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  • Over three times more people in DC are googling "Criminal Defense Lawyer" than anywhere else in the US!

    02/12/2025 9:36:37 AM PST · by Vendome · 32 replies
    Rasmussen Reports ^ | 2/12/2025 | Mark Mitchell
    Over three times more people in DC are googling "Criminal Defense Lawyer" than anywhere else in the US!
  • Thailand shuts power to Myanmar’s scam hub

    02/06/2025 11:27:52 AM PST · by Steven Scharf · 6 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | 2/6/2025 | South China Morning Post
    Thai authorities have cut off internet, power and fuel along the Thailand and Myanmar border in a bid to thwart the operation of scam centres there. The move on February 5, 2025, came amid growing pressure for Thailand to do more to help clamp down on the illegal compounds that have ensnared vast numbers of people from many jurisdictions. The Thai Provincial Electricity Authority disconnected power supplies at five points along the northern border, including Myawaddy in Myanmar’s Shan state. The high-profile rescue of a Chinese actor from a scam operation near the Thai border in January has put the...
  • FDA DROPS $517K ON POLITICO SUBSCRIPTIONS?!

    02/05/2025 8:27:35 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 28 replies
    X ^ | 02/05/25 | Mario Nawfal
    Government waste at its finest—37 FDA employees got Politico Pro subscriptions costing taxpayers over half a million dollars! Why is the Food & Drug Administration spending big pharma money on political news? Someone at HHS is living large on your dime. Source: USA Spending
  • Intel's Former CEO Says the Market Is Getting DeepSeek Wrong After AI Chip Stock Rout

    01/27/2025 11:19:26 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    Gelsinger took to X on Monday to suggest that the market's assumptions were wrong. He said that instead of reducing demand, making computing "dramatically cheaper" and more efficient to use — as DeepSeek appears to have done — "will expand the market for it." The former Intel boss, who retired from the company in December after struggling to capitalize on the AI boom, also suggested that the Chinese engineers at DeepSeek "had limited resources, and they had to find creative solutions" to squeeze performance out of their models. The AI industry has insisted that models become smarter when powered with...
  • Anyone a digital marketer here?

    01/25/2025 4:37:10 AM PST · by TermLimits4All · 14 replies
    1/25/2025 | Myself
    I have a small business in the construction field. I’d like to increase my online presence and do some digital marketing to garner more sales.
  • Google allows advertisers to fingerprint you for even better tracking

    01/23/2025 5:04:38 PM PST · by Openurmind · 25 replies
    ghacks.net ^ | Jan 13, 2025 | Martin Brinkmann
    Google has announced a change to its advertising policies that will allow advertisers to use digital fingerprinting starting February 16, 2025. Why it is important: digital fingerprinting uses signals, like the IP address, location, language, used software, or operating system, to identify devices and users on the Internet. Numerous digital fingerprinting techniques exist, some even capable of cross-browser fingerprinting.
  • Spanish-Language White House Website Abruptly Shuts Off

    01/21/2025 8:52:21 AM PST · by hardspunned · 53 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 1/21/25 | Newsweek
    The Spanish-language page on the White House's website is seemingly down, only one day after President Donald Trump entered office.
  • Kevin O'Leary warns TikTok's fate could be determined by 'secret golden share' granting Beijing 'veto' power

    01/20/2025 6:36:57 PM PST · by linMcHlp · 17 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 01/20/2025 | Taylor Penley (Fox Business)
    "There is something called a secret golden share that every Chinese company has to issue to the CCP leadership. That's Xi [Jinping] himself, and it turns out that ByteDance can't negotiate anything unless he's made a decision," the O'Leary Ventures Chairman told "Mornings with Maria" guest host Cheryl Casone. "The secret share is a veto power over all other shareholders," he explained. "They do not have any rights once the secret share has been issued, so now we're dealing with what to do with the secret share, because until she decides what's going to happen, it doesn't matter what shareholders...
  • Trump signs promised executive action to delay TikTok ban for 75 days

