Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Finally. The US has sued Adobe over early termination fees and making subscriptions hard to cancel: The FTC took action after receiving numerous complaints from consumers across the country. https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/the-us-has-sued-adobe-for-early-termination-fees-and-making-subscriptions-hard-to-cancel-165808358.html

Penzeys Spices is a politically-active Milwaukee brand. This is the billboard it put up just outside the Milwaukee airport. Arriving GOP RNC attendees will see this as they make their way to the RNC site. Welcome to #Milwaukee! #VoteBlue

The state of search in 2024:

Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up "

Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"

DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"

Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)

Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"

Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"

Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"

Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]

🚀 New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.9.5 🚀

See the release post on our forums for more details: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-5

Or go right to the server and web release notes:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.9.5
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/releases/tag/v10.9.5

Check out my video essay on how Google RUINED the Internet, out now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/P7NHABs76mg

Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162896/google-ai-overview-hallucinations-glue-in-pizza

"Paste as Mark Twain" is a neat demo of Microsoft's new Advanced Paste AI, but how about using AI to decide when I want to paste as plain text. (Which is 'always.')

The only thing that cures homelessness is housing.

So I mentioned last night that my open-source work on the fediverse (mastodon, pixelfed, etc) was funded for 10-13 hours per month, in my head I had a figure of €1000/month that I was using as the donation income I receive.

I just checked and it's actually closer to €700/month.

Your support for my work is greatly appreciated & helps enable work that quietly affects about a million people.

https://support.thisismissem.social

How Major League Teams Use R to Analyze Baseball Data - video presentation by Keith Woolner, principal data scientist for the Cleveland Guardians, at the Cleveland R User Group
https://youtu.be/1SR9C4td3TI?si=Ic7osZnMgb8vQd44

#RStats #SportsAnalytics @rstats

I wrote about Reddit, Stack Overflow, and how this new more extractive era of the internet has changed the bargain between platforms and users https://www.platformer.news/ai-data-licensing-reddit-stack-overflow-protest-openai/

❇️ Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor USA 🇺🇸 04/2024 - Title:
🔴 "Yet another bath night cut short by
Brian's free-spirited tailbone" 🦕
🟡 "Eine weitere Badenacht, die durch
Brians freies Steißbein
unterbrochen wurde." 🛁
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #Dinosaur #BathNight #PullingThePlug #GoodMorning !☕🥐

As a former director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve been disturbed for some time about what Elon Musk is doing with his private global platform.

Today, I took the step of leaving Twitter, completely.

Why?
Here’s my last tweet:
https://mem.ai/p/e83QTrTPntGEmmZYQUEc

One of the all-time great NYT letters to the editor

From our #memes channel in our forum community <3

What #linux distro are you rocking?!

tidycensus creator Kyle Walker: “I've updated my ‘Mapping Immigrant America’ project, an interactive dot-density map of the US foreign-born population, to the latest 2018-2022 ACS data.

“Explore here: https://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/immigrant-america/#7.88/41.806/-87.548

“Advancements in #rstats, tidycensus, and Mapbox since I first designed the map nearly a decade ago now mean the data pipeline can run in a single morning, so future maps like this are straightforward to make”

Code: https://github.com/walkerke/mb-immigrants

#RSpatial #GIS #USCensus