Let’s also go after the folks in the plastics industry who intentionally misled the entire country into thinking their products were recyclable. Even now they use that symbol that was designed to look like the recycle symbol but it just tells you which type of plastic it is.
There’s some old Reddit posts like this too. Advice threads where the person who posted a solution went back and overwrote their comments during the boycott last year. I know why they did it but we still lost some information in the grand scheme of things.
The judge at Friday’s sentencing told the court that once he completes his prison sentence, DePape will be deported back to Canada by ICE immigration officials.
Good, I was gonna ask if were booting him out because we should.
And a funny quote I found from Cory Doctorow a year ago: “One in four web users has installed a blocker, making it (in the words of Doc Searls) the largest consumer boycott in history”.
Yes but also it’s mostly just an install script. It’ll suck if one day it stops working but there are other projects already offering a similar ease-of-use setup
Do you recall any of the names? I’d love to read those papers and see how effective it was. Depending on the city and the route, people might have no choice but to go over a bridge like that regardless of traffic reports.
parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years
Always the plan, funnily enough. They didn’t necessarily know what they’d need the data for, just knew it was valuable and should be sucked up and saved until the opportunity presented itself.
A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a new report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to “harness the opportunities and address...
Keyword searches stopped being useful years ago. Every site owner stuffed every single word they could think of into that field making the whole thing effectively useless.
It’s like how they’re now returning results stuffed to the brim with AI-written crap. Google can only show what’s on the web and that’s all the web is now.
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
Morehouse Students Turn Their Backs, Walk Out of Graduation as Joe Biden Gives Speech (www.yahoo.com)
An Orange Fox Curled Around a Blue Ball (lemmy.cafe)
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Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
Paul Pelosi attacker sentenced to 30 years in prison (www.bbc.com)
The man who attacked the husband of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been sentenced to 30 years in prison....
Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days (lemmy.world)
I wonder how it affected traffic (lemmy.world)
Berlin artist Simon Weckert used 99 phones and a handcart to create a “virtual traffic jam” on Google Maps
Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games (jacobin.com)
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)
16 years of CVE-2008-0166 - Debian OpenSSL Bug (16years.secvuln.info)
RetroArch brings its free multisystem emulation to the iOS App Store (www.theverge.com)
AI's most notable accomplishment... (tesseract.dubvee.org)
Alt text: A rocket engine attached to a train. The rocket is labeled “AI” and the train labeled “Enshittification train”.
Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review (apnews.com)
A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and place safeguards around it, writing in a new report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to “harness the opportunities and address...
Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button (www.theverge.com)
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
Body recovered from Colorado River over 2 weeks after man, dog vanish with homemade raft in Grand Canyon (www.cbsnews.com)
They just keep making more of it (lemmy.world)
iPad Pro: How Apple Intends to Avoid Another 'Bendgate' Controversy (www.macrumors.com)
Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base (www.nytimes.com)
Ocasio-Cortez: State of US health care is ‘barbarism’ (thehill.com)
We don’t have a healthcare system in the US, we have an insurance racket.