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Meet the new members: A familiar Washington face heads to Capitol Hill
Politico,
Vintage travel guide accidentally becomes masterpiece of tourist horror fiction
Boing Boing,
Is Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France (1937 edition) the most pessimistic phrasebook ever published? What was meant as a practical tool for British tourists instead became an accidental masterpiece of travel anxiety literature, suggesting that a trip to France was less about seeing the Eiffel Tower and more about navigating a gauntlet of pickpockets, stalkers, and blood loss. — Read the rest The post Vintage travel guide accidentally becomes masterpiece of tourist horror fiction appeared first on Boing Boing.
How Is Hollywood Impacted by the L.A. Wildfires?
Vulture,
TV productions including late night are pausing.
Mastodon CEO calls Meta’s moderation changes ‘deeply troubling,’ warns users cross-posting from Threads
TechCrunch,
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature, similar to X’s. The Mastodon founder, whose app competes with X and Meta’s X rival, Instagram Threads, called […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Accused murderer credits "diabolical goblin" in his possession with helping him evade police for so long
Columbian police arrested Kevin Orlando Arias Forero for allegedly murdering two people in April 2024. Forero had been on the wanted list for months. Why did it take authorities so long to nab him? According to Forero, he had the assistance of a "diabolical goblin" in evading the cops. — Read the rest The post Accused murderer credits "diabolical goblin" in his possession with helping him evade police for so long appeared first on Boing Boing.
The EU Fined Itself for Breaking Its Own Data Privacy Law
Gizmodo,
GDPR is complicated. Just ask the coalition that created it.
Celloooo, Two of the School of Rock Kids Got Married
Star pupils Marta and Frankie.
Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search”
mjtsai,
Norbert Heger: Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the user’s device. […] macOS Sequoia introduces another new feature labelled Help Apple Improve Search, which sends and stores various […]