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  • Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow

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  • This article is worth reading, imo. There's more going on here than the introduction of the "Max" 'super-app'. I wasn't aware of this but Russia has also been subjecting its population to a "digital detox" where Internet blackouts are becoming increasingly common. In some areas the Internet is down most of the time, in others service has returned but is extremely poor compared to before the blackout. Mobile Internet blackouts have been performed claiming without evidence that it's to disrupt drones coming from Ukraine.

    In some areas this Max 'super-app' (which handles banking, communication, and more--and is a direct line for government surveillance) is the only option to do banking or communicate with anybody by phone. This practice is sweeping the country after declaring Meta a terrorist organization, and swiftly eliminating any Meta apps from Russian access including Instagram, Facebook, and the most popular app for communication in Russia: WhatsApp.

    This is fucked on another level and i think we should be paying attention because this is presumably where Trump gets his inspiration and/or his marching orders, so i have a suspicion we'll see something similar wash up on our shores soon enough.

    I've been thinking about this for a while now--a mass, extended Internet disruption would not only screw up communication on a grand scale here, but business would also be tremendously impacted. It's the next 'privilege' for us to have taken away and replaced with an enshittified surrogate, forcing large swaths of people to sign over even more of their autonomy to big brother in exchange to have all the things the Internet has now made possible. Want to be able to easily get navigation on gps? Talk to your friends or family? Pay bills using your bank account? Imagine there was only 1 app that will allow you to do that from now on. I can only imagine how shitty the user experience is on "Max" but i suppose in time i won't need to--I'll have a front row seat to try it out here in the comfort of my home one of these days, seeing the direction things appear to be heading in. I mean shit, we're probably already nearly there and i just don't realize it yet 🫠

  • Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

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  • watching food prices intensifies

  • In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements

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  • What's the end game here? Disease the country, sweep away the bodies and begin Xanadu?

  • Nice! Election Denier Hired by Trump Admin for New Election Integrity Role

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  • This really has been the trump admin in a nutshell: the worst possible candidate for any given post seems to be sought out specifically, through rigorous trials and deliberations to narrow down to the absolutely least qualified individual. But they go even further somehow--being unqualified is important but actually being vehemently opposed to the very thing is really what distills the official that gets appointed. Hate parks? Wonderful, you can run the parks department (into the ground). Hate healthy people and medicine even moreso? Congrats, you're now Secretary of Health. It's almost impressive how they find these people.

  • Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down

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  • þEBKAC?

  • Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down

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  • Your keyboard appears to be broken ✨

  • We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial

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  • They're actually AlarmBel cheeses 🙃

  • CBS caved to Trump—now he’s seeking punishments for ABC and NBC

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  • It's the follow-through where they're lacking, in my experience

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  • Same tech!

  • TikTok plans to lay off several hundred of their moderation team in the UK in favor of AI content moderation

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  • I feel like that's where we're headed at this point. Major corps have all the tech and all the money. At this point we are seeing every new iteration of consumer tech/electronics costing more, lasting less time, and offering no greater value than previous iterations while sometimes actually taking away features and functionality in the process. They know they are the only game in town now and they only have to offer what they feel is enough to placate their clientele--if they even choose to go that far. People grumble, then they pay.

    AI will replace people in many of these situations and it will suck and be less helpful and very problematic but that's the best they're going to offer. If anyone comes along trying to offer anything better they'll be swiftly dealt with by defeating and/or buying them out. There will probably be like 5 corps that own everything one day (maybe that's too many--3? 2 perhaps? I just can't see it being 1 for some reason)

  • TikTok plans to lay off several hundred of their moderation team in the UK in favor of AI content moderation

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  • Can't you just call customer service and keep escalating it to the next department until it's solved?

    /s

  • Cracker Barrel’s New Logo Has Right-Wingers Posting About Sydney Sweeney, Finding Jesus

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  • I really think they're finding the last corners they can cut for profit, meager as it may be. Less colors, less details, less $ to print. That's my theory at least. Another good example of what you're talking about is the Pringles guy:

    Edit: Dunkin Donuts is another one, come to think of it. I swear they're going to pull a Prince one day and have their name become a single emoji/symbol or something. They managed to squeeze all the way down from Dunkin' Donuts to Dunkin' to DD... I'm convinced they're going to be the first major company to be named a symbol and people will call it DD or maybe they'll even come up with a new sound that will represent their symbol, and you'll have to get their app to make the sound 🫠

  • When am I getting my Grandchildren? - CatTrigger

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  • Guess that means no kids then 🥳🥂

  • Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees

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  • My presumption given this administration is that they will continue to do exactly what they're doing with zero regard for the law. They've acted with impunity for this long, why would some random judges decree suddenly stop them?

  • RFK Jr.‘s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft

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  • Sounds like we're getting back to BASICs

    • 10 print "hello world"
    • 20 goto 10

    😎

  • Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

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  • "lobbying" 🙃

  • President Trump is only deploying troops to blue regions when most of the dangerous cities are in red states

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  • That's what this would seem to imply. He's sending small amounts to each city and the moment any of them have even the most miniscule of a squabble it'll be an excuse to put the whole city under martial law and send in way more troops to see it through

  • White House Wants Big Balls to Get Same Medal as Rosa Parks

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  • Well if you don't drop everything and singlehandedly bring it all to a screeching halt i won't respect you and even if you try I'll find other reasons to criticize you ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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