ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Journal: WordPress X Account’s ‘Childish’ Trolling Causes Backlash. “An official WordPress.org social media account was used to troll the open source movement to decentralize the WordPress plugins and themes repository, creating what some feel was an undignified, even ‘childish’, representation of the WordPress community.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/14/search-engine-journal-wordpress-x-accounts-childish-trolling-causes-backlash/
Los Angeles Times: Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account ‘backdoor’. “Now, [Michelle] Ritter is accusing [Eric] Schmidt of stealing business out from under her, sexually assaulting her twice during their relationship, and tapping his Google background to hack into her email and online computer files, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County […]
BBC: Strangers mocked me in my wheelchair for ‘tongue out’ trend on TikTok. Nobody intervened. “I’d become the latest victim of the ‘tongue-out’ TikTok prank, where people stick their tongue out at strangers while pulling a face, and film their reaction – but this time twisted to mock me for my disability.”
Mashable: Flip the camera trend on TikTok: What is it and why are people upset?. “This might sound like a silly trend with unoffensive consequences, but many people online are labeling it as bullying because the person chosen to record is often someone the dancing kids are trying to make fun of, be it a less popular kid, a person struggling with homelessness, or an elderly person.”
American Nurse: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes . “Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold […]
Cal Matters: Data companies found hiding mandatory privacy pages. “As CalMatters and The Markup’s Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca explain, California requires companies that make most of their money from selling consumer data to provide customers a way to request their data be deleted. But among the state’s most recent database of nearly 500 data brokers, Colin and Tomas found that 35 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/cal-matters-data-companies-found-hiding-mandatory-privacy-pages/
Deadbeat Guitarist🇨🇦I'll just leave this here. https://youtu.be/Fb5hGCp3o5A?si=r3gS6JXLNTlYhZpu #nfb #documentary #riseoftheassholes #assholery #nsfw
Rise of the assholes: why do we keep rewarding bad behaviour?
Search Engine Roundtable: Official: Google AI Overviews Link To More Search Results. “A month ago, we reported that Google was testing linking words in the AI Overviews back to its own search results. We felt this set a horrible message but hey, Google did not, instead, Google made it an official feature of AI Overviews because it helps ‘people more easily explore topics and discover relevant […]
SpiegelMixIf the climate movement and progressives wouldn't have been so public health conscious during the early peaks of #COVID19 and hence would have had higher infection rates, would there be more people defending our positions more fiercefully?
The immune system's inflammatory response to #Covid19 "alter brain function, particularly in areas governing impulse control, empathy, and emotional regulation" which then results in
"long-term neurological changes, with symptoms such as emotional dysregulation, impulsiveness, and aggression becoming more common."
#ClimateJustice #climatecrisis #assholery
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/12/19/audience-row-macbeth
"Western" societies have an upside down pyramid age structure, so more older than younger people. And the #covid pandemic has led especially this group to ask themselves 'what do I want to do in the last years of my life?' Quite some realized that meaningful relations with others, compassion and care taking including of ecosystems and future generations are the way to go. Too many (men) however seemed to have asked 'what they can get out of it' hence behave like total pricks now making daily life for many hard and are aiding the return of #fascism
#Gerontocracy #capitalism #assholery
#degrowth #solidarity #OneHealth
#Gerontocracy #capitalism #assholery
#degrowth #solidarity #OneHealth