A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland went to court Wednesday to block Iowa’s six-week ban, a product of a one-day special session marathon on Tuesday Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) had called for the sole purpose of passing abortion restrictions.
The electric car bill, SB 284, sponsored by Sen. Jason Brodeur, R-Lake Mary, would have required all state and local governments, colleges and universities to buy vehicles based on their lowest lif…
Better title is Republicans are working to kill democracy by using corrupt right wing Supreme Court.
I agree Biden should pack the court to get average citizens to respect the Supreme Court again. Because the rulings the current court are making are not what the majority of us want.
Don't vote for Republicans, they don't care about our democracy.
A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said can refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples pointed during her lawsuit to a request from a man named “Stewart” and his husband-to-be.
On July 2, Florida’s new permitless carry law went into effect, continuing a disturbing trend across the country. Florida’s law marks the 26th state with permitless carry laws on the books as America is quickly becoming a nation of mass shootings. That is, over half of the country has now embraced permitless carry laws even...
Article- Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised the possibility that Congress should consider subpoenaing Chief Justice John Roberts if he stands by his refusal to testify about ethical questions hanging over the high court....
Repulicans are not playing fair. They stole an Obama pick, then laughed about it.
Packing the courts would undo this corrupt court. Many are already bought and say they are their own enforcement on the rules they make.
Young people doen't deserve to live in a Christian Nation and the courts are planning to do this, with replublicans help.
Actor Michael Imperioli has something to say about the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in favor of a Christian web designer who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings.
The first amendment is the thing you're missing with all of this. People can discriminate against gay people. But only if it takes away their first amendment. The courts ruled that art should not be forced. So they don't have to serve gay people. But if someone is selling a car, that has nothing to do with art.
It’s honestly really sad what’s been happening recently. Reddit with the API pricing on 3rd party apps, Discord with the new username change, Twitter with the rate limits, and Twitch with their new advertising rules (although that has been reverted because of backlash). Why does it seem like every company is collectively on...
The way a lot of dot-com startups work, they have high fixed costs -- stuff you pay no matter how many users you have, like programmers -- and low marginal costs, stuff you pay based on how many users you have.
That means that it's good to be big, because you can spread those fixed costs over many, many users. One programmer writing software used by five hundred million users can make a lot more money than software used by five users. The resulting effect is called economy of scale.
So the typical model is to take in a lot of investor money, operate at a loss, and lose money while offering a very compelling service to grow the userbase as quickly as possible.
Once you're big enough, you can spread your costs around many users, so it's easier to make money. You switch from growing your userbase to making money from it. Because you aren't trying as hard as possible to draw in new users, the service is probably gonna get worse from a user standpoint.
If money becomes tight, then it's harder to get investor dollars to operate at a loss with to grow userbase.
My understanding is that due to elevated interest rates in the post-COVID-19 situation, it's more-costly to get investment money. So that will tend to push companies from the "growth" phase to the "monetization" phase.
That affects a bunch of companies, including Reddit.
Twitter's rate limiting has been reported as perhaps being a failure to pay bills or otherwise properly manage their servers, and not some specific policy change. So that particular example might not be what you were focusing on or what you meant to focus on. Obviously Twitter made many other decisions, and the recent big one is cutting off access to tweets for people who are not logged in.
As for Reddit, the price of the API is not the point. Rather, the price is so high that nobody's going to use the API, and that's the point. But they want to pretend that it's still possible to be used. And we know this is true because if the API really has such high value, then presumably some of the popular clients out there would have been worth it for Reddit to purchase, and the purchase price would presumably have some correlation to API usage.
On a more general level, though, I think what you're talking about is the process known as "enshittification". It's possible for social media companies to avoid this end result, but it requires great care especially in the early stages.
The internet used to be more decentralised. There were lots of smaller websites, blogs, forums etc, which people discovered via word of mouth, search engines, and forgotten things like webrings. It's only recently that big monolithic social media platforms took hold.
Tech is often cyclical, we could now be swinging back to a more decentralised web, but with the benefit of newer technologies. Right now it's almost a new "wild west" as new platforms appear and new ideas like federation are experimented with. Some will rise, some will fall, some will go off in the corner and do their own thing. While all that happens it's going to be a bit messy, much like it was in the 90s with the initial rise of the web.
Colorado artist Lorie Smith said she had received a request to create designs for a same-sex wedding. The man named in the request said he never asked for that.
The Christian web designer who says she was harmed by a gay couple asking her to do a webpage for their wedding was LYING. This Christian took a case to the Supreme Court claiming she was harmed by the gays but she was LYING. And the Christians on the court ruled to cause harm to the LGBTQ community by allowing their bigotry to be legal.
