When Meta, Google, and Apple agree on "privacy," watch your wallet

Don Marti has a rule of thumb: when Meta, Google, and Apple all line up behind a new "privacy" feature, someone should ask who actually benefits. In a post about…

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Aamun fauna.

#jänis #rabbit
#rusakko #hare
#fauna #boingboing

Onko tuo ny jänes vai rusack?

Why Mastodon matters now more than its creators imagined

Mat Duggan expected Mastodon to be Twitter without ads. Instead, it became his only reliable source of information.

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Today is a national ICE OUT protest, so please consider not working, going to school, or making purchases in solidarity:

https://boingboing.net/2026/01/30/ice-out-national-shutdown-friday-protests-in-all-50-states-on-saturday.html

#peoplepower #boingboing #iceout #fascism #solidarity #ellsworthtoohey

Relatively major culture-maker Boing Boing is running the headline:

COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight

and the article is not ableist, not bullshit, not denying reality. Nice!

https://boingboing.net/2026/01/16/covid-pandemic-enters-seventh-year-with-no-end-in-sight.html

#BoingBoing #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne

COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight

It's strange to think that the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the world into lockdown seven years ago never ended. It continues to kill and cripple us, to this day. We…

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@annika I read Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) https://pluralistic.net/ blog where he does a 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 1 year ago links and yesterday one of his #25yearsago was his first #BoingBoing post https://web.archive.org/web/20010124080600/http://boingboing.net/2001_01_01_bloggerarchive.html

Made me #nostalgic I also realise how lucky I was to be in my early 20s back then just as the web was good, the endless possibilities.

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

@pluralistic who used to do those really good #comics on #boingboing.net? I can't seem to find them anymore. Are they still putting stuff out on the web? I particularly remember the one about the history of hiphop...

Best Latex Mattress Options for Natural Support (2025)

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From #boingboing.net

#Byte magazine ran in print from 1975 to 1998, a golden age that began with the first commercially successful personal computer and ending with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or the introduction of the iMac, perhaps.) At byte.tsundoku.io, you can explore the visual history of the "small systems journal." You can zoom into it like a map of the heavens…”
All the articles, and the ads, too. Very cool.
https://byte.tsundoku.io

#Computing #computers

Byte - a visual archive

If you want to stop a fascist takeover, we must act now: Here's how

"We must do everything all at once." If you want to avoid a fascist takeover, we must act now: Here's how to start

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