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US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world (www.theguardian.com)

Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011 (arstechnica.com)

The Federation Fallacy (rosenzweig.io)

An interesting article I saw (from 2019) describing the potential intrinsic tendency for decentralized platforms to collapse into de facto centralized ones....

YSK: there is a Lemmy frontend similar to old reddit called mlmym (mlmym.org)

Why YSK: you can recreate the old Reddit experience by using this frontend for those who have always used old.reddit. It also gives a nostalgic feel, is more efficent, and loads faster than the Lemmy interface....

How can i cable manage my body? (pawb.social)

Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th, according to the App Store (www.theverge.com)

Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family (9to5google.com)

tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

Google distances itself from planned drag performance after employee petition (www.cnbc.com)

This is absolutely on brand. Can't trust these companies to do what's right.

CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes (twiiit.com) Spanish

…according to a Twitter post by the Chief Informational Security Officer of Grand Canyon Education....

Rep. Adam Schiff calls on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race (www.nbcnews.com)

Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows (www.404media.co)

US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining (insideclimatenews.org)

The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose (theintercept.com)

A BIPARTISAN SAMPLING of the world’s greatest perpetrators and enablers of political violence has rushed to condemn political violence following the shooting attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday....

SSDs with 1000-layer memory chips expected in 2027: ultra-fast 20TB NVMe drives for $250 (www.tweaktown.com)

Despite war and sanctions, Russia becomes a high-income economy (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

Despite sanctions by Western countries against Russia due to the Ukraine war, the country has become a high-income economy from an upper-middle income economy. In its latest rankings, the World Bank has promoted the Russian economy to the top income category.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution" (www.mediamatters.org)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/11105567...

Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government (www.theguardian.com)

TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners (medium.com)

Outrage as China hospital charges patient fee for sitting down on a chair while receiving an intravenous infusion as health authority says fee is in line with regulations (www.scmp.com)

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Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google." (arstechnica.com)

Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months the widely used ad platform has been abused to infect web surfers....