Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your email, contacts, and calendar data.

The "Learn More" link confirms:

"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."

WOW.

Good time to switch to @thunderbird, folks!

#Privacy #Outlook #Email

Ahh, so the US *can* declare vehicles too dangerous for public use -- but only if it's a niche product (in this case, one involved in 4 deaths over 3 years).

It still won't touch the oversized trucks/SUVs that endanger all Americans who walk, bike, or use a smaller car.

#safety #cars #suvs #regulation

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/onewheel-electric-skateboard-recall-deaths/index.html

There is no theory of evolution; just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

new media format where, in vaguely Space Ghostian fashion, I interview books by asking questions and having the books respond with randomly selected sentences from their innards

bing chat

Y'all really ruined the planet to the point where the Ice Cream man is riding around in October.

#Ally #Rainbows

I would have laughed, too TBH https://secondnexus.com/brennan-laughs-mccarthy-government-shutdown?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

USPS today released the new postage stamp honoring the late #SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2023/1002-usps-commemorates-legacy-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg.htm #RBGstamp

54-Year-Old Facebook User Wins Nobel Prize For Own Extensive Internet Research Into Dangers Of Covid Vaccine [SATIRE] https://www.theonion.com/54-year-old-facebook-user-wins-nobel-prize-for-own-exte-1850892290

The defendants in the RICO action in GA must be quite worried that Scott Hall has decided to plea and cooperate. He knows where the bodies are buried when it comes to the break-ins at the Coffee County election offices, where the defendants illegally copied data and accessed voter information, all in an ironic but fruitless quest to prove that someone else cheated.

Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"

Weekly #emissions summary for 2023/9/25-2023/10/1 #CO2emissions #billgates #jeffbezos #elonmusk #markzuckerberg #markbenioff

What is the point even anymore? If it's not ad free why pay? (I guess they will have ad free if you pay more??)

Well I waste too much time watching stuff anyways. I got rid of youTube for this and others will follow. Not paying OR watching unless I can avoid ads.

Ads are a huge and harmful force on my quality of life. I will go to great ends to avoid them. I also use blockers, naturally, but blockers aren't perfect. (YouTube still has "mid roll" ads even with the best.)