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I saw this too, and refused to provide anything. Curious- of all the possibilities we are facing with age gating, is this a preferred implementation? It’s controlled at the OS level, gives the user the choice to share, while explaining what’s being shared. Better than sharing with palantir

Birds do it
Bees do it
Other creatures in the trees do it
Let's do it
Let's create a residential structure using our own saliva

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

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Total garbage that it forced that onto you. I suspect that Facebook expects us to use Events for timed things, and Groups for interests (e.g. “back the badge”). However I like the thought of a perpetual tea party

whatever you say, monobob

Reporter: Do aliens exist?

Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

Universal Basic Income is like making 100 million tiny bets, any one of which could pay off and change the world. A kid goes to college. An inventor in their garage. A poet, a painter, a composer; the book that becomes a movie that becomes a franchise; a programmer inventing a TikTok.

LEAVE THE BEHELIT ALONE

PUT IT BACK

"America will get better and better," declared the Reverend Jesse Jackson on the stage of the 1988 Democratic National Convention. "Keep hope alive."

Find some hope today in Jackson's speech as we remember the life of one of America's civil rights icons.

Wow what a beautiful shot!

Ah, I see that we have finally decided that the solution to our health problems is to embarrass us all to death.

Anyway to my burger cishetler mufos, now is the time to be loud on behalf of our trans and queer friends. I refuse to throw them under the bus so we can nominate some "respectable" pervert who will lose in the general anyway. We can course correct on this now and win, but there's not much time

Image of the title and abstract of our new paper, with a cartoon Ovenbird superimposed. The title of the paper is: Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals.

Our new paper is out today in Animal Behaviour: "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals." By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, & me. @animbehsociety.bsky.social

How loud is an Ovenbird's song? It depends...
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Kinda ironic that people who are really into the Epstein files are themselves Epsteinphiles

holy shit

Jesse Jackson Jr. also had an under appreciated sense of comedic timing. Watch his fake sermon on SNL.😂

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We’re moving into the “Find Out” stage.

I finished Fallout season 2 earlier this week and have been sucked into Fallout 4 on my Series X. I didn’t play it much when it first released, so this is scratching the itch for sure!

A collection of six ominous bird valentines set against a background of pink hearts. In the first one, a Canada Goose looks angry and hisses and the text says "Baby, I'll make you fall head over heels if you approach within 10m of my nest." In the second, an American white pelican opens its mouth to eat the reader and the text says "There are plenty of fish in the sea, but I want this one." In the third valentine, a Black Vulture looks suspiciously at the reader and the text says "I will love you until you die. And after that, I'll love you even more." A Southern Cassowary stands proudly against the heart-covered background. The text says "My wattles are red. My head is blue. My deadly reputation has been somewhat overblown, but I'd kill for you." In the fifth valentine, a Northern Giant-Petrel stands open-billed next to a large brown furry object, and the text says "Let's seal the deal by sharing a 3000 kg elephant seal carcass." In panel 6, a happy-looking Bearded Vulture holds a bone in its beak, and the text says "I love every part of you, especially your bones."

Ominous bird valentines.

too many kids today have never destroyed the family PC with sketchy downloads

you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer

When the researchers tested the LLMs without involving users by providing the models with the full text of each clinical scenario, the models correctly identified conditions in 94.9 percent of cases. But when talking to the participants about those same conditions, the LLMs identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5 percent of cases. People didn’t know what information the chatbots needed, and in some scenarios, the chatbots provided multiple diagnoses and courses of action. Knowing what questions to ask a patient and what information might be withheld or missing during an examination are nuanced skills that make great human physicians; based on this study, chatbots can’t reliably replicate that kind of care. In some cases, the chatbots also generated information that was just wrong or incomplete, including focusing on elements of the participants’ inputs that were irrelevant, giving a partial US phone number to call, or suggesting they call the Australian emergency number.

people often don't know what's relevant to doctors, and a good doctor's job is to know what follow up questions to ask to get to a correct diagnosis and course of action. chatbots just can't do that www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

Nerds ad staring (poor bastard) Jeffrey Epstein lookalike

Dang Johnny Weir out here commentating on pairs looking like it’s the hunger games, nicely done

Roadrunner roosting on porch every night

From a local FB birding group… 🪶

Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

NEW: Early last summer, @agreenberg.bsky.social texted me something truly outlandish: A man actively being held captive in a scam compound in Laos had reached out to him. He wanted to blow the whistle while risking his life and trying to escape—and he had receipts. This is that story: