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My current position is that pest control companies are a racket.

If they only poison all of the little animals in a foraging radius, then they've successfully solved the current infestation while guaranteeing repeat business when little animals expand back into the void in a few months.

They should be finding and closing the places where the animals are getting into the house.
#pestcontrol #scam

I know it's a small thing among current global horrors, but I'm sad because these back yard cuties have been killed off by a "pest control" company.
My neighbor saw a mouse in his house. The pest control expert surrounded the house with outdoor "bait stations", while promising they would only admit mice. I believe he lied, because our chipmunks have disappeared.
#pestcontrol #scam

An antisemitic podcaster famous for hosting Kash Patel tried his hand in crypto. It didn’t end well.

The controversy centers on $JPROOF, a memecoin Peters launched in April. To give you a sense of what kind of people we’re dealing with here, the name is a reference to Peters’s claim that the way the coin is set up guarantees that it will be “Jew-proofed”—that is, safeguarded from the malfeasance of Jewish bankers.

thebulwark.com/p/they-did-nazi

The Bulwark · They Did Nazi It Coming: Antisemites Furious as Meme Coin Scheme UnravelsBy Will Sommer

OH NO! 🙀 I just got 2 text message saying I have unpaid traffic tickets and must pay immediately!

None of the links end in .gov.
Both messages originated in The Philippines (country code 63)...

🙄 Yeah. Sure it's legit. NOT. F***ing scammers. 🤬

And I just got a 3rd one from some weird address.

#Scam
#ScamAlert

“'Maybe you could organize your plants like this',” my friend’s text message said, with an attached photo of white pots of plants floating midair in front of a huge, sunny window. As a newbie plant collector, I do need to organize my growing collection of flora, but not like this — the photo was AI-generated and the plants depicted were not real."

Beware of scams. There have been "online stores using AI-generated photos of fake, usually vibrant, and otherworldly-looking plants to fool consumers into buying seeds for plants that do not exist."

The Verge: AI is ruining houseplant communities online theverge.com/ai-artificial-int @verge #AI #scam #cybersecurity #Infosec

Robot hand holding a wilted plant.
The Verge · AI is ruining houseplant communities onlineBy Nicole Froio