James Hollingshead

Georgia Tech researchers reverse-engineered Life360 / Tile's protocol and found it broadcasts your location in plaintext, uses a MAC address that never changes, and the company changed their privacy policy to admit they sell your precise location data 🔓📡

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Another $5.6 million from ICE to Palantir, in part for its continued work on ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement), which we revealed in January to be the Palantir tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

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Radio 4 has changed a bit.

A trucker and a farmer

Well, Windows was nice while it lasted

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Did we forget imprisoning Native peoples in "reservations" and stripping away their language and culture in "boarding schools"?

The US has a long history of this sort of behavior

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on the official Copilot discord, then locks the server

lol

www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

Project A-ko?
Girls und Panzer? (which is kind of hilariously adorable if you haven't seen it)

Never trust these idiots. Any of them.

I hate this timeline

Since generative AI is based on scouring the large body of existing content for the most common patterns, relying on AI at work is a great way to be a drone who definitely doesn’t need a promotion or their own team or a project budget for their big interesting new idea they will never have

CEOs who genuinely believe AI is capable of replacing this many people do not understand what their workers do, or what AI is able to do.

None of this is because of AI gains, it’s either deep incompetence or incredible greed from execs and shareholders.

Meanwhile the platform will get worse.

This is what sounding confident does to people who aren't well versed in what you're speaking about.

It's a real problem when it comes to LLMs (because they don't /know/ anything and are essentially advanced autocomplete engines).

However, it's also common with people too.

This is how broadcasters should respond to FCC chair Brendan Carr's call for "voluntary" displays of "patriotic, pro-America" content.

www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

If our taxes have to pay for something, I’m proud that they’re paying for our government to battle our government

I don't think there's enough lube in the world for that... 😳

Allowing sales of insider shares pre ipo is quite likely a sign that they know the scam is going to collapse

I was told it was over 50000

Oops

‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.

The man discovered “that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries.”

Congress asked Les Wexner about a damning email to Epstein leaked by DDoSecrets and made public alongside @jmail.world and @dropsitenews.com

After learning about Epstein's first arrest, Wexner wrote: "you violated your own number 1 rule...Always be careful."

The email: jmail.world/thread/e5597...

I think I'm going to start calling it a "load bearing _just_ " when someone says just in a sentence like "Why don't you just do it this way?"

Consider me at least a bit surprised

My friends, if Amazon, with all its governance and change control, is getting these kinds of outcomes, (respectfully) you have no chance.

Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot Tech giant blames ‘user error, not AI error’ for incident in December involving its Kiro tool

I've wondered a lot about the recent increases in the cadence of cloud outages, and I figured it's just the stress of layoffs leading to more mistakes. Surprise, we vibe coded your cloud service. www.ft.com/content/00c2...

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot