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  Sounds like Meta may be building a universal face database. Why do I think this? Well, because a Meta spokesperson has told WIRED, "One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a universal face database.” https://www.wired.com/story/i-felt-super-violated-men-wearing-meta-glasses-on-dates-is-an-instant-red-flag/

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  RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/117032259702743530 Meet the new boss.....

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-URhQZnozS6yKHMrxZ8cBLw%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0 Hahaa! Reform UK snowflake Zia Yusuf reporting Polanski to police: "this is incitement to murder". "One of the images showed a man wearing a T-shirt which said: "We're only making plans for Nigel" alongside a guillotine.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@axios/116968765193162423 "Call us optimists, call us dreamers, call us whatever the hell you want but we're betting on people and we like those odds. The future is for everyone." If it's OK with everyone, I'll continue to call them parasites.

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  RE: https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/116947740614700624 I suppose being mugged by cats might be seen as an emergent benefit.....

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/tech-news-2simc09tz/-/a-N4XhcrczRvaQEgHkimK5Tg%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0 How long would Facebook and Instagram need to be down before the fresh shoots of human intellect are reborn?

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116928681383901455 80 MPs and Lords sounds like a lot, but in reality it's relatively tiny in comparison with the proportion of the electorate that support sanctions. The views of citizens are routinely ignored in Western liberal democracies.

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  @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx41kx8d5o

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  RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116403024808284896 The USA now considers it a national security issue if foreign countries DON'T permit free cross-border data transfers and don't make use of US cloud services for sensitive information. The UK is fully compliant with America's wish to have access to its data, and the UK govt's continued refusal to drop US cloud services and data companies like Palantir and Oracle effectively makes the UK a...

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  RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116408431793509127 "The UK needs to follow the EU’s lead and develop a digital sovereignty strategy that builds and deploys open source software and promotes international collaboration," The sad reality since the US Cloud Act is that the digital sovereignty of European States is entirely dependent on migrating away from US technology companies and cloud platforms. Unfortunately, US foreign policy dictates that soverei...

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@BrentD/116409448438804314 Reasons to dump Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp #475937

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116395691130021471 Once again we see pensioners protesting issues that the working population can't afford to protest for fear of losing their livelihoods. What would be a good word to describe a country where this happens?

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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116374969051473799 " Not a problem with my paper books None of the paper books I own seem to have suffered from a discontinuation of support from their manufacturer, although a few have suffered from loss of support from their spine. Nor do they try and show me adverts, track my location, or feedback to the publisher what other books I have been reading."

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  This looks like the EU is finally offering an alternative suite of office tools to replace US corporate offerings from Google and Microsoft. https://office.eu/