While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

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[For a few reasons]

Reform UK has received £19 MILLION from just two donors over the past year. £15 million from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne £4 million from Ben Delo. Harborne is based in Thailand. Delo is based in Hong Kong (but says he'll move back to UK due to Labour's £100k cap on foreign donations)

Hm. Almost certainly spam...

Hm. Possibly spam on the hoof...

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

Leader of the gang. 14.05.2026 #BirdOfTheDay #ScrollBack The photo was taken 5 days ago and shows a pigeon, a bird that is unjustly not very appreciated. #unloved @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social #birds 🪶 #photography #vienna #sony

SLOP WILL EAT ITSELF

Remember the last Tory government massively increased election spending limits. Back then, the thinking was the Conservatives could exploit that. In practice, they struggled to raise the maximum cash - and now Reform is best placed to outspend the others come election time.

New Scientist on our latest study, as linked in the comment. www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

[Tea, buns]

Girl on a Motorcycle, Interrupted

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[Either Starmerbot really doesn't have an effing clue, or...]

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Toad thought and thought. But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.

This seems v, v, v, v bad.

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'Any spam?'

Nobody who has ever spent more than ten minutes around actual cows could possibly want anything to do with raw milk

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Hm.

Or things that are even worse.

It doesn’t mean that you’re ‘clever and hi-tech’. There aren’t many ways to make money from crypto that don’t involve money laundering, scamming or gambling. That’s it.

We need to keep in mind what a ‘crypto billionaire’ really is. How do you make billions from crypto?

I often get asked: what impacts would a shutdown of the Atlantic ocean circulation #AMOC have on people? A good short overview is found in this expert report. Impacts include e.g. widespread domestic food insecurity in Northern Europe and strain on global food systems. pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

Secret societies. Societies with secrets. Secret sex societies. Heretical offshoots of the Duat Club. Nasty little clubs that have limped on for two centuries just because they've got money and friends in high places. Weychester has them all. Let us knock on some doors. – #DICallaghan to #DSNokes

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[Oh, indeed...]

populist authoritarians look for 'useful' crimes they can use to a) whip up hatred against out-groups. b) then whip up hatred of 'liberal elites' who counter with facts c) justify increased surveillance & police powers. Farage doing nothing new - but no less dangerous of being tried & tested tactic

[Meanwhile the Starmerbot regime slumbers deeply (as it was designed to do)...]

Where ARE the really, really rich shady people prepared to throw millions of pounds from undisclosed sources at sensible moderate politics, eh?

Got a real ‘battle for the soul of our nation’ vibe about the immediate future. Things are looking grim and we’re walking straight into something terrible. As a historian it feels so blatantly textbook that it almost seems impossible to comprehend.

Crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo have donated a further combined £7 million to Reform UK since the start of the year, according to the latest Electoral Commision figures. Both men would be massively advantaged by Reform's policy of halving taxes on crypto sales to just 10%

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