Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Canada: We’re gonna tax Facebook for letting news outlets post links on it

Facebook: Ok, but if you charge us for allowing news links in Canada, we’ll stop allowing news links in Canada

Canada: Nuh-uh

Facebook: Done

Canada: Wait no how could you

From @mmasnick @ Techdirt:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/23/as-canada-passes-corrupt-link-tax-meta-says-no-more-news-links-in-canada/

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

Reddit communities on alternative platforms:
https://sub.rehab/

#reddit #subreddits #migration

The problem with fixing something is that when it breaks again it becomes your fault

I just wrote a post about what's new with bird.makeup: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84776665

On Juneteenth, we commemorate the anniversary of the delayed but welcome news of freedom reaching the enslaved Black folks in Galveston, Texas. It’s a reminder that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope — and a reason to keep building a country that lives up to its highest ideals.

"With enough bugs, all eyes are shallow."

24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth

We shouldn't need permission to make "third party apps."

Everything happening with Reddit will happen with GitHub.

#nyc rn:

Fires are still burning in Canada.

New fires – some caused by lightning – raged in Quebec in early June, prompting evacuations and air quality warnings.

@nasa’s Aqua satellite captured this image of smoke from the fires on June 3, 2023. https://go.nasa.gov/3oQEN10

Wildfire season is off to an, um, early start this year:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wildfires-outlook-forecast-1.6865791

#wildfire #wildfires #canada #alberta #novascotia #abfires #climate #climatechange

Hello #Apple #VisionPro
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/introducing-apple-vision-pro/

High school bullies rejoice as years of pinching nipples gives them a competitive edge in the AR future of Apple Vision Pro.