The Markup team brought us this thoroughly-reported story on tax preparers using the Meta Pixel to quietly send users’ sensitive financial information to Facebook, which we’ve co-published this morning. If you prepare your taxes online, you’ll want to take a look.
Bad news for Ron DeSantis means good news for a First Amendment that is under siege. Chief US District Judge Mark Walker issued a withering takedown of DeSantis’ “Stop W.O.K.E. Act”, calling it “positively dystopian”, and a “cornerstone of its own Ministry of Truth.”
[The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression]
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced yesterday that his office is opening an investigation into the company after the disastrous Taylor Swift launch. Good job, Swifties.
The FTX apocalypse has only begun, but it’s already producing great art. The latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek is aces. To catch up on the meaning, check out this report from our own Liz Lopatto.
I have to hand it to Elon: he just invented one of the most sinister buttons we’ve ever heard of. Twitter employees have just hours to click a button before they are fired. So hardcore.
Want to stick it to Elon Musk, who is already tweeting conspiracy theories just a few days into his tenure as Twitter overlord? Here’s my plan: for the rest of Twitter’s days, tweet nothing but this picture of a cat in a cowboy hat.
As expected, the paperwork to delist Twitter from the New York Stock Exchange has been filed. The bird may be free from public shareholder pressure but it now lives in a cage of private equity.
I’ve quit Twitter a couple times. I’ve also quit other social networks to better effect (see: Facebook). And while I think it’s totally legit to quit because you don’t want to enrich an uncouth billionaire, my suggestion is to quit apps for your own personal health and safety. Don’t do it to spite someone — do it to make your own life better. You can’t ruin a billionaire’s day, but you can improve your own.
If you thought “No Russian” was as unhinged as Call of Duty could get, get a load of this clip. It’s as pure as the Law of the Instrument can get: if all you have is a gun, everything (including “de-escalation”) can be solved with a gun. Press F to pay respects to this franchise.
