Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Even a humble atheist can successfully (and happily) Do Unto Others.

In fact, most atheists and agnostics actually do practice "Do Unto Others". As a way to live one's life? It's simple and kinda genius.

Here's the puzzler: considering how simple and genius it is, why are so many American Fundamentalist Christians sooooooooo horribly bad at it?

Maybe it's because they practice "Do What We Say Or Else!" instead.

@dmnelson @scriptingosx Good thing you stuck to grep and awk as the years-long #macOS scriptocalypse rolls on: https://tidbits.com/2019/06/25/apple-to-deprecate-scripting-languages-in-future-versions-of-macos/

Gone:
🪦 #PHP
🪦 #Python 2

On life support:
😵 #Python3 (needs #Xcode Command Line Tools)

Dead pool (specifically called out for future deprecation):
😷 #Perl
😷 #Ruby

I talked to a prominent Section 230 critic, Mary Anne Franks, who feels the law has been interpreted too broadly to give platforms blanket immunity for online harms. She thinks its true intent was to be a "Good Samaritan law" ensuring that they aren't punished for moderating content.

She said she was cautiously encouraged by today's questioning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/21/gonzalez-v-google-section-230-supreme-court/#link-4GDU23UP6RHMVMOPRZAUBOODUI

In the Section 230 SCOTUS hearing, Justice Gorsuch touched in passing on a question that could have *big* future implications for tech giants: Could they be held liable for the output of generative AI, like ChatGPT or Bing "Sydney?"

Gorsuch hypothesizes the answer is a clear "yes." I wrote a quick post on this as part of our live blog: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/21/gonzalez-v-google-section-230-supreme-court/#link-RMDPP4IT4JCWDHVL37YAKTJ2NI

Good one from #KevinKALKallaugher for @counterpoint

If Big Journalism doesn't start treating the Murdoch family's poison-spewing Fox "News" like the rogue propaganda-for-power-and-money outfit that it is, the craft will demonstrate its utter contempt for journalistic ethics.

The Fox-McCarthy partnership is one of the most egregious examples yet -- and simply covering it as just another story is not nearly enough.

The times grow more and more dangerous, and Big Journalism is not up to the job -- yet. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/politics/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-january-6-footage/index.html

Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon' https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/21/twitter_swag_elon_lawsuit/

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Facebook-owner Meta To Roll Out Paid Subscription

Facebook, the social network that was supposed to stay free "always," and its stablemate Instagram launched on Sunday a paid subscription service, as the advertising-based business model that has long dominated the internet falters.

#meta #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #twitter #technology #tech

https://www.barrons.com/news/facebook-owner-meta-to-roll-out-paid-subscription-d5a47e9b

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

FINALLY got #KeePassXC set up with #Firefox on #VanillaOS... all it took was reinstalling KeePassXC with "apx --nix"...

this is all gonna play out reeeeally well in a country that's literally too corrupt to pass even a basic consumer privacy law for the internet era:

💰 Jan. 24: Pompeo's book comes out. His PAC spends $42,000 on books.

💰 Feb. 12: Book debuts at No. 3 on NYT best-seller list.

💰 Feb. 14: Pompeo's PAC posts FB ad declaring, "Even the NYT admits that my new book is a must-read!”

3/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2023/02/21/mike-pompeos-pac-spent-42000-on-books-the-day-his-memoir-was-published-it-became-a-bestseller/?sh=454b3a7a3c1b

corporations routinely try to pretend that their over-collection and cavalier sale of consumer data isn't a big deal because that data is "anonymized." But research keeps showing that term is completely meaningless gibberish:

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/11/09/it-took-just-5-minutes-movement-data-to-identify-anonymous-vr-users/

Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It's a thing https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/21/accidental_whatsapp_account_takeover/

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Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1627986837691158535

Not for me, but I bet that many people are going to love this:
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RT @fredldotme
The upcoming Wine+Box64 package is intended to enhance and augment the app support side of Ubuntu Touch as well as enable some fun usecases. Hope you'll like it. 😄
https://twitter.com/fredldotme/status/1627815296055619585

The SCOTUS justices are really hung up on the idea that YouTube's "thumbnails" make it liable for its recommendations of ISIS content, even though it's not liable for hosting the content. I wrote about the needle the plaintiffs are trying to thread here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/21/gonzalez-v-google-section-230-supreme-court/#link-CWAL32JSRJBNJGBSFYFKSBHJTM