Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How World recruited its first half a million test users The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.

Watching Sam Altman's World ID announcement on its new ID verification partnerships w/ Tinder, Zoom, AWS, etc & want to point out that @technologyreview.com predicted all of this 4 years ago—while pointing out the privacy violations they built on. www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1...

Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder Will your boss require an eyeball scan the next time you need to jump on Zoom?

“Basically, every version of World’s approach to verification requires people to go along with invasive biometric scans…”

All Info - H.R.8250 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes. All Info for H.R.8250 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.

The idea of a national-level operating-system-level ID law is so invasive and technologically illiterate that it's unbelievable. "Parents Decide," allegedly, but they can't decide not to compromise their kids' or other peoples' privacy by not uploading an ID! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

All aboard! New York Transit Museum celebrates 50th anniversary with vintage train rides, scavenger hunt and new Exhibit • Brooklyn Paper Brooklyn Heights' New York Transit Museum turns 50 with train rides, scavenger hunts, and exhibit celebrating NYC transit history citywide.

New Yorkers who are caretakers of small people might be interested in these upcoming fun activities. www.brooklynpaper.com/new-york-tra...

This is the one in Mogadore. But I’ve been by the one in Akron too!

A grey(ish blue?) single story house in flanked by a standard height 2-car garage on one side and a taller height 2-car garage on the other where one bay is standard height and one would fit a tractor trailer/semi truck. The house part is smallish with the front door and two small windows beside it, but it may extend behind the garages (hard to tell from the street)

Guys! Guys! Someone finally built that ooops all garages house you’ve been yammering on about!

View from the road showing the side of the Goodyear Blimp Hangar

It’s a very long barn lol (800’!)

Me, a white woman with brown hair, standing in front of the Goodyear Blimp Hangar. There’s a sign out front that reads “Goodyear Airship Operations”. I’m wearing a black tee, blue shorts, and green sneakers

Close up of the Goodyear Airship Operations sign

Me, a white woman with brown hair, kneeling inside a very large Goodyear tire that’s partially buried in a park.

We didn’t get to see the blimps, but we did get to see where they sleep :)

(Tapping the "archive early, archive often, and save offline copies when you can" sign again.)

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Ugh. Every online journalist knows that our work can disappear completely at the owner's whim. The Internet Archive is one of the key tools to fight that—like, my Jalopnik articles really did have photos! The Internet Archive has PROOF!

Blocking it is horrific. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Transit Tickets (@transit.tickets) • Instagram 2,192 Followers - 500 Posts - "0500 Jelgava, Latvia - circa 2004 3.5 x 7.0 cm — #transittickets #transportationtickets #ticketart #publictransit #tra…"

These were kindly sent to us by Transit Tickets - a great Instagram account for transport passes from around the world www.instagram.com/transit.tick...

Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

A typographic carnival.

Bluey origin story just dropped

Akron is a beautiful name for a girl 🥰

Good name for a neighborhood bar

Oh, same for me!

It’s so much fun to watch and the cast meshes so well together! It’s one of my favorite things to recommend to people because I find so many folks haven’t seen it

If it’s brown flush it down

Nope! Nope nope nope nope nope it’s toooooo close to my bedtime to go down that road 🤪🤪

This is a great read, btw (as is everything from the folks at BW/DR) but major spoilers if you’ve never seen Sneakers (which you should immediately rectify!)

There’s a line in “Halt and Catch Fire” where Katie says to Gordon: "It's a motley crew of dude friends pulling capers w/ nothing more than nerdy technical skills & a dash of moxie" and that’s all I needed to know *exactly* what movie she meant

(Cc @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social)

I lived on a peanut farm at one point in my childhood and I would have been scarred for life had the things in the field looked like that 😬🤭

That song popped in my head as soon as I saw this little vignette, and stayed with me for over an hour lol

Green-Wood Cemetery, last summer

A hillside in a cemetery. There are some headstones on the green slope that takes of most of the center/right but you can see a curved roadway in the left. A yellow sign a on black post reads “caution dangerous turn keep to the right”

🎶Won’t come back from Dead Man’s Curve🎶

Wait, I’m wrong, technically my diner is still open! But I’m too tired to bother now lol

(For all the things this town has, we lack great burger places that are also open late. I could easily drive to a fast food spot but I wasn’t craving mediocre 🤷🏻‍♀️)

*I also google myself maybe once or twice a year to have personal info that pops up on broker sites pulled down.

It’s amazing how many dead links and old sites are completely gone these days but our personal identifying data will exist online forever :/

Sometimes I google my username* to make sure funky things aren’t popping up. One time the top of page AI results had me confused with both a BDSM creator I follow AND her sister.

The summary was basically that I’m a queer, proudly Asian, domme & restaurateur who loves to drive lol

I wish I had a real cheese burger to eat right now (everything’s closed) 😢

Well, this is concerning

Imagine opening a fresh journal only to find, scribbled on the first page, the eulogy you wrote 19 years ago when your dad died.

Unexpected things happening in my feelings today, folks!

Update: this was really enjoyable and definitely something I would have *loved* at a younger age! Thanks for the rec :) Sent along to for my little cousins and (eventually) the nieces & nephew!