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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
Some day, we'll have a technology sub that isn't polluted with Twitter "news".
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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
Some day, we'll have a technology sub that isn't polluted with Twitter "news".
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BREAKING: Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag
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They just assume Uncle Sam will bail them out, no matter what. They are not wrong, much to the frustration of a large portion of the US population.
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Prince Andrew ‘tormented’ as Jeffrey Epstein documents set to be made public
He is facing his second Christmas without his mother
He's a senior citizen, that is such a weak grab for pity.
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The torture video shaking Israel to its core
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While I agree they are unlikely to get a fair trial
I do wonder how much of it was "following orders" and how much was pure bloodlust. Neither excuses this, but the former would be indicative of bigger evil up the chain of command.
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Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike
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So Google, like Amazon, is trying to play the "they work for a subcontractor that only supports us, so it's their fault, not ours" card. I really want to see the NLRB smack this pattern down hard and set an example for all the other companies to try to avoid unionization by way of not directly hiring people.
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TIL that Toys R Us wasn't killed by competition, but by private equity companies
Yeah, this is the case for most "public to private" company moves, and other types of private equity acquisition deals. They are all just a massive shell game to liquidate a company's value and transfer it to those private equity companies. Vulture Capitalism
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'No on-site doctor': Dental student died in ICU overseen by remote 'tele-health' physician who pronounced him dead on a video screen, lawsuit says
....wow
That timeline reads to me like he was in withdrawal, vomited, and likely aspirated on his own vomit. All due to lack of actual human care in a supposed ICU. I say "supposed", because that shit shouldn't even be legal for tele-health in the first place.
Marketing be like "this service pairs expert remote monitoring with skilled bedside care" and I translate that bullshit as "we farm monitoring jobs to cheaper labor markets and they watch people die, on Zoom".
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Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
"Sharing" is a funny way to word a headline. They are selling it, for a profit, because it's legal. It's immoral and shady as hell, but "prevent it or expect it" applies here.
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CNN blocks Firefox with uBo
“Protect your privacy” is literally why we use uBO…
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Is anyone else worried about the damage this man could do to the health system when Trump gives him an influencial role?
TIL the FDA aggressively suppresses the sun and exercise, somehow.
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The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos
The fact that these photos and PII (personally identifiable information) were not destroyed after the verification process was certified is absolutely atrocious OpSec. I don't even care which of the two companies is ultimately responsible, because they are both responsible.
I work in IT, and treat PII like it's dangerously radioactive, because in the digital world, it really is.
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Pam Bondi 'could be disbarred' warns criminal lawyer after Trump firing
Doesn't matter to her. She'll land a lucrative gig on one of the right wing propaganda networks, not go back to practicing law.
Now if she faces criminal and civil penalties beyond that disbarment, that's a different story. Especially at the state level.
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I'm giving them a year until lifetime licenses start to mean nothing.
The only time I ever fell for a "lifetime" software purchase was back when Trillian (the IM client) was popular. That lasted less than 5 years. Then they released "Astas", which was just a UI refresh, but they treated it like it was a whole new company and product. "Lifetime" is always a scam.
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Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
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That means nothing when the servers stop taking EU traffic. I get your point, but the real solution here is putting a bullet (double tap) in Chat Control, once and for all.
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MAGAt loses his federal job
It's kind of scary that 3 weeks is all it took for them to list their home.
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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
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Ad tech IS the tracking, so if you're not blocking ads, you're not actually refusing said tracking. I think you might be conflating cookies with being tracking (they are), but that's only a part of it.
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Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule
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They are veiled layoffs
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These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories.
Parent, forced to choose between poverty and caring for child with cancer, gets a helping hand from coworkers when their employer would just let them starve.
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List of recent hostile moves by Googles Chrome team
Re-parsing that for anyone trying to read that but struggling with the formatting war crime from OP.
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Sacramento pays $1.75m settlement to family after two cops "took control" of elderly woman's assets and bought her a one-way ticket to the Philippines
"Neither Angel nor Martin were charged criminally in the matter, Sacramento District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Shelly Orio said."
I hate the typical lack of consequences for police doing criminal things.