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"Russia says it has blocked WhatsApp amid wider clampdown on social media"
Bit rich for the US to pretend like they didnt just ban Tiktok and then force them to sell their US company to interests in US/Israel intelligence apparatus
"WhatsApp described it as effort to 'drive people to a state-owned surveillance app'"
As opposed to Metas's WhatsApp? A private-owned survellience app?
Pretending that spying is okay when corporations do it, would be comical if it wasn't their actual position
"Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, last summer considered buying rocket company Stoke Space to put data centers in orbit, according to the Wall Street Journal"
Seriously, these companies should have lost value when their leaders and spokespeople say something this fucking stupid. Its without question the most embarrassing time to be alive
"SpaceX is hiring to turn Elon Musk's plan for data centers in space a reality"
The fact that statements like this don't immediately crash the stock value of his companies proves that the market is both irrational and a terrible way to organize an economy
The only way this could possibly sound like a good idea is you know next to nothing about science
"Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail" - BBC
What is a pro-democracy tycoon?
And isn't it a bit rich for the UK to be jailing people for saying they support Palestine while pretending they care about press freedom?
At some point, you have to reconcile what that means when you take both positions
An important article, and a writer worth signing up to read
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
(www.erininthemorning.com)
