#crassinsensitivityandassholery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crassinsensitivityandassholery, aggregated by home.social.
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The Verge: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards. “Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley’s leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/the-verge-tim-cook-and-sundar-pichai-are-cowards/ -
BBC: The women taking Meta to task after their baby loss. “For Sammi Claxon, it was no different. Soon after she started searching for answers, algorithms picked up that she was pregnant, and began targeting her with adverts. But when she lost her baby due to a miscarriage, the adverts didn’t stop.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/15/bbc-the-women-taking-meta-to-task-after-their-baby-loss/
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PC World: A U.S. startup is selling your stolen data to anyone with $50. “That company is Farnsworth Intelligence, an ‘open-source intel’ startup from 23-year-old founder Aidan Raney. And it’s not being coy about what it’s doing. The company’s primary consumer-level product is called ‘Infostealers,’ and it’s hosted at Infostealers.info. (Yup, what a URL.) According to an exposé from […]
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Mashable: Following mass layoffs, Xbox exec recommends AI to cope. “The sentiment was shared in a now-deleted LinkedIn post by Xbox Game Studios Publishing executive producer Matt Turnbull, captured at the time by gaming blog Aftermath, which reads: ‘I know these types of tools engender strong feelings in people, but I’d be remiss in not trying to offer the best advice I can under the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/mashable-following-mass-layoffs-xbox-exec-recommends-ai-to-cope/
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Korea Times: American YouTuber Johnny Somali sparks outrage in trial, calls Korea a US vassal state. “Somali, who is standing trial on charges including obstruction of business, appeared an hour late to his hearing at the Seoul Western District Court on March 7. He responded to questions with his hands in his pockets and maintained an uncooperative attitude throughout the session, Yonhap […]