great news: YouTube comment sections set to get even better with AI-generated comments that get stuff wrong. v lifelike experience
Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it
The New Jersey drone panic of 2024 is following the exact path as the Colorado drone panic of 2020:
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg changed his Slack name to "GoneπŸ’€" and posted that he didn't want to work on WordPress anymore after a court injunction in the WP-Engine case
New: Texas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media for confidential reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database we published in June. If Paxton wants the database, he can get it directly from Google. Our lawyers have formally objected to the subpoena:
The most popular type of deleted post on Reddit over the last 48 hours is about the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Dozens of posts that had reached the top 100 most popular on the site have been deleted by Reddit the company or by mods (a mix of both)
Many major health insurance companies have purged or deleted the pages where they show executive names and bios in the last 24 hours:
In the aftermath of an LGBT hate incident, the then-CEO of cloud computing giant Digital Ocean told upset staff his mentor was a member of the KKK as an attempt to explain why they must bend their values because "we love the company"
Pretty big deal: The FTC has banned one of the biggest companies powering the cell phone location tracking surveillance ecosystem from selling huge swaths of sensitive data and has ordered it to delete lots of data it has collected
X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it. This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible