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So #Twitter made tweets inaccessible to anybody who's not logged in. That'll make millions of tweets disappear from articles, news and blog posts all over the internet. I'm sure it'll do wonders to their search rankings.
At this point it's like the Titanic if the captain were like: "Not that iceberg, it's way too small! Let's try *that* one instead."
Just think, now every single site that has an #embedded #tweet view in an article is no longer displaying that tweet.
* At best, #Elon can show whatever he wants on it's place, tweet-by-tweet from subtle change to full-on counter-factual or malvertising.
* At worst, it's a vector for Elon #musk to run whatever *code* he wants on your site.
Used an <iframe>? You're in the best case camp.
Used a #Twitter-hosted embed <script> ? Good luck.
@joshbressers I literally just made a reminder for tomorrow afternoon to start going through this.
Even though I haven't touched Lastpass in ~5 years, I neglected to shut it down, and there are probably still some relevant stuff in there I'll need to take action on.
Sean Hannity confirms in a deposition that he knew he was lying when he was pushing The Big Lie on his show immediately after the election.
“I did not believe it for one second.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/business/media/sean-hannity-fox-trump-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
A large and growing sector of the U.S. economy produces nothing of value.
Derivatives, private equity, hedge funds.
Every winner comes at the expense of a current or future loser.
The only things this “zero-sum” sector produces is more money for the wealthy.
We're all very excited, but still. All of the arrows are energy. Only the energy in red are being reported.
My current understanding of the experiment is that the input power to run the lasers is about two orders of magnitude more than the input heat they provide.
“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.
Even if he hadn’t written three of the most-loved #DoctorWho stories, Chris Boucher would be a legend for just this line:
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
RIP Chris 💙💙
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The most terrifying phrase in the English language is not "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
That framework is a lie.
The most terrifying mindset, one that is actually killing us is: "I can keep myself safe on my own and what happens to you is not my concern."
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