Double the Toasties: Bask Bear Buy 1 Free 1 Deal

"Fuh kenyang" is the exact feeling after diving into a solid toastie and coffee combo from Bask Bear. If you are looking for an affordable, delicious meal while working or studying, their app rewards are a lifesaver right now. New users can grab a Buy 1 Free 1 welcome deal, alongside points for free drinks and toasties like the Cheezy Egg or Smoky Pulled Chicken combos. Just download the app and use the referral code RFJ5561 to claim your rewards and enjoy your feast!

#baskbear #coffee #toasties #malaysia #foodie #promo #buy1free1 #deal #makan #referral #app #rewards #cafe #local #values

"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.
One good idea from the Truth Tellers Conference: when Trump calls a reporter "Piggy" to her face, all of the reporters there should immediately walk out, as a sign that Trump insulting them is unacceptable, but White House reporters are too cowardly to do this. Maybe one of them could grow a spine and follow this advice.
#media #WHCA #sexism #solidarity #values

“Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, #Google's on-device #LLM. #Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”

#privacy #sustainability #consent #values

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!
Christiane Amanpour: "Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. CNN Producer Abeer Salman reports from Umm al-Khair, where razor wire has blocked Palestinian children from going to school."
#HumanRights #ethics #brutality #Israel #racism #values #education #politics

Since when did the Gospel start prioritizing chandeliers over the "least of these" on our street corners?
https://wp.me/pgUqIh-18U

#Faith #Politics #GOP #Values

The Gilded Pew: A View from the Street

Channeling the Spirit of Studs Terkel The tape is rolling. It's 2026, and the air in Chicago is thick with the same old promises, just wrapped in newer, shinier digital foil.  We're talking about faith today folks.  Not the kind that moves mountains, but the kind that moves poll numbers. I'm sitting here thinking about

1bluebass » Mathius Einai
Jesse Lee: "Donald Trump will nominate Todd Blanche to be Attorney General and it will be basically an up-or-down vote on fascism in the Senate."
#values #standards #ethics #justice #priorities #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116487976972268272

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, acting like a political prostitute, said the indictment of James Comey for spelling out 86 47 was good but an indictment of Jack Posobiec for spelling out 86 46 would be bad. Blanche was totally unconvincing because those two men communicated the same message about two American presidents.
#politics #injustice #dishonesty #values #standards #PoliticalProsecution

Faith Without Coercion

Your beliefs are yours and mine are mine—but power, coercion, and hypocrisy still deserve scrutiny.

#religion #freedom #beliefs #ethics #humanrights #society #reflection #faith #justice #criticism #authority #philosophy #humanity #discussion #values