Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

Oh good grief!

Via Steve Vladeck:

Justice Alito: There won't be any chaos if we allow Judge Kacsmaryk's ruling to go into effect.

#SCOTUS: We're blocking it anyway.

Florida @cvspharmacy: The decision that didn't go into effect bars us from filling a prescription for a *different* drug.

@DrJenGunter:
Hi @cvspharmacy can you explain why your pharmacy in Florida refused to fill this prescription for misoprostol?

The Pier at Emerald Isle North CarolinaNear the western end of Bogue Banks in the sea side community of Emerald Isle is a popular fishing pier. One of the two remaining commercial fishing piers on the Crystal Coast,

Available at https://bob-decker.pixels.com/featured/the-pier-at-emerald-isle-north-carolina-bob-decker.html

#AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop #creativetoots #fedi art #mastoart #photography #seascape #coastalscape #fishingpier #CrystalCoast #OuterBanks #NorthCarolina #photographyisart

While Bed Bath & Beyond slid into #bankruptcy, it spent over a billion dollars since 2021 buying up its own stock.

https://theconversation.com/what-are-stock-buybacks-which-critics-are-blaming-for-hastening-bed-bath-and-beyonds-bankruptcy-a-finance-professor-explains-199635

#News

Jeff Bezos reportedly purchased a $75 million "support yacht" with a helipad to trail his $500 million superyacht.

Meanwhile, Amazon doesn't want workers to organize for better pay and safer working conditions.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Not to brag, but a lot of people are in therapy because of me.

Feeling cute.

The Bonaparte's gull is a nice little gull.

See it bigger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/bonapartes-gull-on-a-log-jan-luit.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Birds #mastoart #BuyIntoArt #Vogel #PhotographyIsArt #Birdwatching #Animals #WildlifePhotography #GiveArt #NaturePhotography #Nature #fotografie #Photography #Art #Natuur #birdsofmastodon #FediGiftShop #Wildlife

Cochise County ready to hire elections director who spread false claims of 2020 election rigging https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042523_cochise_elections_director/cochise-county-ready-hire-elections-director-who-spread-false-claims-2020-election-rigging/
Cochise County is close to hiring an elections director who has repeatedly shared false claims about widespread election fraud on Facebook, including claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against former President Donald Trump.
#Tucson #Arizona

I post two songs in the morning
I post two songs at night
I post two songs in the afternoon
it makes me feel alright... 🎶

Good evening Fediversistas! I am in Manchester, heading to a gig. Fun times. Got our amble in earlier, of course. Here we are on the hill, with m’colleague pondering the ineffable, and wondering if he may, in fact, be able to eff it after all.

I don't know if this is Peck's commentary on how his day is going, or if it's just his contribution to #TongueOutTuesday.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #Animal #Animals #BlackCat #BlackCats #Mao #Kat #Katze #Katzen #Chat #Gato #Pet #Pets #Catstodon #MastoCat #MastoCats #CatContent #FediCat #VoidCat #VoidCats

Really really hoping the landscaping weed whacker guy didn't take out my peppers and basil.

Do I dare look?

A reminder: BlueSky isn’t decentralized until anybody can install a server and run their own node and communicate freely with every other BlueSky user.

Until then it’s just another Jack-associated social network.

#BlueSky #BlueSkySocial

also seeing some sentiment like "it's a beta, wait and see, give it time" etc etc and lmfao you are dealing with Jack Fucking Dorsey, he has a PRODIGIOUS track record, you absolutely DO NOT have to give him the benefit of the doubt

lmao

In the dead of night, Ron DeSantis signed a bill restricting women’s healthcare options before they even know they’re pregnant.

In the dead of night, women will die of miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other complications, because of this extremist law from Ron DeSantis.

"For a country that won a World War against the Nazis, modern-day America has some very strange hangups about “anti-fascism” — as though being antifa were a bad thing."

The Neo-Nazi Hunter Next Door: a profile of Task Force Butler's Kris Goldsmith

#antifa

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nazi-hunter-fascism-antifa-veteran-1234672732/

Am I being totally unreasonable to ask if we can get this petition to 150k? We are at 137k so please if you are in the UK lets push this

We need to show the government that those that support #Trans people far out number those that would see us stripped of any place in society

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/627984

World's first commercial moon landing by a Japanese venture firm is assumed to have ended in failure after signals from the craft were lost at touchdown time.

For those of us here who are Democrats...

Pres. Biden's video announcement that he's running for re-election is up at youtube, and most comments on it are from MAGAs and obvious Russian operatives and hecklers of various stripes. there is even a "Let's go Brandon". Inevitable yes. But I would hope Democrats would support him in such venues. I did.

It's a good video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChjibtX0UzU