Notices by Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

Sad that #Glitch is shutting down although the writing was on the wall since they got brought. :(

https://www.theverge.com/news/673457/glitch-coding-platform-shutting-down

@lucky @jstatepost Also do watch Fail Safe which is a great companion double feature. Released at the same year, weeks apart even.

@jalefkowit

Some examples that people in the thread haven't mentioned yet so I will:

Breathless (1960)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Seven Samurai (1954)

@jcrabapple @APBBlue Self-hosting is the only way to go these days if you want an alternative. Wallabag is a good one.

Sad to see #Mozilla shut down #Pocket as it should never have sold off in the first place.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

Self-hosting your read laters and bookmarks such as #Wallabag are the way to go now.

https://wallabag.org/

If you have a bank account, prepare for it to become a second class citizen in favor of crypto.

https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2025/05/the-genius-acts-insolvency-provisions-crypto-investors-come-ahead-of-bank-depositors.html

BTW, these Dems need to be primaried and voted out by gifting the industry.

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-21-democratic-senators-deserve-primary-crypto-bill/

@joelpomales @lauren Someone's going to die even.

Like I said yesterday, the death of the web is upon us...

@AAKL Not to mention that the inevitable passing of KOSA and Section 230 repeal (hope I'm wrong on those) is going to hurt those efforts.

@AAKL In the current political climate, will it be even be a open web to rebuild from?

Looks very bleak. :(

The end of the open web is truly upon us now.

Thanks Gahoogle!

https://www.theverge.com/google-io/670439/google-ai-mode-search-io-2025

#RIP #web #openweb #internet

By the way, for those who have used 23andMe, you and your relatives' #DNA has sold to Regeneron for about $17 per user yesterday.

https://gizmodo.com/23andme-and-your-genetic-data-sold-to-regeneron-in-bankruptcy-auction-2000604050

The #FDA says that it will indeed block most Americans from getting #COVID vaccines, thus severely restricting it to people over 65 or a person with "pre-existing conditions".

Welp, it begins to people dying at a rapid alarming rate. :(

https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-trump-bb4de15b6ff955d6cd0b406aaec3cdc5

I'm sure she's going to get fired for speaking out her mind, but I applaud her for calling them out by name.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/16/fcc-commissioner-gomez-calls-out-administrations-attack-on-free-speech-warns-she-may-get-fired/

#FCC #freespeech

This is a very good continuing source on what's happening to the US govenrment and why this effing matters.

The first three discussed are Trans Healthcare, Medicaid, and Equality in the Workplace with more topics to come.

https://unbreaking.org/

@greg @HunterZ This is a decades-long cumination of corruption and monopoliation of telecom that lead us to this point and a certain EM is going to greatly benefit from that.

@max @jwildeboer I'm sorry but that's bullshit.

All do respect to you but to me and a whole lot of folks that run and self-host their servers, this is clearly evil and you know it's just to further protect their investments.

I won't be surprised if/when IMAP and SMTP support goes away on anything Google for example.

It's sad that people still have to use DSL and mostly likely heading towards satellite internet to get online.

Expect that to inevitably spread instead of broadband. :(

#internet #DSL #broadband

I'm sure Gordon Freeman disapproves what the US are sliding towards.

@obrien_kat I saw your longer version and this is great.

I wish you the best of luck Kat in finding something awesome!

@obrien_kat I saw your longer version and this is great.

I wish you the best of luck Kat in finding something awesome!

https://katsstackofreadsandwriting.beehiiv.com/p/seeking-to-join-pro-democracy-efforts-full-time