This app sounds exceedingly useful to me.

Not sure if he pushed the original measure but he was definitely instrumental in the compromise they attempted to insert into it.

That vote tally, though.

Interesting.

I’d honestly never heard about that detail before. I’ll have to read more about him.

Seeing as how there are always designated no votes in the Democratic Party at the Federal level, and you’ve seen this since the 90’s, I don’t think the TBI is the reason why he’s voting conservative. He’s getting personally enriched, just like all the other rotating villains.

Instead, you got brain-dead Mehmet Oz.

Quite the trade.

This is the way. There’s always gotta be a Feinstein, or a Manchin, or a Sinema. Otherwise how will the rubes ever swallow all of the Democrats’ excuses?

I remember when people were so excited to elect this guy. Hate to say I told you so, but I predicted he would be the second coming of Sinema.

Yup. Seems that way.

Totally, and the deal’s going to happen in two weeks. Definitely two weeks.

it becomes a form of censorship when snall websites and forums shut down because they don’t have the capacity to comply.

In this scenario that’s not a consideration.

We’re talking about algorithmically-driven content, which wouldn’t apply to Lemmy, Mastodon, or many mom-and-pop sized pages and forums. Those have human moderation anyway, which the big sites don’t. If you’re making editorial decisions by weighting algorithmically-driven content, it’s not censorship to hold you accountable for the consequences of your editorial decisions. (Just as we would any major media outlet.)

You’re not wrong. There are lots of holier-than-thou types around here.

Same, took some legwork to get files for my 700-song library, but we did it. Fuck 'em.

It is possible to get off Spotify.

What you can’t buy legitimately via other means you can use a Youtube-To-MP3 converter to rip and add the file to your music library.

It’s not censorship to hold people accountable for making editorial decisions on media platforms, and as long as FB, Twitter, and others are weighting different kinds of content in their algorithms (which they are), they should be held accountable financially and legally for the consequences.

It’s almost certainly programmed to find damage that doesn’t exist and price gouge you for it, but they haven’t found that sweet spot yet, where you can get people to pay more without putting up a fight.

Same Ada.

I’d rather see nothing than the slop the algorithm keeps plastering across my screen. (Though I do like the topic buttons at the top.)

Hell, if the paps can get Diana killed without any real consequences, one imagines they can make Rowling’s life uncomfortable.

Also a good time to remember that there are no good billionaires.

I like it.