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RE: mastodon.social/@Moltz/1159910…

BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. #BOYCOTT.

It's convenient to think that boycotts don't work because then we can just keep buying whatever we want. But boycotts often do work. As recently as a few months ago pressure was put on Disney for suspending Jimmy Kimmel. There's a much longer history of successful boycotts. Ever heard of Rosa Parks?

Of course, #Apple is HUGE. Even more reason to stop giving them all the money. No one forces you to buy a new iPhone every other year or subscribe to AppleTV.

John Moltz (@Moltz@mastodon.social)

X and Grok are still on the Apple App Store, the safest and most trusted place to get apps (citation: Apple marketing materials). https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/as-37-us-states-respond-to-grok-csam-problem-apple-really-needs-to-act/
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#apple #boycott
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Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸

If Apple-focused YouTubers and podcasters are actually fed up and as disgusted as they often profess to their audiences, they should step over the line and actually call for a boycott. There's no shortage of reasons at this point. Start naming specific grievances, list them out. Repeat them. And use the word boycott over and over.

Move on from criticism. If ever there was a time for #tech media folk to actually take a stand, 2026 is that time. Passive "reporting" helps #Apple. Do better.

#apple #tech
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Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸

If you're an #Apple user that doesn't like Tim Cook's fascist booklicking and if you've seen enough of Apple's increasingly fucked up conduct, stop giving them your money.

- Stop using Apple subscription services like Music, AppleTV, etc
- Move your data out of iCloud. Start gradually, find other services (YES, they do exist) and gradually downgrade your iCloud plan.
- Stop upgrading hardware. Use what you have until it no longer works. You don't need the latest, greatest new thing.

#BOYCOTT

#apple #boycott
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אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״קיעװער טראַמװײַ״

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Kiever Tramway" #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

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Kiever Tramvay (The Kyiv Tram) - Yiddish-Russian Folk Song

Performed by Yan Tabachnik and his band "Новый День".Please turn on the captions to sing along.Thanks for watching!If you're willing to make a donation, you ...
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#yiddish #yiddishsongoftheday

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Because a LOT of people are missing the point:

No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".

But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.

Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.

So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.

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Gerade Info-Mail bekommen: Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes sucht weitere Teilnehmende für ihre Umfrage zu Diskriminierungserfahrungen. Die Umfrage läuft noch bis 28.02. und ist in verschiedenen Sprachen verfügbar. Vor allem werden noch Jugendliche ab 14 Jahren für die Teilnahme gesucht, da diese Gruppe noch unterrepräsentiert sei.

www.diskriminierung-umfrage.de

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Unihertz Titan Slim

Prodám Unihertz Titan Slim. Škrábanec na displeji - v provozu v podstatě neviditelnej, nehtem jde cítit.

Používanej chviličku, resetnutej, s pouzdrem. Bez kabelu a nabíječky.

Mail: schmaker@schmaker.eu

Cena: 5000 Kč :: #Bazar na #Flohmarkt instanci nechces.cz Prosím odpověz přes přímou/soukromou zprávu.

#unihertz #Plzeň #Titan #telefon

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RE: mstdn.social/@990000/115993630…

How did we end up in the timeline where instead of writing a note on a post-it and sticking it to the door one needs A HUNDRED THOUSAND GPUS WHICH COST A TRILLION DOLLARS AND BURN A TERAWATT OF POWER WHILE GIVING ZERO FUCKS ABOUT COPYRIGHT OR CONSENT?

@990000@mstdn.social

2026-02-01 05:05:34

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Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?
The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

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RE: toad.social/@syferdet/11599296…

So Jeff Bezos bought a movie for Melania.

They spent $40 million making it, and $35 million marketing it, and as expected it earns only $5 million.

But on the bright side, old Jeff gets to support the Trump crime family without people boycotting Amazon and burning down his stores — the way they torched Teslas after Musk got Trump elected — because this new money transfer is a bit more opaque.


Brian M Knoblock 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🦊 (@syferdet@toad.social)

Attached: 1 image @jillL@theblower.au @randahl@mastodon.social It could actually be seen as having overperformed at $2,9 million. Estimates were $1-5 million and this projects to around $5m.
Brian M Knoblock 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🦊 (toad.social)
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