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A 5000 year old tree chopped down near Wheeler Peak in Nevada.
They probably left the food in the cart for him.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m sorry, what?
Most AI tools require some sort of privacy sacrifice, so understanding the risk is important. ssd.eff.org/module/priv...
Privacy Considerations with AI Tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools come in all sorts of flavors. There are notetaking and transcription tools, chatbots, device-wide agentic AI features, grammar and writing tools, translation assistants, AI summaries, and research tools, among others. As a term, “AI” may refer to features in apps, apps themselves, third-party plug-ins, or a...
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In the Society of the Spectacle, it is always a sports team like rivalry. Us vs. Them instead of anything resembling “virtue”.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 3mo agoFrom last week. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
This is how the world ends, this is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with the boomer generation’s addiction to AI slop.
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3mo agoThis is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror
Where would you suggest one live alone on $25K / year and not be on poverty wages other than your parents basement, ADU, or a trailer in BFE?
Fellow citizens! This will be a really great demonstration. I've volunteered to help, and plan on giving a speech in DC, too! I have a *lot* to say.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2y agoGet in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying "roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/
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World War III has been declared, Pope Francis says
Pope Francis last week told editors of the European cultural magazines of the Society of Jesus that, in his opinion, World War III had been declared, it was reported Tuesday by La Civilta Cattolica.
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We are not just headed towards autocracy. This isn’t just a fascist takeover of our government. We are in the early stages of an undeclared world war. Welcome to World War III. See you in the streets.
Cat Steven’s “Trouble” from the Harold And Maude motion picture soundtrack.
Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y agoMoon.
Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.
If only they didn’t have a particularly limited circle of empathy in a world of billions dominated by disinformation sown by the mega rich.
Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y agoI actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes. Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:
⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
This puts so cogently what a lot of us have already been thinking.
While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous
"There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely 'inquiry for inquiry’s sake.' Aside from the emotional wounds we inflict on actual people, philosophical discourse matters beyond that. It did matter in this case." The following is a guest post by Talia Mae Bettcher, Professor of
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I saw a man holding up a photo of donald trump today, I can only assume he was honoring the President because I didn't read the rest of the words on his sign
