Tech Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175% Published Wed, Apr 15 20269:25 AM EDTUpdated 1 Min Ago thumbnail Lola Murti @in/lolamurti/ @lolavkm Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email Allbirds made a surprising announcement Wednesday that it is pivoting to artificial intelligence. Shares of the company were up as much as 200% pre-market.

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

J.K. Rowling is personally funding attacks on trans women’s rights with her Harry Potter money - LGBTQ Nation Her fund has been bankrolling anti-trans activism for a year now.

If you're paying money for Harry Potter you're a bad person. You're saying to the world that racist wizard and witch stories are more important to you than trans people existing

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68% of households in Paris proper (population: 2 million) do not own a car.

"Rejecting or resisting a commercial technology designed to attempt a mass wealth transfer and to erode public institutions is a valid political positio..."

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

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If AI has impacted your job or the way you work, share your story at AIKilledMyJob@pm.me. I'll protect your identity as I would any source—stories can be shared anonymously.

Next, I'm hoping to hear from healthcare workers: nurses, doctors, therapists, hospital workers, techs, admin, and beyond.

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

Excited for more of this when we finally elect a progressive council in October!

'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.

'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War

Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.

No, effeminate boys aren’t being ‘transed’ | Xtra Magazine Hiding my transness nearly killed me. Let’s work to build a world where trans people’s lives aren’t quite so hard

The accusation that trans kids existing and receiving gender-affirming care is a form of gay conversion therapy has long held sway in gender-critical circles—but the reality of trans lives undoes the argument, writes @katelynburns.com:

Isn't this basically Fallout

Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from

He has the energy of an uncle who sends you a "forwarded multiple times" chain message on WhatsApp

Police Body Cameras: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Oliver takes a dump on the Schumer-led Democratic demands after Alex Pretti’s shooting — “masks off, body cams on” — noting the killers had fucking body cams on, that that footage exists, that it didn’t change shit, and that we’re likely never to see it b/c they were exonerated automatically.

this shit is driving me insane. OpenAI sucks don't get me wrong but Anthropic quite literally supports and provides software for the war in Iran. They are monetizing death and destruction. OpenAI's dumbass strategy of "rushing in to take Anthropic's business" allowed Dario Amodei to lie!

Thumbnail of an Instagram reel. It has a photo of Mark Carney speaking at a podium, edited to appear in front of smoke plumes amid a city. The text reads: "I'm all for international law 'theoretically'".

1/ This is utterly incoherent.

What Canadians need to hear from our Prime Minister right now is simple: call for a ceasefire and immediately withdraw your misguided support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war.

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What Iranians Think About the U.S.-Israel War on Iran I asked five Iranian-American thought leaders what corporate media isn't telling us about this war—here's what they told me

I asked 5 Iranian-American thought leaders what corporate media isn't telling us about this war.

I encourage you to read their responses & support their advocacy.

If there is one unifying thread uniting these voices, it is: war is not liberation, propaganda is not truth, and bombs are not policy.

'B-b-b-b-but how are troops supposed to know their orders are illegal!?' ask the most spineless liberals on the internet.

'Your mission is to cause armageddon and return Jesus to life' is a pretty good indicator.

The FBI Is Using AI to Hack Targets AI is a “game changer” for what the FBI calls remote access operations, an FBI official said in response to a 404 Media question on Tuesday.

"I see AI as having applicability across, again, every single tactic that would be relevant to those on-network operations, So it's a game changer in that sense.”

Yeah, the FBI is using AI to hack targets, saying it has "tremendous benefits."

An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.

The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.

(📸 Middle East Observer)

Why Iran is only the beginning… - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts YouTube video by UnHerd

Watch our dissection of the US bombing campaign against Iran - a definitive shift toward Netanyahu's permanent war doctrine exposing Trump's abandonment of his non-interventionist promise & his embrace of the neocon agenda www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxv7...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Is it really so hard for Mark Carney to say something like this instead of constantly defending US breaches of international law?

Gaza Officials: Israel Has Only Let in 14 Percent of Aid Required by Ceasefire Only 89 trucks a day are entering on average, Gaza officials said, compared to the 600 agreed to in the ceasefire deal.

Gaza officials say Israel has allowed in only 14 percent of the aid required by the ceasefire agreement, averaging 89 trucks a day instead of the 600 that were promised to help alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis.