Brendan Slocum

Brendan Slocum

@sloccy.com

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@isthereanydeal.com just wondering why itch isnt a supported shop anymore? I found a post on the discord saying it was due to their policies, but was wondering if you could give any more detail? If they are being scummy to ITAD I will stop buying from them!

Lowes and Home Depot, take note. Harbor frights website is actually functional. They carry less product sure, but their site isn't clogged by drop shipped crap you don't actually ha love in the store. I don't want everything, I just want THE thing

Apple, why don't you take the lowest hanging fruit with apple intelligence. FILTER SPAM TEXTS AND CALLS! Why can't you look at my texts and email, and realize that I shouldn't be getting iMessages from random email address about coin base codes. You have my email, I DONT have a coin base account!

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If you have a minute to spare today ⬇️

Internet Archive@archive.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

@isthereanydeal.com do you have a place for feature requests? I would really like to only get notified for games that are at least 1 year old. Would allow me to add to my wishlist when they are new, but wait to buy them until bug fixes and updates are in.

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absolutely wild. i went to youtube to watch a video and the autoplay ad was an AI fake of tom hanks spouting fake diabetes cures. google is making money off this???

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"The administration's latest efforts to halt activity at the CFPB makes clear that they are intent on effectively shutting it down for the next four years," said Delicia Hand, senior director, digital marketplace, at CR. (via Reuters)

reuters.comProtest erupts after US consumer watchdog boss tells staff to stop workActing CFPB Director Russell Vought, a longtime budget hawk, took control of the agency on Friday. He is the architect of the right-wing policy manifesto known as Project 2025, which called for the CFPB's abolition.

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never gonna Alt+F4 never gonna Ctrl+W never gonna :q! and desert you never gonna Ctrl+X never gonna Esc never gonna Ctrl+D and hurt you

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Many people reported having their accounts banned and content removed after commenting on the assassination of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson, showing just how much control over our online expression social media and financial platforms have.

eff.orgPlatforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing CardsOn December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “M...

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New: The FTC has formally sued John Deere over its tractor repair monopoly, which is the strongest punitive action the federal government has ever taken against a company over restricting right to repair www.404media.co/ftc-sues-joh...

404media.coFTC Sues John Deere Over Its Repair MonopolyDeere "has illegally restricted the ability of farmers and independent technicians to repair Deere equipment, including tractors and combines."

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Replying to @retr0.id

bandwidth could've become a plentiful resource but some idiots decided to make it scarce again

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Just going to reiterate - We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications

It was dead years ago except for marketplace. Now it's just filled with crap that makes it unbearable to try and even use.

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social

Facebook is a dead mall, kept alight by nuclear power, filled with corpses and the never-born as they pitch products they can not buy gizmodo.com/metas-ai-pro...

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People quoting these AI summaries for fact checks drive me wild. I sussed out a core factual conflation it made between two areas of a technical standard last week. It's good I didn't trust it. Glad I grew up with Wikipedia being drilled as untrustworthy. Wikipedia has issues even when sourced!

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

I was excited to tell my kids that there's a sequel to Encanto, only to scroll down and learn that Google's AI just completely made this up

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Sharing another piece I'm proud of this year: After Slate published an article in which a writer urged progressives to get on board with police surveillance, they let me write a rebuttal articulating exactly what's harmful about more surveillance.

slate.comYou Might Think More Police Surveillance Means More Safety. There Are Several Problems With That.You cannot protect people from harm if part of what you offer them is a different kind of harm.

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Situation: There are 65 unknown drones in the sky "Ridiculous! I need to go investigate this myself! Better send my drone!" Situation: There are 66 unknown drones in the sky

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Latest comic: While app-connected air fryers may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.

One of the more interesting gift ideas list I have read. The first one with the train PCB maps is awesome.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

A group of Atlantic staff and friends offer 65 eclectic ideas for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love. See more of our 2024 gift guide: theatln.tc/bNhexxZu

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UnitedHealth officials are pointing to their CEO's murder as a reason they cannot comment on an unrelated @propublica.org investigation into the company's practice of strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism. "We are in mourning," a spokesperson wrote.

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Make being a book-banner into a mark of shame that leads to book-banners being shunned and reviled in decent society. Bring back shame and splatter it on censors.

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The proposed Kroger-Albertson's merger would have led to higher prices at the grocery store and harmed workers. Let me thank FTC Chair Lina Khan for successfully fighting this merger and standing up to corporate greed. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

nytimes.comAlbertsons Backs Out of Merger Deal and Sues Kroger After Court RulingsThe supermarket chain had tried to join forces with Kroger, but judges sided with federal and state regulators who charged that the merger would reduce competition.