Almost all major advertisers have fled Elon Musk's Twitter, new data shows | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
As reported in Insider:...
And it's a long scene, too (sh.itjust.works)
World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales (cleantechnica.com)
Or we could fund the the education system to provide teachers with what they need to do their job (lemmit.online)
Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
utterly Deranged (lemmy.ml)
Cuba uncovers network trafficking Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine (www.aljazeera.com)
Cuba says it has no part in war in Ukraine and would ‘act vigorously’ against those trafficking Cubans as fighters....
Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM (github.com)
I posted the other day that you can clean up your object storage from CSAM using my AI-based tool. Many people expressed the wish to use it on their local file storage-based pict-rs. So I’ve just extended its functionality to allow exactly that....
Over 11,000 games now rated Steam Deck Playable (www.gamingonlinux.com)
IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business (www.cnbc.com)
IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.
Its not much, but its honest work. (lemm.ee)
When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution. (arstechnica.com)
When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution.::As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution.
WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn? (futurism.com)
A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.
Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials presented to Mexican Congress (apnews.com)
Supposed aliens landed in Mexico’s Congress but there were no saucer-shaped UFOs hovering over the historic building or bright green invaders like those seen in Hollywood films....
Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill (arstechnica.com)
New T.O.S. just dropped (slrpnk.net)
TIL Kowloon Walled City existed and is the real world origin for many visual representations of oppressive urbanization in cyberpunk media (en.wikipedia.org)
I came across a video on Youtube discussing it (there are several), and Kowloon Walled City is just endlessly fascinating. A few notable videos I found on the subject were:...
Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it (arstechnica.com)
Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it::“We’re seeing more people coming back daily than I’d expected,” Zuckerberg said.
Credit card users paid $130 billion in fees, interest in 2022, federal watchdog says (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine (finance.yahoo.com)
Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C.,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to raise minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour (apnews.com)
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year (www.phoronix.com)
Journalist asks GM CEO Mary Barra about $29 million paycheck after UAW strike — On average, the Detroit Three's CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago (www.carscoops.com)
Journalist asks GM CEO Mary Barra about $29 million paycheck after UAW strike — On average, the Detroit Three’s CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago::On average, the Detroit Three’s CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
Controversial AI art piece from 2022 lacks human authorship required for registration.
