[FRIAM] in other tech news reddit is imploding
I haven't followed all of the drama a fairly biased post from a user: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelSnap/comments/148zdb2/rmarvelsnaps_update_on_the_reddit_blackout_and_a/ The TLDR as best I can tell is reddit had planed a IPO, and before that announced to use reddits API's would cost more. Somewhere along the line a 3rd party reddit app called apollo and reddit were talking business for a contract, and that went south quickly. The upshot being it'd cost a bokamillionsofbucks to pay reddit for user data and api access. So now a bunch of reddit mods turned off access to their subreddits. In the meantime their now over at...lemmy+kbin.social of all places. I guess today the powers that be at reddit might be fixing to turn off the private flag for the subs not hearing it about this apollo thing. What I don't get at all is the amount of drama over one app. Then I haven't used reddit in years. Muchless whatever this apollo thing is. And I'm also beyond lost why reddit wants to go public. On the other hand kbin seems vaguely like some bulletin boards, or forums from back in the day. I keep waiting for a banner add with all of the BY BALLBUSTER 9!!! FOR EXTREM ENERGY header tags to show up on kbin or lemmy.world any guesses who's the bigger dweeb: huffman or musk? -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
[FRIAM] What, me worry?
Four indicted over ‘appalling’ theft of body parts from Harvard Medical School https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/stolen-body-parts-harvard-medical-school There's so much embedded in the culture behind this story. I love how "appalling" is in scare quotes. 8^D Is it appalling? Really? Everyone's SO worried about AI, climate change, long-termist stuff. But, sheesh. It's not even slightly appalling. We have nazis roaming the streets with AR15s, people selling human tissue to boutique curiosity shops, billionaires buying and selling our trigger happy feelings, etc. When I heard that Treat Williams died in a bike crash at 71, I first thought maybe I should quit riding my bike ... Then I thought, "hell yes! that's a great way to die". I need to ride it more, much more, and in dangerous places like switch back forest roads on the sides of mountains. You'd *have* to be a billionaire to want to live forever given this culture. -- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
