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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Village

Photo credit to /u/Blue_G_Productions on that other site.

https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/116026253299154536

In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/115985248349797403

October 2025:

Related: Robert Reich posted earlier today that Tesla paid ZERO taxes on $5 billion in sales (earnings?), so that’s just fucking great.

TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. 🙃

Old but still trendy

Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it’s a “cognitive amplifier,” claims Satya Nadella.

As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed “courageous whistleblowers” who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user’s messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app’s end-to-end encryption. “A worker need only send a ‘task’ (i.e., request via Meta’s internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job,” the lawsuit claims. “The Meta engineering team will then grant access – often without any scrutiny at all – and the worker’s workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user’s messages based on the user’s User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products.”

Programmers are cooked.

Dig this big crux.

https://www.instagram.com/speakpug/

Silverio Villegas González, Keith Porter Jr, Renee Good and Alex Pretti (and countless others who’s names we may never know) will not be the last people we will have to mourn, but we can take steps to prevent as many future deaths as we can, while enacting our last means of non-violent offense against the regime.

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon?r=1t17zr

https://mastodon.online/@FranckLeroy/109627512801712672

link to archived Reddit thread; original post removed/deleted

Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?

Google has criticized the European Union’s intentions to achieve digital sovereignty through open-source software. The company warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech companies could harm competitiveness. According to Google, the idea of replacing current tools with open-source programs would not contribute to economic growth.

https://zomglol.wtf/@jamie/116059523957674208

https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/808104605026320384/this-is-progress

https://www.gog.com/en/work/senior-software-engineer-c-gog-galaxy

A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.