not an april fools joke: svelte is no longer just a web framework (or rather, won't be once we merge @paolo.ricciuti.me's magnum opus). have seen some extremely cool demos of this

French cities, including Paris, will vote on Sunday for their city councils & mayors.

Transformations in Paris over the past decades are astonishing (see @bloomberg.com article below!) & are the product of years of transit & bike investment, changing how people move: www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

How a Catch-a-Predator Sting Nabbed a Right-Wing Hatemonger Was Jake Lang evaluating a teenage girl for a bikinis-and-burkas protest? Or was something more lecherous at play?

Jake Lang, the organizer of an anti-Muslim rally outside of Zohran Mamdani's home, is now in big trouble after being caught flirtatiously texting someone he believed to be a 15-year-old girl.

My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/how-catch-...

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

The Indicator guide to investigating ecommerce sites A practical walkthrough of the tools, techniques, and indicators used to analyze online stores and identify ecommerce fraud operations.

Ecommerce fraud is rampant. It's also easy to launch and hard to trace.

My new guide to investigating ecommerce sites covers how to ID the store platform, trace ownership, analyze traffic, do a safe test purchase etc. I also found a few free, new-to-me tools: indicator.media/p/the-indica...

Incredible, important journalism =>

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In 2021, I reported on an internal meeting at Facebook about discussions to put facial recognition on new smartglasses. One of their execs complained about the coverage and said the co would have a "very public discussion" about the tech.

They never did. And now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Every time I do a double-take at Newark Penn Station I wonder why they don't just name it "Manhattan Station"

What's also wild about this is what it says about all of the other companies who must be encountering this same issue and *not* reporting it to the authorities.

Also, companies can most easily report *known images*. There are many more *previously unreported images* that are harder to detect.

Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won’t say where it came from

What happens when the AI race collides with child safety?

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

What data does Grok cite when asked about race and intelligence? A misused genetic database that researchers lost control of: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Musk’s participation in the bikini trend opened the floodgates. Grok went from making 300k images a week to 4.4 million. Read more from me, @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com and @stuartathompson.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes “Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices,” three Democratic senators wrote to Apple’s and Google’s CEOs.

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery.

I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

What Is A Life Worth In NYC? In Fatal Crashes, Sometimes Just $50 - Streetsblog New York City Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, a Streetsblog investigation found.

NEW INVESTIGATION: What Is A Life Worth In NYC? In Fatal Crashes, Sometimes Just $50.

Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, including just a $50 fine in one case, a Streetsblog investigation found. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/08/w...

How Police Justify Killing Drivers: The Vehicle Was a Weapon (Published 2021)

Highlighting this 2021 piece from my colleagues that looked into how police justify killing drivers, often saying the vehicle was a weapon.

www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/u...

Patients spending $50,000 chasing remedies. Permanent scars.

NYS investigation finds 40% of med spas cited for violations. One even injected fentanyl.

We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated.

It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans.

And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question.

My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

Most people will focus on the insider trading element.

What's more concerning is how this could've been a tip-off of pending military action. Like Signalgate, except anyone can see it in real time.

trashed living room with stairwell and the ceiling is caving in but there's a pristine white couch and ottomans with blue throw pillows and matching rug https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6327-Wheeler-St-Philadelphia-PA-19142/10403865_zpid/?

dining room of same with the caving in ceiling directly above a dining table and full service for 8

upstairs bedroom with crumbling walls and debris all over the bare subfloor but a pristine while bed and fabric headboard and shelves and art on the walls

another bedroom, water stained ceiling and drywall peeling off but a kids bedroom with again pristine white sheets and art on the walls and toys. apparently they got the electric turned back on too

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

For years, people have lodged complaints about Tesla’s doors. With no official statistics, Bloomberg did its own analysis on the number of fatal crashes in the US in which door functionality played a role. Read more: bloom.bg/49tm0fF

📷️: Getty Images

I’m a Two-Time School-Shooting Survivor Zoe Weissman was 12 when she lived through Parkland. At 20, she just went through it again at Brown University.

Cannot think of a grimmer, sadder headline.

"I’m a Two-Time School-Shooting Survivor: Zoe Weissman was 12 when she lived through Parkland. At 20, she just went through it again at Brown University." -- www.thecut.com/article/brow...

Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com

Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion:

Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B”

Equal to:
-33 new high schools
-public teacher salaries for > 1Y
-more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget

sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana $10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks...

I took a deep dive into Meta’s “Hyperion” data center in Richland Parish, LA. The story of a tech behemoth coming bearing billions to a poor community like Richland Parish is complex and worthy of scrutiny. 🧵 1/7

sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

it took the NYPD a week to find a man dead inside a car with illegal tinted windows and parked in front of a fire hydrant just 600 feet from their front door