Greg Spradlin @spradlig@social.cleverlibre.org
Math guy, computing wannabe, classical music lover, politico. Same handle on Instagram.
Joined Nov 2022
I saw this article too. The Times prints this crap about Biden CONSTANTLY.
Polls taken over a year before the election mean little. The Times is addicted to this horse-crap which informs no one. Are they looking for rage-clicks? What’s the point?
@deadbeefthemonster@infosec.exchange One story like this might be OK, but they print this crap ALL THE TIME.
@deadbeefthemonster@infosec.exchange Looks like a good deal. I subscribe to the online NYT because they offered a good deal, but they print lots of shit like this:
“Top Democrats’ Bullishness on Biden 2024 Collides With Voters’ Worries
Party leaders have rallied behind the president’s re-election bid, but as one top Democratic strategist put it, “The voters don’t want this, and that’s in poll after poll after poll.”
Omigod, NYT. Where’s the story about how a delusional, fascistic, dissembling crook and rapist is the probable GOP nominee?
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Please, NYTPitchBot. Leave E**n’s shithole and come to the bright side. We need you here.
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I find it fascinating that the sorts of intellectual elites who used to talk about how terrible Facebook is for democracy over content moderation policies and how they’d never use it again are on Twitter/X day in & day out where far more deplorable things happen every day.
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On the heels of strikes leading to pilots & UPS workers winning significant pay raises and WGA/SAG still on strike to do the same, for the first time in 88 years, auto workers across all big 3 US automakers are on strike.
Their demands include a 40% pay raise, 4 day work weeks and the return of pensions.
The trend of workers fighting back after decades of shareholders eating first is accelerating.
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As Florida reports more new #COVID19 hospitalizations than any other state, #GOP sociopath #RonDeSantis demands more sickness and death as surely as if he wrapped his cold, creepy hands around the throats of his constituents and started squeezing. https://wapo.st/3LltbuZ
1. Not “allegedly”. It’s well-documented.
2. He didn’t just refuse to enable access; he actively turned it off.
3. Anyone who posts regularly on Xitter acts as M**k’s accomplice. Even if they mean well
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-> yassie_j@labyrinth.zone
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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/
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Workers: DO NOT OVERWORK YOURSELF to avoid getting laid off.
- You’re damaging your life and health.
- Your employer doesn’t actually notice (no, really, they don’t.)
- Your behavior enables future mismanagement of resources.
- When layoffs come, you’re gonna get laid off anyway.
Remember that a company’s job is to extract maximum work from you for minimum pay, so your job is to extract maximum pay for minimum work. Somewhere in the middle, both parties find an equilibrium that they agree on. Do not voluntarily modify your side of the bargain to your detriment.
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Why is everyone talking about the fediverse? Mashable's Christianna Silva explains the reason behind Meta's interest, the future of social media and how that will change the way online creators reach their audiences.
I switched from Firefox to Chrome when they started showing ads and aggressively promoting “Pocket”, which I was never interested in.
I’ll probably switch back soon to avoid Chrome’s spying behavior. I’ll have to customize Ff, but I’m already customizing Chrome.
Unless you customize it, Firefox thrusts ads and/or click bait in your face when you open a new window. I forgot if Chrome does this, for I’ve already de-turded Chrome.
Firefox used to constantly beg me to use “Pocket”, which I’ve never had any interest in. But I haven’t seen that in a long time.
So there are a few factors that could deter people from *starting* to use Firefox, but they’re not major ones. Another is inertia: if one is used to using another browser, and has installed extensions, made bookmarks, etc., they may not want to switch to Ff.
I use Chrome primarily, but with all the bad news coming out about Ff, I’ll likely abandon it for Ff.
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To disable Google Chrome's "advanced" ad tracking, why not give Firefox a try?
Huh? Trump was the ultimate leader.
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#mtbos anybody remember how to find the nifty @geogebra animation of the positive/negative number line showing it as a mirror image by radiating the number line 'round?
@geonz This is one reason I can’t use Edge. Also, it constantly and aggressively promotes itself and other Microsoft products. I don’t think people like that, or the click bait, so they’ll install other browsers. This could be why Edge market share isn’t that great.
Similarly, Bing seems to be good at finding things, but the Bing mobile app is torture to use. It’s overrun with unwanted news, weather, celebrity click bait, etc., and tries to be a “portal” when all I want to do is search for something.
Math guy, computing wannabe, classical music lover, politico. Same handle on Instagram.
Joined Nov 2022
