Meta says it was a mistake

To be clear, Trump was at the funeral. That kind of thing isn’t a given with him.

Ctrl+Shift+i should bring up the inspection panel. It won’t be for the specific element, but it should have a button to get an element picker.

Gizmodo’s post on this has the most honest title: A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks

The Republicans will have majorities in the House and the Senate, so even if he could be impeached there’s no chance of it happening before midterms.

They’re not posting to Facebook because they need to. From the article:

The silver lining here is that Facebook was already increasingly a waste of our time. The only reason we’re able to share our stories via our official Facebook page is that we’ve fully automated that process, because it is not actually worth our time to post our stories there organically. Since before we started 404 Media, we knew there was very little chance that Facebook would help us reach people, grow our audience, and make the case that people should support our journalism, so in a way we lost nothing because there’s nothing to lose.

Says right at the top of the article “This article is more than 3 months old” (their bold, not mine)

We have literally every biome here, more vacation options than you could fit into a human lifetime of just visiting them all

Americans just don’t have enough vacation days; Europeans might be able to manage it.

They purged everything for unverified uploaders in 2020:

“As part of our policy to ban unverified uploaders, we have now also suspended all previously uploaded content that was not created by content partners or members of the Model Program,” Pornhub said in a company blog post, as first reported by Vice. The purge appears to have hit almost 9 million of the 13.5 million videos on Pornhub as of Sunday, or nearly two-thirds of all the content hosted on the site.

“This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute,” the company added. “In today’s world, all social media platforms share the responsibility to combat illegal material. Solutions must be driven by real facts and real experts. We hope we have demonstrated our dedication to leading by example.”

The swipe at other social media platforms is no accident. “It is clear that Pornhub is being targeted not because of our policies and how we compare to our peers, but because we are an adult content platform,” the company added. Citing Facebook’s transparency report, the company added, “Over the last three years, Facebook self-reported 84 million instances of child sexual abuse material. During that same period, the independent, third-party Internet Watch Foundation reported 118 incidents on Pornhub. That is still 118 too many, which is why we are committed to taking every necessary action.”

OK but Trump’s tariffs need to apply to imported labour, not just imported items.

Leopards are going to eat better than those people over the next four years.

Making insane demands and negotiating from there is probably what a “smart negotiator” does, in their minds.

Trump ought to get congress to pass the spending bill just to show Musk who’s boss.

He told congress to kill a border bill before he’d even been elected. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t officially have power when the Republicans are afraid of him.

Don’t worry, if the Republicans are only short a seat or two there may be Democrats/opportunists willing to switch sides to help them out.

That controller is the same price on Amazon, and Camelcamelcamel shows it went up to that on Dec 6, Friday of last week. It was probably the same with Walmart.

The player that got the link back to Youtube removed allows publishers to sell their own ads. Seems like Youtube is worried about the content of ads it doesn’t control and wants to limit its association with them, so if, say, someone sees a porn ad, they blame the site the player is on, not Youtube.

If the controller was $55 yesterday and $62 today there would definitely be shenanigans, but a week ago? It could just be that a sale ended since you last looked.

Anyway, I don’t see $62 Xbox controllers on their site, checking from Nova Scotia. Official controllers are the usual $70-something and there’s PowerA brand for $55.

I think the Verge messed up: the announcement said there would be a full-text RSS feed for subscribers, but they’ve actually added full article text to the existing feed, where normally I’d only get 2 or 3 paragraphs.

Their sister site Vox made a similar mistake; their RSS feed already had full text, but once they added the paywall I got the full text of articles that were paywalled if I tried to click through to the site. It’s like Vox Media doesn’t fully understand how its RSS feeds work.

The deportations will be scheduled, and they may be canceled if and only if the appropriate bribes are paid.