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Family demands answers after US citizen detained at O'Hare Airport, held for more than 30 hours Family and friends of a U.S. citizen detained at O'Hare Airport say they're furious after she was held for more than 30 hours.

For a US citizen to arrive from abroad and simply disappear, being detained by Trump's secret police, is no longer anything unusual. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/f...

This was half a decade before YouTube launched. AtomFilms was one of the first and for a while the main place for online short films. We shot on MiniDV, edited on Final Cut Pro, which had just become available the year before. It cost $200 to make. Life is strange.

In 1999 I directed a short film called "Asian Pride Porn" starring Tony award winning playwright David Henry Hwang that was one of AtomFilms' most viewed shorts of all time and got my face on the cover of Time Magazine Asia mocked up on the screen of an iMac.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2lw...

George Washington loves Hanes t shirts, “three come within a single parcel, what wonders!” he exclaims

I won’t pretend to speak for them, no…no I’ve done something far worse…

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.

I am banned from the library of the Supreme Court of the United States.

GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing A Senate Republican assisted several police officers in ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.

this is literally right wing propaganda. cbs news cannot be trusted.

Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words

Real talk: CALL your Senators and state Senators and Representatives and the Governor.

A petition will do zero to stop this. Calling your elected officials will.

While the environmental impacts would be awful, it's worth emphasizing the significant economic impacts to the region.

In 2014, Apple had the genius idea to give all 500 million iTunes users a free U2 album. I haven't heard shit from U2 since then

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

The image depicts a rural outdoor scene featuring an old wooden storage cellar. The structure is constructed with vertical and diagonal planks, exhibiting signs of weathering and age. One side shows the interior opening which appears dark, suggesting it might be underground or shaded from direct sunlight. To the right, there's a concrete foundation partially visible at the base. On top of this structure lies a wooden plank forming an angled roof-like section, possibly serving as a makeshift cover to keep dust out or protect contents inside. The cellar is set against a backdrop that includes open fields and some scattered vegetation. In the distance, one can notice patches of greenery interspersed with crops, indicative of farmland. There's also evidence of human presence in this remote area; specifically, there are what appears to be personal items or tools resting inside the storage cellar. The photo is captured from a perspective slightly above and at an angle that allows for visibility into both the interior and exterior details of the structure. The absence of people within these settings gives it a still, almost abandoned feel despite its functional purpose on farm land likely used as a place to store food or farming supplies during harvests. The black-and-white nature of this image suggests historical context, perhaps from an earlier period when such cellars were [...]

Storage cellar on Botner farm. Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon

#Botner #NyssaHeights #MalheurCounty #Oregon #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773842/

Unpopular opinion but the Dems should be investing in this sort of "this must hit so hard if you're stupid" slop content – our side lost the kind of people who like this shit 95/5 in 2024, just drawing the "incredibly dumb guy" demo back to 70/30 GOP would mean landslide Dem wins

I ate a large clove of raw garlic today (there were reasons) and I gotta say...I can't recommend it. It was a weird enough sensation that I did a bit of a dive on pain receptors in the mouth. Turns out, garlic activates a totally different pain receptor than capsaicin!

Yeah Crenshaw sucks, but the fact that he lost to someone EVEN WORSE is mind bending. Like, yay for Crenshaw losing his job and everything, but holy shit this new guy is just so bad

This is one of the stupidest posts I’ve seen on this site in a while. Why do you think he lost, exactly? What do you think is going to happen next?

Optimistic read: This is Trump bullshitting in hopes it makes him look good.
Depressing read: They’re so totally incompetent at gaming out the war they started that they genuinely don’t grasp that that’s the middle-of-the-road scenario.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

We really just breezed past this. But what Matthew is identifying here should be a bigger point of concern, analysis, and interrogation for public health experts.

USA Map: Non-Medical Exemption Policies for School Immunizations. Only CA, NY, CT and ME restrict exemptions to medical.

Yes, and the map here makes the problem clear:
Only CA, NY, CT and ME allow only medical exemptions
(and CA had to tighten rules).
www.ncsl.org/health/state...
MN allows personal exemption (which of course can be anything) and all other states allow religious (and maybe personal) exemptions.

And that was the only thing the judge gave her authority over. The most important thing!!! My dad can’t do shit about getting her vaccinated without doing a bunch of court shit. Even tho I told him to say fuck that do it anyways what’s the worst they can do? Idk. It’s infuriating.

It's also weird how they separate the intent from the result. The parents didn't "try" to shield their children from vaccines, they . . . did? And that is why they have measles now? The headline makes it a mystery/tragedy.

They have religious exemptions. That means the parents are liars, tbc, because no major religions object to vaccines…but they do usually have moral objections to lying!

People lying ab their religion are putting other people’s kids & the broader community at risk in schools w/21% MMR uptake rates.

The image depicts a black and white photograph of an old, weathered shack with wooden construction. A woman is seated outside the structure on what appears to be a makeshift porch or entryway area, where she sits beside a young boy who seems engaged in some form of work involving water from a bucket. The shack shows signs of disrepair, such as peeling paint and exposed wood. White fabric drapes are hanging inside and outside one section of the building. There is also debris on the ground around the shack, including containers like barrels or pails that might be used for storage or other purposes related to daily living conditions. The overall setting appears rustic and indicative of a rural environment with modest resources.

Grower provides fourteen such shacks in a row for his hop pickers. Josephine County, Oregon. Near Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. General caption number 45-11

#JosephineCounty #Oregon #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773461/

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor If Mojtaba Khamenei is chosen by Iran’s senior clerics, it may signal a victory for hard-liners, an analyst said.

Now I realize this sounds pretty bad, but could it be a lot worse.

It could happen in the US.

I was listening to a live stream with a couple network engineers and they were talking about using Openclaw for OSINT on a target of interest. They identified them with a high degree of probability.

Which of course means a new kind of trolling where you have LLMs write incendiary posts in the style of the target poster, so they'll be identified as being being your sock puppet.

And because it is such a perfect fit, we as humans will not be able to outrun the LLM here. Only way is to not have alts, or use an LLM to write those posts.

With the latter a big if btw, because I can totally see reverse engineering prompts from outputs being a thing too.