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Oh no, it seems like the gazillion-dollar company that prides itself on being "customer-focused" just accidentally locked you out of your digital life with their fancy credit card. 🤡 Guess you missed the fine print that said, "Use at your own risk – of losing everything." 🆘🍏
https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account #customerexperience #techfail #digitalrights #creditcardissues #fineprint #HackerNews #ngated

Weekly output: MediaTek’s new Chromebook chipset, Verizon’s new price-lock pledge

This week saw me file two longer, not-yet-published stories for places that hadn’t seen my byline in several months, which reminded me how client re-development can be as esential as client development. This coming week will have me in San Francisco for a few days to cover the NTT Upgrade conference for my trade-pub client Light Reading (with that Japanese telco paying for my airfare and lodging, an arrangement I will note in the copy I file).

4/2/2025: MediaTek’s New Chromebook Chip Looks a Bit Overpowered, PCMag

Writing about new chipset architectures makes me feel like I’m pushing the envelope of my own grasp of technology–because until a few years ago, that topic wasn’t a regular feature of my coverage.

4/3/2025: After Raft of Hikes, Verizon Offers 3-Year Price Lock on Rates (But Not Fees), PCMag

Verizon provided an advance copy of this announcement late Wednesday afternoon to a colleague at PCMag who then asked me to cover it. That didn’t leave me much time to write a post that would be ready to publish at expiration of Verizon’s 8 a.m. embargo Thursday, but then I realized that this press release didn’t answer some key points about this rate guarantee and a few of Verizon’s other changes. I got clarification on one detail from a Verizon publicist and then opted to wait to see the entirety of the company’s fine print before filing this copy. My editors, to their credit, were fine with my taking that extra time to get the story right.

#chipsets #chromebook #finePrint #KompanioUltra #laptops #MediaTek #priceLock #rateLock #verizon #VerizonPriceLock

Nominations are still open—there's time yet to put in your plug for the City of Roses as Best Series:

https://thecityofroses.com/books

https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/how-to-nominate/

#Hugos #BestSeries #CityOfRoses #FinePrint

#Trump admin adds #FinePrint to #FederalEmployees #buyout offer

It's been a week since nearly all 2.3M civilian employees of the #FederalGovernment were presented w/an offer: Agree to resign from your job by Feb 6 & keep your pay & benefits through the end of Sept.

Now, w/the deadline nearing, #FederalAgencies have sent out new terms & conditions in the form of a sample #contract agreement that employees are told they can use to "memorialize" the deal.

#law #TrumpCoup
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5286238/federal-employees-fork-musk-trump-deferred-resignation

#Lawfare Researchers affiliated with Brookings Institute see that the #DOGE edict offer to pay off any resigning #federal #workers for seven months is not actually a vetted govt policy, or even legal. Read The #FinePrint first ...

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/breaking-down-opm-s--fork-in-the-road--email-to-federal-workers

Void where prohibited. Void where not prohibited. The Void does not care about your prohibitions; the Void travels when and wherever it wishes.

#BlackFriday #FinePrint #Nihilism

#FireDepartment #lieutenant gets #undisclosed #punishment for #antiLGBTQ #posts.

Fellow #firefighter weighs in: “When you put that #badge on your chest and wear the #uniform, our #job is to #ProtectThePublic. There is no #fineprint in that(, that says except the LGBTQ community.)”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Massachusetts #NewBedford #Government #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://newbedfordlight.org/fire-lieutenant-gets-undisclosed-punishment-for-anti-lgbtq-posts/

"So the brown M&M's were like the canary in the coal mine!" - IRA GLASS, Fine Print, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #FinePrint #NationalMandMDay #IraGlass

If you use paypal, watch this tiktock

PayPal’s New Terms and Conditions #termsandconditions #fineprint #legal #cliffsnotes #summary #tut #optout #privacy

via @seanvv onTiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/@seansvv/video/7421675474637573419

Couple who used #UberEats can't sue #Uber because of #arbitration terms, court says : NPR

A #NewJersey appeals court says a couple cannot sue Uber over a life-altering car accident because of the app’s terms & conditions, even though they say it was their daughter who agreed to those terms while placing an Uber Eats order.
#tos #fineprint
> First it was #Disney now it’s Uber limiting #rights

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5136615/uber-car-crash-lawsuit-uber-eats-arbitration-terms

Mazola corn oil is running ads claiming it "may be healthier for you than olive oil" based on "studies". So they slapped a "Heart Healthy" label on the bottle.

But always check the #FinePrint: 🤨 #TruthInAdvertising #MugsysHouseholdTips