On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
Doubt. Eventually people will realize that for as bad as Biden is with regards to Gaza, he’s doing a lot right domestically, and the other guy would be much, much, MUCH worse
Gabe Newell: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...
This has been a known entity since the Australian equivalent of the CIA released a report saying the exact same thing (and more) in 2022. The people who don’t want TikTok banned are either in the CCP’s pocket or are addicted to the platform.
IANAB, but I work with Oracle all the time and their arrogance coupled with how clueless they are with regards to strategy and emerging tech is going to hurt them badly.
This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.
So far pretty slow. Work has been a slow drip (unsurprising) and everyone is just slowly getting back to normal after the holidays. But hey, I’m caught up on sleep so I’ve got that going for me!
Based on data from fedipact.veganism.social it seems that the majority of instances blocks threads.net. I’m sure there’s Lemmy instances with either approach that have slipped through the cracks as the list is a work in progress....
Texas GOP amendment would stop Democrats winning any state election (www.newsweek.com)
Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it (www.theguardian.com)
On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)
R(ul)escue pasta (beehaw.org)
Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Speech is the New McCarthyism (progressive.org)
I can't argue with that rule. (lemmy.sdf.org)
I'll never understand this kind of mindset. (lemmy.ml)
Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West's possible deepening role in Ukraine (www.yahoo.com)
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
New Texas Law Makes It Legal To Sue Any Woman Whose Weight Fluctuates To Find Out What’s Going On There (www.theonion.com)
how's your week going, Beehaw
busy as usual, currently reading Alt-America (David Neiwert)
Nintendo Forcing Garry's Mod To Delete 20 Years' Worth Of Content (kotaku.com)
TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...
Pick 3 Rules (files.catbox.moe)
I’ll choose 3, 5, and 7.
Chonk rule (beehaw.org)
How about rule! (feddit.de)
The Cramer Rule - R.I.P. Apple (lemmy.ml)
Context: Jim Cramer is the perfect inverse indicator.
😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 (www.theverge.com)
IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states (arstechnica.com)
Direct File has many limits, but nearly 19M people in 12 states may be eligible.
Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion (www.axios.com)
France makes abortion a constitutional right (www.bbc.com)
Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public (arstechnica.com)
This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.
how's your year going, Beehaw
welcome to the new age
60% of Lemmy-instances blocks Threads.net (lemmy.sambands.net)
Based on data from fedipact.veganism.social it seems that the majority of instances blocks threads.net. I’m sure there’s Lemmy instances with either approach that have slipped through the cracks as the list is a work in progress....