An Elon Musk-funded PAC is microtargeting Muslim people in Michigan and Jewish people in Pennsylvania with opposite messaging about Kamala Harris using ZIP code targeting, according to data I pulled from Snapchat. Few things from this investigation:

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This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages

The Future Coalition PAC is targeting according to ZIP code in highly specific ways.

This conversation I had with @npub1s7r5...cum5 and @npub1lrqq...pn8w about discoverability on the internet, the fediverse, and the future of the internet was one of the best convos I’ve had in years- I left it feeling optimistic, excited and definitely scared … please listen!

Incredibly cool: A community of people on Discord are salvaging Redbox kiosks from Walgreens all over the country and are reverse engineering and modifying them. Redbox OS got dumped this week and people are actively figuring out how to repurpose it:

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Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them

The Redbox operating system has been dumped, and people are repurposing the massive DVD kiosks they've saved from the scrap heap.

The WordPress situation is so so crazy

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‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In

WordPress.org users are forced to confirm they are not "affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise" before registering a new ac...

Thousands of people are using an AI-powered automatic job application bot to spam job apps on LinkedIn. “I applied to 2843 roles” one person said. I used it and applied to 17 jobs in less than an hour. Here's what it looks like:

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‘I Applied to 2,843 Roles’: The Rise of AI-Powered Job Application Bots

Using AI Hawk's Auto Jobs Applier bot, I applied for 17 jobs in an hour on LinkedIn.