    01/20/2025 6:20:29 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 34 replies
    CNN ^ | Mon January 20, 2025 | Clare Duffy and David Goldman
    As he promised Sunday, President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive action that delays enforcement of the TikTok ban for 75 days. The action directs the US Justice Department not to enforce the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which passed with broad bipartisan support in Congress and was signed in April by former President Joe Biden. The law required that starting January 19, TikTok be banned in the United States unless it sells to a buyer from America or one of its allies. The law gives the president broad discretion on how to enforce the ban. Trump’s promise in...
  • Leftist Echo Chamber Bluesky Is Plagued by Bots as Trump Takes Office

    01/20/2025 10:26:18 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 17 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/20/2025 | Lucas Nolan
    Bluesky, the social media platform that became a leftist echo chamber after the election of Donald Trump, is grappling with an influx of bots and impersonation accounts as Trump takes office. Inc. reports that as Bluesky continues to gain traction among leftists seeking an alternative to platforms like X and Threads, the company is grappling with a growing bot problem. The influx of spam accounts and impersonators is a byproduct of the platform’s success, but it’s leaving many users frustrated and concerned about the future of their social media experience.
  • TikTok users in Canada say app down for them too as US ban kicks in

    01/18/2025 10:05:15 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 22 replies
    The Mirror ^ | Jan. 18, 2025 | Jeremiah Hassel
    Canadian TikTok users are claiming the app is also down for them as the U.S. ban takes effect, with dozens of annoyed Canadian users flocking to X to vent their frustrations. On Saturday night, the popular social media app was removed from American app stores, with access blocked for American users as a warning message reading, "A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now," with two options at the bottom prompting users to "Learn more" or "Close app." The message also shouted out President-elect Donald Trump, with developers writing,...
  • Freedom Center Targets Pro-Terror Professors on Social Media

    01/18/2025 4:21:06 AM PST · by george76 · 13 replies
    Frontpage mag ^ | January 17, 2025 | Sara Dogan
    Exposing the “Hamas Loyalists” who are teaching terror on our campuses.. A paid social media ad campaign launched this week by the David Horowitz Freedom Center is targeting pro-terror “Hamas Loyalist” professors at ten prestigious American universities who choose to promote the ideology of the genocidal terrorist cult, often in direct violation of university policy. The professors targeted in the campaign not only defend Hamas’s brutality—the slaughter of over a thousand Jews, the rape and mutilation of women, the beheading of children—but outright celebrate it as a form of liberation that should be emulated across the globe. Consider San Francisco...
  • Xfinity Internet Reviews

    01/18/2025 11:05:47 AM PST · by fireman15 · 27 replies
    Consumer Affairs ^ | 01/15/2025 | 3553 reviewers
    Linda Naples, FL Verified purchase Customer Service Reviewed Jan. 13, 2025 I have been a comcast/Xfinity customer for 35 years. The customer service was not good before, but now it is outrageous. I have spent hours the last two days trying to get answers. 3 Hours yesterday. I was told it was fixed. Today I get a warning my service is going to be canceled for the same reason. Late payment. Today another 2 hours with me yelling at AI. Then another 30 minutes on the chat. Nothing. AI says the same thing over and over again with no selection...
  • AT&T Is Stopping Its 5G Internet Air Service in NY Because of New Broadband Law

    01/16/2025 8:11:07 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    cnet ^ | 01/15/2025 | Eli Blumenthal
    A new broadband law is going into effect this week in New York state requiring internet provider to offer low-income residents access to monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps. As a response, AT&T has decided that it no longer plans to offer its 5G home internet in the Empire State and will begin notifying users about the decision on Wednesday. "While we are committed to providing reliable and affordable internet service to customers across the country, New York's broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand...
  • Meta’s Abolition of DEI May Be a Turning Point

