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What to make of it? Jack Dorsey left BlueSky’s board, closed his user account, and is back on Twitter, praising it as “freedom technology” under Elon’s misrule.
Why search engines now prioritize advertising over good UX: In the dying stages of innovation, companies at the top of the heap use their market power to maintain their high profits.
If you thought the guestbook spam of yore was impressive, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The new, AI-assisted comment spam has improved keyword stuffing, fewer grammatical mistakes, and, best of all, there’s tons more of it. Your website’s Comments section was never so useless!
More than half of all women and nearly one-third of all men in America have experienced sexual violence. The rate of sexual violence is even higher for people of color.
Tonight in #nyc, the Empire State Building’s tower lights will shine teal and green to honor Sexual Assault Awareness Month and season 25 of “Law & Order: SVU.”
“Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug… Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product.” @pluralistic
These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021
Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft.
Mary L. Trump explains why today was actually a bad day for Donald—and how it increases the likelihood of his being a convicted criminal well before Election Day.
During the FediForum conference, Meta demonstrated what it might look like to toggle on fediverse sharing and post across multiple platforms. Reporting by Emma Roth.
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