In the News (#1688)

If there’s one thing the rising surveillance dragnet has exposed throughout North America, it’s that cops really don’t like to taste their own medicine. – Joe Wilkins The Last Shall Be First (#1565) The inevitable result of encouraging ignorance and bigotry: A woman [named Helen Rowlands] who suffers from alopecia was…accused [by a cleaner] of using the wrong toilet…at Tesco Extra in Gateshead [England]…Her husband Duncan…spoke to the store manager about the comment and they apologised. Helen is now speaking out about the ordeal to raise awareness of alopecia amongst others, including businesses… Enshittification (#1622) May the same and worse happen to every company which does this: In March…BuzzFeed…was reporting a net loss of $57.3 million for 2025…[because] former CEO Jonah Peretti’s [deranged] decision to double down on [computer-generated slop] had officially blown up in his face. Months later, it’s looking [even worse]…BuzzFeed’s…stock price fell off a cliff, sinking to $0.57…

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