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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

it's weird to see people complain about Bad Bunny's performance being in Spanish when there have been entire operas in Italian, German and French performed in the US and the top song of the last two years, K-Pop Demon Hunters' "Golden" has lyrics in Korean

Study Species — Rosemary Mosco This chart will tell you which branch of nature you should study, from plants to mammals to fungi.

The stinkhorn also features prominently in this excellent chart by @rosemarymosco.com, an essential guide for nature studiers: rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-...

Let's make racists afraid again.

👇👇👇👇

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

it’s too cold to use the crying emoji, the tears would freeze on the way down

An excerpt from Roger Fisher’s March 1981 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, titled “Preventing Nuclear War”: “My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the president. If ever the president wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him, first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The president says, ‘George, I’m sorry, but tens of millions must die.’ He has to look someone in the eye and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home. When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon, they said, ‘My God, that’s terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the president’s judgment. He might never push the button.’”

White House Military Office Coast Guard aide Lt. Commander Woody Lee carrying the President Emergency Satchel (aka the “Football”) while walking next to President Ronald Reagan (who had recently undergone surgery on his left hand), near the White House, January 10, 1989.

In the March 1981 issue of the @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, conflict resolution expert and Harvard Law School professor Roger Fisher described his “quite simple” idea to force US presidents to viscerally confront the lethal consequences of ordering a nuclear attack. books.google.com/books/about/...

I have SOCKS from 2000, ffs.

what are you currently reading? I am always looking for recommendations :)

The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed, Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Murderbot Diaries - Fugutive Telemetry by Martha Wells

A poster that reads: you can’t spell hatred without red hat accompanied by a drawing of a red hat

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

I don't want to live in a world where we forget how to be kind to each other and that seems to be the goal of those who want to control us.

I just wanted to say thank you! It had been on my list to critically reevaluate the tech and services I am using for very long, and listening and relistening to your episodes has finally got me motivated to get started!

YouTube video by USGS [V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

If you need a little time off from the latest atrocities, Kilauea is off the chain right now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

A white on black typewritten note that reads "stay safe. Stay mad" With an image of a candle made of overlapping punctuation marks and a light leak effect for a flame

🕯️ gnbsky

marketing email from Greyhound with subject line "Want a weekend adventure to brag about?"

NO

Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren?

Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.

It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.

No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

So, we’ve got a three-panel comic here, with two people on each panel. The first panel is in the 2000’s (You can tell because I’ve written ‘2000’s’ below it), and one person is holding a vinyl record and talking to the other person who’s listening to an ipod and the record person is saying, “Yeah, but this sounds so much better” In the next panel, this time in the 2010’s (Can you believe 2010 is like 15 years ago now? That’s mad) - anyway is this one there’s a person holding a stack of books and they;re talking to someone reading off a tablet, and they’re saying “...and you can’t beat a real book…” - Yep, that’s right, there’s a pattern emerging here! Just wait till you see where this goes! So, Panel 3 and we’ve caught up to the 2020’s - waheeey! This time there’s a person using AI on a laptop, and the other person is holding up an entire human being and they’re saying “OH Yeah? Ever used a Real Artist?” and the artist is all like “hey” Anyway. If you can, hire a human to create stuff. Cheers.

Go old school, hire a human.

I don’t know which conservative Democrats need to hear this history lesson, but the German elected officials who voted to fund the Gestapo were considered Nazi collaborators.

History is watching.

mfs posting "general strike now!" we can't even get you to stop supporting Amazon and Starbucks

Am posting this again, hoping somone listens this time…..

Just one day??

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

I am choosing to believe that 2026 is getting all the shitty stuff out of the way early so that we can enjoy most of the year in peace.

asked my six year old niece what was wrong with phones and she said "people keep looking at them
and don't listen to you" then asked "so what would you do about it" and she said "feed the phones to crocodiles" so her platform has my full support

BREAKING: Trump has sent a warning to the governments of Mexico, Cuba and Colombia that their countries could be next, per Axios.

When Trump says it won’t end up costing the United States to illegally invade and “control” Venezuela because of the value of their oil, he means there will be a massive public cost, but that’s ok because private companies and oligarchs, including his family, will make a ton of money.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"