Instagram plans to roll out new tools in the coming weeks to flag fake followers and spam content, giving users the option to delete those items in bulk (Malak Saleh/Engadget) https://bit.ly/3RDCIB0 #TechNews #TechTips
The number of journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 now exceeds numbers killed in the whole of Vietnam war https://dorseteye.com/the-number-of-journalists-killed-in-gaza-since-october-2023-now-exceeds-the-whole-of-vietnam-war/
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
L: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economic-inequality/524610/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38637109
posted on 2023.12.13 at 21:34:39 (c=1, p=9)
Today is the feast day of New Hieromartyr Vladimir Lozina-Lozinsky, Protopresbyter of Sankt-Peterburg https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/sankt-peterburg.html?s=mb #travel #Russia #history
'Juvenile and nonsensical': Ex-FBI official says court will ignore Trump's Grinch remark https://www.rawstory.com/trump-juvenile-grinch-remark/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Extra 40,000 people in England homeless this Christmas, says charity
Shelter finds 309,000 people set to spend festive season ‘in a tiny hostel room or freezing doorway’
Calls for tighter rules on biofuels imports to root out palm oil fraud https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/14/calls-for-tighter-rules-on-biofuels-imports-palm-oil-saf
...one would have thought that some cases that will unnecessarily throw the country into a political cataclysm, say like ending Roe v Wade, if willy-nilly decisions by a corrupt, inept SC interferes with settled law, say by reversing convictions of terrorist insurrectionists doing no one any good, should just not make the docket.....imho. My kingdom for a real SCOTUS....
Supreme Court to hear appeal that could undo Capitol riot charges https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67710329
My general opinion of #threads #federating
Any instance should choose whether or not to federate with threads
They should pay the hosting costs of any server they pull data from
not run ads against the content that comes from other instances
Any changes to the AP protocol needs to be pushed upstream. If upstream is not interested in the change, they need to respect that and stay in spec. We do not need another #Jabber #xmpp vs google thing going on
Where’s all the AirTags product placement in Apple TV+ content? Everyone has iPhones and MacBooks, but I have yet to see the bank heist or alien invasion foiled by the hero saying “I can tell you exactly where it is.” and flipping open the Find My app. #Apple
Hong Kong central bank leaves interest rate unchanged, tracks Fed
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/hong-kong-central-bank-leaves-interest-rate-unchanged-tracks-fed-3988276
Parliament security breach: 4 arrested charged under UAPA, to be produced before court today | India News - The Indian Express
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/parliament-security-breach-arrested-uapa-9067561/
From earlier this evening. Trump gaslighting and fraud scam fund raising simultaneously as #MAGAMikeJohnson was calling the impeachment inquiry vote.
Make do doubt about it. This was a loyalty vote. It is also a deeply complicit fascist assault. And, it is also the beginning of his “retribution”. It is also an escalation of his continuing coup plot to “dominate”. He is proving he owns all the “Republicans” in the US House of Representatives.
Next was an amazing talk by @aaronclauset on the drivers of productivity and prominence among scientists at the CU Boulder. Clauset takes a hammer to the myth of scientific meritocracy, showing that everything from output differences between male and female scientists to differences between professors at top tier and bottom tier universities can be nearly entirely explained by two things - funding and networks. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyhZ645Vh14 (6/10) #science #economics
CNN: House votes to formalize impeachment inquiry into President Biden
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-impeachment-inquiry-12-13-23/index.html
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.