Good! Finally... ๐ Gatekeepers Crypto crash (lmao) | Details on the upcoming Digital Services Act | I hope El Salvador are okay
Could have done without this ๐ Inadvertent Leverage Whistleblowers reveal that Facebook blocked public services pages in Australia following โlink taxโ law
Could have done without this ๐ Clown Car One billionaire used to own Twitter and now another one might โ what does this mean?
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ DisInfoWars Alex Jones is filing for bankruptcy | Clearview tech used to scan the faces of dead soldiers | Binance has a swastika now?
Could have done without this ๐ Monetise! Zuckerbergโs metaverse will suffer from 47.5% transaction fees | Elon Musk attempts to buy Twitter | Wikipedia bans crypto donations
Members Area ๐งฑ There is too much software The Business of Technology and how little control you have over it
Could have done without this ๐ Zuck Bucks Meta are developing internal currency | Twitter are developing an edit button | Quantum computers are developing EV batteries
Good! Finally... ๐ Mercury Propellant A new kind of social engineering that hackers wonโt shut up about | Space Lawyers! | Meta pay the GOP to make TikTok look bad
Could have done without this ๐ Cheap & Invisible Google Cloud has fired staff from Looker and replaced them with contractors | Why was the Amazon MGM acquisition not challenged by the FTC?
Sort of okay ๐คทโโ๏ธ Online Harms Update on the online harms bill | Is Nadine Dories okay? | Windows 11 and ads
Could have done without this ๐ Evading sanctions Coinbase reach new levels of hypocrisy with their unique sanctioning style
Special ๐ โโ๏ธ No Thanks Iโve been trapped in Paris with covid and also thereโs a war on so this week has hit a little different ngl
Could have done without this ๐ Abandonware Second Sight retina implants now obsolete and switching off inside peopleโs heads | Metaโs rebrand marathon never ends | A movie ticket service that tracks your eyes while you earn crypto
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Act Week The US proposes antitrust legislation for app stores | The EARN IT Act threatens encryption | The DOJ seizes some bitcoin
Could have done without this ๐ Hey Joe What the hell is Joe Rogan doing? | Crisis Text Chat are using their mental health data for profit
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Unprecedented Demands Unprecedented: a politically motivated ransomware attack! | Meta are building a supercomputer and giving up Diem | Microsoft acquires Activision
Good! Finally... ๐ Market Imposition Apple deem new antitrust bills to be a security threat | Crypto ads in the UK to be regulated | The metaverse will harvest your emotions, oh dear...
Could have done without this ๐ Deceptive Flower Attack of the Tulip | Signal CEO quits over MobileCoin | Autonomous, very stupid, bumper cars
Members Area Humans are the key dispensable resource driving the New Space Race Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to privatise the solar system, transform the Earth into a museum, and turn us into space slaves or something idk...
Members Area 3 huge problems we are ignoring even though they will destroy us From ransomware to space debris โ we just love forging peril, and do not have time for solutions!
Good! Finally... ๐ Pointless Fines My other Bored Ape is your Bored Ape | Some regulators have been defrosted to administer ineffective fines | Your car is your final tech prison
Could have done without this ๐ In Review Hello Earth dwellers. We did it: itโs the final day of the year. 2021 can now kindly follow the arrow โ ๐๏ธ. I actually started Horrific/Terrific in December 2020, so that means your favourite weekly tech blast is one year old โ wow! I usually rate the week out of five
๐ฐ Seasons Beepings I will be back in your inbox on the 31st | FYI itโs the time of giving so please donate to my bank account, kthnx
Sort of okay ๐คท 3D Square Apple just can't survive without that 30% | Dorsey quits Twitter to live in a Block | More space junk
Could have done without this ๐ Uninsured Listen: if you pay ransoms, you are funding ransomware โ is that what you want??
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Qubit Barrier IBM have created an eagle | an infrastructure bill! (but for surveillance) | How now brown DAO?
Could have done without this ๐ Metacurse None of us actually know what it means to have a metaverse | why are there so many crypto ads??
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ป Creamed It $130m in crypto stolen, very easily | Bitcoin is not decentralised, sit down bro | It's Meta now
Could have done without this ๐ Walk Out A very hackable grid | Please walk out of Netflix... not Tesco | The Metapurse
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Electric Brine There's already a fucking lithium shortage, GREAT | Unsurprisingly, there's an algorithm ruining lives in India | I'm tired of complaining about Ring, someone else did it for me this time
Could have done without this ๐ System Failure Something doesn't feel like infrastructure until it disappears | the Facebook outage is more than just an opportunity to make memes
Good! Finally... ๐ It's Illegal China and crypto have a conscious uncoupling | please can we stop SPACing everything | build the metaverse 'responsibly'
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Laser Internet Google is going to save The Congo with wifi | The FTC demonstrate how ineffective they are, once again | Your iPhone could be your therapist
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Slime Scams In Apple VS Epic there are no winners | What is XCheck? | Facebook has Ray-Bans now
Could have done without this ๐ #AppleToo I speak to a tech union rep about this whole Apple pay equity thing | Snapchat have a really dumb AR feature I want to tell you about | Apple go into orbit
Could have done without this ๐ Only Bans Unbanning porn | the FTC refile their silly lawsuit | MUM's the word!
