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Steam and Xbox accounts created over 18 years ago still require age verification. More proof that this is about data collection, not “protecting children”

02.09.2025 15:30 — 👍 447    🔁 101    💬 7    📌 1

AI Demands to Be Fed. We’re All Servers Now | The Tyee The energy appetite of data centres is boundless and ruinous. But Alberta and BC are eager to cater.

The data center industrial complex wasn’t built to accommodate growing data needs but rather to materially and infrastructurally lock us in to a datafication society

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

15.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 107    🔁 39    💬 6    📌 9

The virus that won’t quit: new research reveals how SARS-CoV-2 evolves Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long-term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants.

The virus that won’t quit: new research reveals how SARS-CoV-2 evolves.

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

"Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants."

www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

10.06.2025 02:13 — 👍 157    🔁 51    💬 2    📌 5

Alma Bowman is a 58 year old disabled woman who spent 30 months in ICE detention witnessing atrocities against women.

When released, she worked with the government as a whistleblower to raise awareness of the inhumane practices in detention centres.

Now ICE has her again 🧵

09.06.2025 05:13 — 👍 1080    🔁 558    💬 23    📌 27

People may not care that covid can cause permanent damage to your brain, lungs, etc but just maybe we can get them to care if we tell them it might make their dicks floppy

08.06.2025 22:29 — 👍 80    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

I wanted to update you that yesterday, @thecynicist.bsky.social and @its-7amada.bsky.social and I got this amount to Hayat so she could buy diapers. 💚

Hayat, her 2 young children, and the rest of her family remain in need - they are in the north in especially dire conditions.

gofund.me/4df9b8f1

20.05.2025 21:41 — 👍 13    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

Hello, my name is Huder and I have children. I hope you can help me, even if it's a small donation of 5 dollars, it can make a big difference for us chuffed.org/project/hadir

21.05.2025 08:03 — 👍 15    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 0

No home , no life, no food, no shelte ,no homeland , just a torn tent
chuffed.org/project/1324...

21.05.2025 19:56 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Housing for the Abu Matars Mohammed Abu Matar is a young father of four. As an engineer, he is trained to solve problems with technology. He founded Gaza's first 3D printing company, starting with one device that he then used t...

I haven't heard from Mohammed in a few days, but his family is always, always on my mind. Donate: chuffed.org/project/1163... To help them evacuate, and to help them to pay for food when they can find it. Gaza is being starved, a bag of flour costs $500.

14.05.2025 23:54 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0