@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:
@MsPackyetti ("brittany packnett cunningham.") wrote:
The Black liberation movements examined in the banned books and courses are ENTIRELY too foundational to EVERYone else’s movements for it to be so breezy up in here.
Speak up. Solidarity happens now.
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@PrestonMitchum ("Preston D. Mitchum") wrote:
To the organizations that have remained silent about the erasure of African American Studies courses: we see you.
@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:
@MauriceWFP ("Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺") wrote:
Ironically, erasing @Mvmnt4BlkLives from the AP curriculum is more evidence for the essential role of Black movement today and yesterday.
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@nowthisnews ("NowThis") wrote:
State Rep. Fentrice Driskell directly called out FL Gov. Ron DeSantis for blocking an African American AP course: ‘He wants to say that I don’t belong, he wants to say that you don’t belong … Governor: Black history *is* American history — & you are on the wrong side of history’
@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:
@JudiciaryDems ("Senate Judiciary Committee") wrote:
We’re watching, @Ticketmaster.
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@CNNThisMorning ("CNN This Morning") wrote:
Beyoncé announces her world tour and the #Beyhive prepares for another potential @Ticketmaster meltdown following the Taylor Swift Eras Tour disaster.
@sarafischer has more:
@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:
@blackarchivesco ("BLACK ARCHIVES") wrote:
Lexington, Kentucky. Photographs by Alexandra Soteriou (1968) via the University of Kentucky digital archive.
@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:
@micahinATL ("#StopCopCity") wrote:
Stop Cop City action toolkit with basic background, ways to take action, more resources, and FAQ - one of many such resources, so share this and share others! There are so many ways to get involved!! https://docs.google.com/document/d/19PibMZtGA4vU3UJULRyFucLbP9Tl2ZYAcTeSi3CtXXs/edit?usp=sharing
@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:
@haymarketbooks ("Haymarket Books") replied to a tweet by @haymarketbooks:
If you’re a young person in Florida looking for radical books to read and share, an educator looking to grow your library, or part of an organization that’s in the fight, get in touch by filling out this form https://forms.gle/8LpC3zeJNczbzRxB8
@artofneteng ("The Art of Network Engineering") wrote:
Join us tonight for an extra cloudy live recording @ 8:30 PM Eastern!
@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") replied to a tweet by @attackerman:
ALSO: Majid Khan, a free man! Charlie McGonigal, a classic New York mook! A new comic series from Greg Rucka! Plus raids in Somalia, drone strikes in Yemen, Bush officials’ second thoughts on Guantanamo plea deals and a new order cutoff date for WALLER VS WILDSTORM!
@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:
New FOREVER WARS reports on some really massive arms-sales numbers from Biden’s second year in office, which may reflect “a new normal” for the defense industry rather than a Ukraine-centric uptick.
One of the displays inside TikTok’s Transparency and Accountability Center in Los Angeles. | Photo by Allison Zaucha for The Verge
What I observed during a recent visit to TikTok’s first transparency center.
@reduct_rs ("ReductRs") wrote:
FAANG to Require White Applicants to Submit Racist Social Media Posts to Demonstrate Eligibility
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:
if i didnt nail the soccurat I will k-word ms
@OoCAnimalCross ("Out Of Context Animal Crossing") wrote:
Isabelle on her day off
Earlier today the developer behind co-op shooter Back 4 Blood--released in 2021 on console and PC—announced that, having released multiple updates and three expansions, it was moving on. And the reaction to this was mostly negative, with players calling the game dead and suggesting the team was giving up on it. But…
can we not literally live out the gotdamned plot of Ghost in the Shell SAC 2048 Sustainable War
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@business ("Bloomberg") wrote:
We asked ChatGPT to create a market-beating ETF. Turns out AI has a long way to go https://trib.al/TckMGte
Nearly 350,000 customers in the state were without power on Thursday afternoon. And one major utility service in the state said it did not know when it would be able to restore power.
@laurieontech ("Laurie") wrote:
I mean, it’s one twitter API request, Michael. How much could it cost, $10?
But wait, there's more!
The big high-power DC #chargers may not be the chargers themselves either. EV business calls them "dispensers", and they might only be a terminal for an even bigger charger and battery installation nearby.
But they're not a simple wire this time. For example, DC charging cables are often *liquid-cooled*.