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Forking Hell An algorithmic bias bounty | Etherium has begun forking | Apple to pass photos of your kids to law enforcement
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Time Crystal Quantum madness! Time crystals! The future is finally here! | Facebook are working on making encryption irrelevant
Sort of okay ๐คท Enterprise Metaverse The Metaverse is the new blockchain | The universe is the new playground | The billionaire is not an astronaut
Could have done without this ๐ Zero Click Pegasus has proved that the only way to ensure phone security is by not having a phone | Yet another billionaire goes to space
Good! Finally... ๐ Space Disgrace How about some net neutrality? | A rich man goes to space | I was wrong about Audacity
Good! Finally... ๐ Sad Cobra Bitcoin.org held for ransom; forced to pay in Bitcoin | no one cares who invented Bitcoin anyway | Audacity is probably not spyware, relax
Could have done without this ๐ Cluttered Orbit Too many satellites โ cannot social distance | The FTC fail to prove Facebook are a monopoly | 4g on the Underground
Could have done without this ๐ YuanCoin Virtual Reality adverts | China's digital currency threatens Bitcoin | Have you noticed? Operating systems SUCK
Sort of okay ๐คทโโ๏ธ Miscalculated Risk An algorithm that solves discrimination | Tim Berners-Lee's NFT | Protect yourself from ransomware attacks by buying Bitcoin
๐ Green Giant People are calling this a ransomware crisis | Windows 11 | Microsoft do some greenwashing
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Second Chance Proof of RAKE (as in raking it in) | Tinder introduce a 'please think twice' feature
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Uncanny Moments Google announce new technology to scare and annoy | Tesla and Bitcoin need to take a break | Thank you for those search results... how about a chat?
๐ Decrypted Crime Australia switching all WhatsApp users to business accounts | A crowd-sourced surveillance network
๐ 30% Epic Having a .tech TLD makes you COOL, no arguments | Twitter's scroll to success | Signal's suppressed ad campaign
๐ Assisted Crash Please change the world, but ignore that the world even exists | Tesla's triple whammy | Now you can deepfake a great lake
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Repetitive Motion A capitalist's love letter | A wilful misunderstanding of data portability | ban facial recognition
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ MS Health Prioritise AI, forget everything else | A responsible ML initiative | A very wealthy robot
๐ Award Bias The Augmented Army | What's the Winklecost of a Winklevoss? | an unsurprising Turing Award winner
๐ FLoC Together A FLoC of disgusting low fat cookies | upload, meditate, repeat | lucrative exploits
Substack ๐๐ Horrific/Terrific is taking leave from Substack | asset theft | a nifty alternative to sim-swapping
Horrific ๐คฎ Minted Tweets Google's plan to phase out cookies will only make them STRONGER, and make me SICKER | Do you need to buy/sell NFTs or are you already a massive douche?
๐ Sentiment Giant Feeling left out? Form a tech consultancy! | Juicy delicious super Tweets | Cambridge Analytica Lite
๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Taxi Quest Pixelated assets | heat your home with bitcoin | gig worker = lame. Quest taker = much better!
๐ Link Tax Cars with drivers disgust me | Self-sufficient Fire Sticks | No, you need to PAY for those links
๐คทโโ๏ธ This week was sort of okay, I guess? BUY DOGECOIN | Working through your feelings with a ransomware attack | Twitter Pro
๐This week was something I could have done without Apple VS Facebook | Google VS Microsoft | Amazon VS your face
Good! Finally... ๐ This week was good. Finally Signal awarded with Best New App of 2021 by NASA | a forking bad time | The Big Society but for Misinformation.
Could have done without this ๐ This week was something I could have done without Deplatform, decentralise, desocialise, denazify | I'm so done with mining Bitcoin on Earth, get me out of here
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ This week was sort of okay I guess? What data can they collect from your poo? | A full-stack ban | Stop complaining and just move to Signal
๐คฎ This week was Horrific Don't just alphabetise, unionise | a machine imitating a human imitating an avocado imitating a chair
Big Tech ๐คก This week was [undefined]; get in the bin, 2020 Misinformation, abridged | Doing more learning with less bits | year++
Good! Finally... ๐ This week was good! Finally... Christmas comes early for Google | An Elon Musk fail | Our lives are mostly online now โ let's regulate!
Could have done without this ๐ This week was something I could have done without A summary of the paper that lost Timnit Gebru her job | Facebook are forced to be transparent, for once
Sort of okay ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ This week was sort of okay I guess? Facebook keeping things 'balanced' | AWS went down, pets go hungry