"Yes, this could mean that everyone who wants to have a social media account would have to provide proof of their age – by submitting biometric, algorithmic, or legal identification to the privately owned social media company."
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This is a war based on lies
At least 17 people have died in ICE custody so far this year, part of President Trump's dramatic increase of immigration detention. "I have never seen anything like this, where I'm seeing ICE reporting out at least one death per week," says Setareh Ghandehari with @detentionwatchnetwork.org.
"Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online."
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A bald eagle found dead near its nest in Arlington last month died from exposure to rat poison, officials said. It's the fourth such death in Massachusetts, renewing calls for a statewide ban on the toxic chemicals. on.nbcboston.com/ZTbBeHv
Police used a drone and saw Melissa Hortman wounded inside the home at 4:09am. It wasn't until 4:40am that police went inside to get her.
Anybody who was in the academic trenches knows that the administrator class was a representative of capitalist interests that prioritized the financialization of academia while undercutting labor and destroying democratic energies. You don't get here without them serving as hatchet men.
If you watch anything today, make it be this clip of @bencollins.bsky.social talking about what real strength is:
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
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Seeing Massachusetts Democratic State Committee Fed Fund listed.
This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.
Can someone tell MacKenzie Scott to buy a newspaper and hire talented journalists and fact checkers who were fired and make it a paper of record before we all end up in slave/death camps?
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
A display of a well preserved object resembling a bucket, with a triangular handle and rough, decayed texture. The object is mounted upright in a glass case within a modern museum setting.
A Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast and a willow handle, dating back some 7000 years ago.
Lime bast fibre is a strong and flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for example, used to make textiles or ropes.
Found in a well in Eythra, dating 5100-5000 BC. 🧵1/2
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A path through a sea of bluebells
Walk with me in our English Bluebell Woodland
Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”
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Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!
"“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”"
A group of children serenade President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani with "Soda Pop" from the movie KPop Demon Hunters
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
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Immigrants are dying in ICE custody every week.
Just because mass deportation agents stopped executing Americans in the streets doesn’t mean the brutality is over.
Museums have a duty to inspire the creatives of the future. At V&A East, I’ve made that my mission | Gus Casely-Hayford
This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
AI just ruining everything
“I’ll take a dilly bar and one suicide note.”
The best thing about having written a book, I think, is hearing from people who have enjoyed it. I’m always glad and grateful to hear from readers. Upon A White Horse is out in paperback on April 23, but preorders are already arriving.
Never had something more truthful been said about our Congress.
