newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-pressure-campaign-to-get-pete-hegseth-confirmed-as-defense-secretary
vice.com/en/article/how-pandora-won-its-royalty-battle-but-lost-the-war-to-spotify/
theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343873/sonos-product-officer-maxime-bouvat-merlin-leaving
mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2025/01/47-years-later-the-palisades-disappeared-overnight
Daring Fireball
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workos.com/radar?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=q12025
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WorkOS Radar can block all this and more. A simple API gives you advanced device fingerprinting that can detect bad actors, bots, and suspicious behavior.
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theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342179/sonos-ceo-patrick-spence-resignation-reason-app
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
Jason Koebler, 404 Media:
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as “spam” and deleting them immediately.
Pixelfed is an open-source, community-funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on Activity Pub, which is the same technology that supports Mastodon and other federated services. Pixelfed.social is the largest Pixelfed server, which was launched in 2018 but has gained renewed attention over the last week.
Bluesky user AJ Sadauskas originally posted that links to Pixelfed were being deleted by Meta; 404 Media then also tried to post a link to Pixelfed on Facebook. It was immediately deleted.
True free speech is the freedom to avoid seeing alternatives to Instagram.
LA resident Matthew Butterick, in his MB XS newsletter:
Easy answer — donate money! A good friend of mine works in California disaster relief. He recommends these nonprofits because they have a strong local impact:
The California Community Foundation is seeking donations for its wildfire recovery fund.
The Center for Disaster Philanthropy is seeking donations for its California Wildfires Recovery Fund.
Pasadena Humane is seeking donations for its emergency wildfire relief fund.
Donations of physical items are politely discouraged because they impose extra logistics and handling that relief and shelter organizations can’t support right now.
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