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“If you don’t approve this settlement, I will destroy you,” lobbyist Mike Davis told Gail Slater, then head of DOJ’s antitrust div. (Davis denies.)This gift @wsj.com article details alleged corruption/patronage in DOJ, starring Davis & others. ... 1/2 www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Every abortion seeker deserves privacy—help make that a reality by sharing these digital security & privacy tips around pregnancy & abortion! https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-artwork-zines/digital-security-for-abortion-and-pregnancy-privacy-poster

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Published a quick-hit analysis of Trump's National AI Policy framework on my blog/newsletter from @consumerfed.bsky.social -- eyeonai.substack.com

Google reduced our headline “I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything” to just five words: “‘Cheat on everything’ AI tool.” It almost sounds like we’re endorsing a product we do not recommend at all. Read more from @seanhollister.bsky.social:

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

Across both of his terms, President Trump has granted clemency to more than 70 allies, donors and others convicted in fraud cases.

New from 404 Media: Tinder plans to use AI to scan your camera roll. AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. Designed to filters explicit photos but users may still be concerned www.404media.co/tinder-plans...

Hey, I know you're suffering because we waged a pointless, massively expensive, forever war that I promised would never happen if you elected us, and we did it without the slightest bit of preparation, which is compounding the pain, but hey, at least a bunch of foreigners are suffering more!

NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras. So he covered them with plastic bags. Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.

Facebook could have--and I mean this with no sarcasm or exaggeration whatsoever--ended world hunger for the next twelve years with what they spent to do whatever this was instead

ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer

AI chatbots are making it easier for 'teen’ accounts to plan violence like school shootings — even though safeguards exist. Claude shows what’s possible: it recognized & refused escalating violent requests in 68% of cases. The tech exists to prevent harm, so why aren’t more companies using it?

Facebook's parent company will now be renamed "Perv Glasses"

good reminder that the futures Meta and other Big Tech cos force down our throats and scream to try to make true are almost ALWAYS wrong + bad a few years ago it was the metaverse, now its AI, facial recognition-powered smart glasses that can secretly record you, and networked constant surveillance

they literally renamed the entire company after this

For Business Insider, I read three books about Palantir and wrote about how "Palantirianism" -- unabashed nationalism, tech building up the US security state, ready to commit violence on behalf of the US and our allies -- is ascendant in Silicon Valley. www.businessinsider.com/palantir-gui...

The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting their opponents.

Big day for people using gambling sites as sources of data to tell how a race is going

I always let my boss guess my shoe size and order me their favorite shoes at the time without asking It’s the only way to get the right size

“Robot dog guarding the data center” is the cherry on top of your dystopian sundae.

“Dismissing harm to #consumers as an afterthought ignores the reality facing many American households. CFA’s work makes clear, families are already under mounting financial pressure, and policies that knowingly increase costs only deepen the #affordability crisis.” @susanweinstock.bsky.social

spiritually the same photo

laws being enforced is so great, we should do this more often

Last week, the Consumer Federation of America published the Scam Economy report, showing that Americans lost an estimated $119 BILLION dollars in 2024, more than 7x the reported rate from the FBI. It's a devastating and almost unthinkable amount. Behind this number, there are millions of (1/2)

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Could not cosign this more strongly. Putting $100 on your team on vacation in a janky casino or dog track is a great American experience; a world of addictives app putting every other American man under 25 into deep, lifelong debt is bad.

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

All this week I've written about how here in IL, dark money and MAGA aligned PACs are spending absurd sums of money to prop up establishment corporate Dems while attacking progressive Dems who are actually willing to fight. MSNOW has the scoop on just how deep this goes: www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

One to watch. May spread globally. "Artificial intelligence systems that can generate sexualized deepfakes of real people would be banned in the EU under proposals seen by POLITICO." www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...

This story is likely just the tip of the iceberg www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

100% earnestly thought these were the please don’t destroy boys lmaoooo

This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.

Fitting that they sent the Temu version of a cease and desist

Read CFA's Full Report Here: @benwinters.bsky.social consumerfed.org/reports/true...

Americans are losing at least $119 billion every year to #Scams, according to a new estimate from the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group. @nbcnews.com @kevincollier.bsky.social

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

New: In a pretty straightforward calculation I'm surprised I hadn't seen done before, researchers at @consumerfed.bsky.social looked at how much people report in the scam losses to FBI + the most reliable study on how underreported scams go, and calculated we're losing $119 billion a year at least.

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

'Flock Flocked up' How a license plate camera misread unraveled one man's life. Horrifying story of Flock misreading plates. The driver was then mauled by a police dog while officers comment he is acting like a petulant child. The license plates weren't stolen, and he was the registered owner

"I am actively becoming less informed about the world while surrounding myself with robots who praise me," may be apex 21st Century American Man.

“Axon was sued by shareholders last month after rejecting a transparency proposal asking the policing technology firm to disclose its political spending strategy and make transparent all direct and indirect political contributions.”

Thoughtful critique of age verification requirements by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Age verification is a big privacy threat, with the costs worth more than the benefits. The best approaches to protect children online involve privacy protections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...