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Trump Take LEGO

The popular Pick a Brick service let LEGO fanatics get the exact piece they wanted. It’s no longer available to US customers.

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The $200 Billion Gamble: #BillGates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation

In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision — amid the Trump admin’s assault on #ForeignAid — to accelerate the end of his giving.

by David Wallace-Wells

Today the #GatesFoundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by announcing its plans to close up shop.

#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.mBIv.zs6mjh2Ut3w8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p

Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045

In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision — amid the Trump administration’s assault on foreign aid — to accelerate the end of his giving.

The New York Times

What a beautiful reality we have, where there are so many different ways to be human, so many ways for people to become themselves.

When you get right down to it, becoming oneself is a human right. Forcing others into the shapes you prefer is oppression.

In this time of search engine decline and AI flooding the net with trash...

...it's time to bring back curated information. Expert reseachers and tomes of information.

This is the age of the librarian.

It is completely reasonable at this point to ask whether congressional Democrats have even a shadow of a clue about anything.

They aren't an opposition party. They are a feckless nothingburger of a party, cowering in the corner as Trump breaks multiple laws.

They told me "information wants to be free." I kinda liked that.

Then they started getting stock shares and decided it was just my information that wants to be free, for them. I didn't like that.

Federal government inspectors’ general council asserts mass immediate termination of IGs violates the law.
GM will be banned from selling driver behavioral data and geolocation. Good, but all automakers need privacy regulation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/ftcs-ban-gm-and-onstar-selling-driver-behavior-good-first-step
The FTC’s Ban on GM and OnStar Selling Driver Data Is a Good First Step

The Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement agreeing that General Motors and its subsidiary, OnStar, will be banned from selling geolocation and driver behavior data to credit agencies for five years. That’s good news for G.M. owners. Every car owner and driver deserves to be...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going"

https://www.404media.co/developer-creates-infinite-maze-to-trap-ai-crawlers-in/

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

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Hundreds of police license plate cameras are misconfigured to stream unencrypted to the open internet.

A privacy researcher took these streams and turned them into a real-time database that tracks car movements & information, highlighting how invasive this tech is

https://www.404media.co/researcher-turns-insecure-license-plate-cameras-into-open-source-surveillance-tool/

Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool

Privacy advocate draws attention to the fact that hundreds of police surveillance cameras are streaming directly to the open internet.

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