#text-messages — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #text-messages, aggregated by home.social.
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University of Michigan: A pocket-sized personal trainer: AI-written texts aim to get older adults moving. “Artificial intelligence can write text messages encouraging physical activity that most older adults consider appropriate and good quality, but their feelings about AI—and if they know AI wrote the message—impact their response, a new study in the Journals of Gerontology suggests.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/a-pocket-sized-personal-trainer-ai-written-texts-aim-to-get-older-adults-moving-university-of-michigan/ -
University of British Columbia: Texting with a stranger beats a chatbot at easing loneliness. “Texting with a real person—even a stranger—may reduce loneliness more than chatting with a highly supportive AI chatbot, new UBC research suggests.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/07/university-of-british-columbia-texting-with-a-stranger-beats-a-chatbot-at-easing-loneliness/ -
Ars Technica: Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS. “Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of people, leaving them vulnerable to scams, identity theft, and other crimes, recently published research has found.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/24/ars-technica-millions-of-people-imperiled-through-sign-in-links-sent-by-sms/ -
‘Hinagis ko po’: Delivery riders’ text messages tickle Pinoys online
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NBC News: Hackers breach texting service used by New York state, sending hundreds of thousands of scam texts. “Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political organizing group.”
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🧧 Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
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ZDNet: Scam texts net over $1 billion for cyber gangs – how to avoid their traps. “Aided by US-based mules, these Chinese cybercrooks pester you with annoying scam texts – and cash in big time. Here’s how the scam works, and what you can do.”
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Mashable: Indeed scam texts are on the rise again as job market stalls. “Scammers constantly change and adapt tactics. When E-Z Pass toll scams became a trending topic, scammers started sending DMV and speeding ticket collection texts instead. The latest ploy: sending scam texts from job services like Indeed, offering jobs and quick cash.”
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OMG the ”#textmessages” between ”#CharlieKirk’s murderer” and his ”transsexual lover” that just got ”#leaked” 🤦♂️
Grammatically correct whole sentences?
’lingering’, I capitalized?
In one paragraph the entire ”operation” described methodically and calmly?
Written at the moment after he just assassinated a celebrity and is running for his life?
No. I don’t believe a word of it.
This was written by a 65-year old consultant with AI. The language is generationally inappropriate.
FAKE
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What I need is an AI tool that reviews my text messages and hides the ones from right-wing family members looking for a fight.
#llms #textmessages #genAI #family #ai #trump #conservatives #rightwingpropaganda #rightwing
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Johns Hopkins University: Can texts about healthier eating help prevent childhood obesity?. “The results of the study were remarkable, with the digital intervention leading to significantly healthier weight-for-length trajectories and a substantial reduction in obesity rates at age 2. The intervention was shown to be effective across a diverse population, including groups at elevated risk for […]
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McGill University: Simple texting platform helps farmers adopt greener methods, McGill-led study finds. “Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new study co-authored by McGill University Professor Aurélie Harou found.”