    01/15/2025 4:45:54 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 20 replies
    City Journal ^ | 13 Jan, 2025 | Christopher F. Rufo
    Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement could encourage others to stop pretending they believe in the cultish ideology of “systemic racism” and race-based guilt. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, formerly Facebook, made a stunning announcement. He was abolishing the company’s DEI programs and discontinuing its relationship with fact-checking organizations, which he admitted had become a form of “censorship.” The left-wing media immediately attacked the decision, accused him of embracing the MAGA agenda, and predicted a dangerous rise in so-called disinformation. Zuckerberg’s move was carefully calculated and impeccably timed. The November elections, he said, felt like “a cultural tipping point towards...
  • Imgur.com deleted this video clip of a jet starting and stopping a contrail. Why?

    01/14/2025 6:27:00 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 159 replies
    Imgur.com ^ | January 14, 2025 | E. Pluribus Unum
    I use my FR homepage as a scrapbook for things I find interesting online and might want to link to someday. I stumbled across this gif a couple of weeks ago (I do not remember where) and uploaded it to Imgur.com and posted it on my homepage. Yesterday I went looking for it on my homepage and discovered Imgur.com had deleted it. Contrails are one of those things we are assured are a conspiracy theory and that contrails are always present from jets. This gif shows that they can turn off the contrails at will and that they spray in...
  • We Were Censored By Meta; We’re Taking Them to the Supreme Court

    01/12/2025 1:43:29 AM PST · by CFW · 12 replies
    Real Clear Wire ^ | 1/10/25 | Mary Holland
    The headline from Politico’s “Playbook” would have been unthinkable eight years ago: “Meta sends Trump a friend request.” After all, Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is a political lightning rod in conservative political circles, especially after the $300 million worth of “Zuckerbucks” spent during the 2020 election to elect like-minded politicians. Yet lately, Zuckerberg has been singing a much different tune. He referred to President-elect Trump as “badass,” visited him at Mar-a-Lago, and donated one million dollars to his inaugural fund. This week, Meta made news by adding Dana White, a longtime Trump ally and head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  • Newsom launches webpage he says is to combat bad info spreading about wildfires

    01/11/2025 6:36:42 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 75 replies
    NBC Los Angeles ^ | Jan 11, 2025 | NBC Staff
    Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday launched a page on his campaign website he says is to combat "misinformation and disinformation" being spread online and by political leaders regarding the ongoing wildfires in Southern California. He says the site will "continue to update and provide valuable, fact-based information to the public around policies, budget allocations, personnel on the ground and more.." The webpage is notably located on Newsom's campaign website funded by Newsom for California, and not on an official government site. “There is an astonishing amount of mis- and dis-information being spread online -- much of it by so-called leaders...
  • The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship

    01/11/2025 8:42:29 AM PST · by FlyingEagle · 31 replies
    Brownstone Institute ^ | JANUARY 7, 2025 | BY Josh Stylman, Jeffrey A Tucker
    History will remember this era as the moment when America’s most sacred principles collided with unprecedented institutional power – and lost. The systematic dismantling of fundamental rights didn’t happen through military force or executive decree, but through the quiet cooperation of tech platforms, media gatekeepers, and government agencies, all claiming to protect us from “misinformation.” Meta’s sudden dismantling of its fact-checking program – announced by Zuckerberg as a “cultural tipping point towards prioritizing speech” – reads like a quiet footnote to what history may record as one of the most staggering violations of fundamental rights in recent memory. After eight...
  • EU regulators take a hard look at Elon Musk and X

    01/10/2025 3:22:19 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 43 replies
    DW ^ | January 10, 2025 | Anchal Vohra
    Under the Digital Services Act, Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, could face heavy penalties should investigators for the European Union find that he manipulated the site's algorithm in order to influence voters. The DSA was adopted in 2022 to prevent disinformation and other illegal activities online. In July, the European Union found that X had violated multiple tenets of the DSA by not providing access to data to researchers, failure to complay with advertising-transparency requirements, and selling access to its "blue check" verification system in a way that allowed fraudsters to impersonate celebrities and public officials. On...