When your party's extremists keep proposing things that the Taliban actually does, you're not the good guys.
I enjoyed America more before the middle class was ground up to mulch some billionaire's fifteenth home's flower bed.
In U.S. history, it’s been the labor movement that’s done the most to end the inequality of wealth and raise so many out of poverty. Support these workers. Support unions.
Tesla employees launch New York union campaign-
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/14/tesla-employees-launch-new-york-union-campaign-.html
Bing AI keeps going rampant, so Microsoft has limited how many messages you can send it per day https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/bing/microsoft-limits-bing-ai-chatbot-to-just-5-messages-per-topic-in-effort-to-reduce-rampancy
Microsoft says Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/17/23604906/microsoft-bing-ai-chat-limits-conversations
http://www.techmeme.com/230217/p26#a230217p26
Microsoft plans to increases the price of using Bing Search APIs by up to 10x starting on May 1, including for image and news search, and adds APIs with LLMs (Pradeep Viswanathan/BigTechWire)
https://www.bigtechwire.com/2023/02/17/microsoft-shocks-developers-by-increasing-the-pricing-of-bing-search-apis-by-up-to-10x/
http://www.techmeme.com/230217/p27#a230217p27
#MacOS users, if you use #LittleSnitch you can now find them on Mastodon:
#Texas political consulant sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for helping funnel an illegal contribution to the 2016 Trump presidential campaign from a Russian national.
Just leaving this out here for any technology writers that need a reminder
https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test
The Onion is not fucking about this morning.
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997
Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/17/next-week-the-supreme-court-could-destroy-everything-good-about-the-internet/
Amazon asks corporate staff to be back in the office at least three days per week, starting May 1, after previously leaving the decisions to team leaders (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-changes-back-to-office-policy-tells-corporate-workers-to-come-in-3-days-a-week/
http://www.techmeme.com/230217/p21#a230217p21
FL Rep. Murphy sought transparency re: Russian election interference. Roger Stone credits his goon, Jacob Engels, a close longtime associate of the FL Proud Boys gang, w/ chasing her out of Congress. By Jennifer Cohn #flpol https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/02/january-6-committee-made-a-mistake-leaving-this-stone-unturned/
Transphobia, U.S., Florida
Six out of twelve Florida universities have handed over medical records of students who requested care for gender dysphoria.
Read that again: half of the public universities in Florida have violated patient privacy in favor of DeSantis' fascism.
#Transphobia #Florida #Christofascism
https://news.yahoo.com/ron-desantis-requested-medical-records-145417991.html
GoDaddy says it discovered a multi-year security breach in early December 2022 where unknown attackers stole source code and installed malware on its servers (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-hackers-stole-source-code-installed-malware-in-multi-year-breach/
http://www.techmeme.com/230217/p19#a230217p19
The East Palestine disaster raised public awareness of toxic spills, which are a disturbingly constant feature of U.S. capitalism.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7b4qa/east-palestine-derail-toxic-conspiracy
#Technews #eastpalestine #OHIO #Toxic #derail #conspiracy #hazardous #Chemical
Rep. Stephanie Murphy wanted more transparency re: Russian election interference. Roger Stone’s goon Jacob Engels harassed her relentlessly & then took credit 4 her decision to leave Congress. By Jennifer Cohn https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/02/january-6-committee-made-a-mistake-leaving-this-stone-unturned/
Wisconsin City Decides It’s OK To Eavesdrop On Private Conversations In Its City Hall https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/17/wisconsin-city-decides-its-ok-to-eavesdrop-on-private-conversations-in-its-city-hall/
Roger Stone quotes from my latest:
“Politics is not about uniting people. It’s about dividing people.”
“Open multiple fronts on your enemy. He must feel confused and besieged from every side.” https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/02/january-6-committee-made-a-mistake-leaving-this-stone-unturned/