NEW: we @consumerfed.bsky.social are suing Meta in DC for knowingly facilitating massive scam losses through ads and misleading consumers about what they're doing to stop it
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
thanks to @tyckozavareei.bsky.social @techjusticelaw.bsky.social for repping us.
Yes, great example
Thank god SoftBank is making A Mirror Your Child Can See Dead Family In. Harry Potter was obsessed with his
Maybe losing Bidunga to Louisville has just broken me #kubball
This year I'm feeling exhausted by the transfer portal. Losing your entire roster to replace it with all new faces is making the players seem more and more like hired mercenaries than college kids every year. #ncaa
Screenshot of booking page for Acadia NP - Standard entrance pass: $20-$35 Non-US residents must pay a $100 per person fee in addition to the standard entrance pass fee
Huh. Non-U.S. residents have to pay an extra $100 per person to visit a national park now. Kind of seems like a lot!
Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
"Effective immediately, Fisher-Price will exit the 'child development toy' vertical and re-emerge as Mattel·igence AI Defense Systems, a fully integrated autonomous weapons manufacturer focused on AI-enabled lethality solutions for the modern battlefield. Our stock is up 4000%."
So sorry to hear
also why don't we have money?? How does louisville have money to give him that we don't?
This is the moment that has radicalized me against the transfer portal
Met a psychiatrist recently whose hot take is screen addiction is worse than alcohol/drugs. We have AA and rehab, but no infrastructure for "softer" addictions making them much harder to escape. I know I am being serious in response to a joke post rn but this thought has been haunting me a little
Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection
Amazing! Thank you!
I've been trying out the @skywatch.blue moderation labels & I'm really liking it. It flags posts & accounts exhibiting strange behavior. Idk if its methodology is perfect, but it feels like it's making invisible manipulation tactics (like engagement hacking) more concretely visible, and that's neat
THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.
a close up of an angel-y figure in the background of the trump-as-Jesus AI slop that looks like a pile of laundry with legs wearing a tiara
Uh
This really was tremendous reporting from @mharrisondupre.bsky.social and the Futurism team
NEW: The NYT said that the AI-powered GLP-1 middleman startup Medvi — which is reportedly on track to do $1.8b in sales — cleaned up its act after taking deceptive marketing "shortcuts."
But it didn't.
More on: fake Medvi clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
An example of why pro-housing (and climate) people need to disassociate from Abundance(TM) ASAP. It provides no tools to differentiate b/w a data center and (e.g) affordable housing, and, philosophically, will tend to favor the former over the latter.
Ok NOW can we have an HBO Silicon Valley reboot
Once again @kashhill.bsky.social with mindbendingly insightful reporting
(note to self: if ever looking for youth to interview, be sure to introduce myself as "an old")
Are you still taking candidates for addition? I'm a public interest advocate working on AI issues and would like to keep this company
Had a fun convo w/ @cyberguy.bsky.social about #AI companies letting 3rd parties use their models -that aren’t for kids- in kids’ products & not vetting the people doing it.
If you've got kids in your life (or just find this stuff as wild as I do), this one is fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trwr...
Teeth 100% the first thing that came to mind
As always, shoutout @finnmyrstad.bsky.social for appearing in this silly thing
Happy OkCupid/FTC privacy data sharing settlement day. No penalties for OkCupid sharing your data & saying it didn't, so pretty lame. But here's funny a deep dive I did into data apps being sketchy with your data, anyways www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Lw...
