Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

tapping the sign, cancel your nitro, your emotes and banners can very much wait until they stop asking for anyone's face data

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

“People won’t vote for that sort of candidate, and since I’d like to win elections I’m pointing out, while time remains, it’s a mistake to run them” seems to hit certain ears as “I am threatening you because I want to lose elections” and nothing seems to be able to make them hear anything else.

bite the hand that will not feed

Pointing out antisemitism on the left is one of the most annoying experiences one can have on Bluesky, not only do you get actual antisemites in your replies but also other leftists who are reflexively defensive and who bristle at the slightest critique.

Do you also think leftists don't have a racism problem? Because the tunnel vision rooted in We Are The Good Guys Who Know It's Bad is the core problem for leftists. And just like with racism and misogyny, one is a lot less likely to pick up on the subtleties when you aren't the subject of it

"A group of 'Bad Apples' is called a Precinct" Sticker spotted in Portland, Oregon

In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies. Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

It is deeply distressing that Democrats open negotiations with "ICE should follow the constitution" the GOP is like "lol nah" and that's the story. I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.

All of this but also: even if you change reality to suit their whims, it will never be enough. They’ve shown us over and over again that they’re never happy in spite of being given everything they want. The hell we are living in now is a direct result of coddling these people for decades

No, Chuck, you’re making them the fifth highest paid military in the world. You ain’t reforming shit.

Really wish super fans of this party could understand how this feels like a complete abandonment. DHS already doesn't follow the law & giving them money along with a stern plea to change is not a consequence. I doubt Schumer has any idea how hollow party concern will feel when ICE/CBP murder again.

one of the many reasons tech repair people (me) hate microsoft (and other big corpos using ai). i cannot begin to explain how many people i see come in with pcs broken by updates with AI code. for every claim of AI evolution, there will always be a human who ends up fixing the problem AI created.

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.

It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.

jesus christ!!!!! stop wtf!!!!

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Digital asbestos.

Discord served its purpose almost flawlessly by 2021 and then constantly made itself worse over the ensuing years The constant drive to change products that serve their purpose perfectly well really does exemplify the problems with an "endless growth" mindset

I mean this as hard as I can: cancel your fucking nitro. it is LITERALLY the only thing that they fucking listen to.

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

Look, all you need to know about the situation is that Green Day sang "American Idiot" at the opening and explicitly told ICE to quit their jobs at their show on Saturday and Bad Bunny said a bunch of stuff in Spanish and alllll the headlines and angry posts are about Bad Bunny. You know why.

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As many people are pointing out, they never tell Republicans that voting does no good.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

"if i piss in my bed and you have to walk to the toilet, who saves the most time? checkmate luddites", i say itching like crazy and smelling of death

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

The media moved on when trump said he had a new tone because as the constitution states the president is the editor in chief of all news outlets

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Isaac Asimov was a founder of modern science fiction. His work and ideas inform almost everything. He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

Hi, FBI? I want to report a nuclear burn.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

So uhh. My ADHD ass just realized I didnt do alt text on those items and I'm very sorry. I'm more concerned that I had alt text checked to prevent me from posting without it, but it reset itself???

Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps. There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral

The problem with Capitalism is you eventually run out of other people's money.

The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing, but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.

Every American needs to watch this:

Sex crimes have different tiers of offenders! A groper is not a pedophile, for example! But a groper is still fucking gross! Stop pretending the existence of worse people excuses truly gross behavior. You're self soothing so you don't have to admit your idol was awful, maybe! But don't grope!

To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you

The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too