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“Overly powerful, rent-seeking gatekeepers seem like a problem” HT @sdw@mastodon.social / @sdw
I regret so many of my peers in civil society feel they’re doing TheLord’sWork™ by calling on the EU/US to impose central planning on software architecture & user interfaces. They are often folk who also fought against (e.g) state restrictions on encryption, but somehow think it’s simply a matter of getting the right people into
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Thinks: “It must be weird for journalists who came of age on Twitter to suddenly have Zuck engaging with their shitposting about him”
https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C2Qryt1PXat
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How Apple becomes Facebook by forcing developers to track whether purchases were instigated over an iPhone hyperlink
Take the advertising link-click model and turn it back to front. Stratechery via timothybucksf on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@timothybucksf/post/C2ZHSgyujhL
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Whhhhhyyyyy is there a Harrier jump jet in this real estate listing?
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbgursgus230342?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Residential%7CSales&utm_campaign=Residential&utm_term=100005054154647
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Honest pornography deep fake question for legal types
Regarding the attached: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68110476
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A School without Books | Perspectives on History
After six months, only 34 of my 700 books have been vetted. This constitutes a de facto ban without the inconvenience of having to actively reject a book. The censors are in no hurry. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/january-2024/a-school-without-books-the-state-of-censorship-and-classroom-libraries-in-florida
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Does anybody want to buy a used A380? It’s a snip at $25M…
https://www.controlleremea.co.uk/listing/for-sale/224908431/2013-airbus-a380-jet-aircraft
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Cold War Comics about Communism, HT @lcamtuf
From lcamtuf: a small but amusing cache of, well, propaganda from the 1950s and 1960s. I wonder if there will be something similar of memes in about 70 years. https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/communism/
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Matt Green breaks down (ahem) popular misrepresentation of “homomorphic encryption” (i.e. cleartext) CSAM detection that Thorn espouse; HT Douwe Korff for tl;dr
This short thread is a blinder; linked as best I can, below, because NewTwitter does not permit serious unrolls any more. For those unfamiliar, Thorn is a noted, Aston-Kutcher-founded critic of platforms which are enabling people to have secure private messenger conversations, on the basis that permitting people to have privacy leads to child abuse