Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? (www.wired.com)
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.
In Santa Monica, CA, sometimes the first cop on the scene is a drone (archive.is)
MDM Thoughts?
I’m testing various MDM products and wanted the see if anyone here has had any experience with these....
A volunteer-made project that fights bots on Reddit is shutting down (BotDefense) (www.theverge.com)
From the article:...
Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet (techcrunch.com)
Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare…
Cloudbooklet's useless guide to bypassing Twitter's login wall
From this article. Posting because I find it funny. Be sure to enable ad blocker when visiting
Meta Threads: why I think they don't care if you use it
So this has been going around my head for a while now: What if they do not care about their users per se but want the few users they get to exploit the federation to shamelessly crawl the fediverse?...
Threads already has over 95 million posts, 30 million signups (www.theverge.com)
Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is off to a rocket start. Mark Zuckerberg announced 30 million activated profiles, while internal data shows over 95 million posts and 190 million likes in less than one day,
France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones (www.techradar.com)
VPN services and other security tools won’t be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What’s next for France’s justice reform bill?
U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Is ‘Coming to Life’ (www.scientificamerican.com)
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Threads app: Instagram owner’s Twitter rival logs 5 million users in first hours
theguardian.com/…/meta-launches-twitter-rival-thr…...
Twitter warns it could sue Meta over “copycat” Threads app (www.theverge.com)
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over concerns about its new Threads app, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In the letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro argues that Meta used Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property to build Threads....
DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub sue New York City over a new $18 an hour minimum wage for delivery driver (www.businessinsider.com)
Some drivers at DoorDash and Grubhub supported the New York City pay bump, but others say it will actually mean less pay and freedom.
You can't post ass, Threads is doomed (techcrunch.com)
Amazon’s iRobot Roomba acquisition under formal EU investigation (www.theverge.com)
Amazon’s $1.7 billion purchase of Roomba manufacturer iRobot enters a new phase of scrutiny in Europe.
Microsoft Announces: LongNet - Scaling LLM Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens & Context Length
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1115513...
Sex workers worry that Threads could kill their business (www.fastcompany.com)
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” (arstechnica.com)
Missouri and Louisiana sued Biden over attempts to limit COVID misinformation.
Volkswagen will start testing its driverless ID. Buzz in Austin, Texas (arstechnica.com)
The program will start with 10 ID. Buzzes with autonomous tech from Mobileye.
I just found out that most people still use default cursors so here are some of the ones i made myself in the download link.
cursors| Settings > Personalisation > Mouse cursor (on windows)
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app – report (www.theguardian.com)
Facebook's Threads is so depressing (jogblog.substack.com)
In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist (www.nbcnews.com)
AI-infused hiring programs have drawn scrutiny, most notably over whether they end up exhibiting biases based on the data they’re trained on.