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From October 5, 2024:
How Meta Brings in Millions Off Political Violence ↗︎
↳ Social media profits from our suffering. — added 6:36am on 05/10/24 ❧
Father horrified by AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter ↗︎
↳ Yikes. — added 6:31am on 05/10/24 ❧
From October 4, 2024:
Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure ↗︎
↳ Nothing is sacred — the last remaining decent independent browser succumbs to the siren song of lucrative hyper-capitalist advertising ruined internet corpo-bros. A sad day for the internet at the hands of yet another bloated bourgeois CEO. — added 7:51pm on 04/10/24 ❧
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions ↗︎
↳ “Conservatives shared more false claims than liberals” you don’t say. — added 5:42pm on 04/10/24 ❧
Iran says missile attack against Israel was ‘legal, rational and legitimate’ ↗︎
↳ I mean, frankly, moderate? — added 5:38pm on 04/10/24 ❧
Why I'm an anarchist ↗︎
↳ “... but there is something wrong when that [leadership] becomes permanent and institutionalised.” — added 1:51pm on 04/10/24 ❧
The productivity-pay gap ↗︎
↳ Capitalists exploitation of our work has never been worse — and we’ve never struggled more because of it. — added 11:24am on 04/10/24 ❧
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah agreed to 21-day ceasefire before he was killed by Israel, says Lebanon minister ↗︎
↳ Can’t have a ceasefire, where would Israel’s mass-genocidal intent go? And also they’d be bored — the xenophobic genocidal narcissistic child can’t be bored. — added 5:33am on 04/10/24 ❧
From October 3, 2024:
AI data centers are draining water from this drought-stricken town ↗︎
↳ Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — initiators of the water wars. — added 5:32pm on 03/10/24 ❧
Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds ↗︎
↳ Dystopia is now! — added 5:18pm on 03/10/24 ❧
OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion ↗︎
↳ Quite literally fake money. OpenAI is a black hole for cash and, alongside Nvidia, is on a trajectory to destroy our planet. — added 5:17pm on 03/10/24 ❧
Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship ↗︎
↳ Yet another reason why gate-keeping closed source app stores should be outlawed. Just let people install software on their computers the way we have for decades. — added 5:10pm on 03/10/24 ❧
“Middle East crisis live” ↗︎
↳ What a joke, The Guardian. Israel is a terror state and you should report it as such — not reproduce colonial propaganda. — added 5:08pm on 03/10/24 ❧
AFP launches ‘prohibited symbols’ taskforce after Hezbollah flags seen at Melbourne rally ↗︎
↳ Insanity. These little pigs need a life. — added 5:05pm on 03/10/24 ❧
Productively “slow,” or just bourgeois? ↙︎ — posted 03/10/24, tagged as slow, academia, capitalism, exploitation, expropriation.
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