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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.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I'll be frank: LLM AIs are genuinely _useful_. They are, however, not useful to the degree or in the ways that folks who evangelize AI think it is.

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

“'That’s ICE,” I said. “What’s ICE?” he answered. I pointed. “Oh God!” he exclaimed. Because suddenly he found himself in the trap. Show you’re afraid, and they can really give you something to cry about."

So pleased the full and better version of this is in @literaryhub.bsky.social Please read!

*Epstein co-conspirators nervously watching the daily Dow closing average to see if they will be held accountable for their crimes.*

Here's a hidden secret of doorbell cameras, as revealed by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping. They're recording even when you don't know it, and sending video to company servers even when you don't pay

Okay. Okay okay okay.

I just got a text from my dad. He says they're watching a basketball game and they saw an ad for Cascade dishwasher... powder.

IS IT HAPPENING???

Really annoying when I've been feeling like I'm slow walking into being sick, like I've got a low grade fever all day, then when I go to bed, I wake up an hour later and now I'm wide awake.

Especially when I deliberately tried to go to bed not super late so that I can get a decent night's sleep...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

CW: politics

i really think people underrate how badly the broad toleration of white collar crime for HALF A CENTURY has perverted the republic! it's worse than the death of the fairness doctrine! i could argue worse than citizens united even!

>king sending his brother to jail

close enough welcome back edward iv

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

I'd ask if you were really a leftist based on that comment, but then I realized that you're also beefing with leftists with it as well.

This is the founder of Bellingcat (One of, if not *the*, most thorough... OSINT/Investigative journalism organizations in the world today).

What do you say to those who claim you’re not American? I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.

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Tell someone you're a kicker, without telling them you're a kicker.

Swiss Family Robinson :P

Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”

Page Six:

Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps

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Macbeth: SHIT

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

Finally got to the end of the transcript and there’s a huge discussion over who exactly is *adding conditions of release* when detainees are being ordered *unconditionally* released by the judges. Le says it’s the field office supervisors…and names David Easterwood of Cities Church fame.

Don't use biometrics. Just don't.

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation

If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

oh, joy.

I mean, it's probably an easier way of treating ADHD than the current bullshit that the DEA has inflicted on the country...

😶DAMN... that's dark.

... in-before "yeah, that's because it's winter".

Oh, I completely missed that this is one of the new scope-meters. Nice.

That's definitely one of those 'IYKYK' things. I've definitely made that mistake a couple times in the past, but that's why many DMMs have a spot for a spare fuse under the battery cover.