https://x.com/zeynepmyenisey

https://raru.re/@ocean/116214437024389203

California Attorney General Rob Bonta last night filed a request for a preliminary injunction in California’s existing case against Amazon for price fixing. Attorney General Bonta’s 2022 lawsuit alleged that the company stifled competition and caused increased prices across California through its anticompetitive policies in order to avoid competing on price with other retailers. New evidence paints a clearer and more shocking picture. The motion for a preliminary injunction comes after a robust discovery process where California uncovered evidence of countless interactions in which Amazon, vendors, and Amazon’s competitors agree to increase and fix the prices of products on other retail websites to bolster Amazon’s profits. Time and again, across years and product categories, Amazon has reached out to its vendors and instructed them to increase retail prices on competitors’ websites, threatening dire consequences if vendors do not comply. Vendors, bullied by Amazon’s overwhelming bargaining leverage and fearing punishment, comply — agreeing to raise prices on competitors’ websites (often with the awareness and cooperation of the competing retailer), or to remove products from competing websites altogether. Amazon’s goal is to insulate itself from price competition by preventing lower retail prices in the market at the expense of American consumers who are already struggling with a crisis of affordability.

Bluesky.

https://piipitin.fi/@prettyhuman/111646353467589880

https://chaos.social/@eris2cats/116278243026245039

https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116157805037426573

Lobsters.

next time I hear “there is just too many (brown) people” i swear

This kid:

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Source.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16451158

The Hungarian prime minister concedes to Péter Magyar, who is set to win a supermajority in the 199-seat parliament.

https://todon.eu/@faab64/116353911557549088

https://mastox.eu/@AssalRad/116157304384102524

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

Source: @mrlovenstein on Bluesky

(If you know where I stole this from, I love you.)

The video’s opening shot shows a man hiding under a bed snipping in a hole in someone’s sock. Seconds later, the same man uses a saw to shorten a table leg so that it wobbles during breakfast. “My job is to make things shitty,” the man explains. “The official title is enshittificator. What I do is I take things that are perfectly fine and I make them worse.”

https://wandering.shop/@maco/116075925593898835

(TikTok screencap)

… while they feign child protection to avoid costs

The original was posted on /r/meme by /u/ProEpikGamer90 on 2026-02-20 05:38:25+00:00.

Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

Source Sarah’s Scribbles

https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666