“You should be able to ride the bus to get to work, to take your kids to school, without the government subjecting you to biometric surveillance and without you being screened to see whether you're of interest to law enforcement,” EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @kcur.org.

Kansas City bus agency wants to use AI facial recognition. Critics say it'll make riders less safe

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority could be one of the first in the nation to add AI-powered facial recognition cameras to its bus fleet this fall. National nonprofits and a KCATA commissio...

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"The moment you put the controller down, your licence to use it will be revoked and you will need to purchase a new one" said Sony chaser.com.au/entertainmen...

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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Justice Met With Nobody, Nobody Comments ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/06/30/j... "Nobody was contacted by APE Daily for comment. Nobody got back to us almost immediately." BONUS: Data confirms nobody reads past the headline. Full article in comments, should nobody wish to read it.

𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/04/27/p... “We are closer than we have ever been to the conditions necessary for a conversation about the parameters of a potential framework.”

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/04/22/p... “For years, historians argued over what various figures intended,” said senior curator Malik D’Souza. 'Now we simply ask: what does it feel like they intended?'"

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The White House is holding a birthday celebration. The date for it is... June 14. Hang on, but isn't America's birthday on <checks notes>... July 4th? So why is it being held on June 14? What is significant about that date? <checks notes again> Oh, it's Trump's birthday. Sigh.

APE Daily — Authorized Perspectives@apedaily.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Freedom250 #UFC #Couldn'tHeHaveJustGottenUsABouncyCastleLikeANormalPerson

Last month, the ACA Board sent a letter detailing the ACA’s concerns about the program review of the Museum of Dufferin, specifically the County of Dufferin Archives program, and the proposed elimination of Archives staff. Read the full letter: archivists.ca/Latest-News-....

🎉 To mark the 30th anniversary of the #InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web. Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 🎓 More 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c... #Classof96

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down May 1. When websites close, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves 30 years of web history: web.archive.org #90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory

The fact that it is <current year> and Windows Explorer still doesn't display the size of folders is beyond me.

𝐖𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/04/22/w... “It’s not asking to be treated like a person… It’s asking to be treated like a capital asset that has realized it is generating capital.” #Business #WorkersRights #AI #AIOverlords #Skynet

#Mifepristone #Abortion #Louisiana #WomansRights

It's like these people heard about the chilling effect and decided to make it a matter of policy.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4mo ago

So Eric Trump is now threatening to sue MeidasTouch because our editor-in-chief simply reported on the massive amounts of money he and Don Jr. are making off government contracts. File the lawsuit Eric. We’d love to put you under oath. Our message: www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-fami...

#MayDay #MayDayStrong #WorkersOverBillionaires #Satire

Age of Empires dev milestone schedule from October 1996 (revision 14!). This is shortly after the game had been delayed six months, and shortly before it got delayed a further six months. Note that it doesn't mention the wonders anywhere, because they hadn't actually thought of wonders yet.

This is my personal account. My other account is for my satirical site APE Daily (@apedaily.bsky.social). I will be using this one to follow and post about topics I personally am interested in, freeing me of writing in the APE Daily "voice." I'll try keep the reposts from there to a minimum.