This is pretty accurate. As an early adopter of Google Glass, it was obvious it was revolutionary technology that had a single critical weakness: Google controlled it's software. The non-creepy use cases were incredible, but these products are inherently attached to creepy companies. #meta […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116105269000956504 I'll take my check please.

A Chicago suburb is equipping squad cars with a "grappler" to catch fleeing vehicles. https://wgntv.com/news/dupage-county/oak-brook-police-deploy-new-grappler-device-to-curb-high-speed-chases/

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Someone at Home Depot thought this was a good strategy for a marketing email. I don't know who, and clearly they don't know me. But someone thought this was like a reasonable thing to do after someone visits your website. #homedepot #privacy #creepy

Who could have predicted this? #microsoft #ai #satyanadella

Once again, I'm reminded that my longstanding "don't go to private billionaire underage sex islands" policy has been pretty well vindicated.

@haubles just dropped the massive news that Mastodon is going to be changing the default signup flow on mobile apps to choose an instance thats geographically close to you instead of choosing mastodon.social by default!

The most dangerous moment in any democracy's existence is when the faction in power realises that if they lose the next election, they're all going to prison.

This video should be required reading for anyone who regulates business or rules on court cases involving them. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fj1PnEh6MAg

RE: https://bots.robots.rodeo/@scream/115925314591015703 The most relatable account on the internet

As far as product reviews go, this is pretty accurate. https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/baby-review

[Small Starfleet Academy spoiler] @virtualbri I know you can't say anything, but I hope people in-house know how badly we need that wastebasket for sale. I know it can't really vaporize things, I just need it to do the jingle.

You know that think where Elon's AI bot is in trouble for creating CSAM? What is the US going to do about it? ...Give it access to classified defense information. Like, it's felt like we've been in the darkest timeline for a while, but this is just getting silly. #grok #hegseth #uspol […]

💯

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

Want to read a well-written touching piece about an absolute piece of garbage of a human being? The sort who thinks he did a family a favor by consuming their last can of meat? Here you go. https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/

All I have to say about the end of 2025 is "good riddance".

This is incredibly accurate to the point it barely qualities as satire. Hertz will not have the car you reserved and will absolutely charge you extra money for whatever they happen to have […]

Look, I'm just saying that if you had to pick exactly two role models, you could do a lot worse than Fred Rogers and the goose from Untitled Goose Game.

current status of dinner - #waymo drove off with 3 bags of ingredients in the trunk before I could hit the open trunk button. Turns out they can’t drive car back, they can at best return car to depot so now driving across San Francisco to retrieve groceries […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

So I'm pretty sure #adobe is violating the law aggressively with regards to their payment processing. An already canceled Adobe subscription has been billing my credit card for months. The card is actually both locked and recurring charges from Adobe have been explicitly blocked. I've actually […]

And remember... Don't Be Evil! #google https://www.theverge.com/news/841219/google-gemini-us-military-ai-platform-genai-mil

At Micro Center today and the RAM prices are indeed insane. Now costs less for your processor than your RAM.

I grew up as a Windows person around Mac people. This was the peak era of Windows People and Mac People, the heady days of "It Just Works" and John Hodgman on TV. It's fascinating now to watch the Mac People losing trust in their vendor. It's like a crisis of faith. With one iffy update after […]

One of my favorite categories of pointless interviews is when people ask an actor if they want to come back and do the role again. I find this hilarious every time because it is not their decision and they like paychecks. It's just a dumb question, for the right money the answer is always going […]

"The dead kid violated our Terms of Service" is one of those arguments that has to absolutely condemn a company. #chatgpt #openai https://www.theverge.com/news/831207/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-parental-controls-tos

I was motivated to confgure a private Microsoft Store page today at work. Turns out Microsoft deprecated that already. Funny how that happens. #windows

Fun fact for no reason: If you set up a 2025 version of #microsoft #entraid Connect on a Windows Server 2022 machine which ships with Edge... it uses Internet Explorer as the web view for authentication. I'm sure that's not an #infosec nightmare waiting to happen.

Rental car company absolutely tried scamming me. Obviously they didn't have the car I reserved, so they wanted to upcharge me like 40% for a nicer car they had... I was able to edit the reservation online while standing there to "whatever you have" for the same cost as my original reservation […]

Last week, a self-driving car killed a beloved neighborhood cat in the Mission. Alex Hanna on mourning and anger and tech on the streets in SF: https://bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-long-live-kitkat/

This sounds bad, but I suspect it's a highly conservative estimate for both Facebook and Google. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-estimates-that-it-earns-10-of-its-revenue-from-scams-report-says/

PICARD: We think we've come so far. The torture of heretics, the burning of witches, it's all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, it suddenly threatens to start all over again. WORF: I believed her. I helped her. I did not see what she was. PICARD: Mister Worf, villains who wear […]

Person making murder cars says society will be okay with cars murdering people. Just imagine being someone making this kind of money and being like "yeah, I know my product is going to kill people, but people will be fine with it". #waymo […]

Standing by your principles is expensive. Glad to hear @simon and the @ThePSF are sticking to them. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/

Watched #Thunderbolts and I understand the reason for the chosen "alternate title", but I also think "Therapy: The Movie" would've been a decent choice. ;)

Can you not? #meta

I really have to ask who Microsoft people talk to to approve this stuff. #copilot #microsoft https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/meet-the-new-clippy-microsoft-unveils-copilots-mico-avatar/

What a shame. One of the radio stations I listened to broadcast ICE propaganda ads encouraging people to contact the DHS with tips. Guess I won't be listening to them anymore. Absolutely surreal, it sounded exactly like I would've expected the Nazis to ask us to call in if we see any Jews in our […]

So I have @Kotaku in my RSS reader and whoever runs their deals thing now is annoying as heck. I keep getting posts with headlines about things being "Almost Free" (20% off), "For Pennies" (well over $100), etc.

Deciding to throw at least half of your customers under the bus is... a strategy one could take. Not sure why anyone would want to lose CarPlay or even Android Auto for a garbage old Android version which won't get updated well […]

My salary is "frozen" again & I can't get research funding. We laid off most of our staff. My brother lost his government job. My disabled mom's health insurance is about to go up 10x. My neighbors' houses are all for sale. The middle class is deep underwater and this billionaire MF keeps […]

One of the things I find really funny about articles about installing Windows 11 with a local account is that they'll focus on two or three "exploits" and whether or not Microsoft has broken them, and not a single article ever mentions the Pro edition still has a path right in the official UI to […]

I was today years old when I realized the name of WhatsApp is a play on "what's up".

Maybe when the article is a list of all the things it doesn't include access to, calling the service "CNN All Access" is a bad choice. Especially when the last attempt lasted a month. #cnn https://www.theverge.com/news/801615/cnn-all-access-subscription-streaming-service

Apparently just daring to acknowledge Charlie Kirk was a racist and misogynist on social media can get your visa revoked. As a safety warning: If you're not an American citizen, please don't visit us […]

[uspol notshitpost] I'm real tired of people trying to hide behind terminology like "demographic issue" or "demographic shift" to not say what they mean. Because they mean that they believe there's some cosmic order in the universe that says people living in a particular territory need to […]