Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

«For Israelis of my generation, the word “genocide” was supposed to remain a nightmare from another planet. We asked: how could ordinary people go on with their lives while this happened? In a grotesque twist of history, that question now circles back to us.» www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zichro L'MAAPACHA May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥 The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence, was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

Five things to remember about war:

In their excellent book, The AI Con, @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social cite useful guidance from Garance Burke and @karenhao.bsky.social on how to approach AI hype. While directed to journalists, these are questions that we should all ask of our tools:

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

This is a major milestone in assuring consumer protection in video games, following our work on virtual currencies! Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The Norwegian Consumer Council believes mobile payments app Vipps use of purchase history is illegal & has referred the company to the data protection authority www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/f...

Vipps ønsker å bruke kundenes kvitteringer og kjøpshistorikk til å målrette reklame. Forbrukerrådet mener dette bryter personopplysningsloven og at Vipps manipulerer brukerne til å gi samtykke. Vi ber nå Datatilsynet se på saken: www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/f... #personvern #gdpr

OpenAI has to be the most insufferable company in the world. They can steal from the whole world & guzzle all resources. But no one can give them a taste of their own medicine even a little bit. How long till they use this to say give us even more resources & this is why we can't release anything.

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

Newsletter: Mark Zuckerberg's MAGA pivot is really just the continuation of years of rotting out the core products of Instagram and Facebook - and begins an era of unrestrained, unrepentant growth where tech will proudly make their products even worse. www.wheresyoured.at/the-slop-society/

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...