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  • Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri

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  • Lemm.ee has been great to me. The instance owner and maintainer seems like a genuinely decent person. We refused to federate with threads but otherwise we federate with pretty much everyone and leave it up the user to decide what they want to be exposed to.

  • Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri

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  • Tastes like hamburders and fascism.

  • Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri

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  • There are millions of us who support your decision to leave. Every deleted account matters.

  • Happy little trade

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  • Come on, that's not fair. We get some things:

    My neighbor got robbed when she posted about being away on holiday. What an experience!

    And there was that time that some users had private messages made public due to a security glitch. I'm sure that ended more than a few relationships!

    We get mass surveillance -- that's a pretty good one, yeah?... No?

  • We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23

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  • First TeePublic removes perfectly legal Luigi Mangione shirts, and now this.

    They were dead to me after the luigi incident. Now this is mearly affirming my opinion of them as a company.

  • Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

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  • On facebook and Twitter and others, we cannot say whatever we want. Truth is suppressed while disinformation is allowed. Saying LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill is allowed but mentioning even the word "cisgender" is suppressed. LGBTQ+ content will get removed for being "sexual content" but straight content that's equivalent will be allowed. LGBTQ+ people face repeated harrassment on these platforms, sometimes to the level of terrorism; if they don't feel safe posting about LGBTQ+ topics, they cannot say whatever they want. Hell, they get doxed but there's rarely repercussions for the doxers.

    Imagine if I spread lies about you, call you a pedophile, doxx you and then someone SWATs you; would you still feel like you can say anything?

    Equality and fairness does not exist on these social platforms.

  • Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’

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  • Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’

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  • This person gets it.

    Thank you.

  • LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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  • They do use Android, yes. I think they are least bad because I can still buy a Sony TV, never connect it to the internet, and still have a TV that works and has a good quality picture.

    There are other TV brands - one commenter mentioned Hisense - that will refuse to work until connected to the internet. Other, cheaper brands like TCL, Vizio, and Onn usually have pretty bad-looking screens comparatively. Samsung and LG usually have fine-looking screens but are also more aggressive about pushing ads on your TV than Sony is.

    I despise Sony as a company and I have no brand loyalty, but in my experience they seem to offer the least bad TV overall at the moment. If anyone's experience is different, I would appreciate them sharing it here.

  • Ain't doing so great

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  • I appreciated reading your perspective on this. Thank you!

  • Ain't doing so great

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  • In my opinion, this is a bit poorly worded. I think a better way to say this is that it’s a healthy reaction to look at the state of the world and feel uneasy or anxious about it. The people who don’t are often the ones who either aren’t paying attention or who directly contributed to making things worse.

    It’s okay to keep feeling depressed about all the bad things in the world, but we as people are capable of feeling a range of emotions simultaneously, so we can be depressed about the state of the world while also experiencing happiness in our day-to-day lives.

    We don’t have to fall into a pit of depression that consumes us. We can channel those emotions and put them to work, helping drive us to make positive change in the world.

  • LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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  • As far as I know, all smart TVs are user-hostile in the sense that they will be used against you if you connect them to the internet.

    The least bad is Sony. Buy it, keep it offline forever, and enjoy good-quality video. Avoid all the other trash companies as if your privacy depended on it.

  • LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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  • Omg I hate Vizio TVs so much.

  • LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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  • If you want to do firmware updates on a “disconnected” TV, i would recommend putting the firmware update on a usb stick and update the TV that way.

  • Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI

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  • If they did this in Europe, I would argue it is a GDPR violation and it would be impossible for Apple to remove the data they collected. I hope the EU fines Apple out the nose for this.

  • New York becomes first US city with congestion charge

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  • You do not have the choice to pay it. Anyone driving through for the first time will have no idea what this is or how to avoid it.

    Same with no-stop toll roads. The first time I encountered one, I could not refuse to pay. I could not refuse to go through, and I could not turn around. I was also poor.

    I am all for reducing car and truck traffic, but we have to acknowledge that this way steals money from some of the most vulnerable who don't get to choose.

  • "Free" Speech Absolutist™

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  • United States law enforcement agencies have the ability to eavesdrop on Skype conversations and to have access to Skype users' geographic locations. In many cases, a simple request for information is sufficient, with no court approval needed. This ability was deliberately added by Microsoft for law enforcement agencies around the world after they purchased Skype in 2011.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security

    Although I think Microsoft implemented end-to-end encryption for skype for single conversations at a time in 2018. Still, for seven years, microsoft was giving law enforcement every conversation they wanted.

  • Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI

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  • An opt-out that you can't opt out of because Apple already opted you in and took your photos?

    This seems like it is going to be a huge lawsuit. Since a class action won't deter them or help us, let's all sue Apple individually in small claims court and kill them by death from a billion cuts.

  • Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI

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  • Wait, it's called homomorphic encryption? All we'd have to do is tell MAGAs that Tim Apple just started using homomorphic encryption with all the iphones and the homophobic backlash would cause Apple to walk this back within a week.

    I'm only half joking.