Mutters - "I would have bought a tee shirt but why only black?
Black. BLACK. Like the procession of night that leads us into the valley of despair! BLACK!!!"
(Okay, plus one in petrol green...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAERxf4yYaw

#TeeShirts #black #music #tech #JohnnyNicePainter

Very Dark Almost Black - Johnny Nice Painter, The Fast Show. Remastered [HD]

Funny sketch from the UK TV Series: The Fast Show.Another Johnny Nice Painter Classic.Starring... Charlie Higson and Arabella Weir.Johnny Nice Painter Playli...

^YouTube

“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/

Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine

Google Protest At Tech Conference Over Israel Contracts

Google engineers protested Google at an Israel tech conference in New York before being thrown out by security.

^{Marlon Ettinger (The Daily Dot)}

People can be as upset about this as they want, but so long as they continue to watch #YouTube they continue tacitly supporting their user-hostile actions. If you really want to make a difference, stop watching, and tell content creators why. When you can convince them to move to platforms that don't shove ads down your throat every 3 minutes, THAT is when you'll see #Google change their tune.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/youtube-appears-to-be-reducing-video-and-site-performance-for-ad-block-users/

#tech #technology #enshitification #PeerTube #tilvids

YouTube appears to be reducing video and site performance for ad-block users

Latest consensus is that YouTube performance issues seem to be Adblock Plus' fault.

^{Ars Technica}

A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. Students say it makes the web entirely unusable.

Analysis of more than 117 million censorship records confirms what students and civil rights advocates have long warned: Web filters are preventing kids from finding critical information about their health, identity, and the subjects they’re studying in class.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-americas-school-internet-censorship-machine/

#news #tech #privacy #infosec