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EXCLUSIVE: Documents obtained by The Atlantic detail internal battles at Meta over whether protecting kids from sexual grooming should take precedence over platform growth, Kaitlyn Tiffany and Michael Scherer report.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Deliveristas ending their shift and about to head home over the Williamsburg Bridge, though the blizzard. One of them, Salvador,tells me he’s happy for the cutoff by the city. “This is more dangerous than last snowstorm, harder to move in,” he tells me in Spanish.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Good to know that the US agency tasked with safeguarding Americans against terrorism and cyber threats, among other things, doesn't even have a handle on metadata.

Besides posing an existential threat to our favorite nonprofit bookmobile, Antelope Lending Library (which is probably at the top of the list of reasons library haters are attacking bookmobiles).... The library haters squatting in the Iowa Statehouse are at it again. action.everylibrary.org/hf2324

About 1 in 8 teens rely on AI companions for mental health advice, and the loneliness epidemic has compounded this problem.

In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

If you care about surveillance, privacy, policing, tech, and power and are not financially supporting 404media you are doing something wrong. Every day they are doing the work for you. Fund them so they can hire all the tech journalists who have been fired.

Radio Free Asia (under USAGM, which Kari Lake seized control of) is again operational with private contractors providing transmission services, according RFA's president, Bay Fang, who announces broadcasts have resumed in Burmese, Korean, Mandarin, Tibetan and Uyghur languages.

Missing from the 'con' side of the analysis is the Infosec threat of granting these blackbox agents security clearance and credentials. Giving them any privileges you wouldn't give an intern working the help desk is a huge security risk - See McDonalds: www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

This is so fucking gross and dangerous for online sex workers.

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

We don't talk about it this way, but the US government's choice to pursue austerity in the 2010s was a truly monstrous crime -- yet another crime for which none of the guilty elites paid any penalty at all, not even reputational.

Chicago! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events...

When state courts interpret their own constitutions to offer broader rights, the federal judiciary can't overturn them. A crucial safeguard against authoritarianism. @kasiawolfkot.bsky.social

Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...

The House votes to repeal some of President Trump's tariffs levied on imports from Canada. 210 Republicans voted in favor of the tariffs. It's the first time House GOP lawmakers have gone on the record about the Trump tariffs.

This entire Megyn Kelly "FOOTBALL SHALL NOT BE SPANISH! IT SHALL NOT BE MUSLIM!" speech is such parody-level xenophobia, while also being exactly what's ruling the country right now.

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

If you want to learn more about rent-seeking by consulting companies but don't want to read a Nazi being paid by a white supremacist, may I suggest. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

If you are worried how data will be used against ICE protesters. Or how smart homes reveal your secrets. Or smart cars or medical devices will become evidence in court. Listen to this conversation. There are risks, rewards, and even solutions…

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Friedland: During COVID, all the comedians were off the road, but he was crushing stadiums. He was out there killing Herman Cain. He was having a great time.

straight up Gestapo shit

Oh is that right? Is that right???? www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms. Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

whelp, January 6th 2.0 has started www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

There were orders, and I followed them. What's the big deal.

Not guns. Not ICE. Not election-stealing, racism or fascism. Whistles.

TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

FOX NEWS: Are you standing by calling Pretti a domestic terrorist? McLAUGHLIN: Well, we'll let this investigation ... FOX NEWS: Ok. So I guess it stands.

my god it's like rats deserting a sinking rat

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

“I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?’”

Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.