Andrew

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Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source | CBC News

X users have been subjected to a flood of ads that feature fake CBC headlines, leading to fake CBC-style articles. In the end, it’s part of an international investment scheme.

CBC

The first episode of The Panel is out!

(featuring Colleen Schnettler, @tylerking, myself, and @briancasel)

Listen here, and let us know what you think!

https://panelpodcast.com/1

#bootstrapping #startups #saas #founders

The Panel | SaaS predictions for 2025 – Colleen Schnettler and Tyler King

Is bootstrapping a SaaS dead in 2025? How will AI affect software development as an industry? What's working when it comes to marketing?Justin Jackson (Transistor.fm) and Brian Casel (Instrumental ...

The Panel

Not that we need more examples of Elon being a lying piece of shit, but just a nice textbook case, with the image flipped as well. And of course no Community Notes on those tweets. (Both of these accounts are right-wing hate-bait accounts he retweets all the time and may well control directly.)

I know I'm a broken record, but I'll say it again: civil society must get off X.

Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms, and profits from that data through targeted ads. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to harvest and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Officially opening LinkTaco for registration. It's an open source Pinboard, Bitly and Linktree rolled into one with quite a bit more features added on.

It's been fun playing with this in our free time. Hoping you all get some use out of it too.

HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632350

Project page: https://code.netlandish.com/~netlandish/links

I think it's despicable how over-regulated socialist hellholes like the EU force people to live longer in better conditions
Jails and prisons often fail to protect incarcerated people during natural disasters https://buff.ly/4h5DQHN
Jails and prisons often fail to protect incarcerated people during natural disasters

Prisons and jails are difficult to evacuate when wildfires or storms approach. Many of these facilities lack evacuation plans and may keep incarcerated people on-site instead of moving them to safety.

The Conversation

More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive, Gaza's health ministry says. Almost two million people - 90% of the population - have been displaced, according to the UN.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg57wrgl7o#

#Gaza #Israel #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide

Five Gaza journalists killed in Israeli strike targeting armed group

A Palestinian TV channel says they were in a marked media van in the central Gaza Strip.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

Newsweek