Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

The DOJ sues Google, joined by California and seven other US states, calling to break up its adtech business over alleged monopolization of the US ad market (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/us-sues-google-over-ad-market-in-escalation-of-antitrust-fight
http://www.techmeme.com/230124/p24#a230124p24

BREAKING: A lawyer for Mike Pence discovered about a dozen classified documents at Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI.

Australia took action on guns after a mass shooting. Gun deaths fell by over 50%.

Britain tightened gun laws after a mass shooting. Gun deaths dropped by almost 25%.

New Zealand banned most semi-automatic weapons immediately after a mass shooting.

Only America refuses to act.

Wine 8.0 Released, This is What’s New (Spoiler: A Lot) https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/wine-8-0-released-whats-new #opensource #linux #wine

Twitter engineers—or outsiders who hack them—can tweet from any user account without being detected, according to a new whistleblower complaint to the Federal Trade Commission shared exclusively with The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/

Twitter has reinstated the account of white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nick-fuentes-reinstated-twitter-1234667137/

Sen. Hawley says he wants to ban TikTok for everyone in the U.S., where the app has more than 100 million users and a growing role in youth culture, information and free expression:

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1617886533536866308

All the state-device bans have led to this, "the U.S. adopting a Chinese attitude toward the internet: We’re going to block things we don’t want you to see because everything’s a national security threat"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/20/tiktok-bans-states-colleges/

If you are a #FOSS software maintainer, and a large number of your users complain about the same thing over a prolonged period, and your response is that the software is behaving as designed and the solution is for the users to change rather than the software, then you're doing it wrong.
The right solution might not be the one the users suggest—you may need to get more creative—but it's DEFINITELY not to tell the users they're wrong.
(This isn't about #QT'ing, but also it is.)
#ListenToUsers

This seems... risky https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/

BREAKING: Iowa's House has passed a bill to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year to pay families' private school costs, a top priority of Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.

"The private school voucher bill passed 55-45, with nine Republicans joining every Democrat to oppose the bill. It's expected to win passage in Iowa's Senate tonight.

Roughly half of Iowa counties don't have any private schools."

This is completing what Betsy #DeVos couldn't do as SoE. It's a clearly labeled plank of the #NAR
'S 7 mountain dominion theology, that is being used as a framework to install #Christofascism.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/24/iowa-house-senate-lawmakers-pass-kim-reynolds-private-school-scholarships-education-bill/69822687007/

#News #ChristianNationalism #Iowa #Demoines #education

Did a bit of organizing in this growing Google Doc (now 25 pages, ha) of Fediverse and Mastodon feature ideas. This kind of thing makes me very happy -- people have smart ideas, are bouncing off each other, and collaborating.

We now have subsections (Browsing, Posting, Onboarding, etc) and a table of contents where you can browse all the ideas easily. I'd welcome more organization if anyone feels like hopping in and adding it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EnkjkSW14hR_uTdwEW7vqRaaIXDMlNQ4WRNoPmnn_z0/edit?pli=1#

LastPass parent GoTo confirms that hackers stole encrypted backups and an encryption key for some data during a recent breach, first acknowledged on November 30 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/goto-says-hackers-stole-customers-backups-and-encryption-key/
http://www.techmeme.com/230124/p18#a230124p18

Broken Britain.

“Would you like to know more?”

#GTTO #GetTheToriesOut
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RT @guardian
As a police officer, I was asked to undermine an alleged rape victim – I wish I could say it was a one-off | Anonymous https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/20/police-officer-alleged-rape-victim-david-carrick?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1674217233
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1616492107920703501

The GOP can't keep from telling us they want to both cut and "privatize" Social Security and Medicare.

When people say it out loud, listen.

House GOP eyes Social Security, Medicare amid spending battle https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/01/24/gop-social-security-medicare-debt-limit/

The charlatans are bailing.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/franklin-graham-wont-endorse-trump_n_63cf9245e4b01e928865f246?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostPol@twitter.com

I am proud of the fact I survived fundamentalist Christianity. It could have eaten me up, and it nearly did, but I survived and I’m proud of that. #ExChristian #Exvangelical