Notices by Ian Betteridge (ianb@mastodon.well.com), page 2

Nope

Uncanny.

Disgusting on so many levels. First obviously trans women are women, and this is carte Blanche for them to be sexually assaulted by male officers.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/17/trans-women-uk-railways-strip-searched-male-officers

Second, it gives male officers all the permission they need to strip search any cisgender woman that doesn’t conform to their idea of womanhood, because guess what? They aren’t going to check birth certificates.

Fuck the fucking patriarchy and all the useful idiots supporting it. But you know what? Double fuck the Guardian, which will no doubt now be crying about “how did it come to this?” while still publishing transphobia diaguised as comment.

I kind of wonder if Trump’s nutso tariffs are going to end up with people smuggling power adaptors into the US from Canada. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/11/anker-raising-prices

Ten Blue Links, "though cowards flinch and traitors sneer" edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-though-cowards-flinch-and-traitors-sneer-edition/

@WarnerCrocker All that money the techbros poured in is paying off, I see.

What a week.

https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-the-madness-of-king-donald-edition/

Oh dear.

https://kotaku.com/switch-2-preorder-price-tariff-trump-nintendo-1851774764

Quite.

"Relaxing, ambient* content”

(*fascist propaganda)

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/03/an-off-switch-shell-get-years-for-that-2/

Ha ha ha get fucked you orange shitweasel

“The sums, it turns out, are ephemeral. There is a very real chance that Rachel Reeves has agreed to sell out the soul of the Labour Party – and the futures of 50,000 children – to make a spreadsheet add up for five hours on a Wednesday afternoon.”

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-is-this-really-what-labour-went-into-government-to-do/

Tax breaks for the tech bros and cuts in welfare. A great look for a Labour government.

Do you think that Google realises that it being able to remove one category of content without any effect on its revenue is a clear demonstration that it's a monopolist?

https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/our-experiment-on-the-value-of-european-news-content/

Bloody love this.

Ten Blue Links, "fly me to the Moon" edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-2/

I have complicated feelings about scraping and copyright, but one thing is clear: if someone scraped and reused Meta's proprietary code or data in the way it used and shared Libgen to train its AI, they would hit you with a lawsuit so big the "thud" of it landing on the judge's desk would set off earthquake detectors.

Liz Truss: "I managed to almost tank the British economy with a single speech”

Donald Trump: "Hold my beer”