RRB @rrb@qoto.org

Should anyone need clarificaiton.

Court says Facebook owner collected data unlawfully using a smartphone app advertised as a way to protect privacy.
Australia fines Meta $14m for undisclosed data collection

The good news is that, as best I can tell, there are quite a few planets out there that don't have any people at all on them

I laugh when men suggest women are more emotional. #benshapiro

@rrb @dangillmor

I added a hatnote to the X-men's fictional X Corp after Musk created a company with the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Corporation

Russia is fighting a “satanic West that has turned away from traditional religious values” by bombing a UNESCO cathedral in Odessa

“An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet bought for $2.9M is now valued at less than 4 dollars.” cc: @web3isgreat

@valkyrie
🥥 I'm old enough to remember when "Do no evil," was a slogan at #Google.
Now Google is arguably one of the competing #DeathStars in the internet firmament.
The great #CoryDoctorow coined the phrase #Enshittification -- I really wish he had used 2 Ts instead of 3 -- and, if you're not sure just what that means, Google is currently a prime example of it with its Digital Rights Management -- #DRM. 🥥
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html

1/ A Russian volunteer detachment in the occupied Kherson region has reportedly been forcibly disarmed by the FSB, apparently due to fears of a new Wagner-style mutiny. ⬇️

Ouch...

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 3037

Email was a mistake. No one should ever be contacted

No lies detected.

Remembering the great Ian Kevin Curtis, musician, lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division, born on this day in 1956, Stretford, Lancashire, England

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #iancurtis #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd

Quite possibly the most telling opening to a news article I’ve seen recently…

“Sitting onstage in front of a crowd of 2,000 evangelical Christians, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law Friday immediately banning the vast majority of abortions in Iowa.”

Mind you, these are people would be horrified if they were forced to live under Muslim or Jewish theocratic law (and would call it an affront to the constitution.). I cannot emphasize how much I despise these people.

https://apple.news/AROWlpG2bQeCFB9cAa6ZYZA

With Hacker Summer Camp FOMO creeping in, I decided to proactively combat it with my own cool event 😂​

In his pre-mutiny rant, Prigozhin did say that part of the motivation for the war was greed - Russians wanting to steal Ukrainian companies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/masked-gunmen-and-a-stolen-toilet-how-russia-seized-a-ukrainian-citys-businesses-7e745668?mod=e2tw