NicKeaney

I suspect vowel play

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.

www.tsunami.gov

Remember the day Elon bragged with an infantile giggle about putting USAID into the "wood chipper". just your bog standard sociopath marauding through our world.

X to pay Donald Trump $10m to settle lawsuit over Capitol attack – report President brought suit under X’s previous leadership after he was banned from platform following January 6 riot Elon Musk’s social media platform X will pay Donald Trump $10m to settle a lawsuit the president filed after he was banned from the platform…

X to pay Donald Trump $10m to settle lawsuit over Capitol attack – report

Badass level 10

Members of the Cyber Safety Review Board were informed they have been dismissed pursuant to a DHS order disbanding all advisory committees.

The board had been in the middle of probing the Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms, a review that now is in limbo and possibly terminated.

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Liverpool subreddit proposal to ban X links

Fallout from the inauguration yesterday: after Elon's notorious hand gesture, several large subreddits either have banned or are considering bans for links to X.com. So far I've seen r/pcgaming, r/marvelsnap, and r/liverpoolfc (shown below)

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Biden Administration Quietly Carves TikTok Ban Loophole for Itself, Leaked Document Shows TikTok ban for thee but not for me

The Biden administration has carved out a loophole for itself so the TikTok ban won't apply to certain government staff, according to a document signed by Secretary of State Blinken and leaked to me:

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

I’m looking forward to your next interview with him so I can hear his explanation for why he believes we’re all mentally ill.

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

Truly heinous www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

thank you LAFD, today illustrates why a great man once said “nobody ever made a song called ‘fuck the fire department’”

Tate announcing he wants to be British PM at the same time as growing anger towards grooming gangs is an interesting strategy...

South Korea’s Acting President Has Only Been in Office Since Friday After two impeachments of leaders in two weeks, the country is deep into a political crisis.

The plane crash on Sunday is the first major test for South Korea’s acting president, Choi Sang-mok, who was appointed the interim leader on Friday. The country is deep into a political crisis after two impeachments of leaders in two weeks.

Very much enjoying the puzzle game “The Rise of the Golden Idol”; and especially fond of whatever Gaeilgoir/GAA fan on the development team, slyly suggested the sport played in the fictional country be called “Peil”.

First group of children arrive from Palestine to receive life-saving healthcare in Ireland Eight children arrived at Dublin Airport yesterday evening, with eight carers and 11 siblings.

“First group of children arrive from Palestine to receive life-saving healthcare in Ireland”

The project is being coordinated between Ireland, the WHO, heath services in Egypt and leaders in Palestine. Sick children are evacuated from Gaza to Egypt, up to 2,300 so far, and later brought to Dublin

Musk broke Congress faster than he broke Twitter

Highly commended for Innovation of the Year are the Reach data unit inc @dubasfisher.bsky.social Cullen Willis, Paul Gallagher, @richardceault.bsky.social #BritishJournalismAwards

the mirror video team pick up their award

Winner of Online Video Journalism is the Mirror team of Tom Pettifor, Matthew Young and Daniel Dove for their video report on Jill Dando’s murder #BritishJournalismAwards

I’m so tired

We started QueerAF in response to bad practises we saw in gay and mainstream media newsrooms

🏳️‍🌈 We started @wearequeeraf.com as a response to the bad practices we saw while working in gay media and mainstream media newsrooms.

This is how we're modelling the change we want to see, changing the media and helping thousands understand the LGBTQIA+ news 🧵👇

Musk accuses Trump whistleblower Vindman of ‘treason,’ says ‘he will pay’ Elon Musk on Wednesday suggested retired Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman “committed treason” and “will pay” after the former Trump impeachment witness accused the tech billio…

I have covered both Musk and Alex a lot, and only one of them is a useful idiot for Putin and also a heinous person. The other is a patriot who did his job with distinction and is a very good man. Guess which is which: thehill.com/policy/techn...

Remember how Meta suspended the Threads account tracking Mark Zuckerberg's private jet? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

Vance and Trump serving the American people an electoral map

I am not sure why JD Vance posted this.