Polemicintent

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Meta wants you to keep Facebook Link History on, here’s why you shouldn’t:

“Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords.”

https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018

Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

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If you look into the history of Tesla and SpaceX you'll realize Musk would have gone broke years ago without government money.

I've never met a libertarian who didn't decry government subsidies as socialism, encouraging freeloaders, and feeding the nanny State. But take away their own subsidies and they scream bloody murder like a baby pulled from its mother's teat.

https://boingboing.net/2023/12/14/spacex-loses-900m-starlink-subsidy.html

SpaceX loses $900m Starlink subsidy | Boing Boing

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by SpaceX, will not receive a hoped-for $900M subsidy that was already on the chopping block. It failed to deliver promised speeds to users, and fo…

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"They used to throw women in the water to see if they were witches. If they drowned, they were innocent. Now they're saying the only #abortion exception is if the woman's life is at risk. If she dies, she was at risk.

You can see the recurring flaw in the methodology."

h/t @gfarrell
source: https://mastodon.social/@gfarrell@mastodon.world/111573387801867541

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You can watch the whole fiasco via this link. As my colleague noted, people who like Musk, like Trump, will eat this up. But Musk is running a business, not for political office. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/29/business/dealbook-summit-news
Elon Musk, Kamala Harris and More to Speak at DealBook Summit: Live Updates

Kamala Harris; the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog; President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan and Elon Musk headline the 2023 DealBook Summit. Follow along and watch select interviews.

The New York Times
“Pinochet’s torture chambers were the maternity ward of neoliberalism, a baby delivered bloody and screaming by Henry Kissinger.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

Rolling Stone
Board of OpenAI fires Sam Altman and replaces him with a very small shell script