Evil! (Which You Call Crime) ♑️

A man of taste

And the same people responsible for this will be the same people calling us “lazy”

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted The feature could arrive as soon as this year.

Shit like this is why I spent a big chunk of my Meta Ray-Ban Display review talking about privacy and what it mean culturally that we haven't figured out how it works with smart glasses.

I still think a bigger backlash is coming.

www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...

Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days Free condoms for competitors at the Winter Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days

They’re just out there setting records at everything.

If you are grandfathered in to Ring you can turn off all the settings for Police and “pet” surveillance permissions, which are of course default on. Control Center —> public safety and Control Center —> Search Party (this is the one from the Super Bowl ad)

Verge headline: ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground by Gaby Del Valle Photos by Jack Califano Photo depicts a white brick wall plastered with two recurring posters: One that says Alex Pretty ICU Nurse - Murdered by ICE, shows his photo with red highlights. Another is similar but reads Renee Nicole Good American Mom - Murdered by ICE

ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows.

Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK

A small price to pay to be this soft and supple!

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This song still goes platinum in my room

Can't count that low huh

A nothing sentiment

Happy 45th Bday Kelly Rowland 🎊🥰

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

L.A. Olympics committee backs chairman Casey Wasserman amid Epstein scrutiny The entertainment executive, under scrutiny for his email correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell, “should continue to lead LA28,” the board said.

The organizers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics announce that entertainment mogul Casey Wasserman will remain committee chairman amid scrutiny on his ties to Ghislaine Maxwell.

Yall see what they did with oxtail. Keep it to yourself.

And sugar was a key component of Canada's participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (aside from having enslaved Africans here too) - sugar and rum from the Caribbean were traded for trash scraps of codfish from Atlantic provinces, to provide a cheap protein source for enslaved people.

Finding out that top execs from both LifeTouch and Chuck E. Cheese are in the Epstein files has pissed me off in a way that I didn’t think was still possible.

The fact that he's speaking uo now means we are undercounting

Genuinely always skipped passed that lil pop up, didn't know there was a paid discord

Anybody out there ever chewed on sugar cane. I'm getting a wave of nostalgia for this rural southern treat.

Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him

Last October.

Lol

It's so easy for them to destroy the web as we know it

Aside from the fact that it was obviously a different kid…do you really think a traumatized five year old who probably doesn’t understand what happened to them and was just in jail for weeks is going to want to go on a sudden cross country outing to a massive event filled with strangers?

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this:

1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume.
2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics.
3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number.

So many more details here in the piece. Go read!

Screenshot of posts from four different people talking about a ring commercial that I completely missed. (God bless the “popular with friends” feed) Brandon Friedman • @brandonfried... • 31m The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life Adam Gurri © @adamgurri.liberalcur... • 33m So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh Tressie McMillan Cottom • @tressi... • 34m I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people's empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog. Joshua Erlich •@joshuaerlich.bsky.... • 34m fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs

We’re onto you, Ring