That was on purpose, and anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.

Oh, if only. AWS is fucking huge and dominates.

…Jay Johnston, known for his roles on Bob’s Burgers and in the January 6th insurrection…

These words should be in every news article about him ever now.

But seriously, I mean, this is the company that was hiding their tax dodging behind Tim Cook coming out as gay and making a huge deal about how he was “brave” and a “hero” when he has a fucking team of private security protecting him at all times as if that wasn’t gross.

I was trying to figure out why they’re making such a big deal about adding it since men veteran suicides still massively outpace women veteran suicides and I stumbled on this note:

• From 2020 to 2021, the age-adjusted suicide rate increased 6.3% among Veteran men and 24.1% among Veteran women. From 2020 to 2021, the age-adjusted suicide rate increased 4.9% among non-Veteran men and 2.6% among non-Veteran women.

• In 2021, the age-adjusted suicide rate of Veteran men was 43.4% greater than that of non-Veteran U.S. adult men, and the age-adjusted suicide rate of Veteran women was 166.1% higher than that of non-Veteran U.S. adult women.

It seems its less about the total and way more about the spike. While men veterans still kill themselves more often, that’s still in-line with what has been happening for decades now and not increasing at a rate inconsistent with non-veteran suicide, while the women veteran suicides are a massive spike of suicides in a short time frame, compared to non-veteran women suicides which only grew a fraction comparatively.

So, initially confusing, but looking closer, super important to take into account, actually.

He still sounds like a twelve year old… and looking at how the “manosphere” appeals to young men, I worry about how many actually do somehow think his edgelord antics are hilarious.

It will, for a while, as Trump bans every other news outlet.

However, as all authoritarians do, the circle will get smaller and X will get shut down in favor of Truth Social.

Seriously, my life has always been downsized.

Going home to parents feels like stepping into a fucking hoarders den, comparatively.

DOWNGRAYEDD

This right here. Let’s not single out India, there’s a lot of shitheel governments to go around.

Me, viewing banned Wikipedia articles:

This country is fucking useless.

Almost entirely redacted, what a fucking joke.

So maybe save some of that anger for the giant corporations that pay beaucoup bucks to float their shitty ghost kitchens to the top of search results, using the same gamesmanship. The money they spend has far more influence than individuals do.

And with all due respect if “success” in being a restaurateur is mostly catering to influencers who care more about how your food looks than tastes and are often wasteful and don’t even eat any of it, all while overworking the restaurant staff to make it happen… Fuck success.

Like how is that remotely news that a search engine indexes other people’s data to, you know, provide search results?

Absolutely, even the first Google Bombing goes back to 1999. It’s hardly news at all.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

-Gore Vidal

lmao, nobody cares when it’s big companies silently manipulating the results like this to the benefit of influencers, but once regular people become enraged enough to poison the data, now it’s something to talk about and totally represents how dystopian everything has gotten!

And while this is far from being a dangerous attempt to manipulate search results or AI algorithms, it does highlight the pitfalls of Google results becoming dependent on content generated by users who could very easily have intentions other than providing helpful information

Thanks for joining us in 2009, ArsTechnica. Hang on, I’ll grab my “Three Wolf Moon” t-shirt.

https://www.theregister.com/2009/04/17/time_top_100_hack/

Time Magazine’s poll of the 100 most influential people has been hacked by a motley band of online troublemakers who have managed to manipulate the top 21 names so their first letters spell “marblecake, also the game.”

Our entire government has played like it cared about infosec for years, but has always made weird exceptions for high-up officials. They have spent way more time and effort concealing merely “embarrassing” things which show they don’t actually promote the values they preach worldwide, (a thing they would prefer their citizens to not know) than they ever have for stuff that really matters for national security.

Like Bush ignoring intelligence warnings about 9/11, or the response to 9/11, the TSA, being all Security Theater, as called out by Bruce Schneier at the time. Destabilizing the middle east in the Iraq War was a small price to pay for Halliburton to get no-bid contracts to rebuild Iraq, and the oil that was claimed would pay for the war would go to private companies, in their eyes. Security has always been secondary.

So I mean, this is the natural end-game of such a system that always makes security exceptions for “special” people, because those people are too fucking lazy to take security seriously.

Scams are getting pretty wild out there, and pretty convoluted.

Thanks for the heads up for this type of scam, in particular.

Looking at what you quoted, that’s fair and can see how you misread it as such. I am sorry I said that it was purposeful.

Way to purposefully misread it.

The whole issue is that the Russians work for companies with sanctions against them.

So, treat all companies involved in war the same way, and you’ll never run into this hypocritical issue again.

There’s plenty of companies (like Valve) who don’t directly produce weapons of war or have contracts with their governments for war-services who contribute to Linux that could still do so, and plenty of individuals who don’t work for military and military adjacent companies to contribute.

Acting like removing people who work at companies that contribute to wars will mean no one can contribute is obviously a grossly exaggerated misinterpretation.