We used to have to get written permission if someone was going to appear in the background of something filmed. How are tech bros allowed to just consume every photo you've ever taken, analyse and name the people in it and use it for their own money making?

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

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strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

the use case for this is drone cops that can chase you where cars can't go, while the meat cops eat donuts and play it like a videogame

New robot mathematician can perform calculation faster than any human

To escape authoritarianism, somebody's going to have to come up with an inspiring vision of what the country could be and motivate people to help make it happen. I'm guessing a bitter indictment of people whose support you're asking for may not help with that.

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It sucks how drinking enough water, eating a healthy diet, getting enough sleep, and doing moderate exercise actually does make you feel better about life

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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Between the "male loneliness" beat and the "passport bro" beat, there sure is a lot of ink being spent on pieces of shit who can't find friends or dates because they're sentient piles of hot wet trash

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

"Effective immediately, Fisher-Price will exit the 'child development toy' vertical and re-emerge as Mattel·igence AI Defense Systems, a fully integrated autonomous weapons manufacturer focused on AI-enabled lethality solutions for the modern battlefield. Our stock is up 4000%."

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

I guess I’m just impressed that Hegseth memorized a line from a Tarantino movie that doesn’t have the n-word in it.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

App's haunted.

remember that thing that microsoft word could do on a windows 95 computer that required 8 megabytes of ram? yeah, we got claude to do it instead. and guess what? now it takes longer and sucks

Thread. The tl,dr: IF YOU SHOP AT TARGET, THEY MAY HAVE YOU ARRESTED. Don't shop at Target.

This is monstrous. MONSTROUS.

Rep. Jamie Raskin has introduced a bill that seeks to kickstart the removal of Trump through the 25th Amendment — a longshot effort that, while unlikely to succeed, aims to put renewed focus on the president's mental fitness and recent rhetoric.

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Genuinely depressing to me that your partner has to Doordash to raise money for your cancer treatment when you get old. What happens if you don't have a partner? Are we just working to pay a landlord and save up for a medical emergency when we're elderly?

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

So far in 2026, 80% of big tech's power procurement has been fossil gas (a bit more if you go by gen) Desperation, ideology and material, deepening relationships between big tech and fossil fuels gets you the exact situation we have been warning about for years.

it's sad that prejudice blinds people to how bad driving isn't a matter of ethnicity, but of being from Maryland.

What if we decided to have a nation run by literally anyone besides narcissistic male sex criminals

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

Move slow and fix things

My point is that congressional hearings and votes are news. Campaign messaging is not. Republicans figured this out years ago. Democrats keep treating official government functions like distractions from the "real" strategy instead of recognizing they ARE the strategy.

ChatGPT alone is plausibly responsible for the deaths of more children than lawn darts, which were pulled from the market due to safety concerns.

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Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

propublica workers are on strike today as they fight for a fair first contract. don't cross the picket line by reading/sharing their stories! solidarity with my fellow newsguild comrades 🖤✊

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

Oracle just hired a new CFO who will get a total pay package that could reach nearly $30 million. This comes immediately after Larry Ellison's company fired 30,000 workers.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Sun Tzu: "You may be wondering why The Art of War includes such basic advice as 'don't place your balls where the enemy can easily squeeze them'. And you're not going to believe this, but..."

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

Thinking of things that ended political careers in the past. Remember when Howard Dean yelled in a weird way??

I can't express how defeated I feel watching ostensible leftist and liberal posting addicts on here sniping at each other. I get that a lot of us feel hopeless, but FFS. Hyperbolic or not, playing a game of who can say "I told you so" the loudest is not how I'd wanna spend my last days.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

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I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.