Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....
Woman buying pot from NYC deli maced, dragged by hair, kicked in head by cashier who mistook her for trans (www.nydailynews.com)
A Staten Island woman buying pot from a local deli got into a misunderstanding with the cashier — who ended up macing her, dragging her outside by her hair, kicking her in the head and mistakenly calling her trans.
The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on...
Elektrek: "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night" (electrek.co)
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Aww … poor little ISPs.
YSK if you've seen something traumatic, playing Tetris for a couple of hours afterwards can drastically reduce the chance of it becoming a deeprooted memory and causing PTSD (www.ox.ac.uk)
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New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises (www.reuters.com)
"Teddit is Shutting Down. Lemmy is the New Reddit" (tedd.it)
threads is already going great 💀 (lemmy.world)
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America: Getting ready for another election. Rest of the world: (lemmy.ca)
Executive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documents (fayettevilleflyer.com)
Rating down at 77% (store.steampowered.com)
I must say it is not the best RPG out there, but I feel like it would have earned more. I personally have a lot of fun playing....
Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons (www.404media.co)
Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)
The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.
Dev behind massive Skyrim multiplayer mod turns their hands to Starfield, gives up because "this game is f***ing trash," uploads everything for someone else to finish (www.gamesradar.com)
YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (www.androidauthority.com)
College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down (gizmodo.com)
‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is the gist of college student qualms with dating apps. Hook-up culture declines while young people search for genuine connection.
Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam (www.gamespot.com)
Downtowns are dead, dying or on life support, says expert with over 50 years of researching urban policy (fortune.com)
Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform (variety.com)
I’m not sure if this is technically Technology news, but I can remove this post if it’s in the wrong community...
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)
In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first)....
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)
Sooner or later, everything old is new again....
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
