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The owners of Russia's tech pioneer Yandex are selling — at a big, Kremlin-required discount
  • To Lukoil, of course.

    Not Gazprom, those wankers. Lukoil. Beacon of . . y'know . . freedom or some shit. When the state-managed privately-run petroleum conglomerate buys your country's main search engine, you know it's a bad day.

  • Three migrants drown at US border as Texas blocked their rescue
  • Typically that's called manslaughter

  • Apple, Disney and IBM to pause ads on X after antisemitic Elon Musk tweet
  • IBM, also one of X’s biggest advertisers, announced it would stop advertising on X Thursday. The company made the decision in response to a report by liberal watchdog Media Matters that found both IBM and Apple’s ads running alongside hate speech. Musk called Media Matters an “evil organization” in response.

    Whoever's job it is to keep a dart gun trained on him, you might want to make sure it's loaded. Dude's crackin'.

  • Apple, Disney and IBM to pause ads on X after antisemitic Elon Musk tweet
  • They've admitted it a lot. Where are you getting that disinformation?

    Well trying to find an actual statement is more difficult than I remember, but that could partially be due to Google ongoing enshittification. I did find this in a TIME article about the "IBM and the Holocaust" book from 2001:

    Of course, not everyone agrees with Seltzer's assessment — least of all IBM. Last week, the company released a statement: "If this book points to new and verifiable information that advances understanding of this tragic era, IBM will examine it and ask that appropriate scholars do the same." But company spokespeople insist that Black's allegations are not new, that historians have long been aware that the Nazis used IBM's tabulating machines. And, spokespeople insist, the company is paying for its mistakes: IBM Germany, formerly Dehomag, has already paid into Germany's government-sponsored initiative to compensate citizens forced to work for the Nazis.

    I thought there was a lot more public acknowledgement though, and it's hard to find. So - 50%?

  • Tom Emmer prevails in GOP balloting, becomes speaker-designate
  • "Democrats should bail them out again"

    Nope. Remember the orange rapist they cheered into a gruesome idiotic coup attempt? Yeah and Dems should help them?

    NO. WE'RE CLOSED. Red state idiot bastards. Don't want to get the shit shocked out of you, quit sticking a knife in the socket. No? BZZZT. This is not that difficult.

    They're destroying institutions and defying science. That is their only purpose. They have no other common goals. We should not help them at all.

  • Tom Emmer prevails in GOP balloting, becomes speaker-designate
  • Oh yeah, that's not a problem. They were never serious.

    I mean, arguably in the 50's or something. But since Reagan it's been a screeching clownwreck of disaster up until this very day.

  • Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious.
  • Totally agree that huge social media systems need to be understood as disproportionately affecting misinformation. I don't know anything about Telegram, though.

    Are the pushback people fReEzE PeAChErs or something? Is Telegram just lovely? Dunno.

  • When eating at home, how do you cook your hot dogs?
  • Microwave them for 45 seconds. Or, put it on a minute and cut it off right before the end.

  • Trying kbin after someone replied my toot on my Mastodon account... Guys, do you have any tips for kbin?
  • subreddits are "magazines". Under the username at the top right is a settings icon where you can auto-populate the images and round the corners of boxes :) Other than that it's pretty much what you're already used to, I think.

  • How do I block a domain? In the "Settings" page there's "blocked" and in there is "domain" but it's "Empty" - how do I add a domain to block?

    How do I block a domain? In the "Settings" page there's "blocked" and in there is "domain" but it's "Empty" - how do I add a domain to block?

    \#AskKbin

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    White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
  • Two of these are not being pulverized by a nuclear power at the moment.

  • Right-Wingers Already Have a Wild Conspiracy Theory About Senator Menendez
  • What, is this one of those days that ends in a “-y”?

  • ‘Climate villain’: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and doubt
  • Anyone can be charged with any violation. He’s a billionaire who - specific to this scenario - gained much of his billions by using the press as a cudgel to get the political system to yield to him. He will never be held to account in his lifetime.

    As a side note, it’s more clear every single day that media literacy and critical thinking must be core competencies for everyone. We’ve skated on this for a hundred years and the planet is almost dead.

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    Russian state TV promotes new Tucker Carlson show
  • It’s real enough.

    During the Russia-friendly presidency of Donald Trump, Carlson emerged as a favourite voice on Kremlin-run television, which regularly rebroadcast his comments dismissing allegations that Moscow had intervened in the US presidential election.

    More recently, Carlson has echoed some Kremlin talking points on president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which he has described as “a regime-change war” led by the US against Russia.

    He has also given credence to evidence-free Russian justifications for the invasion, such as claims that the US set up biological weapons research labs in Ukraine. Carlson has also accused the White House of involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline last year.

    Those statements have found a welcome audience on Russian television, which has enthusiastically replayed them on its news programmes and the bellicose political talk shows that fill the country’s airwaves.

  • Dallas Elected a Longtime Democrat as Mayor, but Now He's Defecting to the Republican Party
  • I dunno, I don’t think it’s right to defecate to another party. That’s nasty.

  • Rupert Murdoch, creator of Fox News, stepping down as head of News Corp. and Fox Corp.
  • I mean, the snark is absolutely warranted but for anyone who’s not clear - yeah. That’s the whole idea. Poor people die working cheaply, then the next crop who don’t know shit yet get promoted and continue happily working for cheap. Capitalism is inherently built to fail in just this way. It’s better than some alternatives, i.e. monarchy, but the end stages are just - this - over and over. No healthcare, more guns.

  • Zelenskyy implores world leaders to stick with fight against Russia
  • russia lost on day 4. The rest of this is to see how badly and in what ways. And to save as many Ukrainian lives and civic institutions as possible. Zelenskyy is focused on the latter, lives and infrastructure, as he should be. Slava Ukraini!

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    Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified
  • Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, Trump allegedly told her, "You don't know anything about the boxes."

    It's unclear exactly what he meant by that.

    Well that’s just some quality fuckin’ journalism there, abcnews.

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