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Im tired of scientist making dinosaurs skin tight to their skelebones. You guys see how hippos ; the dont look like that. It doesnt help that dinosaurs are supposedly closer to chickens than lizards. Gimme some big ass birds!🗣️🗣️🗣️

AI users bleating about "prompt thieves". A "prompt thief" is just the guy behind you at McDonalds ordering exactly the same thing; neither of you are doing any work and neither of you have any taste, because you're both at f**king McDonalds.

KOSA dropping duty of care is great but this article buries a very important lede: A bill package will be introduced once the govt reopens that is a collection of multiple bad "child safety" bills, COPPA 2.0, the Sammy Act, and the App Store Accountability Act [age verification] CALL YOUR REPS

The privacy issue with KOSA "resonating with a large swath of people"-- that's you, that was you calling your reps. Don't let anyone tell you it's pointless Let's do it again for the censorship bills in this new package

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Just so we're clear, they're proposing a tax on speech. www.goerie.com/story/news/p...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #climatecrisis warms country - only Antarctica now free of the insects www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Israeli Defense Forces said it struck “dozens” of targets in Gaza, about one week after the ceasefire went into effect.

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Abgesehen davon gibt es gerade den von Netanjahu orchestrierten Versuch, genau dieses framing zu pushen. Gerade indem die Israelis sich genau rauspicken wen sie freilassen. Warum pusht mab die narrative der israelischen Faschisten in deutschen Medien?

Steffi Hentschkes framing ist wirklich komplett jenseits von gut und böse. Israelische Soldaten die literarisch aus ihrem fucking Panzer "entführt" wurden sind Geiseln, aber Palästinenser, die jahrelang ohne jede Anklage in "administrativhaft" sitzen, werden schon Mal vorverurteilt

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This video never names it, but it nails the “woozle effect”: when something seems true bc sources cite each other instead of an original. The term’s from Winnie the Pooh, where Pooh and Piglet follow their own tracks in circles looking for "woozles." Perfect metaphor for AI ouroboros poisoning info.

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

Absolutely heinous.

Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.

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the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Protests take place in Barcelona, Rome, Lisbon and London, where police made more than 100 arrests.

I’ve been following Palestine protests for a long time. I could be wrong, but this feels different. Protests in Italy are big and numerous. General strike already declared for Friday. Loads of protests planned in the UK. Spain, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Sweden either already happening or planned.

The advance of ai has become scary and its even scarier nothings being down about it. I dunno. I think that Dodge money went there

Eye and eyeless.

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

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Please call your reps about KOSA today. Especially if they're Republican. This is THE priority

Guess which super leftist inclusive enjoyable lovely platform deleted another one of my PaIestinian friend’s accounts despite them not violating any guidelines? BlueSky! #blueskycensorship

The exact lineup of investors is still under wraps but the network of players is in some cases nearly half a century in the making.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

To give you an idea of how much they "care" about protecting children online. Out of all states that have approved an age/ID verification bill, none have exemptions for CSA victims to access support groups. MO only forces adult sites to show a helpline number. (Source: Free Speech Coalition, GPB)

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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Hey if you live in Ohio, calling your reps and expressing your displeasure over this upcoming law is worth doing

Oh, hey. Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy". Let that sink in. Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

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