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Based in Europe
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Interesting, that Typhoid Mary desert. I hadn't heard that she made deadly ice cream. Just that she refused to cook for people. Even after the NY health Dept. told her to stop.

It was better pay cooking, than maid work. Eventually they sent her to a NY island (N. Brothers) to live in isolation.

They probably could have just removed her appendix. Where the Typhoid germ was harbored. A lot of germs stay safe there.

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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads


Source: futurism.com/facebook-beauty-t…

The social media company likewise tracked when #adolescent girls deleted selfies, "so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook's ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a "Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index."


#teenager #exploit #manipulation #capitalism #news #socialmedia #society #business #advertisement #surveillance #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #privacy #internet #sale #Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #ethics #money #selfies #girl #Girls #female #Teen #Beauty #Ads #fail


Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)

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kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114…

""Federal agents on Tuesday morning arrested and searched the homes of multiple people who took part in a June 11 mass protest against immigration enforcement in Spokane.Among those arrested is former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart, who was indicted by a federal grand jury and is expected to be charged with conspiracy to interfere with law enforcement, according to local attorney Jeffr"

It's Going Down (@igd_news@kolektiva.social)

kolektiva.social

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L’aide pour les enfants affamés de Gaza est aux portes. Laissez-la entrer - Agence Media Palestine
#Palestine #Gaza #Génocide
agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2…

L’aide pour les enfants affamés de Gaza est aux portes. Laissez-la entrer - Agence Media Palestine

Par Juliette Touma, le 15 Juillet 2025 Israël bloque 6 000 camions de l’UNRWA à l’entrée de Gaza, tandis que des enfants meurent de faim. Le monde peut encore empêcher une catastrophe plus grande s’il choisit d’agir.
editagence (Agence Media Palestine)
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Mathaetaes

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"Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price..." - @pluralistic

Not to be the I said so guy, but it's near a decade ago that I first started muttering about maybe not calling Google a startup anymore - which is essentially & rather insanely what they're still doing.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11485908… #tech #business #AI

Cory Doctorow

2025-07-15 20:14:53

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

#Pluralistic

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A smoggy cityscape. In the foreground is a partially open can of Spam, whose label has been pixelated. The glistening spam atop the can has been overlaid with the original Google homepage. In the background looms the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Radek Kołakowski (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warszawski_smog_(22798350941).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Odd, I tried to get him and everyone else at Diem25 on the fediverse years ago but 🤷‍♂️

ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodb…

Do as I say, not as I do, I guess. todon.nl/@mar/1148587184260965…

Aral Balkan — Farewell, not goodbye: leaving DiEM25 (or “We need to talk about democracy, transparency, feminism, and Assange.”)

ar.al

Mar 🔥

2025-07-15 18:42:36

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I've just finished reading _Technofeudalism_ by Yanis Varoufakis. If he's right, then it's politically urgent to escape from the clutches of Meta, Google, Amazon and the like as soon as possible.

Varoufakis' arguments reminded me of _Chokepoint Capitalism_ by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic, though according to Varoufakis the dominance of Amazon and the like has killed off capitalism and is a form of feudalism. I still want to compare these two analyses more carefully.

But Varoufakis' argument is: these platforms have managed to lure people in to work for them for free, and with every post and update on their platforms, these exploitative and massively dangerous companies grow stronger and harder to defeat. On the other hand, if the people take back social media and the internet more generally, there's a real opportunity for building a counter-movement with these technologies.

The lesson I take from this: getting people to quit the capitalist platforms and join the #Fediverse is part of political organisation, and possibly an important part if you consider the way people are tethered to their Instagram and Tiktok.

Let me repeat this: Convincing and helping comrades to quit the capitalist platforms and join the Fediverse is an important form of revolutionary political organisation. ✊


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WATCH: Asked if his name appears in Epstein files, Trump claims Comey, Obama and Biden made them up
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-asked-if-his-name-appears-in-epstein-files-trump-claims-comey-obama-and-biden-made-them-up?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour


WATCH: Asked if his name appears in Epstein files, Trump claims Comey, Obama and Biden made them up

When asked by a reporter if the attorney general told President Donald Trump whether his name appeared in any of the records, he said, “No, no.”
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Αντώνης ο Νταλγκας. Καραπατακ νεβάτ μανές. Γεια σου παππουλη. Γαμω την παλια Ελλάδα.

