Ahead of Opening Statements, Attorney General Bonta Lays Out Case Against Meta over Its Role in Fueling Mental Health Crisis in a Generation of Childr... https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/ahead-opening-statements-attorney-general-bonta-lays-out-case-against-meta-over

Ahead of Opening Statements, Attorney General Bonta Lays Out Case Against Meta over Its Role in Fueling Mental Health Crisis in a Generation of Children

Meta designed a dangerous product for young users, knew it to be dangerous, and lied about how dangerous it was The attorneys general of California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey are litigating this trial OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued the following statement ahead of the start of California’s trial against Meta in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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I never understood Dem (on social media) infatuation and posts lavishing praise on Cohen. He profited off that. Now he’s Trump’s pal again.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7h ago

President Trump publicly reconciled with Michael Cohen, his former fixer who became a key prosecution witness against him, calling into Cohen’s radio show to argue that the criminal cases they once fought over were products of political weaponization.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/117131056025222914 People try to tell me that the entire White House cabinet aren’t Manchurian sock puppets? Seriously I think Monty Python would’ve had trouble making a skit what’s happening in the United States

The Economist blamed the Irish Genocide on the Irish, made excuses for Slavery too. Perhaps we shouldn't listen to them, even though it makes us look all grown up when we do. Remember, we're all the terrorists for not wanting this shit in our lives, how […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Not to brag, but I was spewing out hilariously incorrect information before huge tech companies decided to create AI chatbots and ruin the internet.

It’s humanity or Oracle. I vote humanity. #FireBariWeiss #BoycottCBS #BoycottParamount #BoycottOracle #CBS #LarryEllison #DavidEllison #BrendanCarr #FuckShariRedstone #USPol https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/

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You can’t avoid Oracle. No, really, you can’t. Oracle is everywhere. It sells ERP software – enterprise resource planning, which is a rat king of different services for giant companies for financial services, procurement (IE: sourcing and organizing the goods your company needs to run), compliance, project management, and

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"AI solves Impossible Math Problem" *looks inside* "Mathematicians use machine learning to help find key counterexample in still unproven conjecture"

Calling on fediverse moderators: if you see a post that kind of, sort of borders on racism, but you're not really too sure: yep, you're definitely dealing with a racist. Learn about dog whistles. Get a Black person on your moderation team. None of the redesigns and user experience tweaks will […]

@mhoye Harry Potter and the reality that indeed I was that age when it came out and it was a large part of my childhood and I am still working to excise references to it from my vernacular

Harry Potter And Whether You Like It Or Not That Whole Thing Was A Story About A Trust Fund Baby Turned Sports Jock Who Went To A Posh Boarding School For That Particular Kind Of Sports Jock And Had The Smartest Girl In That Posh Boarding School Carry His Ass In Every Subject Every Year But […]

Harry Potter And The Cold Hard Fact Of It Is That If You Were 10 When The First Book Came Out You’re Creeping Up On 40 Right Now And Maybe It’s Time To Stop Acting Like A Bigot’s Book About Magical Children Is Something That Matters.

In Kent, in England, there’s a town called Sandwich. Nearby is a village called Ham. Which means that you get this street sign calling out “Ham Sandwich”. There’s also a bus that starts at Samdwich, goes through Ham, before finishing at the coastal town of Deal. English, eh?

So now if a company goes bankrupt, all the emails and internal chats - going back years - all get sucked into an AI engine in Silicon Valley. But don't worry, the data is all "deidentified." Right […]

I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why? Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub. In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to […]

How many times does this need to be said. Resisting arrest is not grounds for being murdered. If you are a cop you should be able engage with difficult situations without murder being your one and only option. It's not justified in any way shape or form.

Tuberculosis outbreak in CO ICE detention: Blistering lawsuit accuses ICE contractor of leaving inspectors 'flying in the dark' - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2677730198/

Blistering lawsuit accuses ICE contractor of leaving inspectors 'flying in the dark'

A blistering new lawsuit accuses a contractor for President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement of leaving inspectors "flying in the dark" after a tuberculosis outbreak at a facility in Colorado. On Wednesday, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a lawsuit against Geo Group, a ...

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I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago

Bessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"

It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. Here she is in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced.

📰 America’s Biggest Irrigated Crop Is Lawn Grass 😬 🌎 U.S.: With **40+ million acres** of turf blanketing the country, experts warn that our yards have become ecological dead zones, in the midst of rapid insect and bird population declines. 🦋 Native plants otoh feed caterpillars, support […]

I feel guilty every time I have to fill my car with gas, but I've already reduced my driving as much as I possibly can, and really can't justify a $30-50k EV for my 50 miles per month I drive.

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One of the most frustrating things about this time is 1) the media is broken which 2) makes it REALLY HARD WORK to find out what is out there (including what Congress is doing) which 3) feeds doomerist disinformation. Both immigration & data center activism building alt media like from local up.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d ago

Meta refused to tell some people in KY who was buying their land to set up an AI data center, and this is what happened next. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

If a potential future Speaker of the House stated clearly that he has rock-solid evidence of 1000 impeachable offenses and that the American people should get ready for 1000 impeachments it would get headlines. That news would break thru to everybody in the country.

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New Yorkers are a cheap date. All you need to do is say you love our terrible sports teams, fill some potholes, clean some graffiti and say someone will help with the kids and everyone goes nuts. Anyway this is communism. I hope you are all happy.