Given they state they ruled Live Nation overcharged by an estimated $1.72/ticket, which is obviously WAY less than anyone subject to all their junk fees and predatory resale pricing knows they’re paying, I’m a little concerned the remedies (e.g. divestment, un-merging the two companies) might not happen or be that significant, but we’ll see.
Any action against that horrible monopoly of a company is justified.
They also just don’t think about the fact that gay/lesbian people exist.
“whew, good thing we got all the MALES out of WOMEN’S restrooms! Good thing there’s NO FEMALE PEOPLE AT ALL that could also be attracted to other women and want to perv on them too!” /s
It’s never been about protecting women, it’s just an excuse to hate trans people because why not.
I thought the same thing when I first read it!
We call 'em ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers) here, but yeah it’s essentially the same thing.
Their cameras are regularly abused by police officers to stalk ex’s, have begun to be used outside their original scope, can be used illegally by one agency on behalf of another that shouldn’t have access, and have been used by Flock employees to, without permission from local authorities and against their own public statements, watch children in a gym for hours while partially erasing audit logs.
They also use Flock to monitor protestors, and track abortion seekers, all while lying about their effectiveness in preventing crime, threatening people who follow their actions, and leaving countless cameras publicly exposed without password protection, covering up vulnerabilities, and lying to city officials about Flock officials watching cameras, like the ones spying on children.
They’re really fucked up, and it’s my stance that the CEO of the company and any of the employees watching footage without consent should be criminally charged for espionage, and defrauding the public, among other things.
Only if other reviews are missing major context.
If a product I bought a year ago breaks, but everyone else wrote their review the day after they got it and said it was great, I’m gonna write a review telling you it might not last as long as you think, for example.
Once I got pulled aside before even getting through the security line, then the people rummaging through my bags and patting me down started gambling real money with each other about what my age was before I told them -_-
Mozilla uses “they’re” to refer to Kit, but other than that there’s no explicit statement at all.
Kit is a companion, not a commentator. They’re not here to deliver punchlines. Kit shows up as a small signal that Firefox is working for you, then steps back so you can keep moving.
It does have its flaws though. For example, if you use uBlock Origin, your browser’s requests to the ad networks’ servers never make it.
If you use AdNauseam, the requests do make it. This means the ad networks will get your IP address, what page you were on, browser fingerprints, etc.
Essentially, you spam click ads, but at the cost of… giving them all the data they’d normally get if you didn’t have an ad blocker and spam clicked ads.
Most of these networks can filter out obvious bot behavior like just clicking every single ad repeatedly, so at the end of the day it’s unlikely to do much harm to them, but it sure as hell will give them a lot of trackable data about your browsing history.
I do believe it’s more effective when the extension is set to only click ads somewhat occasionally though. Enough to drain extra money, while still just looking like a person that tends to click ads more frequently than others, instead of clicking every single one.
Hence why this article is about them leaving the openly Nazi billionaire’s platform while remaining on other platforms that are mainstream and still provide a lot of reach :)
I think Reuters had a much more clear headline as to the actual impact of this.
DHS says US could stop processing international travelers at some airports in ‘sanctuary cities’
If you’re a tourist, go home. If you leave, you can’t get back in.
No international flights would likely be able to land, since no international travelers would be able to enter, U.S. citizen or not.
I hate the AI slop images here, but the actual underlying article is still worth a read imo.
Sorry to everyone who thought this was real, but this is fake.
This is “truthsocialapp.com” with the fake post (and no interactions at all), and this is Trump’s actual Truth Social account on the real domain, truthsocial.com, where you’ll notice the post doesn’t exist.
WHOIS records for the fake domain show it was registered with an entirely separate registrar, and uses different nameservers than the real Truth Social domain.
What are we even doing, man…
Exactly. AI slop is just that. Slop.
If it’s just an AI doing something useful, we don’t call it slop, we just call it AI.
When Google’s AlphaFold predicted the folding of over 200 million protein structures, and won a nobel prize for it, I don’t think anyone would call all the research using it to make cures to diseases slop.
I totally recommend just clicking through random pages on there for a good 10 minutes or so. You’ll be surprised at how many random, cool, interesting things you find that you’d probably never see otherwise in a million years. (also an AMAZING place to find small blogs to add to your RSS reader of choice)
They feed a lot of this into their main search index if you pay for Kagi search too, so a lot of these sites will appear higher than they would on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc, if their content is relevant. Especially fediverse sources.
I get the feeling, but you have to realize that the signs are also kinda meant to be. Everyone already knows everybody else is angry and has a lot of strong opinions about this stuff, so why not have some fun with it to keep people’s spirits up?
I think it would be ideal if everyone could be afforded the flexibility they need in their own lives for whatever they might wish to do, but I don’t think this take is a very good one.
The reason parents are often given these benefits is because there is an understanding that there is a literal human being’s life on the line, and that this person cares incredibly strongly about that child.
I might care a lot about an event I want to go to, but when it comes down to it, any boss would probably pick making sure a parent can pick their kid up from school over me being able to go a concert or something.
If everyone had a kid tomorrow, you’d probably see a lot of these benefits not be offered as freely, considering how businesses would simply just be understaffed to handle that much demand for flexibility, skipping certain hours, schedule changes, etc.
All that said though, there is still room for benefits and additional flexibility to be afforded to workers… if corporations are willing to spend extra money on more staff, better accommodations like not requiring in-office work when the work only requires being on a computer all day, stuff like that.
It’s one thing for a working person to spend whatever income they don’t need to live at a baseline on others, it’s another for someone to hoard so much money they couldn’t necessarily physically spend it all if they tried, let alone spend it on things that would actually measurably increase their happiness.
You can argue regular people should donate more, and many actually do donate more than billionaires (as a % of assets/income) depending on which source you trust to give a good enough picture, (given a lot of donations are hard to track, both from large billionaire foundations and DAFs, to smaller donors with hard to classify spending) but there is a massive gap in how much a regular person can donate relative to a rich person, even just as a % of their income.
If you live paycheck to paycheck, but have, say, $20 left over at the end of the month in actual money to your name that hasn’t already gone to groceries, rent, etc, (and we assume you have no other assets), your net worth is $20.
If a billionaire donates $999,000,000 to charity, that would be the equivalent of that person donating $19.98.
Unlike that person though, the billionaire would have a million dollars in net worth, enough money to buy a house, while the regular person would have $0.02.
Even if these conditions aren’t perfect, and you assume maybe the person has some more net worth than $20, the point still stands. A billionaire can give up almost all of their net worth and still have enough money to comfortably live, or at least meet basic living standards for the average person. For most Americans, if they lose their job, have any surprise bill, or don’t make as much money as they expected to, they will instantly become homeless the next month rent is due, even if they give up none of their existing assets and just stop adding more money on top.
This is why “billionairism” (not a real term ofc) is such a damaging condition. It not only causes you to become obsessed with hoarding wealth that you don’t necessarily need, but it causes you to do so at the expense of others you could readily help without experiencing any material downside in your everyday life. There is no reason to hoard so much wealth.
Money is just a means to get or do things. If you are not spending that money, and you have more money than you’ll ever need to spend, that excess dollar value past your realistic spending for the rest of your life is just a valueless number to you. It’s a number that will never impact your life, but it can impact others. Hoarding it is stupid and immoral.