Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Google pushes fake abortion clinic ads to lower-income women, report says https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/google_fake_abortion_clinic_ads/

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Original tweet : https://nitter.42l.fr/TheRegister/status/1623162538153107457

Software Quality is something that #Apple #macOS 13 knows nothing about:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-ventura-bug-spits-out-perpetual-background-items-added-notifications-at-login-heres-a-potential-fix.2379290/

And what is worse is that the error notifications use the Developer account ID in its text, and NOT the bundle or product name.
So the end-user has no chance to find out what this is even all about.

Stupid. Who even comes up with such crap?

Zoom and gloom: vid-chat biz sheds 15 percent of staff – by email https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/zoom_fires_15_percent_staff/

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Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1623148924583247873

Imagine I’d corporate or political fraud was treated as robustly as supplying class A drugs!
That sentences were based on the amount of value involved!
What a different world we would live in.
#HarmReduction

There's a new academic search engine out there called Scinapse.

Tagline: "We're better than Google Scholar. We mean it."

https://www.scinapse.io/

#capitalism #billionaires #inequality #socialinequality

"Microsoft, Red Hat, Google, MindsDB and Grafana Labs are among the hottest open software companies to watch in 2023."

I can't even.

There is only one company in that list that would qualify for the "open source" label in my opinion.

And that company isn't an "open source company" in their own positioning. They're an "enterprise software company with an open source development model"

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS
https://www.crn.com/news/software/10-hot-open-source-software-companies-to-watch-in-2023

@stopgopfox It's a good troll for sure, but it would be great if it actually happened too. It never will though, grooming kids into religion is apparently totally ok.

It’s us, we’re publishing company https://thehill.com/homenews/3845798-publishing-company-will-offer-free-black-history-e-books-especially-in-florida/

In response to FL Gov. Ron DeSantis’s actions to limit the teaching of Black history in the state’s public schools, Chicago-based publisher Haymarket Books is offering multiple e-books by progressive Black authors for students to download free of charge. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon
https://truthout.org/articles/haymarket-books-will-provide-free-black-history-e-books-to-florida-students/

@ramin_hal9001 @pluralistic This quote from Stephen Hawking is relevant in this context:

"Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

https://www.vox.com/2016/2/27/11119804/stephen-hawking-robots

More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."

Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.

I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

@stopgopfox
Koch vs. Trump
Evil vs. Evil

Biden advocates for teachers and education: "If you want to have the best-educated workforce, let’s finish the job by providing access to pre-school for 3- and 4-year-olds...Let’s give public school teachers a raise."

Republicans still sitting on their hands. Another one to remember at election time. #SOTU

The #KochNetwork is announcing -- in a very public way -- that they're gearing up to battle Donald Trump. Dark money giveth, and it taketh away.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-05/koch-brothers-group-signals-trump-alternatives-better-for-2024

#darkmoney #news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #charleskoch #trump #donaldtrump

Biden shot down two big gas bags this week. The Chinese balloon & Republicans heckling him on social security and Medicare

#SotU

#Facebook, #Twitter and other for-profit #SocialMedia sites intentionally boost #Toxic/#Negative content and #Misinformation/#Disinformation. This is harmful to #Democracy and all #SocialJustice movements. #Mastodon does not do this because it is #OpenSource and a #Nonprofit.

"Facebook and Instagram’s business model incentivizes the company to boost harmful and inflammatory content."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/01/usa-meta-must-guard-against-human-rights-risks-after-lifting-bans-on-trumps-facebook-and-instagram-accounts/

"Facebook essentially amplifies the worst of human nature."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/

At the State of the Union, Biden called for stricter online privacy protections and strengthened antitrust enforcement to stop Big Tech from self-preferencing (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23590396/state-of-the-union-sotu-biden-tech-tiktok-privacy-antitrust
http://www.techmeme.com/230207/p38#a230207p38