does an obscure apple change in contact sharing really hurt new social media apps?

of course Americans think the world revolves around them; but ios is only about 10% of the world market and Android probably 90%.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20241021&instance_id=137445&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=152095&segment_id=181016&user_id=f22997f23dde93902a4eca99e4a5d3df

Quick notes: Airlift | Harvard backlash...

• Tax payer funded PR stunt: Charter flights to facilitate return of Indian citizens stranded in Israel. Those who are returning will not be paying any fare and the tax-payer is bearing the cost of their return. Why? "Students were a little bit panicked". . . . . . . . 'Indians don't want to leave Israel'




• Schools urge parents to delete Instagram, TikTok: Concern over Islamists' barbaric videos on social media. The warnings are circulating not just in Israel but also in the US, UK - with some singling out TikTok, Instagram.



• Harvard cancelled over support for Hamas: Harvard silent after its students issue pro-Hamas declaration. A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack

I have been asked by a number of CEOs if @harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their… https://t.co/7kzGOAGwp9

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 10, 2023




• Defund The BBC: Too woke to label Hamas as ‘terrorists’.



• After Yezidis, Islamists target the Kalash: Pakistan's pagan Kalash tribe targeted by Taliban. The Kalash are Pakistan's last polytheistic community, who have avoided mass Islamisation.



• One cure for diabetes, obesity, kidney disease? Ozempic shows promise treating kidney failure in blow to dialysis firms



• Babus don't walk: They care only about ritzy airports.




• Chinese EV Suppliers Plan Side Doors Into U.S. Market: Chinese battery companies critical to electric vehicles are pursuing deals with US free-trade partners South Korea and Morocco, seeking to tap growing demand in America and bypass rules aimed at shutting them out of the market.



• Help from China? Russia aims to mass produce 28nm chips by 2027, 14nm by 2030... if China is helping, what are they getting in return? Wide-body aircraft?



• Papaji: It's Here. Let it unfold and reveal itself.

Twitter In Peril

A whistle-blower complaint from Twitter Inc.’s former head of security, claiming severe shortcomings in the social media company’s handling of users’ personal data, will have wide ramifications for the business.

Twitter Faces Legal, Political Peril in Whistle-Blower Case

Twitter Misled Regulators

Twitter insider

“Twitter does not believe in free speech”...
Employees at Twitter are ‘Commie as F**k’...

BREAKING: @Twitter Sr. Engineer Tells Undercover Journalist That “Twitter Does Not Believe in Free Speech”; Confesses Employees at Tech Giant are “Commie as F**k”; Admits Left Wing Employees “Hate” @ElonMusk “Capitalist” Takeover Attempt#TwitterExposed pic.twitter.com/15PgulS8wj

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) May 16, 2022

i hear parler is live again but you have to create a new account

is this true? i couldn't access it from india. a US news channel reported the revival a half hour ago.