In the US suicide rates among men under 30 have risen by 40 percent since 2010 and are four times higher than among young women.
Male suicide accounts for as many deaths as breast cancer.
~ if you need help or just don’t feel yourself, please please please reach out.
Nick Heer in Google’s iOS App Inserts Its Own Links Into Webpages
For Google to believe it has the right to inject itself into third-party websites is pure arrogance, yet it is nothing new for the company.
The only upside is I doubt many people use this app.
Matt Birchler in The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe
In my opinion, Mastodon has leveled out to be a great place to talk with nerdy people (aka my core demographic!), Threads has turned into an engagement bait hell that I don’t enjoy browsing much at all right now, and Bluesky still has that “first week of school” energy.
Yep, I think that’s about right 👌
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X’s former top advertisers including Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment, have resumed ad spending on the platform this year, albeit at much lower rates than before.
I guess if you want to try and avoid new tariffs on your products you have to appease the incoming presidents lap dog.
Dan Moran in Macworld🔒:
Apple can not only afford to be more judicious about how and where it deploys AI, but it also doesn’t have to be as aggressive about selling it to end users
I think Dan hasn’t been paying close enough attention to their advertising. It’s too much, to the point of ridiculousness. It doesn’t tell a tale of a company that hasn’t made an “existential bet-the-company” placement on AI.