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“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”
Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.
Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️
Information on methods: https://wgms.ch/products_ref_glaciers/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116336641955231173
That reminds me of the Nazi’s
I have a feeling many of us know the story of Anne Frank
1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows.
2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings [<must-read]
3. We can’t have a grown-up conversation on the subject because the trillion-dollar bet’s feer+greed pressure crowds out truth.
4. When the bubble pops, the shitty people will melt away. Then we can maybe figure it out.
5. We so *SO* need that bubble to pop. Next week would be ideal.
More Than Just Parks: BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
"The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed."
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders?triedRedirect=true
"France Becomes First Country to Ban Supermarket Food Waste"
"The French senate has unanimously passed a law that stops grocery stores from throwing away and intentionally spoiling food that approaches best-buy dates.
Instead, they’ll have to give all of this food to charities and food banks, which will provide the hungry with millions of more meals. Just a 15% increase in donated food will mean 10 million more meals per year."
https://recycle.ab.ca/newsletterarticle/france-becomes-first-country-to-ban-supermarket-food-waste/
The French senate has unanimously passed a law that stops grocery stores from throwing away and intentionally spoiling food that approaches best-buy dates. Instead, they’ll have to give all of this food to...
FCC chair Brendan Carr's gloating over how the Trump administration has reshaped the media may have helped put a merger that would create “the largest broadcast conglomerate in US history” in legal jeopardy.
https://fair.org/home/trouble-for-nexstar-merger-that-would-create-mega-network-for-maga/
FCC chair Brendan Carr approved a merger creating “the largest broadcast conglomerate in US history.” And he did so at the behest of his boss.
Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users?
Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy. This page documents exactly how the system works, with line references and code excerpts from LinkedIn’s production JavaScript bundle.
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