see these? these are what we in the Mastodon biz call "engagement posts"
engage, damn you 
Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France | TechCrunch
Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France that's been brought by authors and publishers who are accusing it of economic "parasitism," ReutersNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
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Parents, talk to your kids about the importance of not being a stooge for a billionaire Nazi.
“I would regard Mr. Musk as a problem," said Ward Elcock, who headed CSIS for a decade including during the 9/11 attacks and also served as national security adviser. "I think that's on a number of fronts."
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Brazil is competing with the US for the event that leaves you dumbfounded the longest.
"Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit."
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.Ione Wells (BBC News)
Michael Roth: "Acc. to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, #Khalil was arrested “in support of Trump’s EO prohibiting Antisemitism. How in the world can this be grounds for an arrest? if we don’t defend the right to protest, how will we defend the freedom to teach & learn, the freedom to pursue research? If we just defend the speech or activities we like, on what basis do we resist authoritarianism?" This "prohibition" against anti-Semitism is anti-semitic.
slate.com/life/2025/03/mahmoud…
Why Isn’t the Entire Country Terrified by the Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil?
Universities are running scared. But this is no time to be timid.Michael S. Roth (Slate)
Banks and public money are financing Brazil's Amazon collapse
#politics #brazil #environmentalism
sumauma.com/en/exclusivo-como-…
Exclusive: Banks and public money are financing Amazon collapse - SUMAÚMA
From January 2018 to August 2024, nearly $1.9 billion was lent to 24,000 rural areas in the region known as Amacro, an agricultural frontier opened under Bolsonaro.Natália Chagas (SUMAÚMA)
Michael Roth: "Acc. to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, #Khalil was arrested “in support of Trump’s EO prohibiting Antisemitism. How in the world can this be grounds for an arrest? if we don’t defend the right to protest, how will we defend the freedom to teach & learn, the freedom to pursue research? If we just defend the speech or activities we like, on what basis do we resist authoritarianism?" This "prohibition" against anti-Semitism is anti-semitic.
slate.com/life/2025/03/mahmoud…
Why Isn’t the Entire Country Terrified by the Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil?
Universities are running scared. But this is no time to be timid.Michael S. Roth (Slate)
Maybe it’s all the planes falling out of the sky and the FAA employees being fired for billionaire tax cuts?
Major US airlines warn demand is slowing:
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Major US airlines warn demand is slowing
Bookings initially fell after the deadly Jan. 29 midair crash over D.C.Sam Sweeney (ABC News)
“Why do planes / Fall down from the sky / Every time / You want to fly…”
The geniuses at Axios present some Smart Brevity ™ "Delta, Southwest and American all warned Monday night and Tuesday morning that their first-quarter results will disappoint. "(We) saw companies start to pull back in terms of corporate spending — started to stall. Consumer spending started to stall. Largely domestic, largely in the close-in. But it was also exacerbated, as you know, the…
mockpaperscissors.com/2025/03/…
“Why do planes / Fall down from the sky / Every time / You want to fly…”
The geniuses at Axios present some Smart Brevity ™ “Delta, Southwest and American all warned Monday night and Tuesday morning that their first-quarter results will disappoint. “(We) saw…Mock Paper Scissors
I'm not saying that Donald Trump is the worst thing ever to happen to my country.
Oh, wait. Yes, I am.
Spotify appears to have removed Andrew Tate's "pimping hoes" class; internal communications show some Spotify employees complained about offering the course (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
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'Pretty Vile:' Spotify Removes Andrew Tate 'Pimping Hoes' Class After Employees Complain
Internal Spotify communications viewed by 404 Media show Spotify’s own employees complaining about Andrew Tate’s course being available on the platform.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
You're going to want to read today's story. Gives you a better sense of the people who most closely surround Musk. Here's the lede:
At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk's most loyal employees. Here's a closer look at this trusted Musk lieutenant, whose Russian ex-wife was once married to Elon's cousin.
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/wh…
Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?
At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla…krebsonsecurity.com
A man dared a hostess in Tokyo to a drinking game. She died several hours later. The story demonstrates how obscenely wealthy men use their power to take advantage of economically disadvantaged women for nothing but the sake of their own amusement.
#Japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite
Dared to Death: Wealth, Sexism, and Tragedy in Tokyo - Unseen Japan
A "drinking game" in a high-end Tokyo bar that ended in a young woman's death has drawn attention to the abusive power wielded by rich men.Jay Allen (Unseen Japan)
opensource.org/blog/overcoming…
Overcoming barriers to Open Source procurement in the European Union
The EU has just started a review of European public procurement rules, and have asked for input on potential changes to the rules.Open Source Initiative
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Ultimately nothing in the world can ever be 100% secure.
But generally speaking. The accessible info on Signal is about signup.
I went down yet another Severance rabbit hole and now I'm even more obsessed. It's shocking how much I've missed and rewatching it with subtitles helped.
But what I'm learning from YouTube videos deep diving into the episodes, is there's so many theories out there and it's fun to learn about them =)
No spoilers but the latest video about the latest episode Sweet Vitriol from The Faceless Girl was eye opening for me, as it completely changed my perspective on the ending I thought was coming =)
#art #drawing #illustration #characterdesign #robotart
1: trash I will never click on that is sometimes downright insulting to have recommended to me in the first place
2: 90+ minute long "video essays" that I have less than zero interest in
3: videos I've already seen
Film Screening – Staff Picks from the Prelinger Archives
Prelinger Archives is in the final year of a three-year grant for mass-digitization of its film collection funded by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Since the start of the […]\nblog.archive.org
If there are 10 people in a room, and each of those 10 people looked out for everyone else in the room, each person would have 9 people looking out for them.
But if each of the 10 people only looked out for themselves, each person would only have 1 person looking out for them.
Can't recall where I heard this, but it stuck with me.
Another photo thread!! :3
This time starting in Hong Kong
All photos CC BY-SA 4.0 by Jana M. Hemsing
Middle age is a time when women are vulnerable to eating disorders
Doctors often miss the signs of eating disorders in middle-aged women due to cultural stereotypes around these illnesses.The Conversation
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SGT1 - Chapter 14
We're 'coming home', and do brace for the landing.
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#PennedPossibilities 611 — Have you ever been able to relate to your antagonist / villain? If the answer is yes, then how so?
Yes... first I imagined him played by John Simm. Then I made him a chaotic character, whether he's being good or bad, he's playing it to the hilt and always going in unexpected directions.
He is extremely good at pitting friends and neighbours against each other, but those who stand firm against him are made stronger by the ordeal.
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in reply to 4 8 15 16 23 42 • • •There was the one with the moon women where almost nothing happened, the one where the astronaut goes to the planet of tiny philosophical people, and the one with an extended super racist native american sequence. They were all terrible and I can't remember any of the titles.
#Monsterdon
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in reply to Scarab (Sarah) • • •Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to 4 8 15 16 23 42 • • •You make your own first move in your reply post, which narrows the entire Fediverse down to only those people who have watched EVERY #monsterdon feature. You're just going to have to wait until this upcoming Sunday for that set of people to click on the hashtag to discover your posts. You need a week's worth of patience.
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