Corrina Laughlin

Looks like Penn got hacked

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

Introducing AI Watchdog An ongoing investigation by The Atlantic to reveal the inner workings of generative AI

This is a really important resource and reporting cataloguing the scale at which AI is scraping the internet and allowing people to search these datasets

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Don’t threaten me with a good time

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

If you live in Colorado get out there and make some noise about this however you can

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If you need a reason to resist and refuse the entrenchment of AI technologies in schools and demand a different vision of education, here's one: "The Trump administration is willing to put resources behind AI education and AI literacy, while it strips funds for actual public education."

“Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke.”

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

he's bitin the heads off the angels now

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images 404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just point...

It sounds like Clearview but with a database of government photos instead of photos scraped from the internet. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

We might also ask what a person who has access to all of our information might do with it, now that we know he has a penchant for turning his AI machine into a Hitlermobile.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.

After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.

There’s an $18 chateauneuf du pape at Trader Joe’s that’s pretty nice.

Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

The singularity is awesome

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

These two L.A. restaurants are the city's first-ever to receive three Michelin stars For the first time in Michelin’s history, the global dining guide awarded three stars — the highest rating possible — to L.A. restaurants.

Today, Los Angeles received ts first honor of three Michelin Stars. The head chef of Somni, which received three, removed his jacket to reveal a t-shirt which read “immigrants feed America.”

www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

when you give authority to people who can't be held accountable, you get anonymous militia roaming the streets

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.

Once again Meta launches a feature without even taking a basic stab at privacy considerations www.404media.co/meta-invents...

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

ICE is in a deep cash crisis amid the immigration crackdown The agency is already $1 billion over budget by one estimate, with more than three months left in the fiscal year.

ICE is bankrupting itself www.axios.com/2025/06/16/i...

Mario Guevara, reporter who covers ICE raids, arrested at metro Atlanta protest DeKalb County police charged Spanish-language immigration reporter Mario Guevara with obstruction of law enforcement officers and pedestrian walking on or along a roadway.

At yesterday's protests in Atlanta, police arrested the respected journalist Mario Guevara—clearly ID'd as press and, crucially, known for tirelessly documenting ICE abuses—for livestreaming their crackdown.

He was booked on charges of "obstruction" and "pedestrian walking on or along" a roadway.

Terrifying