Imagine your city having a Pride Ball at City Hall. Shoutout New York
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she/her Leading Open at Fastly | Chair at OSI Building a better Open Web—let's be in cahoots Everywhere else, VP of Data-based sass 😘
NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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i want to talk about the chaos of poor moderation that i've seen brewing on here especially over the past couple of days. i do feel a disclaimer is in order to say that i haven't been *as* logged on, which means of course i don't have *all* the context and just my point of view.
On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo agoWhile the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
I am working on a new cube with a hole so powerful that I cannot post a picture in public. It would be too dangerous. I am releasing the cube with a hole to a select group of trusted third parties.
Adam Chalmers@adamchalmers.com · 4mo agofuck it. nothing matters anymore. put a hole in the corner of the cube. i don't even carer.
It is very funny that when the Strokes speak out about Gaza or Iran people point out they were prep school kids, as if that invalidates things. We want class traitors????
Follow up from @vlt.sh regarding my appearance on the Changelog. A new registry is in the works.
Darcy Clarke@darcyclarke.me · 6mo agoNotably, I actually started @vlt.sh to solve a lot of what you've highlighted on this pod. For the record, yes, we ARE building registry software. It's unfortunately taken longer then we'd like because <insert dragons we know from running the largest package registry in the world> but it's coming.
Spotify prompted me to try their new “prompt a playlist” tool and they BLOCK THE WORD “feminist”. WTF Spotify!
Was having the tiniest of pity parties being mega frustrated with my very cute 2yo who insisted on scootering in spite of the piles of snow still on the ground here in NYC(I have no clue where that stubbornness comes from 🙃). Ended up carrying his 40lb hiney and the scooter parts of the way.
i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7mo ago🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
The Cool Dude@2house2fly.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
“He ended with a familiar refrain: keep fighting for an open web.” www.therepository.email/state-of-the...
State of the Word 2025: AI, Education, and a Community Holding Steady Through a “Rollercoaster” Year
The live release of WordPress 6.9, rapid advances in AI and education, and a candid look back at a “rollercoaster” year shaped this year’s State of the Word.
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omg I love it when a person doesn't know something and they ask!! Also I love a sui generis in the wild.
Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 9mo agocompletely outside of politics, this is so charming
"In normal times, against a normal candidate, we have no evidence that picking a friendly, relatable, likable candidate without a history of sexual abuse will work. Let’s not read too much into it." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...
Yeah, He Won, but He Was Up Against a Deeply Flawed Candidate
“I’m skeptical. The odds are that Mamdani’s victory is actually less significant than you think.” — Ross Douthat, New York Times - - -I was as surp...
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"Mamdani's victory is less significant than you think. It will change nothing about how we write about anything at the NYT."
Democrats will stop talking about needing to move towards the center, maybe when there is nothing left of the party. Y'all been tryin' that for the last 20 years. It's been a losing game(and sucks). Maybe try actually supporting what working folks need? Like, the massive majority of Americans?
Concerning, bc it indicates that the extent of the concentration of power in the hands of a few hyperscalers is way less widely understood than I’d assumed. Which bodes poorly for our ability to craft reality-based strategies capable of contesting this concentration & solving the real problem. 2/
Our proposal for new AI watermarking characters is officially in the Unicode document register for proposed additions. 🤞 unicode.org/L2/L2025/252... t.co/yJfp8ezU64
biscuits not having 2 sections and triscuits not having 3 sections feels like violent crime
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Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.