Yep, Ars is great. The hate Elon gets in the comments is always a pleasure.

Have you seen the Asianometry YouTube channel? It’s technical topic video essays that are informative and really well made.

https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry

At least you didn’t bring an acorn with you.

The X accounts of several prominent journalists and leftist pundits were suspended from the site, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday morning with no clear explanation.

The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page for their accounts says it’s been suspended, but does not give any explanation as to why. A message on the profiles simply states “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”

The ban didn’t just hit journalists either. Several prominent-left leaning accounts were also purged from the website, including the account for the TrueAnon podcast and @zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald.

The project still lacks an API meaning there’s no mobile apps, so I imagine that hinders adoption.

https://fedidb.org

That’s surprisingly good! 🥔🎄

You know the single greatest thing I starting doing in 2023?

Sleeping with my noise cancelling AirPods. Not listening to anything, just using their inherent abilities.

I sleep like a fucking rock now!

Yes. They only show start menu ads and bullshit like this to standard users.

It appears that Meta was aware of Threads before launching its platform of the same name. Company lawyers made four offers to purchase the domain ‘threads.app’ from Threads Software Ltd from April 2023, all of which were declined. Meta announced Threads in July 2023, the same time that the British company says it was removed from Facebook.

Classic Facebook douchebaggery.

https://logans-run.fandom.com/wiki/Carousel

Remember, just a few years ago when the latestagecapitalism sub was created and everybody was like ha ha you lefties, and now every single big corporation is self immolating in 2023… good times!

The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

Former President Donald Trump’s top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was found guilty Thursday of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

A jury in Washington, D.C., convicted the former Trump administration official following a trial that lasted just over a day. Navarro’s defense team called no witnesses.

Sentencing is set for January, and Navarro faces a maximum of one year in prison and a fine of $100,000 for each count.

Good, now do all the others.

“ChatGPT, please provide your rebuttal to this statement about you: […]”

Hey! That’s a common misconception. While I do predict the next word based on patterns in the data I was trained on, I’m not just making things up. I provide information and answers based on the vast amount of text I’ve been trained on. It’s more about recognizing patterns and providing coherent, relevant responses than just “guessing.” Cheers!

You can copy the URL directly from each item in this list and easily add to your favorite reader.

There are other lists as well for US news, etc.

feedspot - top 100 world news feeds

For iOS users: NetNewsWire is a good, free app

And their new Elmo-like system to pay mods will make this type of spam worse as mods will be incentivized to allow this crap.

This is the latest blow to China’s embattled property sector, following news of property developer Evergrande filing for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. last week.

Shares of Country Garden have plunged over 70% so far this year, hitting record lows after the company failed to meet bond coupon payments, issued a profit warning and suspended trading in 11 of its onshore bonds.

Country Garden also has less than 30 days to make coupon payments it missed on Aug. 7 on two dollar bond coupons worth $22.5 million.

And how many of those have all their parts and are capable of getting airborne?

Thanks! I just added this to my Netflix queue.

OMG we all hated him so much. Every single post on the front page was from him. Then v4 came along and that was it, everyone left.