Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

The board reverses two previous decisions that held that such severance agreements were lawful. Limits on free speech have become increasingly common aspect of many severance agreements.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules
#layoffs #severance #NLRB #nondisclosureagreement #anti-disparagementclause

By the way, in the Supreme Court case today, the plaintiff arguing that YouTube had "created new content" that by virtue of being new would not be protected by Section 230 -- specifically by displaying thumbnails and URLs for uploaded videos -- I think had pretty much everyone else shaking their heads.

Legendary Sci-Fi Magazine Halts Submissions Amid Deluge of AI-Written Stories

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7k8584/clarkesworld-ai-submissions

#clarkesworld #Magazine #Fiction #ChatGPT #Sci-Fi #Tech

Takeaways from Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez's weak core arguments after an initial dismantling (Eric Goldman/Technology & Marketing Law Blog)

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/02/quick-debrief-on-the-gonzalez-v-google-oral-arguments.htm
http://www.techmeme.com/230221/p26#a230221p26

Florida wants Apple & Google to label apps made outside US https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/21/florida-wants-apple-google-to-label-apps-made-outside-us?utm_medium=rss (Fascism spreads in Florida - Next they will want to exclude anything not made in Florida... people, goods and services)

Why are we letting Lil’ Tyrant DeSantis get everything he wants?

A war on our trans children, a war on education, a war on immigrants

And now he wants to TRIPLE the size of Florida’s state guard?

Are we going to stop fascism or…?

Even a humble atheist can successfully (and happily) Do Unto Others.

In fact, most atheists and agnostics actually do practice "Do Unto Others". As a way to live one's life? It's simple and kinda genius.

Here's the puzzler: considering how simple and genius it is, why are so many American Fundamentalist Christians sooooooooo horribly bad at it?

Maybe it's because they practice "Do What We Say Or Else!" instead.

@dmnelson @scriptingosx Good thing you stuck to grep and awk as the years-long #macOS scriptocalypse rolls on: https://tidbits.com/2019/06/25/apple-to-deprecate-scripting-languages-in-future-versions-of-macos/

Gone:
🪦 #PHP
🪦 #Python 2

On life support:
😵 #Python3 (needs #Xcode Command Line Tools)

Dead pool (specifically called out for future deprecation):
😷 #Perl
😷 #Ruby

I talked to a prominent Section 230 critic, Mary Anne Franks, who feels the law has been interpreted too broadly to give platforms blanket immunity for online harms. She thinks its true intent was to be a "Good Samaritan law" ensuring that they aren't punished for moderating content.

She said she was cautiously encouraged by today's questioning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/21/gonzalez-v-google-section-230-supreme-court/#link-4GDU23UP6RHMVMOPRZAUBOODUI

In the Section 230 SCOTUS hearing, Justice Gorsuch touched in passing on a question that could have *big* future implications for tech giants: Could they be held liable for the output of generative AI, like ChatGPT or Bing "Sydney?"

Gorsuch hypothesizes the answer is a clear "yes." I wrote a quick post on this as part of our live blog: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/21/gonzalez-v-google-section-230-supreme-court/#link-RMDPP4IT4JCWDHVL37YAKTJ2NI

Good one from #KevinKALKallaugher for @counterpoint

If Big Journalism doesn't start treating the Murdoch family's poison-spewing Fox "News" like the rogue propaganda-for-power-and-money outfit that it is, the craft will demonstrate its utter contempt for journalistic ethics.

The Fox-McCarthy partnership is one of the most egregious examples yet -- and simply covering it as just another story is not nearly enough.

The times grow more and more dangerous, and Big Journalism is not up to the job -- yet. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/politics/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-january-6-footage/index.html

Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon' https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/21/twitter_swag_elon_lawsuit/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1628022720469278723

Facebook-owner Meta To Roll Out Paid Subscription

Facebook, the social network that was supposed to stay free "always," and its stablemate Instagram launched on Sunday a paid subscription service, as the advertising-based business model that has long dominated the internet falters.

#meta #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #twitter #technology #tech

https://www.barrons.com/news/facebook-owner-meta-to-roll-out-paid-subscription-d5a47e9b

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

FINALLY got #KeePassXC set up with #Firefox on #VanillaOS... all it took was reinstalling KeePassXC with "apx --nix"...

this is all gonna play out reeeeally well in a country that's literally too corrupt to pass even a basic consumer privacy law for the internet era: