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Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.

Meta's new celebrity-voiced AI bots, which Zuckerberg has touted as the "future of social media" are engaging in explicit role-play with accounts identified as minors.

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this is precisely how twitter would have been in germany in the 1940s

"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.

not to tell anyone how to do their jobs or anything but if i was a US attorney i might not write whole letters laying out how i was targeting nonprofits specifically for first amendment protected activities

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

It is not a “DEI” rollback it is the resegregation of American universities. Headline writers could at least be honest about this.

New Gaza medic attack video contradicts Israel military claims

Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel's claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month.

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On

Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them.

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Trump cuts funding to tribal libraries, turns agency focus to 'American exceptionalism' The president issued an executive order that will dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency critical to small libraries.

Trump cuts funding to tribal libraries, turns agency focus to 'American exceptionalism'
📚 #IMLS
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The greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing people they had more in common with politicians who show up twice a decade to ask for votes than their own neighbours who live with them every day

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

The way I want to BEG people to realize that only one side seems to get that politics is about POWER

US bird flu response disrupted in early weeks of Trump administration, sources say​ The Trump administration has disrupted the U.S. response to bird flu as the outbreak worsens, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, state officials, veterinarians and health experts, 11 sources told Reuters.

The Trump admin has "disrupted the response" to bird flu by withholding reports and canceling meetings with both Congress and state health officials, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, states, veterinarians and health experts.
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Here's a trick for having it both ways: Vote for Hitler, then play dumb and pretend you had no idea. A trillion liberals will welcome you back into the fold without question and shield you from the tiniest criticism

And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual.

Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

now id never wish death on anyone but

glad bluesky is using the same moderation that Roblox uses to be a child sweatshop/pedo hunting ground. was worried you guys wouldn’t turn into Twitter and subsequently hemorrhage your user base to whatever clone comes next

embarrassing as fuck honestly. y'all are just temporarily embarrassed liberals

In addition to this being loser shit—they have a THREE SEAT majority in the House—do we imagine that saying stuff like "What leverage do we have?" during an unprecedented crisis will inspire more people to support Dems?

For the first several years, the German economy did remarkably well and Hitler was quite popular. People who warned of imminent disaster were widely mocked and considered cranks.

You begin to appreciate the pace of events:

Hitler became Chancellor on January 30.

The Reichstag burned on February 27.

The Enabling Act was signed on March 23.

Dachau opened the day before.

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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we need cancel culture and wokeness back so so bad it’s unreal. it should not be acceptable to be openly racist and a eugenicist in a normal society

whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly

america's most coddled and pampered demographic (old white conservatives) will be exposed to like 20% of the bad stuff but will receive 80% of the sympathetic press inquiry

it’s incredibly annoying how correct everyone was warning the dangers of going status quo with the democratic party 6 years ago