It’s fuckin baloney that we have real actual (maybe even solvable!) problems but we can never deal with them because first we have to address the never ending cavalcade of bullshit make-believe concerns of the dumbest and meanest 1/3 of people

It's a beautiful kind of irony when the world's most famous DDoS protector ends up getting taken down by a single useEffect hook. They protected everyone else from the storm, but forgot to board up their own windows. Cloudflare accidentally DDoS'ed itself www.sdxcentral.com/news/cloudfl...

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

True story: my friend actually got vibe coding cleanup specialist freelance job www.404media.co/the-software...

Every time I read an editorial in the Washington Post in which the geniuses over there predict how someone will act in office, I remember this.

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents. It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually. This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

Teachers need to understand that the Gen ai lesson plan websites with the chatbots that write your emails etc.they allllll use your data to train LLM. They are not confidential. You are the product and your work is helping them to make print products they will later sell. Or they will sell you out.

Teach your children to use the internet the correct way (mostly just reading Wikipedia pages about plane crashes and deep sea creatures)

If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear… 📌 California lawmakers just passed SB 627, the “No Secret Police Act,” which would make it illegal for law enforcement to hide their identities while on duty in the state.

🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not. Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives! Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy 👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Just wait till Muslims starts praying in school. Personally, I think all religion should stay out of schools.

The EU trying to simplify tech sounds like a joke 🤣

Trump and his enablers openly disdain scientists, academics, and teachers. Science, by its nature, values evidence, skepticism, and open inquiry—all of which threaten authoritarian control. Scientists, academics, and teachers are obstacles to Trump's power.

A porn star posing in front of a pedophile has something to say about school teachers…

I cannot stress how much of a terrible idea ChatControl is and I can't stress how many constitutional laws it breaks. Please, any Europeans, do bug your MEPs about it. www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

if the EU might drop #chatcontrol cause of the US and thanks to Tulsi Gabbard... I need a beer now.

🇬🇧German police data 📊 on #chatcontrol 1.0: A record 99,375 private chats 💬 & photos 📸 of innocent people were wrongly reported to police in 2024 (+9% 📈). The EU's mandatory #ChatControl 2.0 would cause this privacy disaster to EXPLODE 💣. #StopScanningMe

Since we need media and tech competency for teachers, here is my advice on social media if you work in education: 1)avoid using your real name if you are still in a classroom, and especially if you are a young or new teacher. You do NOT want to be easily searchable. They will find you online.

Absolutely this. It should be a core and compulsory subject taught in all schools.

The Online Safety Law can NEVER stop kids looking at porn. Nobody with a shred of technical knowledge would claim it can. Porn will always be a minute or two away. Most of the world couldn't care less about UK law, just like we don't care about their laws. So kids can just look at overseas sites.

In a couple of years, if you use a VPN service to protect your privacy in the EU, you'll be treated like a potential pedo.

New, by me: Google refused to say if it received a secret UK court order, like Apple did, demanding the company build a backdoor for accessing encrypted user data. Meta said it hasn't received one. Apple said it's barred from disclosing if it had one (it has!). Google tried to dodge the question.

"Unlike traditional digital payments, programmable money can be embedded with conditions: where, when, & how it can be used. These features aren’t hypothetical – Australian CBDC pilot programs tested programmable functions such as geo‑restricted spending & timed expiry" theaimn.net/how-programm...

Student: "If you tell me to plan out an essay, I would think of going to ChatGPT before getting out a pencil" futurism.com/teens-using-... #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEd

If the EU ends up putting tariffs on metals from Iceland and Norway while not tariffing the US and committing to buying US industrial good instead of domestic, then it’s sure as hell looking more like a subservient vassal to the US and less the global economic power it pretends to be

Labour should be a very stark and bleak example to Democrats of what “moderating towards the center” ends in. Don’t fucking fall for it. It’s going to literally kill their party in 2029

Why on earth did the British vote for this?

Into the woods.

The only way to ban minors is to control adults' ID cards or, the most sensible option, being a responsible parent and not letting the ipad grow the kid. But parents are idiots and the EU wants to censor everything instead

They don't care about kids, it's just an excuse to get your data and know exactly what you're up too at all times. The UK has arrested many many people over saying things on twitter or one guy, liked a post and had 6 police officers at his door to take him away. These laws are not to help kids.

Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in.

VPNs are gaining popularity in the UK as authorities impose strict age verification for accessing certain websites. Under the guise of “protecting children,” adult privacy and an open internet are being dismantled. Maybe a simpler solution: keep kids offline? Less harm done.

"VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in" “This is what happens when people who haven’t got a clue about technology pass legislation,” Anthony Rose, a UK-based tech entrepreneur who helped to create BBC iPlayer, the corporation’s streaming service, said in a social media post.

This will seriously fuel anti-American sentiment and Euroscepticism across the EU. Tough times ahead for Europe! All this time the Commission was deceiving us with its empty threats of retaliation. And Ukraine's next! If you're European, stop buying American products starting today.

"It's to protect kids!" It's surveillance. "They tracked my phone anyway!" And now you attached your legal ID to that.

The EU got this one right.

*sigh*

Fifth Third Bank? Not sure you guys figured out the whole counting thing, which feels kinda important for a bank.

More banks seem to be buying Bitcoin lately.

Moving fast from 1933 to 1934. Some timelines are repeating.

So is cash?

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tf is everyone's problem with AC?

Every person who proposes to write one of these articles should be forced to live a year in Georgia or Mississippi without air conditioning. Spend a month somewhere where the mean July temperature is ~90F instead of ~70F - heat can kill and even when it doesn't, it shatters productivity.

Because so many people use the word "literally" figuratively, it now means both "literally" and "not literally."

A programming fact that still amazes me is that the HTTP header which containers the referring url is called "referer", because the developer spelt "referrer" wrong and the spell checker didn't catch it, so it made it into the official standards and they just never changed it lmao

Pretty soon, coding without Internet is gonna be nearly impossible, and not long after that, no one will need the Internet to code, everyone will have billion-parameter LLMs running locally on their laptop.

I can't believe access to top LLMs is still free.