This is not a Meta is untrustworthy or Netlfix is untrustworthy story. This is a no American company should be trusted to not violate user privacy story - because no American company is going to be held to account for privacy.
This is also a story about how “private messages” don’t really exist.
“… Meta said it rolled out end-to-end encryption "for all personal chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook" in December. And in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But … Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."
I’m in the Norwegian woods;
reading ‘Norwegian Wood’.
So, of course (?) I played the Beatles’ song on a lark and now can’t stop thinking about the Droster effect.
"Scientific-misconduct accusations are leading to retractions [...] But there’s no telling how widespread errors are in research: As it is, they’re largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers.
A program launching this month is hoping to shake up that incentive structure [...It] will pay reviewers to root out mistakes in influential papers,"
Our neighbour keeps pouring grease down our shared drain which causes causes a local fatberg. No, they won't stop. No, the water company won't deal with a private sewer. No, I don't have space for a large unit. No, I can't block their access.
#Enshittification is the process by which a #platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three):
@pluralistic Footnote:
Microsoft used this same strategy to lock in universities and their students in Teams before they removed functionality, jacked up licensing fees, and simultaneously offered the next “free” sample: Copilot.
🆕 blog! “The minimal-div minimal-span philosophy of this blog”
If you've ever learned Mandarin Chinese, you'll know about "measure words". They're the sort of thing that trip up all new learners of the language. While 个 (gè) can be used as a generic measure word, using it everywhere makes you sound like an idiot (according to my old teacher). So you learn to use […]
Taking a day now and then to refactor for the sole purpose of div-minimization is my guilty pleasure. (The guilt stems from the fact there is no real ROI — just a lingering zen from the order and logic of using the semantic tags instead.)
My husband constantly walks around with @BBCRadio4 playing on the speaker of his phone.
He's just gone out to pick something up so I was perplexed to be out in the garden just now hearing reporting from #OsirisRex playing on in that classic #BBC way, and I think the sound is coming from a neighbouring flat 😲😳😆
