The Democratic platform 2024. The Republican platform would be “Ice cream for white people only” (poison)

Oh look here I go being right again about the serious technological and conceptual issues behind Waymo. Especially the degree to which people are unwilling to be skeptical of a company exchanging an act for which we bear criminal liability for a nominal fine.

What happens when chatbots invade health apps. Guess I’ll swing by the wreck of the SS Politician… (If you don’t get this reference, look up “Whisky Galore”)

I am so charmed to once again encounter this meme

The tech industry when DRM/right-to-repair: “Circumventing code is a FELONY!!1!1” The tech industry when plagiarism machine: “Copyright kills competition!1!!1”

Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...

We’ve updated The Markup’s privacy tool to help you understand how sites are tracking you through TikTok and X pixels. bit.ly/46PAplv 🎨 Gabriel Hongsdusit

Food Safety Alert ⚠️ There is a multi-drug resistant Salmonella outbreak affecting Rosabella brand moringa leaf powder capsules. There are 7 cases in 7 states and 3 hospitalizations. Do not consume these products and immediately dispose of them: www.cdc.gov/salmonella/o...

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

anyway, i drew this for the nib in march 2023 lol

The tech media everyone. Established tech writer decides it’s worth his time to engage with a rando (yes, that IS relevant, Mike) riiiiiight up until pressed for specific examples. Bruh, you are the one propping up WILDLY implausible assertions with load-bearing “cans” and “mights.”

“Access stenographers” might be the best description of the tech media I’ve ever heard. I’d throw “credulous” in there myself, but I could easily be convinced they know exactly what they’re doing and just don’t care.

🤣 someone send this to his editor. Though talking like that, it’s probably someone he got off fiverr

Age verification? I sunk Norwegian longboats off the coast of Orkney

Daily reminder that Waymo’s business innovation is not a car that appears nominally autonomous, but to take an activity we all bear criminal liability for, and turn the consequence of failure to operate safely from “prison” to a comparatively minuscule fine.

Compare to the Seahawks who leant their jet to smuggle in COVID supplies while the Trump admin interdicted shipments to blue states.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

Poetry was created today

Either what happens when you train an LLM on the wankiest of Techno-New-Age livejournals, or the most fascinating RP someone has stayed up way too late to participate in

Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Love the Kat Cope from geriatric media organizations 🤣

I cannot emphasize this enough: the article is free. The article is fascinating. The article is sad. You can read it right now. All you have to do is click. protos.com/brock-pierce...

Famous Last Words

“Sexism made HRC an unpalatable candidate”

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

I license my footage, in which I don't speak at all, to places like CNN, CBS, and KARE 11. I'm working with Mother Jones. I am primarily a writer, who has broken real, investigative stories. I'm not an activist or a fucking content creator, nor am I working in the style of one, thanks. Fuck off.

I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

I guess he just got lucky.

AI stans need bagpipes the way some people rhetorically need Jesus. Go make some IRL friends, drink beer, and have a tune. Beats the hell out of endless wank-y theorizing and posting on LessWrong

Why is ICE threatening the chaplain of the MN Timberwolves? This shit is happening everywhere. The national guard is protecting protestors at the federal building. We are literally under attack by the Feds. They executed Pretti. Why is everybody acting like it’s nbd for fucks sake?

Hey y’all remember on Jan 6th when women got on Tinder in DC and honeypotted all those rioters and sent a good clutch of ‘em to jail based on shit they admitted to in the DMs? Look I’m just saying they got Tinder in MN.

This is a genius move by Walz to humanize the protesters and national guard to one another, increasing the likelihood they will stand with the community if called to protect them from CBP.

Ken deserves eyes and money for all the uncovering of stuff other outlets don’t ever report or “discover” weeks after he did all the work reporting on it He’s shown a lot of what the admin has been up to that gets swept under the rug by mainstream media

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations ⤵️

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We don’t want Greenland. We want healthcare.

Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today. 5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.

BREAKING: TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record." "Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."

From a friend in the Twin Cities: You would not believe what is really happening here in Mpls/St. Paul. Beyond the murder, it is not getting reported. We are under siege. Schools, parking lots, businesses, neighborhoods, circling our neighborhood today asking about Hmong and other SE Asia neighbors

The video she released late today is exceptionally good, and I suspect you've already seen it. She opens with a statement on fascism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQAh...

“Things aren’t that bad,” argues man unlikely to be seriously affected by Bad Things until it’s too late. Then, in the most flaccid display of cowardice, turns off comments.

No, no, it’s ok that they’re on the white nationalist site with an on-demand CSAM generator because *they’ve blocked those parts and are pretending they aren’t there* They’re upset at *other* people noticing that they’re still in the Nazi CSAM bar. They have a blindfold on! Can’t you see that!?

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

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