Illustration: The Verge
Google may be gearing up to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT by letting people “interact directly” with its “newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai. It would be a big move for the company — as systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E have gone viral, Google — a company that’s been flexing its AI muscles for years and producing tons of research in the area — hasn’t had a public answer to those sorts of tools, some of which could threaten its core businesses.
During an earnings call today, Pichai talked about how the company plans to “unlock the incredible opportunities AI enables,” saying the tech is “reach[ing] an inflection point.” He also says that it was Google’s earlier AI research that...
@alyankovic ("Al Yankovic") wrote:
I'm officially back on the road! Kalamazoo tonight, then our 4 COVID make-up dates, then EUROPE, then AUSTRALIA, then HAWAII! Let's gooooo!!!
#TheUnfortunateReturnOfTheRidiculouslySelfIndulgentIllAdvisedVanityTour
@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") retweeted:
@SLCSocialist ("☭ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxᴍᴏ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪꜱᴛ🏳️🌈") wrote:
What are we doing?
@joshbloch ("Joshua Bloch") wrote:
This is a fantastic illusion, well worth the 20 seconds.
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@CitizenFreePres ("Citizen Free Press") wrote:
You've never seen Van Gogh's The Starry Night like this. Follow the wheel for 20 seconds and then watch the painting come to life!
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:
@PortlandDSA ("Portland DSA") wrote:
⚠️SOLIDARITY ACTION ALERT⚠️
Portland Parks workers are on STRIKE! Make their managers feel the pressure by submitting a community complaint that they have to respond to themselves.
Quickly make an account and send an "observation" 😉 http://parkscanpdx.org/send-observation
If you’re a fan of both football and video games you’ll no doubt have all kinds of fond memories of the two coming together on a team’s shirt, from Arsenal’s classic Dreamcast kit to Fiorentina’s shirts in the 90s. As iconic as those kits were, though, they were but blips on the radar compared to Nintendo’s…
@daustinsanders ("Austin Sanders") replied to a tweet by @daustinsanders:
Whoops forgot Elon Richards name earlier, he's Austin Energy's VP of Field Ops. He describes cases where crews have gone out to a damaged power line, spent hours repairing it and while doing that, watching another limb fall onto the same line which they then have to repair again.
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
This Tuesday, February 7 at 9pm ET, President @JoeBiden will deliver the State of the Union address.
After two years in office, I can confidently say we are building a better future.
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson (see also: @volkadav@hachyderm.io)") retweeted:
@TheStalwart ("Joe Weisenthal") wrote:
In practice, we're seeing that inflation can decelerate without the unemployment rate rising.
However, there's still ambiguity about whether that can happen in theory.
Nice to quash this rumor
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@daustinsanders ("Austin Sanders") replied to a tweet by @daustinsanders:
Austin Water Director Shay Roalson says the utility does not foresee the need to issue "any kind of citywide water outage or boil-water notice." Small pockets of the system have lost water, but the entire system is not under threat.
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cabanier@arvr.social ("Rik Cabanier") wrote:
Hello everyone. “the twitter API” was an ten year experiment conducted by the Harvard Research Team with the purpose of having good content on twitter. It will be deactivated on 12:00 EST February 9 2023. Thank you for your time.
It's an interesting engineering trade-off. On one hand every EV is carrying an extra several kg of charger hardware at all times.
OTOH slow chargers are (or should be) cheap and easy to install anywhere. Electrically it's not more complicated than a power outlet or a light. Every lamp post could be an AC EV charger.
@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:
@PortlandDSA ("Portland DSA") wrote:
City of Portland Workers that deal with waste water, parks, and roads are on strike! Portland DSA members are happy to join the picket lines 24/7 whenever workers decide to unite. You can join these heroes too there are pickets active 24/7 http://tinyurl.com/cityworkerstrike
For over 30 years the Antonov An-225 Mriya was the world’s biggest airplane, a colossal vehicle that was 84 m (275 feet) long and weighed 190 tonnes, but which could still somehow not just get itself into the air, but carry loads of other stuff inside it while doing it.
Did you know that home #EV (AC) chargers contain no charging hardware?
All the complicated parts are in the car. The wall-mounted box is just a fuse and a blinkenlight.
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
hot bitch electric watermelón. so so gorgeous.
