Israeli leadership is treating Gaza like a war crime buffet at this point.

“I mean, if genocide’s on the menu, why not sprinkle in a little murder-children-by-starvation and robot warfare? It’s my cheat day year and a half, after all.”

users are left with far fewer community options

Where is the fediverse in this analysis?

Edit: The article references Bluesky fleeing Mississippi due to risk of fines. Do admins running fediverse instances run similar risks?

Bluesky was the first platform to make the announcement. In a public blogpost, Bluesky condemned H.B. 1126’s broad scope, barriers to innovation, and privacy implications, explaining that the law forces platforms to “make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive personal information and undergo age checks to access the site—or risk massive fines.” As Bluesky noted, “This dynamic entrenches existing big tech platforms while stifling the innovation and competition that benefits users.” Instead, Bluesky made the decision to cut off Mississippians entirely until the courts consider whether to overturn the law.

The first half of the book is great.

The second half has ads that take up more and more of the page until you reach a page that is just ads and a QR code.

When you scan the code, it takes you to a website asking you to pay a subscription for the remaining pages.

(If you rate five stars, they send a 10% discount code to your email and add you to a newsletter list without an unsubscribe button.)

I look forward to seeing these people suffer exactly zero consequences in the coming years. /s

I’m not sure it’s a one-to-one fit.

It’s not a community; it just hosts images. There’s no comment section, for example.

Image storage platform, like imgur.

Why do it, then?

Is this a proof of concept/MVP build, so they can iterate more efficient versions? A vanity project? A mistake?

The report doesn’t clearly establish a link between paywalls and a drop in site visits (which I would have liked to see).

One of the un-paywalled sites lost traffic mostly due to changes in the Google algorithm.

Overall, it just seems like a regular update of the website traffic rankings, juiced up by a clickbait headline.

Since April 2022, Kickstarter employees have worked under a four-day, 32-hour workweek… During this time, Kickstarter experienced the most successful period in its 16-year history, hosting some of the biggest, most groundbreaking projects ever launched on the platform.

…

As we entered contract negotiations with management, we asked them to make the four-day, 32-hour workweek permanent—not as a pilot or a promise, but as policy. We also included flexible provisions that would allow management to temporarily return to a five-day work week in the event of true business need, ensuring creators and backers are fully supported throughout the week. They have refused and are determined to retain the ability to make us work 25% more hours for no additional compensation. In other words, they want the option to make us work more for free.

We are now facing a time where democracy is in critical condition, but a dragnet of surveillance and suppression has already closed around young activists, an entire movement has been intimidated into silence, and the social media networks appear to be pandering to the federal government. To adopt the logic of information-nationalism is to commit to a course of action that is at odds with democracy. Now, the things that we need the most in this moment are things we have already given away.

We have always been at war with TikTok. We have never been at war with TikTok. And if we are lucky, one day, we can all look back and be able to tell the truth about ourselves — how we imprisoned our children, dismantled our universities, and tried to ban a scrolling video app, all because we could not admit that we were wrong about Palestine.

This article reads like a college term paper.

It feels like they value clever wordsmithing over making a clear point.

Edit: accidentally a word

Is the original post an AI “original” or an AI summary of an existing article?

From the original Reuters piece:

“It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” the standards state. The document also notes that it would be acceptable for a bot to tell a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.”

Someone, probably multiple someones, signed off on this.

It was fun(?) and interesting for a few minutes. If that was my full time job, I’d better be getting paid decently for it.

Rather than In addition to this, they should leak all the websites that MPs are visiting.

If it’s anything like the United States, we’re sure to find some embarrassing search histories (at the very least).

No privacy for me. No privacy for you.