Jesus christ
Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 44m agoNEW: DHS wants to hire bounty hunters to find immigrants who already left the US in an ostensible attempt to make them pay fines DHS imposed on people in the US without documentation. @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
It’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.
Analysis: More 'guardrails' needed to prevent police misuse of Flock cameras
Inappropriate use of Flock cameras by law enforcement officials have raised questions about how much surveillance is too much.
gpb.org
NEW: Dozens of ads containing video and other child sexual abuse material ran across Meta’s social media platforms, including some as recently as yesterday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
Would love to beat this "doctor" over the head with the experience of covid in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. We couldn't sleep at night for months because of the ambulance sirens - there was *no* other sound from the street.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 3h agoMAGA/MAHA sycophants now claim that because mitigation measures worked 6 years ago, this is proof they were unnecessary. The stupid, it burns.
At the time, medical authorities said "If any of this works, it'll look like we overreacted," and yep, here we are.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 3h agoMAGA/MAHA sycophants now claim that because mitigation measures worked 6 years ago, this is proof they were unnecessary. The stupid, it burns.
As though more proof was needed that LN is an evil horizontal AND vertical monopoly
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 3h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
I rarely say this, but good for the FBI nypost.com/2026/08/05/u...
FBI opened probe into whether Trump was Russian agent after he fired James Comey, newly revealed memos show
WASHINGTON — The FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was “wittingly or unwittingly” acting as a Russian agent when he fired then-Director James Comey in 2017,…
nypost.com
I PLAN TO LOSE WEIGHT BY EATING ICE CREAM AND RETIRING WITH FULL PAY AT 50
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Be cool if companies stopped trying to reinvent physiognomy every few years.
‘It confirmed my flaws’: women are paying for face scans that score beauty and suggest excessive procedures
‘Looksmaxxing’ culture has led to the rise of facial analysis services – but experts warn they aren’t backed by science and can be harmful to users
theguardian.com
They also gonna cut the city's ad with a sexy compost bin? This is ridiculous.
Second Ave. Sagas@2avesag.as · 4h agoThe MTA is bending the knee to the same people who fight literacy requirements in Yeshivas because a bunch of people who live in New York City can't stand seeing the word "sex" on a bus ad. Ridiculous. 5townscentral.com/2026/08/04/a...
New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
404media.co
Reminder: ChatGPT first came online in November 2022. We’re attributing “inevitable” societal changes to a technology that has yet to see its first midterm election.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoNeoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
The progressive beating the establishment AIPAC-funded candidate who spent over $70 million than him is the big election night they wanted
Politico@politico.com · 10h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Same but +3yrs of age and plus mid-90's also being in a costly war that is the same war that gets restarted in 2006
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 21h agoIt is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
'Gut-wrenching': major layoffs hit Texas newsroom as Scripps embraces cocaine model bsky.app/profile/expr...
San Antonio Express-News@expressnews.com · 19h agoKRIS 6 employees are slated to be laid off amid Scripps' plan to boost core profits by shifting toward an AI-powered newsroom model.
more people need to view "AI" as a dismantling of society by a handful of super wealthy pedophiles
San Antonio Express-News@expressnews.com · 19h agoKRIS 6 employees are slated to be laid off amid Scripps' plan to boost core profits by shifting toward an AI-powered newsroom model.
$1T in revenue by 2030, or maybe 2029! Starlink will deliver a “majority” of the world’s internet! Elon Musk is well known for saying wild stuff that his fellow execs have to run through a lower-risk filter. But I don’t know if that’s ever been more clear than on SpaceX’s first earnings call:
Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX's first earnings call | TechCrunch
Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.
techcrunch.com
This was in 2021. Companies were fine letting kids kill themselves well before LLMs become a thing.
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 19h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The fuck is up with all these central east coast states that can't find new candidates for dem? Seeing way too many "former so-and-so-elected-official" in seats they didn't recently win/control tonight?
So the tariffs literally were a Trump tax.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h agoBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