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@TrixieCosmetics ("Trixie Cosmetics") wrote:
Single & ready to mingle? Time to be the Love Interest on everyone’s lips 💋 💄
Shop our new Love Interest Buttercream Lipstick tomorrow at 10am pt at http://trixiecosmetics.com
@infinite_scream ("scream is on mastodon: @botsin.space/@scream") wrote:
this will be the end of this account, unfortunately.
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@TwitterDev ("Twitter Dev") wrote:
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") retweeted:
@JoshuaPHilll ("Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN") wrote:
I can't believe this was actually said in the U.S. congress lol
@alicegoldfuss ("malice ghoulpus") wrote:
the Twitter API announcement is expected, bad, and funny
anyway, I have a newsletter and blog and stuff listed in my profile/pinned tweet
The balloon has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, The Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said.
Illustration: The Verge
Apple has reached a new milestone on how many people are actively using iPhones, iPads, Macs, and its other hardware products: 2 billion. The number highlights fast growth for the company, which hit 1.5 billion active devices at the start of 2020 and only surpassed 1 billion back in 2016.
Apple was trekking quickly toward the 2 billion milestone after it hit 1.8 billion active devices only a year ago thanks to record device sales in 2021 that dodged supply chain challenges stemming from the pandemic.
The news comes as Apple releases its first quarter earnings that highlights its performance during the holiday months. “During the December quarter, we achieved a major milestone and are excited to report that we now have more than 2 billion...
@chaseruyle ("nah") retweeted:
@KLobstar ("𝚔𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚕𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛") wrote:
LO MEIN CUBE LO MEIN CUBE LO MEIN CUBE LO MEIN CUBE LO MEIN CUBE
@33mhz ("Querelle de Brestine-Boubilie") retweeted:
@GalaxyKate ("Dr Kate Compton #BotGirlSummer") wrote:
all the bot accounts today
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Qualcomm thinks the world won’t be buying very many Qualcomm phones in the first half of this year. On today’s Q1 2023 earnings call, the company says it sees “broadening demand weakness among handsets and IoT products” and expects its customers simply won’t bother shipping as many phones in its second and third fiscal quarters (through June 2023) because they don’t expect people to buy them.
Qualcomm already saw an 18 percent drop in phone sales this past quarter (ending December 25th), with research firm IDC calling it the “largest-ever decline in a single quarter” for phones in general, not just in Qualcomm-powered handsets.
Next quarter, Qualcomm actually doesn’t expect its phone sales to decline all that much; they’ll be down...
@MichaelEWebber ("Michael E. Webber") wrote:
When I was an Austin Energy commissioner 2008-2013 vegetation management came up in discussion a lot. The problem was that rich, empowered customers in Tarrytown, NW Hills, Westlake, etc. *hated* the tree trimming and fought to slow it down. We're paying the price for that now.
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@MoseBuchele ("Mose Buchele") wrote:
Austin Energy's 2021 Annual Report touted a doubling of the tree trimming budget and hiring of an additional contractor to do more vegetation management. Interestingly, the utility has trimmed more miles in previous years than the 313 it reports here.
https://austinenergy.com/-/media/project/websites/austinenergy/about/2021_annual_report.pdf?sc_lang=en&hash=FB4A613FDB9C663F64C95B9194481A8B
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froomkin@journa.host ("Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org") wrote:
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@JohnFugelsang ("John Fugelsang") wrote:
Kevin McCarthy,
(son of taxpayer-funded fire chief)
who attended public university in Bakersfield,
has a taxpayer-funded job
& taxpayer-funded healthcare
& never worked in the private sector
screams abt "Socialism"
in taxpayer-funded bldg.25% of US debt came in Trump's 4 yrs
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@SpeakerMcCarthy ("Kevin McCarthy") wrote:
100 Democrats just refused to denounce socialism.
That’s scary—and it explains a lot about why Congress has been spending so much these last four years.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@MalcolmNance ("Malcolm Nance") wrote:
Russian commentators say the basic M1 Abrams is trash? All I have to say about that is “Battle of 72 Easting. Google it.”
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@Gerashchenko_en ("Anton Gerashchenko") wrote:
Russian propaganda tries to convince its audience that US Abrams tanks are worse than even Soviet tanks.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@ProjectLincoln ("The Lincoln Project") wrote:
Louder for the people in the GOP, please.
