Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

"The #Wyoming #Republican #Party is seeking to kill a bill working its way through the state Legislature proposing to raise the state's legal marriage age to 16, arguing that putting 'arbitrary' limits on child marriage interferes with parental rights and religious liberty."

I guess it's not being a #pedo or a #groomer if you call it "religious liberty."

https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-ending-child-marriage-sparks-republican-outrage-1780501

Perhaps one of the most indestructible items ever created. Our families old 500 series rotary dial telephone. It still worked perfectly. Ah that sound when you dialed was awesome #phone #telephone #nostalgia #throwback #ancient

It would be "extraordinary" — and unprecedented — for a federal judge to ban a drug that was approved by regulators more than 20 years ago, the FDA says.

But anti-choice activists, now turning their attention to the abortion pill mifepristone, are hoping a right-wing ideologue in Texas will do just that. https://www.businessinsider.com/abortion-pill-women-die-mifepristone-banned-democratic-ags-argue-2023-2 #news #politics #abortion

#Texas Monthly has an excellent new deep dive into the #GOP plan to dismantle public #education in our state: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/campaign-to-sabotage-texas-public-schools/

Previously from us, Christopher Collins looked at the #Republicans' anti-school agenda: https://www.texasobserver.org/disrupt-deplete-destroy/

and @josephinelee brought us this deep dive into the way the well-funded right-wing used #vouchers to dismantle education in #Arizona: https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/

#TXlege #News #USPol #politics #Newstodon #schools

Michigan State Rep. Says ‘F*ck Your Thoughts and Prayers’ After Mass Shooting

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-state-shooting-state-rep-ranjeev-puri-says-fck-your-thoughts-and-prayers?ref=home

GitHub announces that Copilot for Business, the company's $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool, is now generally available (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/githubs-copilot-for-business-is-now-generally-available/
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p26#a230214p26

Google begins rolling out its Privacy Sandbox to select Android devices today. It's basically a set of technologies that lets your phone continue to spy on you to collect data for advertising purposes... but to do so a little more anonymously than before. Yay? https://gizmodo.com/google-android-launches-privacy-sandbox-chrome-cookies-1850112117
#google #android #PrivacySandbox #PrivacySandboxForAndroid #privacy #advertising #AdTech

Hyundai and Kia are offering a free anti-theft software upgrade for over 8M vehicles, after a rash of car thefts inspired by the viral "Kia Challenge" on TikTok (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23599300/hyundai-kia-car-theft-software-update-free-tiktok-challenge
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p25#a230214p25

@atomicpoet

If tumbler can do it, FF should be able to aswell.

Shame altho that FF foundation hasn't even #opensource 'd their product yet - as promise who knows when ago

Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker discusses Mastodon with the Verge.

Looks like the approach will be three-fold:

1. Set up a Mozilla instance
2. Study and learn about the Fediverse
3. Build new initiatives based on ActivityPub

Before building new tech, Mozilla wants to be an active participant in the Fediverse and learn from it—not go pushing its weight around like a gorilla.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23598344/mozilla-firefox-ceo-mitchell-baker-microsoft-edge-bing-google-apple-ai

After backlash, Spotify removes a clause that let Apple use audiobooks from Findaway Voices to develop synthetic voices; Spotify acquired Findaway in June 2022 (Shubham Agarwal/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-spotify-audiobook-narrators-ai-contract/
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p22#a230214p22

Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors and fabricated text in its demo launch https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/microsoft_ai_bing_error/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.namazso.eu/TheRegister/status/1625458462153900034

Do you want to remove all but one specific file when using Bash under #Linux, #macOS/*BS or Unix? For example, delete all except demo.txt:

rm -v !(demo.txt)

Please note that wildcard is supported too. See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-bash-delete-all-files-in-directory-except-few/ for more info.

When anyone tells you that Ukrainians should trade land for peace, remember: On that land, people have been subjected to arrest, torture and murder - and still are.
To mark the war's first anniversary I wrote about the nature of the Russian occupation, together with Nataliya Gumenyuk, who runs the Reckoning Project

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/russia-ukraine-war-potemkin-occupation-murder-torture/672841/

Tip of the Day

Bing Chat demo was filled with mistakes of its own, says report

https://www.onmsft.com/news/bing-chat-demo-was-filled-with-mistakes-of-its-own-says-report/

#TheNewBing #BingChat #OpenAI #News

Trump spent $600,000 to be told he's wrong about voter fraud

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2020-report-fundraising-scam-rcna70404