🍊ぽんかん🎀 @pomcan@fedibird.com

"We have been in continuous discussions with Israeli and Lebanese counterparts since the horrific attack yesterday in northern Israel that killed a number of children playing soccer. This attack was conducted by Lebanese Hezbollah. It was their rocket, and launched from an area they control. It should be universally condemned." - White House NSC

7/31に三上の本が出ます！苦節4年半。ボツになる直前で奇跡的に出せた本です。技術評論社「深掘り！ IT時事ニュース　読み方・基本が面白いほどよくわかる本」です。どぞよろしく！　https://www.amazon.co.jp/o/ASIN/4297143313?&linkCode=sl1&tag=wwwsv15com-22&linkId=5370bbcd73f05ec5f2ba10e33bf383dc&language=ja_JP&ref_=as_li_ss_tl　

Two-tier pricing is trending in Japan. Kyoto isn't immune, with some stores charging inbound travelers up to $63 for rice and fish. Learn why some restaurants and ryokans are jacking up prices or engaging in two-tier pricing - and why others steadfastly refuse to change anything.

https://unseen-japan.com/kyoto-two-tier-pricing-food/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #travel #food

去年の今頃何があったっけ フォロー／フォロワー取得API停止か？それともその後のAPIエラーか？ https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2306/28/news175.html

ほぼ個人鯖だったもふクラにユーザーが急激に流入したのがちょうど1年前の今日ですね。1日で100人近く増加したのでした。LTLが30日限定で見られるというのを始めたのも同タイミングでした。

さけすきーとか7月に一気に登録者きたもんた。なつかしいね。

（……きこえますか……Threads運用している公式アカウントのみなさん……今……あなたの……心に……直接……呼びかけています……フェディバースへ……シェアするのです……）

ってことを書いてきました。シェアしてくれるアカウントが増えるといいね。
QT: https://www.threads.net/@noellabo34/post/C830sybSPWQ [参照]

データベースを飛ばして、青ざめたことがあるかね？

»#Meta is connecting #Threads more deeply with the #fediverse: You’ll now be able to like and see replies from other platforms right inside Threads.« https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies?eicker.news #tech #media

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"総務省は21日、政府が今月18日にまとめた総合対策に基づいて、SNSなどを運営する事業者に対し、広告を出す人の本人確認や広告の内容の事前審査を強化することや、有名人などから削除の申し出があれば速やかに対応することなどを要請しました" https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240621/k10014488011000.html

くれぐれもお気をつけて。

https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/mbc/1235148?display=1

Hah, no way, my dinky little Bluesky bridge project https://fietkau.software/pinhole got linked in a @TechCrunch article:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-can-now-talk-to-each-other-with-bridgy-fed/

I'm glad it's been surpassed in usefulness. 😄 Cheers @Sarahp and @snarfed.org!

Apple “deliberately” pays women less than men, lawsuit says

Apple could owe thousands in back pay to 12,000 female employees.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/apple-deliberately-pays-women-less-than-men-lawsuit-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Sources detail Amazon's struggles to build a new generative AI-powered Alexa, including privacy concerns keeping Alexa's teams from using Anthropic's Claude (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

https://fortune.com/2024/06/12/amazon-insiders-why-new-alexa-llm-generative-ai-conversational-chatbot-missing-in-action/
http://www.techmeme.com/240613/p9#a240613p9

Meta tried to discredit researchers in one of Brazil's top universities who identified fraudulent ads in its platforms:

"Defaming scientists has become a global strategy of Big Techs in order to try to silence critics in universities."

"In the United States, the social network has gone as far as banning researchers from accessing data after they did something that displeased the company."

https://nucleo.jor.br/english/2024-06-12-meta-tried-to-discredit-researchers-who-identified-fraudulent-ads-in-its-platforms/

#Meta #BigTech #Ads

1984 Computer for the rest of us
2024 AI for the rest of us #AppleEvent #WWDC24