but this is what concerns me about AI videos is really the emotional manipulation and the dysregulation it can cause so quickly. and they are perfecting so many of these little emotional roller coaster hoops by these massive experiments where the companies are getting data back on how all this works
they are basically getting like increasingly effective at stimulating emotions and responses and they're able to do that like within seconds.
i saw a documentary recently that was back to back to back tears, everyone crying, everyyyoneeee, but it was about A REAL PERSON and a REAL THING
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations after four U.S. and Mexican officials died in an accident over the weekend, adding she was unaware of collaboration between the U.S. and the local government in northern Chihuahua. https://to.pbs.org/3OiMzO1
“The evidence uncovered today is clear as day: Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable,” Bonta said in a statement. “The company is price fixing, colluding with vendors and other retailers to raise costs for Americans beyond what the market requires – beyond what is fair.”
Sharp piece from @doctorow.pluralistic.net arguing that Trump’s chaos is accelerating two big global shifts, away from fossil fuels and away from US tech dependence. Not what the Tangerine Toddler intended, but great news for the world.
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and they have the gall to call the democrats out of touch
Fuck it we’ll do it dead
So much this
i think it goes under-analyzed the extent to which tech bros and finance bros effectively merged around the start of the 2020s
and, as a result, a lot of the tech industry has muscled out actual tech—or even technical knowledge—in favor of wall street douches, but with silicon valley flavoring
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.
Now, on a story about about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children, they’re asking you to predict if Congress will do anything about it.
The indigenous drone manufacturers in Nigeria, Terrahaptix Inc. (also referred to as Terra Industries), are looking at an expansion move that would take it beyond its borders to one of the strongest markets in West Africa, Ghana.
Terrahaptix Inc., a Nigerian drone manufacturer, is expanding to Ghana to establish its first facility outside Nigeria, targeting the growing West African security market. The new Accra-based center will produce autonomous aircraft and defense systems in response to escalating Islamist-militant operations in the region. The Sahel region is experiencing increased terrorist activity, with militants using advanced drone technologies that challenge traditional defenses. Terrahaptix raised $34 million in rapid funding rounds, led by Lux Capital, bringing its valuation above $100 million in under two years.
The Anduril clone backed by genocide VC firms Lux Capital and 8VC (Joe Lonsdale firm) moving quickly to open a drone factory in Ghana
A pocket sized ultra high powered electromagnet to just... Walk around with, see what happens
Guess Jets have been using AI for years
usually the Bob is silent
Not enough people are talking about this.
Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.
And sam altman has a solution to sell you for the problem he created
Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits Edward Zitron Apr 20, 2026 4 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to Github Copilot, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing. The documents reveal that the weekly cost of running Github Copilot has doubled since the start of the year. Microsoft also intends to reduce the rate limits on its individual and business accounts, and to remove access to certain models for those with the cheapest subscriptions.
Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services.
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Holy shit
Of note.
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GEO Group's top D lobbyist Richard Lyles Sullivan has been showering Democrats across the country with Trump concentration-camp cash
As Alfredo Foucault once wrote
the penne opticon
The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.
The internet and the tribalism it created, part 3,527,815,728,048,826
We must use US taxpayer dollars to backstop the UAE
Which is facing economic problems caused by the war Trump started and doesn't know how to win
A war encouraged by leaders of the UAE
Who have given hundreds of millions in bribes to Trump, his family, and associates
In 2024 a Rockland Co agency held a “public hearing on a proposed subsidy for the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center. In return for nearly $77M in tax breaks, the project promised to create exactly one permanent job. No one showed up… Two weeks later, the subsidy deal was approved.”
“Because of the contract’s low price tag (about $12,000 per year), it appears to have eluded public discussion. It only needed to be signed off by a state clerk, circumventing the typical approval process for major contracts that require sign-off from the governor, Secretary of State,” and the AG.
The motto is StoryCorps was "listening is an act of love." CONSCIOUS LISTENING, intimate listening!
I feel sick thinking that this phrase is being used as cover to make people think that list listening all the time (Siri, Alexa, Prego, etc.) is also an act of love.
.... Why would we need to financially bail out the UAE?
