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Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza. Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.

Spain, Ireland and Netherlands to boycott Eurovision after Israel retains place

Major European nations pull out of song contest after calling for country’s exclusion over conduct of war in Gaza

ft.com

"Suspected drug smugglers" is doing a lot of work here

"If competition from TikTok and YouTube are enough to suggest that Meta’s products aren’t monopolistic, it says more about the limits of antitrust laws than it does Meta’s monopolistic nature," writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.

Meta victory reveals cracks in antitrust enforcement

If Meta’s not a monopoly, the ruling gives every other tech giant a green light to become one.

compiler.news

Who says we don't need civics education in this country?

🚨 Republicans advocated for dismantling content moderation — now they’re shocked it won’t protect them. Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination are still all over social media. For years, the right demanded platforms scale back enforcement. This is what that looks like.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Was unfortunately fired for expressing my unbridled glee after hearing about the public execution of Benito Mussolini, the un-tragic demise of Moammar Gadhafi, and of course, the self-inflicted gunshot wound that took out Hitler in the bunker.

I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan

In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous

theguardian.com

Two students shot at a Denver-area high school, per CNN.

Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reveals how police departments regularly deactivate safeguards meant to prevent bias and increase oversight of an AI tool designed to generate police reports. www.compiler.news/axion-ai-bod...

Police disable safety features in AI crime tools

Departments are turning off Axon’s A.I. safeguards in software that auto generates reports from body-cam footage, raising accountability concerns.

compiler.news

Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social that reveals a troubling trend among police departments beginning to use AI that connects to body cameras.

Compiler @compiler.news · 11mo ago

Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reveals how police departments regularly deactivate safeguards meant to prevent bias and increase oversight of an AI tool designed to generate police reports. www.compiler.news/axion-ai-bod...

A major undiscussed recession indicator: the number of people throwing hot dog themed parties

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI. @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools

Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.

motherjones.com

Today, in being the family fact-checker.

Good news everyone! My I-485 was approved and I'm getting my green card in three weeks. No intermediary EAD cards and advanced parole it seems!

Yep... It's really "the world" that's in the way of Gazans getting food. Not the systemic use of starvation on a population by a regime propped up by our government.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.

A new startup wants to insure against AI risk—from hallucinating chatbots to deepfakes. It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵

🚨 A quantum startup is building a $50M computer on the site of a shuttered steel mill in Chicago. This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵

Does Stephen Miller regularly get cucked by immigrants? Is that why he's so pissy about us?

The hive-mind of the right is something to behold. It seems like all the free thinkers made an aboutface on the Epstein files all at once

Been thinking a lot about how our species evolved to detect snakes, even when they're camouflaged, in the grass. I wonder if over the years, we'll also naturally select for people who are better at identifying AI slop? Will this become an essential skill to our survival? Identifying what is human.

I feel like Zohran should release a custom Instagram filter

People too often treat history like its a bowling alley with bumper guards. Balls forever hurtling down the path of the righteous. "History will remember them deplorably," they'll say. You sure? Why don't you ask a Native American what they think about that?

New York’s financial elite are frantically raising $20 million to block Zohran Mamdani’s path to City Hall, the WSJ reports. A new super PAC, New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor 25, has been formed to spearhead anti-Mamdani efforts.

Catch me on @marketplace.org this week talking about the rise of "Peace Tech" and how AI is being used to predict wars. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

Could AI be a peacekeeper of the future?

Tech companies are training AI to help predict and prevent global conflict. Investigative journalist Tekendra Parmar breaks down how governments may begin to use it.

marketplace.org

putting aside the intense racism for a moment, it’s a bit rich for a silicon valley guy to accuse anyone of coming from a “culture that lies about everything.” that’s literally their business model.

"Soon, lawyers for the Times will start combing through private ChatGPT conversations, shattering the privacy expectations of over 70 million ChatGPT users." Yeah but they'll probably fixate on anything that will hurt Zohran Mamdani. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

The problem is BlueSky is boring. But Twitter is horrifying.

Been back on Twitter for the last week. So the blue check mark is exclusively Nazis and conspiracy theorists?