"Epstein Memorial Ballroom" -- pass it on

Lauren's Blog: DOGE Is Destroying Social Security, and Seniors Are Already at Risk lauren.vortex.com/2025/03/25/d...

Billions spent on AI, and this is the sort of garbage we get! #Google

Rand Paul correctly blocks Chuck Schumer's idiotic attempt to rush through surveillance bill to address nonexistent NJ drone threats. Schumer is as bad as the others. He's playing up this nonsense for his own political purposes. When Rand Paul has to be the sensible one, we're all in big trouble.

Lauren's Blog: Australia's Under-16 Social Media Ban Is Doomed lauren.vortex.com/2024/11/28/a...

Ward Christensen, co-founder of first online BBS system and creator of XMODEM, dies at 78. Peace.

When you write questions to #Google Gemini AI with the specific hope that they will land on the screens of human reviewers who will do spit takes upon reading them.

Great idea. Speed its ultimate demise. Excellent! DO IT, ELON! - Musk tells Netanyahu that he plans to charge all users to use #Twitter.

How to block ChatGPT: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110855566636355278

#Cats and Interrupts: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110792349542853053

Another key point about #Google Games and Violence: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110787135672772675

It's absolutely stunning that in the current political environment #Google would move to *INCREASE* the amount of violence in games. Utterly tone deaf. "Follow the money" is the obvious explanation I can think of. Or some sort of death wish? Maybe both.

Let Elon scream "X" at the top of his lungs to his fanboys and his mirrors. Ignore him. Leave all existing references to #Twitter as they are. He will rant into the wind, as Twitter continues its inexorable race downward toward its ultimate ignominious end. Simple. Neat. Effective. Q.E.D.

Musk is apparently imminently changing the #Twitter logo from the blue bird (which Twitter long said was a key asset) to some form of X. More appropriate would be EX, because that's what the endgame will be for Twitter on its current path.

It's not just Hollywood -- AI is coming for us all - https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110713516796864122

Artificial Intelligence at the Crossroads - https://lauren.vortex.com/2023/07/13/artificial-intelligence-at-the-crossroads

So basically #Meta is saying, "Our Threads app is so incredibly privacy invasive that we won't even try to launch it in Europe now, and will instead depend on sucker Americans to be our chumps."

AI Regulation: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110625013405929801

What most depresses me about the #Google situation: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110616970134460826

Yes, #Google could destroy the best of the Internet: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110616816635505820

Putin should just declare victory in Ukraine and retire to Mar-a-Lago.

Emails from #Google about "Album Archive" shutting down: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110557275944896668

Wait until #Google execs realize that they can save even more money by shutting down 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Regulate AI -- Right Now: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110554470918879023

♫ 99 Google products overall. 99 Google products. Take one down, nowhere to be found. 98 Google products overall. 98 Google ... ♫

Maybe getting your domains from #Google wasn't such a good idea in the first place. Surprise! - Google Domains apparently shutting down, ~10 million domains being acquired by Squarespace - https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110551340540068115

"If we don't regulate AI -- AI will regulate us." - Not a statement predicting evil computers, but the reality of how AI systems will permeate every aspect of our lives and cannot be permitted to do so in less than a rigorously regulated environment.

Will Section 230 cover generative AI? - https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110549142219760461

The new 10 second advance button on the desktop #YouTube Player greatly simplifies getting past creator VPN promotions in a hurry.

Trump's indictment makes Nixon's Watergate scandal look like a pimple compared with Trump's volcano.

Trump indictment full text: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23839627-read-trump-indictment-related-to-mishandling-of-classified-documents

BREAKING: Source: Trump charged with 7 counts in docs case.

BREAKING: Trump apparently ordered to appear in court Tuesday in Florida.

BREAKING: CONFIRMED: Trump indicted. Details as available.

#Google attempting to claw remote workers back to offices: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110508934902167412

#Google tells employees that if they don't come to office 3 days a week their performance reviews could be affected. Not so Googley.

BREAKING: DOJ officially informs Trump that he is a target in criminal probe into possible mishandling of classified documents.

CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht is out. Please close the door on your way out, Chris.

It's refreshing when the leaders of a firm or other organization don't even make an attempt to claim that what they're doing is anything other than unethical and immoral. Helps to keep everyone accurately informed.

PGA should be required to use only bright red golf clubs and balls, representing being soaked in the blood of the Saudi's 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Waymo Robo-Taxi Kills Dog on San Francisco Street, DMV Report Says.

Upset over #Google's decision to permit dangerous 2020 election denial videos appear on #YouTube again is so high that I wouldn't be surprised if someone creates the most horrific video(s) possible in this genre just to test Google's comfort level with this decision when the video goes viral.

#Google's #YouTube policy change to permit dangerous election denial videos apparently only applies to the U.S. - https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110483371254127018

The decision for #YouTube to allow 2020 election disinformation denial videos, a decision already being celebrated among the supporters of the Jan 6 insurrection, is in my opinion the single worst and likely most negatively consequential decision in the history of #Google.

My sense is that the #Google C-suite is panicking. That's the executive summary anyway, no pun intended.

So the question that now comes up regarding #Google and #YouTube -- especially given the decision to once again permit violence-inducing 2020 election denial videos -- is should or should not the term "Muskification" be capitalized?

How #Google employees are reacting to #YouTube permitting 2020 election fraud videos - https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110480864392422504

#Google Fanboy: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110476913085376735

#Google is now implicitly endorsing the violence and worse of the Jan 6 insurrection - https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/110476568007923245

#YouTube appears to be refusing to provide data behind their decision to begin hosting election disinformation again. Maybe it's just FOLLOW THE MONEY? If not, give us the data!