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Building A Preferred Future. It’s about much more than leaving… | by Stephen P. Anderson | Feb, 2023 | Medium

Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking | TechCrunch

Google Ad Leads To SectopRAT :: Reverse Engineering and Analysis — Reverse Engineering and Analysis

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I Got Silenced in the Google I/O Chat – Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’23)

Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative | TechCrunch

Ancient Alien-Aryan Theory Infiltrating Panafrican Spaces: Example Of The Day – Asteroid Mining Reparations

Mask Network Acquires Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon instances

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

The Fediverse beyond Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term | Media Matters for America

LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch

Comment: Bots run rampant on social media, and most people can’t tell the difference – Study Finds

I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy | Techdirt

Real Alternatives to YouTube for People in Marginalized Communities – Africans Live

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Someone Is Trying to Break Mastodon By Attacking One Large Instance. No Really.

The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

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What to do if your site or blog is in a subfolder: ActivityPub – FAQ – WordPress Plugin | 2022

SEO vs. HIO – Search Engine Optimization vs. Human Interaction Optimization or How to Help Me List You

Massive Balada Injector campaign attacking WordPress sites since 2017

What Are Mastodon and Post Like? Examining Twitter Alternatives

Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023

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Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

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How AI Trains Humans on Transphobia

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Building A Preferred Future. It’s about much more than leaving… | by Stephen P. Anderson | Feb, 2023 | Medium

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WINTER CONFERENCE | BlacksInCyber

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Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking | TechCrunch

Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking by Carly Page (techcrunch.com) The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block a lawsuit...

Google Ad Leads To SectopRAT :: Reverse Engineering and Analysis — Reverse Engineering and Analysis

I wanted my first foray into reverse engineering to cover a malware sample from beginning to end – from initial download to the final payload....

The Wasted Effort On Large Platforms for Small Businesses

The statistics are not that surprising. I have lost absolutely nothing from deactivating my Twitter account and basically neglecting my Facebook to near oblivion. I’ve...

Now Crazy Ex Hosting Arden’s Web

Today I built my first “crazy ex hosted” site, Arden’s Web. That’s where I basically stalk someone’s social media and curate posts for their website...

I Got Silenced in the Google I/O Chat – Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’23)

Learn about the latest updates to our developer products and platforms. I watched so you don’t have to. There’s lots in here about AI, but...

Kyle Reddoch Teaches You How to Add a Mastodon Sharing Button to Your Site

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Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative | TechCrunch

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Ancient Alien-Aryan Theory Infiltrating Panafrican Spaces: Example Of The Day – Asteroid Mining Reparations

Okay, I just, I don’t know. This is something I saw in the profile of someone who is actually trying to add me on a...

Mask Network Acquires Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon instances

TOKYO, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Social Coop Limited (Social Coop), the entity affiliated with Mask Network has acquired Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon...

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal (Yahoo Finance) Germany’s cartel office regulator said on Monday it had initiated proceedings against payment company PayPal Europe...

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. by Max Read (Intelligencer) Some were sent to browse the internet...

The Fight Continues – Internet Archive Blogs

Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across...

The Fediverse beyond Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term | Media Matters for America

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LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch

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Comment: Bots run rampant on social media, and most people can’t tell the difference – Study Finds

Scientists from Copenhagen Business School conducted an experiment in which 375 participants were asked to differentiate between real and fake social media profiles. The fake...

I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy | Techdirt

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Real Alternatives to YouTube for People in Marginalized Communities – Africans Live

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Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Someone Is Trying to Break Mastodon By Attacking One Large Instance. No Really.

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The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

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Why AI “Artwork” won’t last in the long run and Why companies are probing themselves in the ass. | mamushroomoracorn on Tumblr

As someone who is a perusing artist and learning coder.I will tell you why this will be like NFTs 2.0Basically cool idea but piss poor...

What to do if your site or blog is in a subfolder: ActivityPub – FAQ – WordPress Plugin | 2022

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SEO vs. HIO – Search Engine Optimization vs. Human Interaction Optimization or How to Help Me List You

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Massive Balada Injector campaign attacking WordPress sites since 2017

An estimated one million WordPress websites have been compromised during a long-lasting campaign that exploits “all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities” to...

