2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m engrossed in what I hope is another inspirationally brutal stomping of HICPAC, and so this is an open thread. UPDATE Here it…
Meta Platforms’ paid ad-free service targeted in Austrian privacy complaint | Reuters News Agency
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