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Howie Cohen (@howiecohen.bsky.social)
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You know, in Poland under PiS, we had of course the state media were "unfriendly" journalists were quickly got rid of, but we didn't have shit like this… 😐 There were some "collaborating" private media that tried not to cause too much trouble and stay on good terms with the party,
Ok, I think I more or less know how to build the remaining parts of Lycan (firehose client + background fetch worker) that are needed so that anyone can start using it without me running scripts manually πŸ€”πŸΊ
Wait, but I thought Republicans were all about free speech and freedom?? Zuckerberg said they were changing the ToS to allow slurs because everyone loves free speech now? And Vance told EU that the biggest threat in Europe was EU limiting freedom of speech? I'm confused πŸ€” RE:
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Will Oremus (@willoremus.com)
Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corpora...
The iPhone Air looks pretty sleek tbh… πŸ‘€ [iPhone Air Reviews: Is the Ult...](
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It's always nice when you put off buying something either because you procrastinate, or you decide to wait for a new version, and the new version is noticeably better πŸ˜„ RE:
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Kristoffer Johansson (@kristofferjohansson.com)
The new AirPods Pro seem great. I’m looking forward to replacing my first-gen with these. https://youtu.be/GB0b6KFZVq0?si=3G4uxES0JuFmmlJV
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh… So, we're gonna need full non-US Bluesky infra like last week… RE:
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Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
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Someone asked me on Mastodon, and I didn't know what to tell them: if you're suspended on Bluesky's PDS, is there any way to get the repo data out of there and migrate to somewhere else? I know the repo isn't publicly accessible, but can you still authenticate there and fetch backup / migrate out? πŸ€”
Oh wow… RIP πŸ˜• [Vimeo to be acquired by Bendin...](
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Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal | TechCrunch
The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024.
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