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The Voice Dream team has announced that they’re dropping the yearly sub price to $40, which may mean more new users can afford it while still helping out the team with the costs of maintaining the app.

Imo some of the criticism that lead to Voice Dream making this decision was incredibly rude. There’s no cause for talking to small dev teams the same way you would to a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Fuck sake.

—@JustGrist

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A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

—@ernie

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David Chartier (@chartier@toot.cafe) (Toot Café)
I'm sticking with my theory that #ElonMusk bought #Twitter to dismantle it. Despite its many problems, Twitter had become a powerful tool for common people to educate and organize—two things the right absolutely cannot have. Losing over 20 billion of value in mere months is beyond disastrous. I can't imagine a metric that shines a positive light on this acquisition—unless the goal is to silence people. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/04/24/the-twitter-blue-apocalypse-is-nigh
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Working Families Party (@WorkingFamilies@mastodon.social) by WBH StaffWBH Staff (Mastodon)
Attached: 1 image ICYMI on Friday, students from over 300 Florida high schools and colleges: - walked out of their classrooms - taught each other DeSantis-banned Black and LGBTQ+ history lessons - AND checked their voter registration statuses Gen Z isn’t playing. https://www.inquirer.com/education/florida-walkout-2-learn-student-protest-education-20230421.html