if you don’t bully trans kids then their lives improve, study finds
Trans students perform better with supportive teachers, study finds thepinknews.com/2026/08/19/t…
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Scrolled down and DONKEY AND HER WIFE SPLIT UP????
Everything we know so far about #Shrek5 (based on the test screening info):
• Shrek, Donkey, Fiona and their two sons go to Further, Further Away to rescue Felicia
• Shrek's parents are in it
• Felicia befriends Little Red Riding Hood, who has evil intentions with Felicia
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🚨🇩🇪 Mercedes FREEZES all new investments in Germany – plant closures loom.
The automotive giant is pulling the plug on its home base.
Germany's industrial COLLAPSE is ACCELERATING!
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If AI is writing 30% of Microsoft's code, expect a lot more outages like this.
AI is inherently unreliable and should never be used for mission critical services.
🦔Microsoft Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and Copilot went down across the Americas this afternoon, with more than 130,000 Outlook problem reports at the peak. Microsoft says its own automated health checks failed and knocked a big batch of servers offline.
My Take
Satya Nadella says AI writes up to 30% of the code in some Microsoft projects, and last month Microsoft offered buyouts to as many as 60,000 people. I’d like to know how many of the people who understood those health checks took the buyout. Microsoft won’t lose many customers either way, since moving a company off Outlook and Teams takes a year and a pile of consultants. That lock-in is why it can cut staff and raise prices in the same year, then have its fourth big outage this year and still collect every renewal.
Hedgie🤗
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Take the UK's anti-porn moral panic, double it and you get Australia
Australia’s "eSafety" Commissioner calls fears of over-censorship “a stretch.” She is also the official who would write the guidance under the Digital Duty of Care bill. The bill doesn’t define harmful content, but it does carry fines of up to A$109 million.
TikTok told the same committee that platforms would over-moderate to avoid those penalties.
She wants her rules binding and stronger than the industry’s, and told senators “We do want to have our cake and eat it too.”
reclaimthenet.org/australia-…
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Hey everyone! Just getting these back out there as these were once posted before but then deleted. here are the full PDFS for the entire "Character" and "Figure" sections of the HiT Asset Library! Huge thanks to @SillyFunniMinty for sharing these! Enjoy! drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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Meta’s AI age scanner is going global on Instagram, with Facebook and Threads next. If it decides you look underage, you prove otherwise with ID or a face scan. Billions of people now face a digital ID checkpoint, and no government had to pass a law.
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🔴 JAPAN: Outage forces a revert to fax machines, Financial markets see major disruptions and delays in mutual fund valuations. — Nikkei.
Nov. 13th, 2026.
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The largest theft of labor in human history continues.
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The Digital Fairness Act could impact SEO!
publishers monetizing through sponsored articles + link insertions will have to disclose commercial relationships
commercial comparisons of products/services should have VERIFIABLE product claims
also SaaS companies will have to:
send reminders before free trials end
converting free trial to paid will require agreement
auto renewals must trigger reminder obligations
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JUST IN: Germany prepares to reactivate coal & oil-fired power plants during energy emergencies as natural gas supplies tighten.
JUST IN: Microsoft outage forces Japanese markets to switch to fax machines
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Microsoft outage impacted some email use in Japan, prompting fax workarounds for transaction confirmations by certain financial firms per Nikkei. Markets did not switch to fax and operated normally with standard trading volumes and prices on Nov 13.
nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…
en.kabutan.com/jp/indices/%5E…
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Microsoft engineers are frantically reading millions lines of AI generated code, desperately trying to get up to speed after 3+ years of agentic deployments.
Microsoft doesn’t use this kind of wording unless it’s really really bad. Like, SHTF kinda bad.
“Aggressively pursuing all pathways…we’ve paused all new deployments.”
That’s a panic button I’ve never seen them hit before.
“The elevated load isn’t driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers being UNEXPECTEDLY UNAVAILABLE.”
IE: Server farms. Racks and racks of servers. NOT RESPONDING. At all. Failing health checks.
Whew doggie!
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>censored screenshot. No proof this is actually an employee. And remember this page has blood on their hands.
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You know, when the allied powers won WWII, I would've hoped that that came with the condition that said allied powers wouldn't copy the axis powers fascist homework.
Also I'm going to point and laugh when the British internet collapses, consequences be damned.
The UK wants to ban the following websites for under-16 year olds. Including Youtube kids *banned for kids, shopping sites Ebay and Etsy, and more!
Here is the list so far↓
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube
Instagram
Facebook
X
Threads
Twitch
Kick
Reddit.
Pinterest
Tumblr
BeReal
Lemon8
Dailymotion
Vimeo
Bluesky
Mastodon
Quora
Substack
Medium
LinkedIn
Discord
Yubo
Telegram channels
Roblox
Fortnite (player-made maps)
Minecraft Marketplace and servers
Steam community
Rec Room
VRChat
YouTube Kids (Youtube kids banned for kids)
Lego Play
Spotify
SoundCloud
Strava
Letterboxd
Goodreads
Wattpad
Twitch-style streaming sites
Vinted
eBay
Depop
Etsy
Gumtree
Shpock
The Student Room
Brainly
HelloTalk
Tandem
Scratch
iNaturalist
Xbox Live & PlayStation Network messaging
Do you think this is going to help protect children?









































