
They extract money from people who innovate so they can spend more money to keep themselves alive.
Heh, lemme flick on the high beams…. look at them run!
Ok it’s gross back here, let’s get out on the road…
FSCK someone got funding restored for ICE, everyone duck down while I
get us out of here.
STAY DOWN!
Well Mike can have those bullet holes filled with bondo…again…
I would be depressed about all of the NSA
coverage, except my paranoia apparently was well founded.
Looking at the few revelations so far, can people understand why
Occupy, LulzSec, & Anonymous scare the crap out of the powers
that be?
We had paramilitary action against citizens exercising their right to
protest.
Fun fact pepper spray is banned for use on soldiers in war because it
is chemical warfare, but hosing down citizens seems to be perfectly ok.
‘Merika – home of the meek and surveilled.
Maybe those they demonize most are the ones who are done being meek.
Maybe we should stop accepting what they tell us, as it’s clear
they have no problem lying to us, and educate ourselves about them.
Not everything they do is well received, but when people fight back it gets messy.
I guess CFAA is the digital firehose being turned on protestors.
And back to the parking lot…
Ohhh look! Everyone wave at the drones
we aren’t supposed to know about.
So we’ve watched our rights get stripped away.
We’ve all paid the tax on innovation, and gotten nothing but more bad laws.
If you question those rights we all think we still have, they call you names and start digging for dirt (or farm that job out).
Is anyone scared that the guy in the Guy Fawkes mask is making sense?
Republicans are red, Democrats are blue, the really sad thing is, neither side gives a fsck about you.
Oh hey, Mike did my $25,000 ever show up?
You can use part of it to have the tour bus fixed up.
And that was part of the week that was.
I remain,
TAC
Dear JGL Its been over 30 years since slavery was outlawed, we should reexamine that law to update it and maybe sunset it. Maybe people should be able to own a FEW slaves. The people who gave you money to speak, because if they didn't pay you to be this big of an uninformed dumbass my god you're so much dumber than I thought, were not telling the truth to you... why is there such pushback? Perhaps consider you've been lied to & are being used to promote something horribly bad for regular people on the internet. Some horrible things happened to some people on the internet, and while you feel bad for the parents the platform didn't cause the problem, someone else did. But its a much better payday to sue the platform rather than the person who created the bad thing that lead to the horrible outcome. Why are they not suing the phone makers for displaying the content? Why are they not suing the internet providers for transmitting the content? Because juries would laugh them out of the courtroom. Because the bank robber drove away in a Tesla, the bank can't sue Tesla, but you decided because it is on the internet logic & reality no longer need to apply. Maybe stop patting yourself on the back & perhaps talk to people who are actually familiar with the law or hell read some 230 content here on Techdirt & educate yourself about the truth not the bullshit being fed to you. But you have already tripled down on sucking off Ted Cruz & Heritage so I doubt you would even bother. Hope the check was big enough when they purchased your soul. The harm you are causing will & should hang around your neck forever, but the redpill mattered more to you. Fucking loser.
Its always Marsha Marsha Marsha...
"“found no evidence of access beyond the researchers involved.”" Well you also thought your product & backend were secure so maybe farm that review out to a security firm.
Jackass with a 40 Suburban Caravan of cars trying to negotiate the narrow streets & making athletes late to their events because he is in the way. Flew in an entire plane of food, because I guess Italy is a 4rd world nation with no cuisine. I gotta think these boos hit much harder, because its really hard to claim that the audience was all Soros paid professional agitators, and they might have to accept that he is truly & deeply despised globally.
OHAI Strangers!!
Oh look... something you've been missing... My shocked face. But this is very on brand right now... They claim to be worried about children, they are protecting pedophiles. They claim to be worried about children's health, I expect them to promote polio parties next week. Everything he does is to make himself & his cronies richer, and all it costs is the lives of children. Next time you deal with an antivaxxer, just ask them how many more children need to die of measles before they are willing to consider perhaps they were wrong.
Prima regulă a gropilor este să nu mai săpi.
It was nice that the sheriff kept talking and removed any possible route for him to play this off as anything other than yet more unamerican bullshit. I look forward to the DA and the Judge trying to explain their involvement in this bullshit away, because keeping people in jail for months over a picture really does sound like they were punishing him for speech they disliked.