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Raskin: They complain about delay at the IRS then they oppose funding to assist the overwhelmed IRS workforce.. Interesting that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted to lift the debt ceiling three times for Trump who increased the debt of the US more than 20%.
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
s/roof/hood/ sorry still mad
Days since I’ve had to slap the roof of a truck to not get it to run me over in an intersection because they aren’t paying attention: 0
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Some of the bots I run on here:
- @pomological posts old paintings of fruits and nuts from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
- @oldroadside posts slide photographs from the Margolies collection in the Library of Congress
- @choochoobot posts emoji trainscapes, featuring real moon phase and weather data from NYC
- @whit_whal posts parts of Moby Dick that do not contain a particular symbol
Amazon reported its Q4 earnings on Thursday. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Amazon had better net sales during its holiday quarter than even its best projections, but the results still show a company struggling with economic slowdowns across its divisions.
Net sales were up 9 percent year over year, according to Amazon’s just-released Q4 2022 earnings, surpassing the company’s guidance it gave last quarter that growth would be up between 2 and 8 percent year over year. That said, it was its least profitable Q4 ever; the company earned $0.3 billion for quarter, a sharp drop from $14.3 billion a year before.
And for the full year, the company posted a net loss of $2.7 billion, its first since 2014 and reversing a trend of rising annual profits and booming growth during the pandemic. Substantially at fault for...
@maddow ("Rachel Maddow MSNBC") retweeted:
@indy_americans ("🎙Independent Americans") wrote:
⚡️NEW POD. EP208. @maddow! Tom Brady & the NFL. What’s She Doing Now That She’s Not on TV Every Night. The Most Important Part About Ukraine. Presidential & #SuperBowl Predictions. Tyre Nichols & America’s Unit Culture Fail. w @PaulRieckhoff.
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Nice article from Motherboard about the Twitter API fiasco and its effect on bots. I spoke with Chloe for this and @pomological makes a cameo: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axzzd/twitters-latest-chaotic-move-will-kill-the-sites-best-bots-account-owners-say
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") retweeted:
@sfmnemonic ("Mike Godwin") wrote:
.@petridishes I haven't even read the column past the headline yet, but surely "woke calculus" promotes integration and celebrates differentials. Please don't disappoint me when I get to reading it later today!
NCAA president Mark Emmert is stepping down from his position amid a turbulent time for the organization.
@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") retweeted:
@LauraMiers ("Laura Miers") wrote:
People are suddenly discovering the New York Times, The Atlantic, etc have veered to the right, and they can’t figure out why they’re suddenly fascist. When these formerly reliable outlets abruptly pivoted to pro-business/pro-virus coverage way back in 2021, people didn’t notice.
@Extrawurst ("Stephan D.") retweeted:
@liveask1 ("live-ask.com") wrote:
Premium Events unlock the 7 day limitation of the Free Event, enable people to see and use the event as long as you want them to
Click here for more: https://bit.ly/3WERCWZ
#communication #feedback #sharing #liveask #allhands #ama #ask #newfeatures #events #conference #q&a
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
idk kind of feels like groundhog found Endless Shadow
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@JohnCaden64 ("Caden ⚡️Art") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:
@meakoopa The binary is can or can’t find shadow, right? So logically if dead, then can’t find shadow.
Illustration: The Verge
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai opened his company’s latest earnings announcement by boasting about “great momentum in Cloud, YouTube subscriptions, and our Pixel devices.” But read a little further, and the numbers show a company is struggling to grow: its revenue for the holiday quarter — the big one for many companies, especially those in the ad business — was essentially flat compared to 2021. It also had worse margins, meaning it was earning less on the money it did spend.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, had an incredible run during the pandemic, posting incredible revenues in 2021 and achieving record profits several quarters in a row. But throughout 2022, its momentum has cooled; its revenue has grown at a slower pace, and its...
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Apple reported its Q1 2023 earnings this afternoon. During the holiday quarter, the company took in $117.2 billion of revenue, down 5 percent year over year, and earnings per share of $1.88. It was the first such YOY for Apple since before the covid pandemic. Most of the curiosity around this quarter’s numbers was tied to iPhone sales; in early November, Apple warned of “longer wait times” for its flagship iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. Both phones were hard to come by during the height of the holiday shopping season, though stock has since leveled out.