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ΚΑΡΑΠΑΤΑΚ ΝΕΒΑΤ ΜΑΝΕΣ (Γιατί να μη χαρώ κι εγώ), 1928, Αντώνης Νταλγκάς

Καραπατάκ Νεβάτ Μανές (Γιατί να μη χαρώ κι εγώ). Φωνογραφήθηκε το 1928. Ερμηνεύει ο Αντώνης Νταλγκάς. Δίσκος Pathe Γαλλίας Χ-80061/70038. Πληροφορίες για την...
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Δρ. Φελέκι

Σωτηρια, live απο Στοκχολμη. Να χεσω τις συναυλιες σήμερα.

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Σωτηρία Μπέλλου - Νύχτωσε χωρίς φεγγάρι (ζωντανά στη Στοκχόλμη)

"..Ένα βράδυ, ήταν η εποχή του εμφυλίου πολέμου, μέσα στην ησυχία της νύχτας, άκουσα ένα τραγούδι που με συγκλόνισε. Ερχόταν από κάποιο κελί των φυλακών. «Νύ...
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Δρ. Φελέκι

Φεύγω απ' το ρεμπετικο αλλα μενω σε φωναρα. Νικος ο Ξυλουρης. Γιατί σημερα πινουμε για τον παππουλη

Έφυγε ξαρμάτωτος ούτε που μετάλαβε
έφυγε ξαρμάτωτος λίγο πριν μπαρκάρει
για μακρύ ταξίδι στους μικρούς μπαξέδες του καρασεβντά.

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Νίκος Ξυλούρης - Είδα τον παππούλη μου

Στίχοι: Κ.Χ ΜύρηςΜουσική: Γιάννης ΜαρκόπουλοςΕκτέλεση: Νίκος Ξυλούρης, Μέμη ΣπυράτουΕίδα τον παππούλη μου, το Μικρασιάτημε γυμνή πατούσα να μετράει τον ήλιο...
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Ubisoft Wants Gamers To Destroy All Copies of A Game Once It Goes Offline

get ubicucked. good thing all there games have sucked for over a decade

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Ubisoft Wants Gamers To Destroy All Copies of A Game Once It Goes Offline

Ubisoft makes changes to its EULA, which states that gamers must destroy all copies of the game once it is offline.
Obaid Ur Rehman (Tech4Gamers)

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A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters generally form early in the galaxies’ histories in regions rich in gas […]

Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine - NASA

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this
NASA

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Finally finished Careless People, and first of all: definitely recommend if you want a better idea of how the insides of some of these tech companies function in practice. Also good if you want to get very upset.

There's a lot to unpack from the book, but what's really sitting with me right now is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar. 🧵

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dylan

It was unsurprising because we have seen this play out again and again: horrifying atrocities happening that can be traced directly back to the unchecked spread of misinformation and hate speech.

& this isn't just letting the stray oblique racist comment slide, either— this is stuff like major influential figures calling for violence, it's massive troll farms laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing and operating with impunity. As one colleague of mine puts it, "Facebook is just like 4chan".

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Cory Doctorow

Long thread/eof

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Internet pioneer, co-creator of the Netscape browser, and billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says gifted Americans [i.e White people] are being shut out of top-flight careers by elite support for migrants and diversity. He also opines that there's "no chance" gifted White kids of the working and middle classes will be accepted into elite universities.

breitbart.com/immigration/2025…


Never-Trumper Site Attacks Investor Marc Andreessen for Criticizing DEI, Mass Migration

Bill Kristol’s NeverTrump group is leading the backlash against a Silicon Valley investor who says gifted Americans are being shut out of top-flight careers by elite support for migrants and diversity.
Neil Munro (Breitbart)
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Where did Benny come from? All of a sudden he is the man. I don't recall seeing him before this year.
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Aral Balkan

The post that got them the reaction (with apologies for the Reddit and Instagram links): instagram.com/p/C-aJ4zEgsHp/?l…

Instagram의 Slow Factory 🌍님 : "It’s not complicated, it’s colonialism. 📌 We won’t decolonize the biggest war machine in the world by voting, but we can mobilize to pressure an administration on the brink of losing the next elections because the veil of ign

54K likes, 968 comments - theslowfactory - August 8, 2024: "It’s not complicated, it’s colonialism. 📌 We won’t decolonize the biggest war machine in the world by voting, but we can mobilize to pressure an administration on the brink of losing the nex…
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On Sunday, Israel bombed a water distribution point in the central Gaza Strip, as dozens of civilians, mostly women and children, waited in line for water. Twelve people were killed, eight of them children. It was not the first time.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/israel-…

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel


Israel isn’t just killing Palestinians seeking food aid. It’s killing people waiting in line for

Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)

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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

Link: the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career.
Matthew Prast (The Nerve Blog)
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