I agree but with slight differences, I don’t think it’s only about power but more on the first thing, they have built communities for over a decade, to just leave is extremely difficult when you have poured this much work and time into the thing, it might be like an abusive relationship but they still love the places they’ve built.
That being said, some of mods have left big subs, but it’s kind of difficult to get everyone on board.
Lastly I do think this is impactful, it literally strips one of the most “prestigious” and well recognized sub of all the functions that made it special, only doing the bare minimum to keep it alive
Reddit has started assigning power mods to subs they took over. ( imgur.com )
Not much else needs to be said tbh. Fuck Spez....
A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve ( capitalbnews.org )
For three years, Patrick Braxton says he has experienced harassment and intimidation after becoming the first Black mayor in Newbern, Alabama....
Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming ( apnews.com )
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
Planned Parenthood Immediately Takes Iowa’s New Six-Week Abortion Ban To Court ( talkingpointsmemo.com )
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland went to court Wednesday to block Iowa’s six-week ban, a product of a one-day special session marathon on Tuesday Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) had called for the sole purpose of passing abortion restrictions.
PANIC: Florida takes huge economic hit as conventions reject anti-woke agenda ( washingtonpress.com )
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scared off millions of dollars worth of business from his state with his extremist, bigoted agenda.
Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit ( arstechnica.com )
DeSantis’ veto of electric cars bill cost taxpayers $277 million, critics say ( www.orlandosentinel.com )
The electric car bill, SB 284, sponsored by Sen. Jason Brodeur, R-Lake Mary, would have required all state and local governments, colleges and universities to buy vehicles based on their lowest lif…
Teen dies in sawmill accident as US states aim to roll back child labor laws ( www.theguardian.com )
Investigation underway after police were called to find unresponsive teenager last week at Florence Hardwoods sawmill
Reddit braces for life after API changes ( techcrunch.com )
Reddit and its communities are preparing for a life after the platform's API changes forced popular third-party apps to shut down.
Biden Won't Pack the Supreme Court, and It's Killing Democracy ( www.newsweek.com )
Well, it was another banner week from the six unelected zealots who apparently make all of America's public policy decisions.
Legitimacy of 'customer' in Supreme Court gay rights case raises ethical and legal flags ( apnews.com )
A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said can refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples pointed during her lawsuit to a request from a man named “Stewart” and his husband-to-be.
Florida Becomes Latest State To Allow Permit-less Gun Carry ( www.blackenterprise.com )
On July 2, Florida’s new permitless carry law went into effect, continuing a disturbing trend across the country. Florida’s law marks the 26th state with permitless carry laws on the books as America is quickly becoming a nation of mass shootings. That is, over half of the country has now embraced permitless carry laws even...
AOC urges Congress to consider 'subpoenas' if Chief Justice Roberts won't testify about SCOTUS gift scandal ( www.businessinsider.com )
Article- Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised the possibility that Congress should consider subpoenaing Chief Justice John Roberts if he stands by his refusal to testify about ethical questions hanging over the high court....
Fraud justice: Decision based on a fake case showcases the Supreme Court's illegitimacy ( www.salon.com )
Far-right lawyers created a phony "victim" in made-up case — and the justice with the stolen seat wrote the opinion
Christian Selig (@[email protected]): Apollo udpated icon akin to how Tweetbot did.... ( indieweb.social )
Attached: 1 image Updated Apollo to give it that Tweetbot treatment 🤝
Michael Imperioli forbids 'bigots and homophobes' from watching his work following Supreme Court ruling ( www.cnn.com )
Actor Michael Imperioli has something to say about the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in favor of a Christian web designer who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings.
NEW: Update & Clarification on Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points on kbin ( kbin.social )
Ernest just posted some comments clarifying recent changes to Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points....
What’s with social media companies trying to destroy themselves recently? ( kbin.social )
It’s honestly really sad what’s been happening recently. Reddit with the API pricing on 3rd party apps, Discord with the new username change, Twitter with the rate limits, and Twitch with their new advertising rules (although that has been reverted because of backlash). Why does it seem like every company is collectively on...
Man cited in Supreme Court LGBTQ rights case says he was never involved ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Colorado artist Lorie Smith said she had received a request to create designs for a same-sex wedding. The man named in the request said he never asked for that.
They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub - r/Blind ( libreddit.domain.glass )
So IAMA is practically dead... ( www.reddit.com )
For those that dont want to look at the link:...