But the supply issues, combined with consumers being extra mindful of spending amid an uncertain economic outlook, led to an 8 percent drop in iPhone revenue. “As we all continue to navigate...
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There's no sharper lens on the "tech journalists only write for rich people" thing than the furor over CNET's bot-plagarism scandal.
Many (rightly) excoriating Red Ventures for being shitty to readers are the same folks that put nothing on the line for reader as they breathlessly regurgitated whatever tosh Qualcomm and MediaTek bleated about over-priced, under-performing mobile SoCs and let Google off the hook over software updates.
But bad content is coming for *them*? Hoooooboy.
2016 was T-Pain’s Twitch channel’s inaugural year, and it’s also the first time Pain remembers getting trolled. “At the time, my music career was kind of on a downward spiral,” he says during our Zoom call this Monday. “People were coming into my chat and telling me stuff like, ‘You’re only streaming because you don’t…
@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:
@Indiawaltonbflo ("Wanderlust") replied to a tweet by @SummerForPA:
@SummerForPA The problem with socialism is there isn’t enough of it. If there was (quality public education) voters would realize it’s what we all want. Safe affordable housing, a good education, health care, and a well paying job.
The biggest culprit was Amazon hefty investment in the electric automaker Rivian, whose value plummeted last year. Amazon also contends with the need to recalibrate after a pandemic-era upsurge.
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eleventy@fosstodon.org ("Eleventy 🎈 v2.0.0-beta.3") wrote:
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@mmpadellan ("BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️") wrote:
When people try to tell you Republicans don't want to end Social Security, just show them this clip of Senator Mike Lee saying that's EXACTLY what they want.
"phase out Social Security, pull it up from the roots, get rid of it."
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
is that good
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@BNODesk ("BNO News Live") wrote:
Canadian groundhog Fred found dead moments before Groundhog Day event in Quebec
@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") wrote:
Yet the future is ours.
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@NewDemCoalition ("New Democrat Coalition (NDC)") wrote:
New Dems reject socialism — period.
It’s time for House Republicans to stop playing political games and join our Members as we work to grow an economy that works for all Americans.
Granular Insurance, part of Verily, part of Alphabet, which is Google. | Image: Granular
I’ve heard people joke that Google only has a couple of successful businesses, primarily advertising. But it may have found another hit: insuring other companies against their workers’ potentially pricey medical care.
The Information is reporting that its healthcare company, Verily, more than doubled its revenue to become the biggest Alphabet subsidiary after Google proper — and that its health insurance business, Granular, is the biggest contributor to that growth. Granular’s revenue “rose nearly sixfold through the first nine months of last year to $151 million, from $27 million a year earlier,” writes The Information.
Exclusive: Google parent company Alphabet has never broken out financials of individual “other bets.” So here are...
@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:
@audubonforall ("The Bird Union 🪶") wrote:
Audubon workers voted overwhelmingly to unionize in 2021 and have since secured some great wins for our staff, but we still face disappointing anti-union tactics from a leadership and board that refuse to bargain with respect and good faith. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/02/us-environmental-groups-unionization
@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:
@DsaElectoral ("DSA National Electoral Committee") wrote:
Hey you know some folks that would never vote to denounce socialism?
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
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@Brandillio ("ASAP ARAKKI 🍑") wrote:
I love myself too much to take an L from Anthony O today 😭
I've seen the deck... https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1621211052829458433
@TracketPacer replied to a tweet by @TracketPacer:
to answer his Qs for anyone w/ genuine intent:
- like i say in the video—so that i can learn! & hopefully so that others can too
- a number of people on TikTok have asked me in the comments on some of my recent videos if i would showcase my home lab if/when i build it
@RikerGoogling ("Riker Googling") retweeted:
@PicardTips ("Picard Tips") wrote:
In case this account stops working you can follow the same posts at @PicardTips@botsin.space
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@TwitterDev ("Twitter Dev") wrote:
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
aw look i made another man angry just by existing 😊✌🏼
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
@EqualityVA ("Equality Virginia") wrote:
🎉VICTORY IN THE SENATE🎉
The Senate Education committee officially killed 6 anti-trans bills (three athlete bans, three healthcare bans). Over 3000 emails in opposition were sent to committee members!
Virginia- you’ve helped defeat 10/12 anti-trans bills!
