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Overheard in restaurant: Some guy fervently trying to convince a woman to use an AI bot to answer her emails. Woman: I don’t want some bot responding to scammers, then I’ll just get more spam. Guy: Well how do YOU handle scammers, hmmm? Woman: I just DONT RESPOND TO THEM. Guy: <silence> LMAO

Are you a huge fan of WW II Germany? Ah, so you’re probably friendless. Not to worry, this game is single player!

Once again: Every incentive for other nations in the post-Trump world is to develop an hoard nuclear weapons. We didn’t meet our commitments to Ukraine who gave them up willingly, we bombed Iran, we cozied up to NK.

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Stop searching for some Trump grand strategy regarding foreign policy. He’s just making it up as he goes along, based mostly on personal proclivities and based not at all on the pursuit of American national interests.

cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is

Fondly recalling all those Patriot Act/FISA debates where surveillance apologists would roll their eyes at mention of Hoover-era abuses: You clearly don’t understand all the institutional reforms that would render such a thing impossible in the modern day.

everyone with a Twitch account is automatically opted in to Amazon using your stream to train its AI models. you have to deliberately opt out - a feature the platform is positioning as a nice little favor to its users :) www.404media.co/twitch-train...

Die Spitz, holy shit! These chicks absolutely melt faces. They are absolutely going to be headlining in a few years. Go see them now while it’s easy to get close.

Everyone has seen "Skips Leg-day Guy," but I encounter a new creature at the gym this week: "Only Does Bis and Tris Guy." This guy had: - no legs - no chest - no shoulders Literally only biceps, triceps, and forearms. What a bizarre way to spend your workouts.

I'm hosting an AMA with security researcher @runasand.bsky.social on August 12th at 5pm PT / 8pm ET to answer questions about the recent case of an American charged by the DOJ for allegedly wiping his phone with a "duress" password during an airport interrogation. It's the first case of its kind.

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

Just got one of those AI generated phone call scams about a relative being in jail and needing money for release. It was all 100% believable until they hit a dead-end and pivoted to claiming *I* was in legal trouble. Using AI to make voice calls needs to be illegal.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Great new feature in the latest Signal app. If you enable disappearing messages the meta data of calls and missed calls gets deleted as well. I know this was a long standing goal for them, but the engineering behind it took time. #Privacy @signalapp

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

My dudes, if you can understand SYN-ACK, you can understand consent

While Brazilian World Cup Twitter is engaging in a Hegelian analysis of the historic decline of the Seleção as a dialectical struggle between Catholicism and evangelicalism, US World Cup Twitter is doing a Marxist comparative political economy of kids’ soccer academies

who could have predicted nazi tattoo guy would be an unmitigated shit head

Am I going insane, or has the Telemundo broadcast just been blank for the last 30 minutes? Has the match started yet?

My colleagues are reporting, citing a source familiar, that FIFA's decision to overturn Balogun’s suspension came after Trump made a call to FIFA's president.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Happy 250th to this country, whose constitution literally says no “presents” from foreigners!

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.

30 years for moving a box of zines. Des Sanchez Estrada was not even at the noise demo that led to this. The state is attempting to make an example of these anti-fascist political prisoners. We can expect the crackdowns to continue & escalate. Take this seriously. Don't back down

Ghana!!!

New, by me: Klue says hackers used a credential from a 2022 pilot that allowed the recent mass-theft of customers' data. Lots of unknowns, but raises questions about how long the credential was active & what could've been done to mitigate. Bypass for ad-block users: web.archive.org/web/20260623...