Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Latest BS from Musk and minions is the notion that they didn't really mean to cut off the no-charge API and would allow "good" uses. Why does anyone believe a word from someone who is a Trump-level liar?

Developers, he's told you who he is.The ONLY thing you can trust about Musk is that he's not to be trusted, ever. Remove Twitter from your software, now.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/5/23586577/elon-musk-bots-good-content-twitters-api-free

DeSantis allies steamrolling political opposition via the criminal justice system. Buckle up, America. It's coming. https://theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron-desantis-florida-villages-oren-miller/

Remember, folks: Selling land you own to a buyer associated with a country we're not at war with, in a way that violates no current treaties, sanctions, or laws, is treason.

But rotely repeating talking points from the dictator of a nation currently under heavy sanctions and which is waging war against a US ally is patriotism.

Got it?
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-treasonous-farmers/

Disney cuts an October 2022 episode of The Simpsons that referred to "forced labor camps" in China from Disney+ in Hong Kong, after a similar removal in 2021 (Chan Ho-him/Financial Times)

https://t.co/oihESWo45h
http://www.techmeme.com/230206/p12#a230206p12

Does Twitter’s free tier for the Twitter API affect our dropping Twitter support from NetNewsWire?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/5/23586577/elon-musk-bots-good-content-twitters-api-free

It does not. The big reason is that that free tier is write-only — and NetNewsWire is a reading app.

But even if they did make another change and allow for some free use for readers, we could never rely on it. Twitter has proven that it’s an unacceptable partner.

Sorry Microsoft but I don’t buy that the authenticator app CANNOT work without app use diagnostics from every single user

“If we change to a nation where only rich students learn critical thinking skills, where only rich children have the opportunity for small class sizes and elite level teaching, where only rich children learn more than the content of a standardized test, where will we be? I know the answer and it’s scary. “

https://marybethlee.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/this-is-america-save-texas-schools/

I often wonder if people like @mtgreene, @mattgaetz and the rest of this freedumb caucus clown show:

1) know who John Adams was.
2) know what moral authority is.
3) have the faintest idea what he's talking about here—and why?

ChatGPT is only the most recent example of the tech industry's willful choice not to care very much, or soon enough, about the foreseeable negative consequences of what it produces. As the great Tom Lehrer once wrote: "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/chatgpt-build-fake-news-organization-website/

Poor rural broadband and cellular coverage costs lives.

https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2023/02/06/poor-rural-connectivity-costs-lives/

Big Journalism grossly downplayed the accomplishments of the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled Congress in 2021-22.

Now, Big Journalism is puzzled that the public isn't aware of those accomplishments.

(Not a hint of this in the Post story, of course...)

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
— Spinoza

#philosophy #quotes #bot

This would be funny if it wasn’t Fascism 1.0. DeSantis moves to revoke Orlando Plaza Live’s liquor license following drag queen show https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-drag-queen-orlando-philharmonic-liquor-license-20230204-5khy556uvjaipavkzgwk4m453e-story.html

School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/06/school_laptop_auction_devolves_into/

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i am sad to report that we will now be going from "deadly hot summer" to "deadly cold winter" in perpetuity forever until the end of our time on earth because we refuse to stop a few hundred people from making obscene amounts of money

Video game consoles never should have tried to rename the START button. “Options”, three horizontal lines, a plus sign - it’s confusing and inconsistent, when the button still has the exact same functionality (starting a game, or opening a pause menu) and players still think of it and often CALL it a “start button.” You actually have games that open with “press Options to begin.” Madness!! Just stick with what everyone already understands!!

thinking about the time Adam Ruins Everything was the target of a furious op-ed in a mattress industry trade magazine

My Printer Is Extorting Me

Subscriptions such as HP’s Instant Ink challenge what it means to own our devices.

The credit card I had used to sign up for HP's Instant Ink cartridge-refill program had expired, and the company had effectively bricked my device in response....
#hp #InstantInk
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/home-printer-digital-rights-management-hp-instant-ink-subscription/672913/

When George Hayward was as Facebook data-scientist, his bosses ordered him to run a #NegativeTest, updating Messenger to deliberately drain users' batteries, in order to determine how power-hungry various parts of the apps were. Hayward refused, and FB fired him, and he sued:

https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing-awsuit/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained

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Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/05/asia_tech_news_roundup/

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