David Flood

Google has long been a key source of traffic for news and all manner of sites across the web.

This week @mattdpearce.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how Google’s pursuit of AI is causing fewer people to click through, causing traffic to plummet.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/288_...

It's both! Wagging the dog is doing something horrible and consequential to distract from a personal scandal. This is a quintessential wag of the dog.

God forbid Der Führer's delicate eyes should be desecrated by the sight of poor and mentally ill people while his mind is fixated on how he'll cheat at golf.

But with the beginning of the school year approaching, negotiators have accepted that they will have to pay $500 million to strike a deal, and instead focused on how payments would be structured.

Who isn’t familiar with the legal doctrine of “the school year approaching so we have to pay a random figure that Trump came up with because it is twice the extortionate amount that he imposed on Columbia.”

Says talking Conservative Man Scared of Cities costume

Seeking Friendlier Data, Trump Names New Commissioner for Statistics Bureau

Nice work, genius. If next month's job numbers are good, nobody will believe them. If they're bad, we'll assume they're even worse.

Just give every city and town a few streets like this and see the response.

Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com for helping bring attention to this.

We need to call the shooting at CDC what it is - an act of domestic terrorism, stoked by antivax rhetoric.

We are beyond enraged at RFKJ's "leadership" and that the President still hasn't even acknowledged the attack.

Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating. Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression.

"The events being seized upon by the White House and Republicans as evidence of surging crime in American cities have little to do with one another save for the fact that the victims are white."

With Trump set to use crime as a fake justification to threaten DC today, media coverage should make one thing clear: At this point his pattern of manufacturing pretexts for militarizing domestic law enforcement has become undeniable. Some thoughts on that here:

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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

Everything from military radios to AI can be hacked. At the Defcon hacker conference, researchers showed how they hacked into these systems—not for gain—but to point out vulnerabilities.

First, a student who found that vape detectors installed at his high school could be used for surveillance: 🧵

The White House is bragging to reporters about a DUI arrest and another for hashish possession.

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

Also, unpaywalled here: Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.

I note the complete lack of courses on assessing their outputs, particular forms of bias, ecological and social impacts, and anything else of functional quality. Just endless classes on the box and the questions.

I will now start replying to every email telling me about seminars on how I can teach my students to learn how to use GenAI with the reply that IT'S INCREDIBLY EASY TO USE. THAT IS THE ENTIRE APPEAL AND POINT OF IT. IF YOU'RE PAYING PEOPLE TO TYPE QUESTIONS IN A BOX, YOU ARE WASTING MONEY.

Irish lawyer quits European rights watchdog after being told Gaza ‘out of our mandate’ Michael Farrell warns European body will lose respect if it does not address what is ‘certainly a genocide’

Irish lawyer quits European rights watchdog after being told Gaza ‘out of our mandate’

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER: We’re closing down the X-files again.

MULDER: Because I’m too close to truth!

SKINNER: No, a DOGE guy named “Big Balls” got pounded into hamburger by a pack of rowdy teens, so the president is turning you into a traffic cop.

Several conservative states have recently cracked down on squatting despite no evidence of a crisis.

Some of the legislation resembles a model bill drafted by the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is a high-profile journalist with a reputable news org who was threatened by name by the Israelis and has now been executed by them, and without any trial. No ‘we couldn’t arrest him’, just straight up slaughtered along with his colleagues.

And, if that same side does not make the same allegation about the other four journalists, then it is borderline malpractice not to say "there are no allegations against the remaining four, making their killing a breach of international humanitarian law".

Gonna try and be as fair as possible here.

Journalists are not prosecutors and the bar for what we say or print is not as high. But.

If one side admits knowingly killing 5 journalists but says that one was terrorist, if you carry those words they have to be caveated with "without offering proof".

ENGELMEYER says the Trump administration’s claim that they wanted to release the Epstein grand jury records to shed new light on the case is “demonstrably false.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Albanese says The decision comes as France, Canada and the UK have signaled similar steps in recent weeks.

The decision comes as France, Canada and the UK have signaled similar steps in recent weeks.

#fascism #nvidia #timesprak

Broken News™
Timespeak Autocorrect

In other words, the real-life NATO alliance (which most of the affected parties are, and under overt US diktat)

“The Israeli Army continues to silence voices reporting atrocities from Gaza.

I am horrified by the killing of another 5 journalists in Gaza city.”

Read the full statement by UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promotes repealing women's right to vote Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the 19th Amendment, which guarantees…

1. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted a video last week advocating repealing women's the right to vote

It was a window into Hegseth's extreme Christian Nationalist ideology which he is imposing on 3 million military service members and civilian employees.

Let's dig in.

“Last Angel” by Nicholas Roehrich

I hope we make it. I hope my elderly mother who is so vulnerable will make it. But some, many, human and non-human, will not. The fossil fuel and livestock industries are angels of death, torching their way through Europe right now.
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Southern Europe swelters under deadly heatwave as temperatures pass 40C Scientists warn of ‘molotov cocktail’ of climatic conditions fuelling vast wildfires across Mediterranean

I cannot describe Europe and the heatwaves this year. They started early, they kept going sooo high and sooo long, now one of the fiercest one is still roaring.
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