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No they said “We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps,” Apple said in a statement to Business Insider. “Based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock, we have removed it and similar apps from the App Store.”

And since that is so clearly the case (because this isn’t about illegal or illegal, it’s about bowing to government pressure one way or another), you don’t get to pretend to take a high road on any moral or ethical arguments about App Store practices or pretend you stand up to governments.

Apple, Google Criticized For Carrying App That Lets Saudi Men Track Their Wives An app that allows men to track the whereabouts of their wives and daughters is available in the Apple and Google app stores in Saudi Arabia. The firms are getting blowback for carrying the app.

Still in the App Store. www.npr.org/2019/02/12/6...

Oh that’s absolutely the rationale. But then cite the real reason you remove or won’t remove, which is “we do what governments tell us to do.”

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

YOU MADE A DEAL WITH THIS DEVIL TURNS OUT MY DICK'S BIGGER!!!!

Happy Taylor Swift Eve to all who celebrate!

New article from The Free Press My Favorite Actress Is Not Human “Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen. Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. By Tyler Cowen 10.02.25

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

I don’t disagree! Just pointing out options!

The MSA scripts on GitHub work extremely well. Just saying.

That’s must not true. There were good ideas but they weren’t fully formed at all. The fact that Windows RT wasn’t fully Metro proves that. But there is another difference: if Apple had done it, all the app developers would’ve adopted the new design language and actually built apps for the phone.

Easier to automate a good Windows install/setup experience too!

The fact that Office came to iPad before Windows RT will never not be funny and an amazing indictment of the flawed Windows 8 strategy.

I had an Asus or Acer RT device that was sent to me to review and that they didn’t want back for a very long time and sometimes I would use that and just go “why?!”

Literally for all the Windows 11 bitching (and aside from some stupid arbitrary hardware support stuff, I like Windows 11. It reminds me of macOS and that’s a good thing for me!) it feels like people have forgotten that Windows 8 existed. And I appreciate the ideas at the time. But goddamn.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

We all skipped Windows 8 unless we were forced to use it and are better people for it.

Oh yeah it’s obviously a bug. I just like the fantasy of a few million people reinstalling windows 7

I’m sure this is a bug but I want to believe a bunch of people just decided to downgrade themselves to Windows 7 to stick it to the man.

Oh it’s absolutely a bug I’m sure

Taste.

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every single person claiming to yearn for this would kill themselves if they were subjected to the tyranny of the 56k modem for one hour

Same same same. Sigh.

Every single person who advocated for this whole “it’s a threat to homeland security” bullshit gets my ire. It was bullshit when Trump did it. It was bullshit when Biden did it. It’s bullshit now. And now it will actually become propaganda. Just mind-blowing.

A TikTok Ban Is A Pointless Political Turd For Democrats As you probably noticed, the House just passed the controversial ban on TikTok, with 352 Representatives in favor, and 65 opposed. The bill is now likely to be slow-walked to the Senate where its c…

once again I'd like to extend a huge congratulations to establishment Democrats for their ingenious plan to solve TikTok privacy and propaganda problems by helping Trump give TikTok to his rich asshole privacy violating fascist friends for propaganda purposes

me, in March of 2024:

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Ed Zitron staring with a shadow on his face

I chatted with the @financialtimes.com about my writing, the podcast, tech criticism, and being myself.

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HELL YES!!!!

darth TM@darthbluesky.bsky.social • 8h once a day be able to delete some one else's post Conrad Hackett • @conradhackett... • 9h If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be? Gretchen S Bolanos @gretchenbolanos.b... • 15m So you want to take away people's first amendment rights once a day?