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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state. That’s because, in a chilling early warning sign

Bluesky and Dreamwidth blocked all Mississippi users from using their services because Mississippi’s oppressive age verification mandate makes it impossible for smaller platforms to comply. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Steam website in 2003

On this day in 2003, Steam was launched.

A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured]. The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it

One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s

loststonesofasda.wordpress.com

Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire

Mark Cuban posts: Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch marthapearce55.bsky.social replies: You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV.

Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification re...

It is disappointing to see Google and others pushing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification. As EFF points out, ZKPs aren't enough to protect our privacy, and without a federal privacy law, they're just more fuel for data brokers.

Some additional thoughts 🧵

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AI is eating the Internet An exploration of the Internet to come

Absolutely agree that the 'Cosy Web' is making a come-back in response to rampant AI content on public forums -- a happy side-effect of Gen-AI is a return to personal blogs, newsletters, and smaller communities online:
fika.bar/paoramen/ai-...
maggieappleton.com/cozy-web/

Bill McKibben on Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” Her reporting was quickly attacked by the industry she called into question, setting the playbook for companies that profited from tobacco, opioids, and fossil fuels.

“Silent Spring,” which exposed the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, was powerful enough to activate emotions, never florid, and willing to use the tropes of pastoral Americana for all they were worth. Bill McKibben reflects on Rachel Carson’s classic.

The administration is threatening to strip the citizenship of a man voters chose to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City because they don’t like his political views.

Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.

Full version, no paywall here.

archive.is/3LjoW

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

perplexity's products are malware, pass it on

chatbots do not work that way

goodnight

The politician's syllogism, also known as the politician's logic or the politician's fallacy, is a logical fallacy of the form: We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

Wikipedia editors on the Katy Perry talk page came to a resounding conclusion against calling her an astronaut

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

Sanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.

I don't use Algorithms, I only find posts by typing in URLs until one works

If cyclists posed a 'clear and regular' danger to pedestrians we would see that in accident and fatality statistics. We don't.
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It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk.

(They are not complimentary)

How can any person watch this and not cringe at how sad and vile these two guys are?

You don't even have to like Zelensky to realize that these are two blowhard bullies who don't have an ounce of humanity in them. It's pathetic. 100% cringe all the way down.

The newly added text string in the Skype Insider app says Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available. By logging in to Microsoft Teams with your Skype account, your chats and contacts will appear in the app so you can pick up where you left off. Alternatively, you can export your Skype data.

The recent reports regarding of Skype's future is true. 😢

Inside of the Skype Insider version 8.137.76.425 APK located in ./assets/resources/strings, there's a newly added text string that says "Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available."

R.I.P Skype 2003-2025 🪦

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

What the government can’t afford:

❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance

What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.

Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.

Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Larry sitting on the door steep of Number 10 surrounded by a blue and yellow floral display for Ukraine

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
(Photo @justinng.bsky.social - 2022)

I love all these normal interviews with the president and his weird friend.