@RikerGoogling ("Riker Googling") wrote:
are the muppets real
@TracketPacer replied to a tweet by @TracketPacer:
FYI this version is cut a little bit shorter for twitter reasons so is missing some minor stuff that doesn’t rly matter—here is the link to the original: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRs3JgCS/
Valentine’s day, the corporate holiday of love, has a lot of folks fiending to get with the person they adore. However, oftentimes cupid’s arrow happens to land on people who just make each other worse (and not in the fun kinky way). No medium serves up a hearty helping of such toxic couples quite like anime.
yes hello please enjoy my latest video entitled HOME LAB: the Prequel (holding myself accountable for finally building something i should’ve built 100 years ago)
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
GOOD GAME
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@cwmwrites ("Chris Manning") wrote:
@meakoopa well played, may never try that super weighted Dracula deck again 😭😭
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") retweeted:
@RepAOC ("Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") wrote:
"I had a member of the Republican caucus threaten my life and the Republican caucus rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this Congress."
Watch Rep. AOC respond to Republicans' removal of Rep. @Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee ⬇️
The data was allegedly used to target GoodRx’s users with personalized advertisements specific to their medications and health on Facebook and Instagram. | Image: GoodRx
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a $1.5 million fine against online pharmacy and telehealth provider GoodRx for allegedly sharing the private health data of its customers with Google, Facebook, and other third parties without consent. GoodRx has additionally agreed to an unprecedented provision that will ban the company from further sharing consumer health data with third parties for advertising. The FTC’s complaint comes after investigations by Consumer Reports and Gizmodo first discovered in 2020 that GoodRx was nonconsensually sharing the private health information of its customers with more than 20 companies.
In a complaint filed by the Department of Justice on Wednesday, the FTC accuses GoodRx of violating its own privacy...
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:
What if we fought…on the rickety bridge….outside plunder castle..? 🥺
MARVEL SNAP Friendly Battle Code: 25007
A color pairing from Colorschemer, which may shut down next week. | Image: Colorschemer / Twitter
Twitter says it’s cutting off free access to its third-party API next week, replacing it with a “paid basic tier” for an unspecified price on February 9th. The news potentially affects a lot of Twitter services, and one of them is bots — not the spammer armies that new owner Elon Musk claims he’s been purging but the myriad automated accounts posting cute animals, fictional character quotes, and accessibility aids through Twitter’s API. While Twitter has left users in the dark about the details of its coming change, many bot creators have resigned themselves to shutting down.
“My read of those tweets from Twitter is that it’s going to stop working,” says V Buckenham of their service Cheap Bots Done Quick. Launched in 2015, Cheap Bots...
For years, tourists have peered into multi-million-dollar apartments from the top of London's busiest art gallery. Britain's Supreme Court says that has to change.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Experimenting with new, simpler, smaller, more efficient spider cages.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/78140150
@LolOverruled ("Lolo") wrote:
Don’t make Hasan watch my Mr. Beast response video, let him live in peace. Just tell him me and Olay (@msolurin) are ready to go on stream when we visit LA
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
The House GOP just removed the only refugee and the only African-born member of Congress from the Foreign Affairs Committee. @IlhanMN’s voice strengthens Congress and our nation. I know she’ll keep on using it despite this disgusting attempt to silence her.
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge
If you’re sick of the videos TikTok is serving up on the For You page, there may soon be a way to hit reset.
The company is testing a new feature called Refresh, according to spokesperson Jamie Favazza, that will surface videos based how you use the app after you press the button. The feature could be useful if you are getting too much of the same thing on your feeds or if (according to TikTok) the videos being served aren’t relevant or entertaining anymore. The test, which will begin in the next few days, will only be available to a small number of users at this time.
TikTok employees are able to put their thumb on the scale and make certain videos go viral
How TikTok curates users’ For You pages has been a topic of controversy,...
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@LolOverruled ("Lolo") retweeted:
@Sherlock0ats ("SherlockOats") wrote:
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@LolOverruled ("Lolo") retweeted:
@DeathOfDrag ("Matt Roath") wrote:
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@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:
Majid Khan is finally free. In 2021, FOREVER WARS brought you the story of his extraordinary detailing, at Guantanamo, of what the CIA did to him in captivity.
https://foreverwars.ghost.io/i-was-raped-by-the-cia-medics-says/