Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Why There's No Such Thing as a Good #Billionaire 🙅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I

Good morning everyone happy terrific Tuesday. I love you all. Owwwwww yip yip

Seattle Public Schools have filed a new lawsuit against #socialmedia giants including Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram alleging they’ve “successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth” for profit, with psychological tactics that have led to a #MentalHealth crisis in schools.

We reported on how social media contributes to depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues in young people. And how use of it can have lasting ramifications for teen girls and boys. https://www.damemagazine.com/2021/10/06/why-social-media-is-a-special-kind-of-hell-for-teen-girls/

i'd like to announce the official grand opening of... vantaMOO!!! 🎉

WHAT THE FUCK IS A MOO? it's a multiplayer text adventure -- think zork with other people, but with more focus on socializing and creating and less on killing monsters or whatever (MOO = MUD Object Oriented)

if you're chill i can give you permissions so you can make cool rooms and objects and such and help the place grow!

you can connect as a guest too btw

it's here https://moo.vantaa.black/

#vantaMOO #mush #muck #mud #moo

Brooklyn Public Library continues to offer “free library cards to teens and young adults across the United States who live in communities impacted by book bans” as part of the Books Unbanned program. This enables “them to access the library’s collection of more than 500,000 ebooks, e-audiobooks, digital magazines, and more.”

https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/brooklyns-books-unbanned-continues-to-grow

#BannedBooks

It's itching me to buy this, just to see if it will respond with an http code 418 as is should!
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Me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards?

Librarian: stop talking

'the change' in this case is removing norefer from outgoing links, which is deeply destructive to privacy, but which exactly 2 journalists have been asking for so they could get analytics from posting links to their blogs or whatever on mastodon; but i predict i will be boosting this post a lot

substack feels like “what if your blog was as annoying to read as a paywalled news website”

What you see on this photo is not from the Empire Strikes Back.

No, it is German police protecting a coal mine excavator in #Lützerath - a village planned to be demolished by the energy company RWE to extract coal that is not even needed for the energy security of Germany.

#Klimaschande
#EndCoal #EndFossilFuels #LütziBleibt

Picture: @mariusmichusch

PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!

the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with

Attention members of the Calyx Institute! Do you want an extra month of your unlimited and unthrottled #mobile internet for free? Refer someone today and you both get an extra month of #wifi membership benefits! http://members.calyxinstitute.org/referrals. #data #digital