NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social

The corruption runs deep.

Wow. Watch the fascism of the Epstein class work

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

The people of Michigan are sick and tired of politicians who tell us what we can't have and shouldn't fight for... We can fight for a world where everybody can be guaranteed healthcare.

this is incredible

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

It’s no secret—Donald Trump wants $70 BILLION more for ICE so that he can station officers at polling places and suppress the vote of Black and Brown Americans.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has spent years dehumanizing Palestinians & boycotting events critical of the Israeli Govt. Now in the wake of a horrific tragedy in San Diego in which white supremacists killed 3 Muslims he hears it from a San Diego resident. Video credit: @andrewmercado.bsky.social

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. if they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Last summer we had 95 degree weather. (via @leahfrombklyn on twitter) www.ny.gov/services/app...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The Speaker of the House in Alabama calls on the courts to “overturn the 14th Amendment.” This is the same legislative body, a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps in the Milligan case. x.com/austinpratt_...

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

TGIF Thank God It's Forty-eight hours until a friendly reporter drops optimistic news about the Iran War ending just hours before markets open.

Republicans steal their representation and then private industry poisons them.

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Wow — republicans are unraveling our democracy 🇺🇸

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

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Trump Shares Recipe For Famous ‘Better Than Pedophilia’ Cake https://theonion.com/trump-shares-recipe-for-famous-better-than-pedophilia-cake/

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

"Every six months, we might get a food parcel once. It's barely enough," said one mother in Gaza. "We are forced to eat whatever is in front of us."​

Every economic headline right now is like "Ohio farmers discover you can eat tree bark if you boil it long enough, markets close at all time high."

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

It happened again. The most corrupt administration in history.

By one vote and whatnot?

Senator London Lamar on @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn and TN Republicans stealing representation from majority-Black Memphis:

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

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🔥 #MetGala

This could work

China has just blocked U.S. sanctions. This is huge. This is the beginning of the shift in global power. This directly challenges the U.S.’s ability to enforce its "long-arm jurisdiction" through the global financial system. Historically, U.S. sanctions worked because most

Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.

Happy Jonathan Harker Sets Out On A Road Trip To Handle A Real Estate Deal Day to all who celebrate.

Racehorse Receives Carrot Every Time He Wins $2 Million For Owner

James Comey Indicted Over Seashell Photo https://theonion.com/james-comey-indicted-over-seashell-photo/

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?