Meta faces a backlash after using Instagram photos of teenage schoolgirls, posted by their parents with visible faces and names, to promote Threads to a man (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20…
dot matrix printer head cut in half (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_printing#/media/File:Tally_Genicom_T2240_print_head_assembly_-_cross_section.jpg)
The Onion has 53K print subscribers and expects $6M in 2025 revenue, signaling a market for print media, also shown by print relaunches of Saveur and others (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-oni
This is a really good video about printing photos at home from Simon Baxter
even though I just own an A4 printer.
#printing
Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls
to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man,
in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”.
The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”,
Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X,
were being dropped into his Instagram feed
❌ featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.
The ch…
Gonna try to sell some art today. Commerce not Capitalism.
#art #printmaking
The right for companies to do this is in every web service Terms and Conditions you've ever ageed to.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man
Well, got a Bambu H2D, finally a printer i can more or less be in the office with while it prints.
It's quite a monster size printer though.
Cowboys promote two cornerbacks following multiple secondary injuries https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-promote-two-cornerbacks-following-multiple-secondary-injuries
The Spectator, which launched a US print edition in 2019, plans to double its print output in the US to 24 issues annually as part of a relaunch this fall (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/the-spectator-us-edition-print