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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 10h

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"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 1d

Finnish 🇫🇮 SUPO security officer Veikko Palko, works decades fighting against russia. Retires, wins 61 million EUR with lottery. Uses money to fight russia

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HS tutki | Eläkeläinen sai 61 miljoonan euron lottovoiton ja pyöritti sen avulla tiedustelua Supon hyväksi

Suposta eläköityneen etsivän toiminta liittyy poikkeukselliseen rikostutkintaan, jossa on epäiltynä myös viraston entinen päällikkö Antti Pelttari.

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 11h

Englændere har virkelig kunnet mærke den enshittification, der følger af privat ejerskab. Især hvad angår (urenset kloak)vand weownit.org.uk

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 11h

Også en god kommentar www.version2.dk/holdning/ens...

Enshitifikation af .DK | Version2

Jeg gætter på at mange af mine læsere har egne .dk domæner og jeg ved fra min inbox at nogle af jer allerede har modtaget en email fra DK-Hostmaster med varsel om væsentlig ringere service fremover.Ti...

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 12h

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Fortunate Sons: How Trump Admin Children Are Earning Billions

Trump's inner circle's families built a new $3B empire through crypto deals and foreign investments while their parents shape U.S. policy.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13h

MAGA

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15h

The mystery of how russia managed to lose its ultra-expensive electronic warfare toy has been solved. Finally.

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 12h

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 12h

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Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 12h

So much for "defending Christianity": Russian forces dropped a FAB-250 guided bomb on the Church of St. Job of Pochaiv in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region. Two civilians were killed.. A toddler was evacuated after losing his mother to a strike last week; his father and grandfather are now wounded.

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 12h

Jeg smager også boble. De her har vel ikke engang break-even og har utallige open source konkurrenter www.reuters.com/technology/o...

OpenAI hits $500 billion valuation after share sale to SoftBank, others, source says

This follows a deal in which current and former employees sold roughly $6.6 billion worth of shares, a source told Reuters.

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 12h

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Fortunate Sons: How Trump Admin Children Are Earning Billions

Trump's inner circle's families built a new $3B empire through crypto deals and foreign investments while their parents shape U.S. policy.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 23h

Svinebundet til forhandlere er en *meget* dårlig løsning. De kan rammes af meget og gå meget langsomt konkurs. Det her er et ønske fra anti-resiliens-fløjen.
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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 23h

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Hvis USA vil spionere mod Grønland, skal de bare kigge i egne datacentre | Version2

Grønlandske myndigheders mail-kommunikation ligger i amerikanske datacentre. Det skaber bekymring hos flere, der frygter, at Donald Trump vil bruge sin magt til at få indsigt i kritiske oplysninger fr...

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 1d

Jeg kan huske for to år siden, da vi havde nogle domæner, der lå hos en forhandler, der gik ned
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Det var ikke sjovt. Og nu bliver man svinebundet til forhandlere. Idioti+grådighed = fremtid.

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langbach.bsky.social @langbach.bsky.social · 1d

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Hvor går man hen når .dk bliver noget lort?

Enshitifikation af .DK | Version2

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Steven Snedker @stevensnedker.bsky.social · 1d

DR serverer:

BlacKkKlansman
Speak No Evil
No Exit
Smuk
Nattevagten
Fighting with My Family
Krigens døgn: Rusland har indledt 'Fase 0'
Rocking Silver
Frit fald
Largo Winch
The Invisible Man
The Thing

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

The Substance to The Woman in Cabin 10: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Demi Moore stars in a stunning satire about the tyranny of female beauty standards, while Keira Knightley is a journalist travelling on a luxury yacht when she witnesses someone get tossed overboard

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 1d

Now we're seeing confirmation of the NSO acquisition.

Mark my words, this is the path through which Pegasus gets put on Americans iPhones & Androids.

This dictatorship-in-a-box belongs nowhere near our constitutional rights.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018