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Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “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,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

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bumper sticker: I'd let Janice the Muppet steal my identity and my 1995 mitsubishi eclipse

Agents Who Shot Marimar Martinez Caught On Video Saying 'Do Something, Bitch' Newly released body camera footage shows Border Patrol agents swerving their car into the Chicago woman before shooting her five times.

The Border Patrol agents lied. They always lie. And they lie to destroy other people's lives for fun.

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Indeed. Though I will point out that this is yet another set of data points showing that all the vocational arguments against the humanities/liberal arts rest on vibes & not actual data.

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Still insane to me that the GOP can gin up a moral panic about innocuous things like drag queen story time while we know Democrats would be eviscerated in the press if they ever started asking what the deal is with youth pastors getting arrested every week.

It’s fascinating to what degree the party of the religious right has just decided infidelity is absolutely fine.

I refuse to learn about this Clavicular person. I refuse. I'm sorry. I know too much about too many racists already. This one does not strike me as a person with a shelf life. He will fade into obscurity and I intend to learn nothing during these 15 minutes he has.

The History Channel loves to be like “did Hitler store 10 billion dollars Nazi gold in this Pennsylvania house?” and answer that question as demonstrably “no of course not” and then make 18 seasons of “Pennsylvania Hitler House”

That's right! Every single "AI tried to deceive us" story is entirely a result of directly training the models to respond in a certain way to create this specific reaction. This era stinks
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

It's so much easier to not take online bad takes seriously now that I have kids. People just say stuff because they're silly gooses. I don't get mad anymore I just chuckle and go "what a silly goose"

The important context of “I won’t vote for Newsom”-gate is it’s been more than 20 years since Democrats had to actually work to figure out who people want to vote for and put in legitimate efforts to make a case for them, and they’re very annoyed they might have to start doing that again

Imagine centering the dude with the Nazi tat who has never won an election, while ignoring Michelle Wu, the only mayor of Boston in history to run for re-election unopposed.

Kind of a feckless and inept editorial choice.

However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)

If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.

[pulls out the Broad Brush] I think this lack of understanding is essential. “Understanding” is a pink job—mom’s job. One only tries to understand another to achieve comity. This administration sees empathy as weakness. They strive only to dominate, to which “understanding” is an impediment.

Für Linke ist Macht Verantwortung für die Gesellschaft, für Rechte ist Macht der Weg, sich selbst zu bereichern. Deswegen streben Rechte so viel hartnäckiger nach der Macht - sie ist häufig ihre einzige Chance. Das ist ein strukturelles Ungleichgewicht, von dem ich nicht weiß, wie man es beseitigt.

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One of the most fascinating aspects of the America Crisis is how under Trump much of the US Homeland security apparatus seems to understand places like Minnesota or Maine as little as the US National security apparatus under Bush understood places like Anbar or Herat

the minute the fb algorithm clocks you as a straight man it immediately sets about trying to destroy your life & endanger those around you

Old enough to remember when Republicans thought armed agents pointing a gun at a scared little Latino boy was an outrage. "Stormtroopers," they said. "Jackbooted thugs."

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Sure only the tattoo but also

Platner has yet to *run* in a race as big as the one Mamdani already won. The privileging of white faces as the ‘real American’ ones continues

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

banning consumer and employee arbitration clauses would probably go fairly far in fixing the rot in American business

one of my biggest hobbyhorses is that the Federal Arbitration Act jurisprudence purports that the FAA applies to contracts which it was constitutionally prohibited from applying to when the Act was written

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.

Ring cancelled its partnership with Flock after Super Bowl ad blowback - by Annie Palmer @cnbc.com... www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/a...

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