What Are Mastodon and Post Like? Examining Twitter Alternatives

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How the Internet was Stolen

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Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

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William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023

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A New Site is Birthing: Maaternal.com

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Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon

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Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

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What’s Wrong With Google? Letting Go of SEO

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There is No Algorithm for Truth – with Tom Scott

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Links and Comments: Twitter accused of covering up data breach | Cyber Security Hub

A Los Angeles-based cyber security expert has warned of a data breach at social media site Twitter that has allegedly affected “millions” across the US...

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Starfleet Lawyer

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_J_4F_nIM&ab_channel=SteveShives[/embed] When all the senior officers think they’re lawyers, what’s left for an actual lawyer in Starfleet to do?

Risk Factors Associated With Post?COVID-19 Condition: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network

This meta-analysis of 41 studies that included a total of 860?783 patients demonstrates that there were certain epidemiologic and clinical risk factors that are associated with a higher risk of developing PCC. In particular, female sex, older age, higher BMI, and smoking were significantly associated with increased risk of persistent symptoms of 3 months or…

Google Ad Leads To SectopRAT :: Reverse Engineering and Analysis — Reverse Engineering and Analysis

I wanted my first foray into reverse engineering to cover a malware sample from beginning to end – from initial download to the final payload. As I am just getting started on the RE learning journey, I also wanted to find a sample which wasn’t too difficult. Lucky for me, it has been the season…

The neuroinvasiveness, neurotropism, and neurovirulence of SARS-CoV-2: Trends in Neurosciences

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been shown to be associated with a range of neurological complications during the acute and postacute phases.The pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2-associated CNS disease is complex and diverse, and cannot be explained by one sole mechanism.To understand the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2-associated CNS disease, it is important to gain deeper…

CPR is independent journalism

Today we are standing with NPR and suspending our institutional postings to Twitter, including all news and music accounts: CPR News, KRCC, Denverite, CPR Classical and Indie 102.3. Source: CPR is independent journalism

‘Blue Sunday’ 2023 – M.E. myself and I

Once again, I’m hosting my Tea Party For M.E. for people with M.E. and their family and friends. I strongly believe that we need and deserve as dedicated day of fundraising, but also a day where we can come together to mark and celebrate our resilience and our strength in the face of this cruel…

How AI Trains Humans on Transphobia

Building A Preferred Future. It’s about much more than leaving… | by Stephen P. Anderson | Feb, 2023 | Medium

WINTER CONFERENCE | BlacksInCyber

Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking | TechCrunch

Google Ad Leads To SectopRAT :: Reverse Engineering and Analysis — Reverse Engineering and Analysis

The Wasted Effort On Large Platforms for Small Businesses

Now Crazy Ex Hosting Arden’s Web

I Got Silenced in the Google I/O Chat – Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’23)

Kyle Reddoch Teaches You How to Add a Mastodon Sharing Button to Your Site

Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative | TechCrunch

Ancient Alien-Aryan Theory Infiltrating Panafrican Spaces: Example Of The Day – Asteroid Mining Reparations

Mask Network Acquires Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon instances

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

The Fight Continues – Internet Archive Blogs

The Fediverse beyond Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term | Media Matters for America

LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch

Comment: Bots run rampant on social media, and most people can’t tell the difference – Study Finds

I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy | Techdirt

Real Alternatives to YouTube for People in Marginalized Communities – Africans Live

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Someone Is Trying to Break Mastodon By Attacking One Large Instance. No Really.

The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

Why AI “Artwork” won’t last in the long run and Why companies are probing themselves in the ass. | mamushroomoracorn on Tumblr

What to do if your site or blog is in a subfolder: ActivityPub – FAQ – WordPress Plugin | 2022

SEO vs. HIO – Search Engine Optimization vs. Human Interaction Optimization or How to Help Me List You

Massive Balada Injector campaign attacking WordPress sites since 2017

What Are Mastodon and Post Like? Examining Twitter Alternatives

How the Internet was Stolen

Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023

A New Site is Birthing: Maaternal.com

More Tips for Getting Your Site Running IndieWeb and ActivityPub | Chris Aldrich

Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon

Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

What’s Wrong With Google? Letting Go of SEO

There is No Algorithm for Truth – with Tom Scott

Links and Comments: Twitter accused of covering up data breach | Cyber Security Hub

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