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Shirley you cant be serious! (lemmy.world)

Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity (lemmy.world)

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...

Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭 (lemmy.world)

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased (apnews.com)

Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms....

The american dream (infosec.pub)

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Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)

31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad) (www.nbclosangeles.com)

TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)

During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...

The real alpha main force pushers (lemmy.world)

Meta will kill small instances! Please read.

I just read this point in a comment and wanted to bring it to the spotlight....

YSK The difference between equality, justice and equity. (lemmy.world)

Why YSK: because what seems like equal situation from surface isn’t always equal opportunity for all. And even when equal measure of help is provided, it might not be equally useful.

Iranian chess player who removed hijab gets Spanish citizenship (www.reuters.com)

MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian chess player who moved to Spain in January after she competed without a hijab and had an arrest warrant issued against her at home has been granted Spanish citizenship, Spain said on Wednesday....

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)

International game of 'Food Telephone' (startrek.website)

Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead (www.sbsun.com)

So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 (lemmy.world)

Judge Rules HP Must Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Disabled Printers (gizmodo.com)

The suit, filed earlier this year, argues that HP all-in-one printers stop all functions when ink levels reach some arbitrary point.

FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)

Pretty fly for a Venn diagram (lemmy.world)

Gotta hold onto that power somehow (lemmy.ml)

Behold the human! (lemmy.sdf.org)

Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding (www.gamingonlinux.com)

One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.