A woman pushing a cleaning cart and a man pushing a two wheeled cart stocked with boxes in a Halloween themed corridor

הלואין שמח לכל מי שחוגג.ת

מי היהודיסט שממש כואב לו הזין לראות תמונות של נשים במרחב הציבורי ב"פתח תקווה"?

Surveillance Secrets Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread

Surveillance Secrets breaks the story of a European-led phone tracking firm whose hidden history rewrites what we thought we knew, spilling all over the world from the Vatican to Silicon Valley, led by @lighthousereports.com & @papertrailmedia.de

Court hearing: UK prosecutors aim to confiscate ~$6.8B in bitcoin tied to a massive 2017 fraud in China and to pay back Chinese investors that were its victims (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

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i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

בעיית מקלדת

כנראה שאני פשוט גרוע בלהיות טוב בדברים שאני גרוע בהם

unfair for them to make me kiss the cpr dummy and not catch feelings

"סיפורה של שפחה" יעובד לגירסת ריאלטי

Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site’s Data The online discussion forum says Anthropic continued to access its site over 100,000 times after saying it stopped.

Reddit is suing AI startup Anthropic for using the online-discussion site’s data without a licensing agreement

Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other entertainment companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year (Wall Street Journal)

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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

DOGE fired the people who built it, parasitized our organizations, and killed the project. But the Direct File codebase lives on. Paid for by American taxpayers, the code is yours.

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A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

This is really interesting technology with a lot of cool potential that's actually being slowly and thoughtfully tested for safety. I do worry, however, that it could further reify social attitudes about nonspeaking people, with the expectation that if you can't voice, you should get this implant.

ICE Moves to DNA-Test Families Targeted for Deportation with New Contract Advocates worry the tests will pave the way for the Trump administration to separate children from their caregivers.

I'm repeatedly struck that all the scenarios the critical data studies / algorithmic bias / smart cities scholars warned us about over the past 10-15 years are now manifesting simultaneously

אני מזדקן כמו יין - טוב בעיקר לרטבים

'One animator who asked to remain anonymous described a costume designer generating concept images with AI, then hiring an illustrator to redraw them — cleaning the fingerprints, so to speak. “They’ll functionally launder the AI-generated content through an artist,” the animator said.'

חתולה באדי על עידוק על המיטה

האם חזרתי הביתה תוך האזנה לסקיצה של פרק סייברסייבר שאני עורך, נשכבתי על המיטה, חתולה נשכבה עלי, הקשבתי שוב לסקיצה בעודי מנמנם, התעוררתי כמה דקות לפני צלצול התזכורת להתקשר ללקוח, דיברתי איתו וחזרתי להאזין לסקיצה והחתולה עדיין עלי? לא עניינכם

Hell No: The ODNI Wants to Make it Easier for the Government to Buy Your Data Without Warrant New reporting has revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is attempting to create the Intelligence Community’s Data Consortium–a centralized online marketplace where l...

Hell No: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence Wants to Make it Easier for the Government to Buy Your Data Without Warrant www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Pension Funds Have Had It With Tesla’s Board And Musk Meanwhile, a new consumer sentiment survey finds most people want someone else to run the EV company.

NEW: Elon Musk’s DOGE role and inflammatory public behavior have done significant damage to the Tesla brand, a new pill finds. Pension fund investors are fed up with the Tesla board’s failure to reign in the billionaire CEO #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

SCOOP: The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul. www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

Transcripts Helps you understand and create transcripts for audio and video media accessibility.

Basic transcripts are a text version of speech and non-speech audio information needed to understand content. Descriptive transcripts also describe the visual information needed to understand the content, helping people who are both Deaf and blind.

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A chart showing cancelled NIH grants

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...

Surveillance is a reproductive justice issue 📢📢📢

ALPR technology is being used to find people who seek reproductive care. This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last unless we organize against it now‼️

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Why We Need Trans Tech In 2025 For decades, trans people have responded to the needs in their community with technological innovation. One researcher explores the possibilities, limitations and future of trans tech.

I was recently interviewed for @embodiedwunc.bsky.social about my trans technologies work; just now getting a chance to post about this! Thanks to @asrao.bsky.social and Kaia Findlay for their work on the episode, and @hibby.bsky.social for contributing an audio clip.

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שיגרת בוקר: 50 כפיפות בטן, 40 שכיבות סמיכה, ואם יש לי כוח אז אפילו עוד סרטונים של אנשים עושים כושר

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

בנושא אחר, אני ו @cryptomer.bsky.social ככל הנראה נשב היום בשניט בסביבות שעה 18:00 לאיזה דרינק. מוזמנים להצטרף. המקדימים עלולים לקבל גם עוגיה.

נסעתי פעם לשדה התעופה פעמיים ברצף. בפעם השנייה עם המזוודה

I love Jasmine Crockett. She always says exactly what the rest of us are thinking

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