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Techdirt: Crowd-Sourced ICE Tracking Alerts Aim To Provide Local Communities With Early Warning Of Immigration Raids. “… driven by a desire to counter the US government’s moves, people are also coming up with new systems to warn people about what is happening in their community. For example, the Stop ICE Raids Alert Network sends and receives warnings about nearby ICE activity using text […]
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Mashable: The top internet scams to be aware of in 2025 (so far). “Of course, scams are everywhere because the internet has made it so easy for bad actors to do bad things. But, quite notably, the year in scams (so far) has largely been defined by text-based scams. You’ve likely heard about, or even received, these scams: The E-ZPass scam, the DMV scam, and the job offer scam, to name a few. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/mashable-the-top-internet-scams-to-be-aware-of-in-2025-so-far/
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Route Fifty: Report: Text reminders for court hearings can help boost justice system efficiency. “Comprehensive and timely reminders of court hearings present a key opportunity for governments to reduce missed appointments and ensure more efficient court proceedings, according to a new report released Monday. But sending reminders like text messages to inform someone when and where their […]
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Mashable: Those scam crypto texts are coming from the Karen National Army and a Myanmar warlord. “Over the weekend, we covered the rise of “wrong person” scam texts — seemingly innocent messages that evolve into full-blown crypto cons. And across the U.S., drivers are getting E-ZPass toll road scam texts in droves. Now, we have a clearer picture of where these types of scam texts are coming […]
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The Register: UN says Asian scam call center epidemic expanding globally amid political heat. “Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide ‘like a cancer,’ according to the United Nations, which warns the epidemic has reached a global inflection point as syndicates scale up and spread out. Recent crackdowns in East and Southeast Asia – where scam centers took root at industrial scale – have […]
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BBC: Could AI text alerts help save snow leopards from extinction?. “Now, scientists estimate that just 4,000 to 6,000 snow leopards are left in the wild – with roughly 300 of these in Pakistan, the third-largest population in the world. To try and reverse these worrying trends, the WWF – with the help of Pakistan’s Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) – has developed cameras […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/21/bbc-could-ai-text-alerts-help-save-snow-leopards-from-extinction/
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RPM Challenge Day 4/28
Nothing.
I had a really bad day and went to bed early, thinking I would get a good night’s sleep, but then I woke up super early and spoiled the whole plan. Shit.
I did get to wish my step son a Happy Birthday. I think I wished my nephew a Happy Birthday too. I sent him a text, discovered he has a new phone number, got his new phone number, sent another text, he didn’t respond. We called my sister’s phone to wish him a happy but he wasn’t home so we called his phone because my sister said his voicemail was setup but his voicemail wasn’t set up. I speak now directly to my nephew… I really hope you got that text. If not, Happy Birthday!!
That’s my whole day in a nutshell. Birthdays, back pain, stomach pain, first day back to work. Yippee. Today is an in the office day so it’s going to suck on so many levels.
Happy Merry and shit, everyone! WOOHOO!
#birthdays #collegeKids #Family #Guitar #Kids #Music #nephew #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2025 #SongWriting #StepKids #textMessages #voicemail
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Can #Government Read My #TextMessages?
Also known as #SMS, #MMS, or #RCS messages—aren’t usually #encrypted. These conversations can then be requested by law enforcement with a subpoena. Agencies like the #NSA can capture and store messages as they travel over the network, or any number of #lawenforcement agencies can employ technologies like cell-site simulators to capture messages.
But other messenger apps like #Signal & #WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted by default.
https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/can-the-government-read-my-text-messages -
How to #flash and use a #lora #heltecv3 #rnode and #reticulum using #reticulummeshchat on #linux #linuxmint to send #textmessages and #voicemessages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtQsykD0NA
The video is long but does show you how to do it and what to avoid. Highly recommended.
#meshtastic - like device and software BTW
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How about that #chatcontrol ... 🤔 🔓
#fbi #cybersec #cybersecurity #texting #sms #textmessages #e2ee #infosec
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#FBI says #Hispanic, #LGBTQ #people also got #threatening #textmessages after the #election.
Some of those #messages claimed recipients had been “#selected for #deportation or to #report to a #reeducation #camp,” the FBI said.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
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How to avoid election related scams https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/09/how-to-avoid-election-related-scams #monitoraccounts #paymentmethod #textmessages #donations #robocalls #election #surveys #Scams #email #scams #News
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Judge nods Robinhood’s $9M ‘refer-a-friend’ lawsuit settlement - Robinhood has settled a long-running class-action lawsuit in Washington ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/judge-nods-robinhood-9-million-text-promo-lawsuit-settlement #refer-a-friend #textmessages #classaction #tradingapp #robinhood #lawsuit
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If you use either one of these methods, and you get another text message from the debt collector (except one confirming they're sending you no further messages) that debt collector is breaking the law and is liable to you for damages.