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Education Troublemaker, Instructional Designer, EdTechie, Video gamer, Linguist, Geek and Trekkie. I am a perpetual student. views my own. 19477448.

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Gemini Expands to Live Camera Feeds: What It Means for Your Privacy Gemini for Home's AI is getting a significant upgrade -- if you don't mind it peering through your security cam.

Today in luxury surveillance.

05.03.2026 02:21 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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I Am Fighting Back Against the Trump Administration by Moving to Portugal “More people moved out of the U.S. last year than moved in for the first time since the Great Depression as a record number of citizens moved abroa...

"In the face of autocracy, we must make our voices heard. I spoke truth to power by calling a real estate agent who caters to Americans relocating to the Iberian Peninsula and telling him about my dream of owning a charming three-story villa on the Portuguese Coast."

04.03.2026 19:27 — 👍 102    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 3
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Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike.

University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections.

NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!

05.03.2026 00:37 — 👍 484    🔁 75    💬 3    📌 6
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Sen. Murphy: They told us in there that this is an open-ended operation that hasn't even really started... they refuse to take off of the table the insertion of ground troops ... there is no question that this is war. #TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy

04.03.2026 13:19 — 👍 144    🔁 80    💬 7    📌 1
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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz “In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

"Is your leader currently breaking ground on several expensive and cartoonishly vain construction projects in the nation’s capital?"

05.03.2026 02:40 — 👍 65    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Displaced residents will move to Harbor Point Students who remain displaced from their dorms in the East Residence Hall will move to apartments at the Harbor Point on the Bay complex for the rest of the semester, the university announced Wednesday. The apartment complex, which is popular among UMass Boston students, is located on the north side of Mt. Vernon Street, just...

Displaced residents will move to Harbor Point

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Don’t Put Away Those Winter Coats—Another Arctic Blast Is On the Way The Eastern U.S. is finally enjoying some springlike warmth, but meteorologists say temperatures could plummet again in mid-to-late March.

Don’t Put Away Those Winter Coats—Another Arctic Blast Is On the Way

05.03.2026 02:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Idaho Pursues Higher-Ed Cuts, While Wyoming Backs Off Big Hit to Flagship The legislative session is underway in dozens of states, and higher education is very much on the agenda. Here’s the latest.

Idaho Pursues Higher-Ed Cuts, While Wyoming Backs Off Big Hit to Flagship

05.03.2026 02:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He Vibe-Coded a Crisis for Higher Education archive.md/cpw5A

05.03.2026 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google brings Android’s desktop mode to Pixel devices The Pixel 8 and up will display a desktop-like experience when connected to an external monitor.

Google brings Android’s desktop mode to Pixel devices

05.03.2026 01:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of ‘metaverse’ apps Will Google Play be getting ‘metaverse browsers’?

Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of ‘metaverse’ apps www.theverge.com/tech/889526/...

05.03.2026 01:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

05.03.2026 00:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
LLM-Assisted Deanonymization - Schneier on Security Turns out that LLMs are good at de-anonymization: We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and anonymized interview transcripts, our method identifies users with high precision ­ and scales to tens of thousands of candidates. While it has been known that individuals can be uniquely identified by surprisingly few attributes, this was often practically limited. Data is often only available in unstructured form and deanonymization used to require human investigators to search and reason based on clues. We show that from a handful of comments, LLMs can infer where you live, what you do, and your interests—then search for you on the web. In our new research, we show that this is not only possible but increasingly practical...

LLM-Assisted Deanonymization

04.03.2026 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shaq Warns Young Players Not To Do Movie About Genie LOS ANGELES—Urging the next generation of NBA talent to learn from his mistakes and avoid going down the wrong path, Shaquille O’Neal issued a stern warning Monday to young basketball players not to star in a movie about a genie. “When you come into the league and suddenly have all this money and fame, it’s easy […]

😂🧅Shaq Warns Young Players Not To Do Movie About Genie

04.03.2026 22:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking Like many other features and systems in modern cars, tire pressure sensors leak sensitive data that can be abused by threat actors.

Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking

04.03.2026 19:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data | TechCrunch A hacking group called Department of Peace said they hacked a specific office within Homeland Security to protest ICE’s mass deportation campaign, and the companies aiding it.

Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data

04.03.2026 19:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Chatbot data harvesting yields sensitive personal info : AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

04.03.2026 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MFA faces scrutiny for recent firings Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has faced criticism for laying off 33 of its employees Jan. 30, many of whom were involved in programs and exhibits around diversity. The announcement was made public Jan. 27 through the Boston Globe, which reported on internal emails received Jan. 26 by affected staff. The emails cited financial deficits...

MFA faces scrutiny for recent firings

04.03.2026 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here’s Why Trump Posted About Iran ‘Stealing’ the 2020 Election Hours After the US Attacked Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social about Iran echoed a conspiracy theory that has been circulating online for years.

Here’s Why Trump Posted About Iran ‘Stealing’ the 2020 Election Hours After the US Attacked

04.03.2026 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Δέκα συμβουλές για να καλύπτεις την επίθεση στο Ιράν όπως τα «έγκυρα» δυτικα ΜΜΕ - INFO-WAR Δέκα συμβουλές καλής δυτικής προπαγάνδας για το Ιράν από την Φραγκίσκα Μεγαλούδη

Δέκα συμβουλές για να καλύπτεις την επίθεση στο Ιράν όπως τα «έγκυρα» δυτικα ΜΜΕ

04.03.2026 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scammers target Dubai bank accounts amid Iran missile salvo : Vulnerable citizens targeted by criminals purporting to represent fake police crisis department

Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes

04.03.2026 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash Chief Executive Sam Altman said the group would prohibit the use of its systems to spy on Americans.

Thanks Sam... Still went come back...OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

04.03.2026 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.

Fuck Trump's FCC....FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal

04.03.2026 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree #NPR www.npr.org/2026/03/...

04.03.2026 14:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom

04.03.2026 13:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges The administration has burnt the “presumption of regularity” to a crispness normally reserved for conquered bridges succumbing to heat death. It is now well known that the Trump adminis…

Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges

04.03.2026 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Never bet against x86 – OSnews Chips and Cheese has an excellent deep dive into Arm’s latest core design, and I have thoughts.

Never bet against x86

04.03.2026 11:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hull Lifesaving Museum in Hull The original base for shipwreck rescues in Boston Harbor in the original Point Allerton Lifesaving Station opened in 1889.

Hull Lifesaving Museum in Hull, Massachusetts

04.03.2026 10:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DHS Investigates Gregory Bovino’s Remarks About Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith Mr. Bovino, who was the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns in American cities, was reported to have made disparaging comments in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, who is an Orthodox Jew.

The Department of Homeland Security has opened an internal investigation into a report that Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol commander, made disparaging remarks about the Jewish faith of the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota during an immigration operation in the state.

04.03.2026 03:30 — 👍 198    🔁 48    💬 43    📌 13

Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.

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