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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans' Social Security data | TechCrunch The revelation comes as part of a series of corrections in a legal case over DOGE’s access to Social Security Administration data.

The revelation comes as part of a series of corrections in a legal case over DOGE’s access to Social Security Administration data.

wordclown posts: Re: Kennedy Center .org/.com Domains Noted. Satire is protected speech. Confusion is a legal requirement, not a feeling. Political parody is not infringement. Criticism is not cybersquatting, and trademark law isn't a panic button for institutions that don't like being laughed at. I'll proceed accordingly while you go fuck yourselves. Dog Bless 🐶🙏

Former SOUTH PARK writer Toby Morton got an angry letter from Trump’s lawyers because he registered the Trump-Kennedy Center domain names (check out www.trumpkennedycenter.org 😃) and his response is 100% Pure 2026 ⭐️

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.

New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents They’re taking our jobs.

Automatization without wealth redistribution = inequality

#socializeAI

www.theverge.com/news/803257/...

The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky | TechCrunch The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.

The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on #Bluesky - techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/t... #trump

Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement? You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

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The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

A federal judge struck down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230 (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

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Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

NEW: a second breach at women's dating safety app Tea has exposed more than one million direct messages. The DMs includes discussions of abortions, cheating, etc. Hard to overstate how sensitive this data is, and it can be used to unmask anonymous Tea users. www.404media.co/a-second-tea...

Brazil Weighs Measures on US Dividends, Tech Firms, Reports Say President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government is intensifying its deliberations on possible measures after the US government announced it was revoking visas for some Brazilian Supreme Court justice...

Brazil is considering halting the grant of patent monopolies to U.S. drug companies as retaliation to Trump's attacks www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Unlike intellectuals here, Lula recognizes that patent monopolies are NOT the free market.

Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots | TechCrunch Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately or even dangerously, according to researchers at Stanford University.

Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots

them: dont come in here with your tree shit

me: [coming in with my tree shit]

As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members: 1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual. 1 Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160 Filed 07/07/25 Page 2 of 4 The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned. Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

Los Angeles residents were outraged after dozens of federal agents marched through MacArthur Park, in one of the city’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Homeland Security officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. trib.al/JYW5IsU

Finally I could get my copy!
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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Big tech’s role in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza takes center stage at UN "AI for Good” summit in Geneva.

Dr. @abeba.bsky.social, a leading responsible AI and AI ethics researcher, calls out big tech’s complicity in war crimes.

#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

As the FBI assigns hundreds of additional agents to focus on arresting people for deportation, agents "have been told by supervisors not to document moving resources away from high-priority cases toward immigration-related work."
www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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Palestine: Dozens of Palestinians massacred at U.S.-Israel backed food distribution sites | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Dozens of Palestinians killed, hundreds injured while seeking food at Gaza humanitarian assistance distribution sites backed by the U.S. and Israel. MSF teams join the mass casualty response amid repo...

#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres.

Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

ICE carried out an Iraq 2006 style convoy raid using half a police department, 2 multi-million dollar armored vehicles, and a drone to question a suburban college kid about his anti-genocide and anti-ethnic cleansing posts online.

Millions in tax payer dollars to harass a kid.

I walk through my town as if it is #BaldursGate.
Cats included 😻

I have no proof, but I have no doubts 🤭

DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.

SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.

Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever. www.wired.com/story/north-...

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