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How do you keep your homes clean?
I’ve just swept and mopped. Once the floor dries, I could easily go sweep again and turn up more dust and dirt. If I were to mop again, I’m almost certain the water in my bucket would be filthy. It feels like it’s never actually clean....
Teacher who resigned after her OnlyFans page was discovered says new employer fired her for violating social media policy (www.kbtx.com)
Had to supplement her $42,000 per year teacher salary with OF and made nearly $1 million in six months (almost 50 times as her salary) before the school caught wind of it and forced her to resign. Got a new job out of education and was fired five days later when they discovered news articles about her....
Are we the baddies? (i.imgur.com)
Elon Tusk (lemmy.world)
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft, doing it’s part to make the world a better place.
Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)
“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...
Bill Gates thinks the super-wealthy should pay more tax – and plenty of rich people agree (www.businessinsider.com)
Bill Gates wants ultra-wealthy individuals to pay more tax — and now a growing chorus of billionaires agree....
Why pay for an OpenAI subscription? (sh.itjust.works)
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” (arstechnica.com)
A lot of people in the UK prosecutors offices and post office management should be going to prison.
"The Airbnb-ification of the arts." How social media algorithms are gently nudging the art world towards sterility, comfort, and predictability (www.staygrounded.online)
This is an essay I wrote in 2022, inspired by Kyle Chaka's 2016 viral essay, "Welcome to Airspace". After seeing an excerpt from Kyle's new book on the front of /c/Technology, I thought y'all might be interested in reading this piece of mine, which is less about the design of physical spaces, and more about The Algorithm's™...
Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) (skepchick.org)
"Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer (sh.itjust.works)
Source: Oxfam
Time Travelers of Lemmy, what surprised you the most about the eras you visited?
Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla (www.cnn.com)
In a series of posts on X Monday night, Musk said that he would not want to grow Tesla to become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics without a compensation plan that would give him ownership of around 25% of the company’s stock. That would be about double the roughly 13% stake he currently owns....
The world could get its first trillionaire within 10 years, anti-poverty group Oxfam says (apnews.com)
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit Against Biden in U.S. Court. The Biden administration is due in federal court later this month, while Israel faces charges of genocide at The Hague this week. (theintercept.com)
YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say (www.cbsnews.com)
A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday while trying to enter the U.S. near a section of the southern border where Texas National Guard soldiers have prevented federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants.
Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)
I can’t give more approval for this woman, she handled everything so well....
Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demogogue (www.theguardian.com)
In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win....
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' all-hands meeting, WSJ reports (www.businessinsider.com)
The Journal reported executives at SpaceX worried Elon Musk was on drugs after an "unhinged" all-hands meeting in which he slurred and rambled.
$1.5 billion in estimated revenue: A look at the Massachusetts 'millionaire's tax' first year taxing the rich (www.wbur.org)
42 survivors of the Nova rave massacre sue defense establishment for negligence (www.timesofisrael.com)
NIS 200 million suit says party should not have been approved so close to border and should have been dispersed immediately, when military discovered threat of potential attack...
'100-200,000, not two million': Israel's finance minister envisions depopulated Gaza (www.haaretz.com)
Texas plane, 300 migrants land in Rockford; 8 buses in route to Chicago drop off migrants in suburbs (abc7chicago.com)
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WLS) – Eight migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight....