herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

In two days, Ford took two huge steps and gave himself extra powers and no one is able to confront him, stop him or even negotiate with him about it. Yesterday, more powers over the school boards and now this. Brutal. https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2023/04/18/doug-ford-to-unveil-changes-to-ontario-place-and-the-ontario-science-centre-on-tuesday.html?utm_source=share-bar&utm_medium=user&utm_campaign=user-share

Twitter quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for transgender users, including a ban on misgendering and "deadnaming" (The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23688192/twitter-harrass-transgender-users-policy
http://www.techmeme.com/230418/p22#a230418p22

Not one, but two cases this week of innocent people being shot simply for being lost and mistakenly approaching the wrong house.

Were those the "good guys with a gun" we keep hearing about?

Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of **Europe’s largest media publisher** Axel Springer SE is "all for climate change" and thinks we should adapt to it and not fight it. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

Axel Springer owns Bild, Die Welt, and Fakt and has recently acquired Politico, Insider and Business insider. Oh and Döpfner is of course a Trumper. and thinks all East Germans are communists or fascists.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/axel-springer-ceo-mathias-dopfner-leaked-messages-reported

#climatechange

Is your child leaking US state secrets on discord?

What common code words actually mean
LOL - Leaker On Line
NSFW - New Secrets From Work
STFU - Starting TS Files Upload
KEK - Keep Everything Known
BRB - Busy Receiving Briefings

Hi. It's me. The Oatmeal guy.

I coded a word-guessing game.

Here’s how it works:
- Every day for the next month, I’m going to upload a word. Your job is to guess what it is.

- You can ask for clues, but they cost points. Try to use as few of them as possible.

- After thirty days, the game will end.

- The game starts right now. Share your scores in the comments.

https://theoatmeal.com/wordy

-The Oatmeal

P.S. I recommend starting with the “visual clue.” It’s usually a funny drawing.

Wikipedia is now on Mastodon, at @wikipedia!

They've taken an interesting approach here, as it is an account run by the community, where everyone can contribute (explanation here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia). At the same time, it is verified on the official homepage of wikipedia.org, as you can see in the screenshot.

Personally, I think this suits the spirit of the fediverse that the Wikipedia account is not a PR department, but community members building something together!

Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.

#Banks #Banking #Bailout #AntiCapitalism

Today in design patents, color edition:

D984039 issued for a lipstick core. There's a color claim on this one, but the color drawings aren't available yet.

Are we claiming lipstick shades as designs now? Because that litigation might be fascinating. #DesignPatents

https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/cbc-twitter-news-1.6813747
From CBC’s editor-in-chief, Brodie Fenlon:

“We cannot in good conscience continue to post fact-based news and information to Twitter, or engage on it, while a false impression of government involvement in our work is allowed to stand. As a news organization committed to truth, facts and accuracy, we cannot abide by a label that promotes disinformation.”

My great-aunt Tilly Verveer with her fiancé Max van Ments, around 1940 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
They were dreaming of having a family, but the Shoah shattered their dreams.
She was only 25 years old when she was murdered in Auschwitz. Max reached the age of 23 years before he was murdered in Extern Kommando Ludwigsdorf.
#yomhashoah

$44 billion to run the site like a 7th grader would.

@shawngoldwater

CBC Should Start Their Own Mastodon Server
Now’s a great time for our public broadcaster to stop relying on privately owned platforms to reach its audience.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/10/CBC-Should-Start-Own-Mastodon-Server/

During his time as CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk has re-platformed neo-Nazis, dismantled Twitter’s verification system, algorithmically amplified Russian war propaganda, made a bunch of false claims about “bots”, entered into a secret agreement with the journalist he tapped to write about the “Twitter Files” … and much more.

Pass the mic, Tucker. I have some questions for Elon Musk. #socialmedia #elonmusk #propaganda
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/i-have-some-questions-for-elon-musk

Iceland is a pretty amazing place.

Talk about a hard turn: Egypt made detailed plans to export rockets at Moscow’s request, but after a diplomatic offensive from Washington, later approved artillery production for Kyiv https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/17/russia-ukraine-egypt-weapons-leaked-documents/

This might be the beginning of a new era where Malaria is concerned. Will this ancient enemy be tamed at last?
https://allafrica.com/stories/202304170328.html