I think it was Southpark that did a scene from ET where they turned all of the weapons into radios & the radios where still shooting... its not the radios that are the problem its the complete lack of will to include responsibilities with those rights its the complete gutting of mental health care instead thinking angels & demons cause it & if you love jeebus enough you can get better Billions flow into cops who have literally stood around with their fingers up their asses rather than protect children. How many treatment centers could we staff with the cost of all of the bearcats in every little podunk city in the nation?
It would be a shame if someone got the personal cell numbers of the administration and seeded them in places robocallers gather numbers. I think it is run much like comcast works. You get into office and you get the REAL support phone number where they come right out to fix things when you will be there rather than sometimes in the next 8 weeks we might slow down to 15 as we roll past your place. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that some lobbyist gathers up the numbers at the start of each cycle & adds those numbers to the if you call these numbers we will sent a hitman for you list. Congress lives in this insane bubble & ignore anything we complain about because... its not happening to them so it can't be happening like that. How fast do you think Comcast would end up in a hearing if they were forced to use the same support the rest of us get.
Well that was a new message on my browser when I loaded the main page, then came in here to see if it was the source. You must enable DRM to play some audio or video on this page. Learn more ENABLE DRM button. Shan't
Sorry about the crow, but I salute you owning the error. Given that this administration lies regularly, its very hard to accept things they claim are true. His autism tattoo PROVED his membership in TdA!!! Statements and written releases often are not worth the paper they are written on. (just ask some judges) I still have faith in you, mainly because you don't mumble you might have misreported something, you admit fault, accept fault, explain how the fault came to be, & promise to try harder. As a small consolation at least your not the background check service they were using. Does anyone think that at the same time they filed the lawsuit they considered the very serious problems if they replied on the same service to review others who now have access to children?
"Aren’t defendants clearly circumventing my order?" Well yes, yes they are. But they are relying on you pretending they didn't really MEAN to circumvent it & let them slip past you so they can get their photo ops. Its not like you can or will do anything to them, they didn't listen to this order, what do you think you can do about it?
They blessed our anti-trust and we've bent the knee to trump, now is the time to shine at being bastards!
I for one am looking forward to the upcoming 60 Minutes special on how the reptile aliens are causing chem trails to make parents forget about their kids so that the evil evil pedotraffickers can abuse them & harvest them to live forever. 'Merika the land where facts don't matter & the explanations are all made up.
This appeals to the same people who believe what Miller has been telling us that Portland is in flames & Chicago has 50,000 murders every second. They keep inventing these horrible things those people did & most of it seems to be providing them cover when they decide to do the thing they complain about. The MAGA faithful just accept that they have to do that to keep up with the other side, despite the claims the other side were doing it are almost always bull.
I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that Walters had a super well paid ghost employee. Of course my shock is that there was only 1.
Rule 1 - Humans are fscking stupid. Rule 2 - Humans are incapable of learning from history. Rule 3 - There is always someone who will think they are much smarter than the last guy to try this & it would never backfire on them. Goto Rule 1, repeat
If the report I saw today is true its so much worse. The higher ups dispatched firefighters not to fight a fire, but into an ICE shakedown. https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/03/firefighters-washington-immigration-raid/ Because if I wanted firefighters to hate me, I would completely waste their time & piss them off by letting ICE take away people guilty of being brown at a raid I sent them into.
Its only bad when you snowflakes do it! We have to do it to fight back!!
I keep coming back to a comment from one of the meme's in my religion folder. Ally Maynard @missmayn a fucked up scary thing about older christians is how a lot of them truly, deeply believe their big emotions and strong opinions come directly from god when they actually came from lead poisoning. They are so used to getting their way, that they assume everyone has to follow what they say because they invoked god, but only their very messed up version of god which wasn't practiced by anyone when the founders were still alive. It is this magical creation that gives them the right to demand the entire world conform & never upset them. The law of man doesn't matter, the fact they aren't in charge of the world doesn't matter, you have to do what we demand or we'll sue and win!! I'm sure this old hack enjoyed some of the entertainment where it was perfect fine & funny when men dressed as women - The Flintstones, Bosom Buddies, Tootsie, and many more. Its easy when you have targets you can blame all of the ills of the world upon, I mean if a drag queen had molested a child it would be on Faux News 24/7 so its not happening, but pastors, cops, republicans, conservatives can't seem to go 4 days without getting busted for doing it. But no one tells you protest the churches who enable & cover it up, just people taking the time to read to children. Pretty fscked up.