Hi, I've been working on a lil' something.
09.10.2025 15:08 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0@mhkeller.bsky.social
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Hi, I've been working on a lil' something.
09.10.2025 15:08 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Hamilton: βThe presidentβs power is unreviewable.β
09.10.2025 18:31 β π 328 π 56 π¬ 23 π 73Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perryβs courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social
09.10.2025 15:54 β π 508 π 192 π¬ 5 π 42Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.
08.10.2025 17:10 β π 3503 π 1517 π¬ 20 π 126Our office released a new study highlighting rampant illegal parking across Downtown Brooklyn. Vehicles block sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes & loading zones - making it more dangerous for New Yorkers to get around the neighborhood.
www.lincolnrestler.nyc/s/Illegal-Pa...
Reupping for the Sunday crowd =>
28.09.2025 14:58 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.
Meta deleted the evidence.
New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
A line chart that spans the years 2003 to 2023, with lines in different colors showing the trends in the share of total highly-cited clean energy research taken up by China, the United States, the European Union, and the total from other countries or regions. The United States dominated two decades ago, making up roughly a third of the total highly cited research. But China quickly rose from roughly 5% to nearly 50% of the highly cited clean energy research, while the United States and European Union declined.
Over the past two decades, China has leapt ahead of other countries in innovations in the energy mix of the future: solar, wind, batteries, and newer frontiers like smart grids.
Latest in the Power Moves series with Max Bearak:
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You're forgetting the crucial role played by the magic gloves that control the video. Why have precogs if you can't do the hand-wave rewind bit?
12.08.2025 17:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What percentage of GPT training is now just making sure it can draw a pelican riding a bicycle?
07.08.2025 19:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Here's the full report: www.esafety.gov.au/industry/bas...
And the tldr: www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/med...
A new report from Australia's eSafety Commissioner finds that tech companies continue to make "minimal efforts" to tackle online child sexual abuse: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrou...
07.08.2025 17:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The zuckerberg manifesto pattern (2012-2025)
Wish I had thought to do this. A snapshot at Zuckerbergβs various manifestos. What will the next one be about? om.co/2025/07/30/d...
05.08.2025 16:10 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0So youβre telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
05.08.2025 15:02 β π 11115 π 4018 π¬ 73 π 372019β―ββ―2024 β Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Teslaβs help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was βcorruptedβ Tesla invented an βauto-deleteβ feature that didnβt exist to try explain why it couldnβt originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didnβt exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.
This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...
04.08.2025 17:55 β π 3969 π 1392 π¬ 49 π 110The minimalist/web brutalist style appears directly copied from ssi.inc's own manifesto about "Safe Superintelligence" from over a year ago. h/t @1wheel.bsky.social
30.07.2025 18:59 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0what's the best thing you've read on the rise of gambling/sports betting/the whole world feels like a casino now thing?
29.07.2025 02:41 β π 173 π 12 π¬ 36 π 2With a huge thanks to @openclimatedata.net, LayerCake v9.0.0 is out with significant TypeScript additions, proper end-to-end tests and all-new, Svelte 5 components in the component gallery!
There will likely be improvements so please file an issue or a PR with any changes!
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These changes don't address many problems we found,Β e.g. parents cultivating sexual relationships with men online. But it adds some friction and I think the directional shift from Meta is noteworthy. Their main response to our reporting last Feb was that the onus was on parents and not the platform.
23.07.2025 15:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The new protections will block messages from ppl these accounts don't follow and hide them from "potentially suspicious adults" in search results and rec feeds, among other changes. Meta said it removed 135k accounts for sexualizing parent-run accounts and another 500k associated IG and FB accounts
23.07.2025 15:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Last year, @jenvalentino.bsky.social and I wrote about these accounts run by parents, generally for their teen or preteen daughters. The profiles often featured girls in revealing attire, and men frequently left inappropriate comments or sent nude photos.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/u...
Instagram announced today that it's adding increased protections to so-called "mom-run accounts," which are run by adults but primarily feature children too young to be on Instagram themselves. Before, these protections only applied to accounts run by teens.
about.fb.com/news/2025/07...
So pleased to see this. Varsha Bansal developed this story and interview in our class on Information Warfare Reporting - thanks to @wired.com for publishing and Jo Ellis for standing up to disinformation
04.07.2025 18:53 β π 35 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0The AI moratorium is down from 10 years to 5 but new language in the budget bill would make tech companies immune from a host of potential lawsuits around online harms www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
30.06.2025 21:04 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for reading, here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
27.06.2025 14:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And because this is a crime on and of the internet, the material is unlikely to go away soon. Videos of the abuse are still being traded, sold and shared. And they likely will be for some time:
27.06.2025 14:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It took months of undercover work and illustrates how the same mechanisms driving the creator economy β monetized interactions, fast video connections β are also enabling child sexual abuse.
27.06.2025 14:03 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Investigators underscored to me that even though the abuse is happening abroad, it's men in Western countries β predominantly in the United States β that are paying for it. A "demand-driven crime" is how one person described it.
27.06.2025 14:03 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0In Dec, we found children advertised across more than 80 livestream video apps. We just learned that one of the girls, age 9, was rescued in Vietnam. It's the first time U.S. agents have worked a case like this there and a first for local authorities, too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
Good idea! I should make a thing
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