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To Lukoil, of course.

Not Gazprom, those wankers. Lukoil. Beacon of . . y’know . . freedom or some shit. When the state-managed privately-run petroleum conglomerate buys your country’s main search engine, you know it’s a bad day.

Typically that’s called manslaughter

IBM, also one of X’s biggest advertisers, announced it would stop advertising on X Thursday. The company made the decision in response to a report by liberal watchdog Media Matters that found both IBM and Apple’s ads running alongside hate speech. Musk called Media Matters an “evil organization” in response.

Whoever’s job it is to keep a dart gun trained on him, you might want to make sure it’s loaded. Dude’s crackin’.

They’ve admitted it a lot. Where are you getting that disinformation?

Well trying to find an actual statement is more difficult than I remember, but that could partially be due to Google ongoing enshittification. I did find this in a TIME article about the “IBM and the Holocaust” book from 2001:

Of course, not everyone agrees with Seltzer’s assessment — least of all IBM. Last week, the company released a statement: “If this book points to new and verifiable information that advances understanding of this tragic era, IBM will examine it and ask that appropriate scholars do the same.” But company spokespeople insist that Black’s allegations are not new, that historians have long been aware that the Nazis used IBM’s tabulating machines. And, spokespeople insist, the company is paying for its mistakes: IBM Germany, formerly Dehomag, has already paid into Germany’s government-sponsored initiative to compensate citizens forced to work for the Nazis.

I thought there was a lot more public acknowledgement though, and it’s hard to find. So - 50%?

Totally agree that huge social media systems need to be understood as disproportionately affecting misinformation. I don’t know anything about Telegram, though.

Are the pushback people fReEzE PeAChErs or something? Is Telegram just lovely? Dunno.

Two of these are not being pulverized by a nuclear power at the moment.

Exsqueeze me? What the amazon fuck, WholeFoods.

Yes how can we horrify children

It’s a never ending battle to get people to quit using bad media. Never. Ending.

What they said

If you refresh the page it usually fixes that too.

Passersby need only gaze into its mirrored surface, whereupon the device will scan their irises and generate a unique hash or numeric code attached to their particular set of eyes. In exchange, each participant will receive a World ID and a WLD token.

What th’ . . . are you kids on _dope?!_

Copy that.

Any they don’t have a key to, yes.

Clipper chip.

You must be on your primary home IP for the initial registration. You can not use VPNs, proxies, mobile IPs, or public wi-fi IPs for the interview.

Drat

Cold brew. Take an empty juice bottle, 64oz., say, and fill it 2/3 with grounds. Doesn’t need to be super extreme premium quality, cold brew is very forgiving. Fill to the top the rest with the best water you have. Shake it a little. Put it in the fridge overnight; minimum 12h, maximum 36h.

Then set up a filter; a chemex works great for this. You’ll go through about 6-8 filters with it. Put in the first filter, shake up the bottle really good, and pour into the filter. You can keep topping it off until the grounds fill up the filter.

Either let the brew filter out (about 20m or so) or wait awhile and carefully squeeze the filter (not recommended; if you can wait, wait.). PRO TIP, when done, put the filter in it’s own plastic bag before throwing it away, they will leak. Produce bag or amazon mailer bag works well.

Once you’re done, you’ll have a strong cold brew concentrate that will last a week or more depending on how much you make. An old clean ketchup bottle, like with the squeeze-top on it works well to store it in the fridge. Enjoy!

On that other post about downvoting yesterday, I was told it is specifically NOT fine to downvote if one disagrees. Which is precisely how I’m used to using it.

I disagree with that interpretation, but, y’know, I didn’t downvote it. Because - ?