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whatever convinces people that its a bad idea (sh.itjust.works)

The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter (walledculture.org)

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)

Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in (www.theverge.com)

Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

Ukraine takes down massive bot farm, seizes 150,000 SIM cards (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law (www.vice.com)

New York employers must include pay rates in job ads under new state law (apnews.com)

Help-wanted advertisements in New York will have to disclose proposed pay rates after a statewide salary transparency law goes into effect on Sunday, part of growing state and city efforts to give women and people of color a tool to advocate for equal pay for equal work....

Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police (www.cnn.com)

Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police....

Fashion is a weird thing (lemm.ee)

YSK if you've seen something traumatic, playing Tetris for a couple of hours afterwards can drastically reduce the chance of it becoming a deeprooted memory and causing PTSD (www.ox.ac.uk)

ox.ac.uk/…/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-post-tr…

Fediverse now well past 14 Million total users (fediverse.observer)

On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

You guys need to stop (lemmy.world)

America's richest 10% are responsible for 40% of its planet-heating pollution, new report finds (www.cnn.com)

America’s wealthiest people are also some of the world’s biggest polluters – not only because of their massive homes and private jets, but because of the fossil fuels generated by the companies they invest their money in.

Who cares to touch the grass? (lemm.ee)

Putin Unleashes Record Bombing in Ukraine as the World Watches Gaza (www.thedailybeast.com)

Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours....

Fediverse users be like (sh.itjust.works)

Netflix is planning to raise prices… again (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)

First RCS now this, today has been wild

Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.cnn.com)

At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment to brand safety for advertisers.