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📱 The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

The fact that the Commission said TikTok should change the basic design of its service is “ground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish civil society group.

Honestly, I really love this idea. It’s so easy to just fall into doom scrolling and go down a never-ending rabbit hole. So forcing some kind of decision-making to continue is a good idea, given some of the addiction we’ve seen arise from these types of apps.

I’ve also been thinking defaulting to an algorithmic timeline

🤖 OpenAI amending deal with Pentagon, CEO Altman says

Reuters

Surprisingly absolutely no one with half a brain, OpenAI actually couldn’t fulfill the same deal as Anthropic while holding to the same high standards and principles.

And it’s all of these shortsighted nincompoops that are going to absolutely destroy the economy—and not just the stock market, but the everyday lives of normal folks—along with the idiotic policies, actions, and war (crimes) of the current administration.

I’m rambling and getting a bit off topic now, but we are at the point (and, to be clear, have been for sometime) in a post-capitalistic society where outputs

🗳️ Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

The Hill

“This change is part of a broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallup’s public work with its mission,” a spokesperson for Gallup said. “We look forward to continuing to offer independent research that adheres to the highest standards of social science.”

Yeah, I believe them when they say it has nothing to do with the current administration and the fact this president has the lowest approval rating ever. Makes total sense they’d stop to “align with its mission.”

💸 My Fellow Americans, We Are Richer Than Ever Before. Well, You Aren’t, but We Are

McSweeney’s

My fellow Americans, despite what everyone else says, we are living in the golden age of America. Not your golden age, though. My golden age. As in: I am very old, and everything I own is either solid gold or gold-plated or painted in gold to make it seem like it’s real gold.

Honestly, I’m not actually sure if this is funny given it’s basically a fact-based reporting. Or at the very least, more factual than anything coming out of this administration.

🛂 Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order • Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Paper

So you’re telling me the people who are only trying to “make elections more secure” and not prevent people from voting by passing a strict voter ID law just made it harder for New Yorkers to get said ID? Hmmm…

💣 Regime Change Is Blowing Up A School Full Of Children

Defector

You wouldn’t trust anyone in the Trump administration to water your garden properly, and yet they get to decide who and what gets blown up. Everyone else has to suffer the consequences, this time none more greatly than those girls and their families.

The draft dodging head of the Board of Peace who said no more wars in the Middle East and that only terrible negotiators would bomb Iran, just bombed Iran, turning an already devastating situation in the Middle East with the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, into an even bigger chaotic mess, likely to start

🤖 OpenAI amending deal with Pentagon, CEO Altman says

🗳️ Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

💸 My Fellow Americans, We Are Richer Than Ever Before. Well, You Aren’t, but We Are

🛂 Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order • Brooklyn Paper

💣 Regime Change Is Blowing Up A School Full Of Children

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