If you're even a _tiny_ bit into security and privacy, pay attention to this one. A court filing in a case against cyberhacker Peter Stokes revealed Microsoft's GDID embedded in EVERY Win11 install provided the FBI the ability to trace his PC across VPNs(!!) & proxies(!!) across three countries.

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

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OMG The driver backed up on purpose to hit Hannah Rapp - and killed her. Female Boxing Legend - murdered by a random hater. I have no words www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US boxer Hannah Rapp struck and killed by driver while cycling, police say

Investigators arrest 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with death of Rapp who was 26

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trump has also debanked Italian citizen Francesca Alabanese for her work at the UN to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. she is on an international blacklist created for terrorists and it is also illegal for anyone to bank for her — she must live entirely economically isolated and on cash

The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions

The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories has become a leading voice in her country, but she is on a US blacklist as if she were a terrorist and can only use cash

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🌿 Call for Abstracts | AGU26 Annual Meeting PP025: Vegetation Shifts and Climate Interactions on Millennial to Million-year Timescales. This session welcomes research exploring past vegetation dynamics and climate vegetation interactions across different spatial and temporal scales. lnkd.in/e2-jBQQx

The World Cup announcer kinda reminds me of Mikey Day from SNL doing his game show voice.

Claude is trained on the Claude Constitution, then when asked about moral patienthood, outputs text similar to that found in the Claude Constitution.

A monogrammed Louis Vitton Trophy Trunk you say?! Wooowowowowowowowo!

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.

404media.co

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.

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"Radio-Canada was able to confirm that the shooter distributed a violent incel manifesto targeting women. The manifesto called for a violent revolution, invoking masculinist arguments."

Live updates | Montreal shooting suspect distributed violent incel manifesto targeting women: Radio-Canada | CBC

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For school administrations, one of the key benefits of framing AI as "inevitable", is that it absolves them of responsibility. They're not making an active choice to put AI in schools, it's inevitable. If students don't want this, sorry about that, it's inevitable.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

We’re going to get an intense round of “Vancouver should dream big and be a WORLD CLASS CITY” takes in the months to come, but the big reason Vancouver’s momentum ended was a spike in home prices and overdose deaths that was like few places on earth that sucked up all the oxygen

This—and the most unambitious governments imaginable. A city needs more than a view of the mountains and a chance for developers to squeeze every last penny from its residents.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re going to get an intense round of “Vancouver should dream big and be a WORLD CLASS CITY” takes in the months to come, but the big reason Vancouver’s momentum ended was a spike in home prices and overdose deaths that was like few places on earth that sucked up all the oxygen

Pick a movie. Keep one actor. The rest are played by Muppets. Star Wars, David Prowse

Simon Goring@sjgoring.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pick a movie. Keep one actor. The rest are played by Muppets. Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation

Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice

harpersbazaar.com

Join your neighbours in protesting against the ai data centres being proposed for Vancouver. June 27th at 1:00 pm starting at the Vancouver Art Gallery. www.whatsonqueerbc.com/woq-bc-stori...

We like our theory dense, our fiction filthy, and our library very, very queer. 🌈📚 Help us stack our shelves and improve access to queer content across the country. 👉 the 🔗 now to support our Annual Pride Fundraiser on Givebutter. https://xqa.onlypult.me/j7Qe

NEW: What did the Iran war that the US and Israel started cost Americans, Iranians and many others? More than 7,000 people have been killed in Iran and Lebanon, along with 13 US military members. The cost to the US is at least $132 billion, Moody's said. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

The Costs of the Iran War: Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars

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Pick a movie. Keep one actor. The rest are played by Muppets. Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pick a movie. Keep one actor. The rest are played by Muppets. Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon

As studies show, those who don't understand 'AI' are more likely to adopt it, which explains why so many experts are opposed to it and why so many very AI-literate Canadians are refusing to adopt it. Maybe the gov needs to listen to experts and Canadians instead of the AI industry?

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2mo ago

Mark Carney wants Canadians to become more “literate” on AI. But is a lack of understanding really why people are against it? This week @hadrianmk.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to dig into the Canadian government’s AI strategy and its many blind spots. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/333_...

A Bloomberg analysis found that most profits on Polymarket went to a tiny slice of accounts that appeared to be automated bots. Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate. The gambling economy has a familiar rule: The house always wins.

The Explosive Growth of Prediction Markets Is a Symptom of a Deeply Sick Economy

Silicon Valley fuels them. Wall Street loves them. Prediction markets are everywhere, and ordinary people will pay the price.

inthesetimes.com

Shut down this whole industry.

In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 2mo ago

A Bloomberg analysis found that most profits on Polymarket went to a tiny slice of accounts that appeared to be automated bots. Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate. The gambling economy has a familiar rule: The house always wins.

This show is fantastic.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo ago

The Apple TV series starring Matthew Rhys follows a winning cast of small-island bureaucrats through a living hell. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

A message to Canada's mining industry: if you think you are going to get mineral projects fast tracked without serious opposition think again. Why would any First Nation community agree to new projects if this is the kind of people you hire? Is she bringing the cages with her?

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

You’re not going to believe this, but the thieving prejudice machines are also ableist.

Trained AI models exhibit learned disability bias, IST researchers say | Penn State University

Artificial intelligence tools, such as sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models, often exhibit biases toward people with disabilities, according to a new paper from researchers in the Penn Sta...

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"Uber and Lyft ... routinely charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, a monthslong Consumer Reports investigation has found. Across the routes we tested, the median difference between the lowest and highest price groupings was about 50 percent."

Different Prices for the Same Ride: How Uber and Lyft Use AI to Get More Money Out of You - Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft use algorithmic pricing to give different consumers very different prices for the same rides.

consumerreports.org

big ups to @crimew.gay the GOAT

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo ago

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.