Chris Hiestand

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We can’t have children, for the first time ever, finding out that about 50% of the population develops breasts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/texas-bans-virginia-flag-breast

What a boob: Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast

Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the ban

The Guardian

Turns out the would-be Trump assassin in Coachella was a conspiracy theory loving MAGA supporter who hung out with Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and others from Trump's inner circle.

Gosh, turns out all this political violence is coming from the very party who stoked it in the first place, the Republicans, who claim they're the "law and order" party. Who'da thunk it?

https://buzzzingo.com/maga-supporter-with-republican-connections-arrested-for-alleged-attempt-on-trumps-life-in-coachella/

I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet can now control your computer and access the internet.

The company warns that the new feature “poses unique risks that are distinct from standard API features or chat interfaces. These risks are heightened when using computer use to interact with the internet.”

And...“in some circumstances, Claude will follow commands found in content even if it conflicts with the user's instructions.”
https://sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-new-claude-ai-can-control-your-computer/

Anthropic’s new Claude AI can control your computer, and sometimes it just does whatever it wants to

The company is defending its choice to release the tool to the public before fully understanding how it could be misused.

Sherwood News
“Pressure is mounting on state and federal prosecutors to investigate tech billionaire Elon Musk’s $1 million lottery-style giveaway to registered voters in seven battleground states.A Justice Department spokesperson said Tuesday that it had received a letter from 11 former government officials including several Republican ex-prosecutors urging the department to investigate whether Musk’s daily prizes violate a federal law prohibiting paying people to register to vote.” https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-petition-million-swing-state-giveaway-money-legal-rcna176568
Pressure mounts on prosecutors to review Elon Musk’s $1 million swing-state petition giveaway

Prosecutors are facing pressure around payments that Elon Musk's America PAC made to people who signed a petition supporting free speech and gun rights.

NBC News

"According to the SEC’s orders, Unisys, Avaya, and Check Point learned in 2020, and Mimecast learned in 2021, that the threat actor likely behind the SolarWinds Orion hack had accessed their systems without authorization, but each negligently minimized its cybersecurity incident in its public disclosures."

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-174

SEC.gov | SEC Charges Four Companies With Misleading Cyber Disclosures

Via Emptywheel:

I guess it's not surprising that Artificial "Intelligence" sold by the guy whose autopilot keeps crashing offers up far right disinformation rather than facts.

Jenna Johnson:

Top election officials are urging Elon #Musk to fix the AI chatbot on X that spread false election information, suggesting Kamala #Harris missed the ballot the deadline in nine states. (She hasn't.)

The thing about Elon is that he cares more about his kid's genitalia than he does about his kid.

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it:

"The story of the most serious White House bribe allegation in U.S. history can't be allowed to fall under the cushions of #JDVance's couch

Congress must probe what really happened with #Trump, #Egypt and the $10M - and make bribery a crime again. My column🎁"

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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-sisi-egypt-10-million-bribe-20240804.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

Democracy dies if we drop the case of Trump, Egypt, and $10 million in cash

A credible allegation of a $10 million Trump bribe from Egypt is swept under the rug as bribery is increasingly legal in America.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

2/ "Bribery is bad for democracy.

"The impeachment clause of the Constitution spells out bribery as 1st on its list of things for which a corrupt pres or other federal official can be removed from office, ahead of treason & other high crimes and misdemeanors. In case that was too ambiguous, the framers also wrote up the Emoluments Clause, using an anachronistic term to essentially bar the president and other officeholders from accepting gifts or payments from foreign countries or their rulers"