Social media company Meta says that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after privacy activists raised concerns about data privacy.
Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates.
Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
This week’s main story is about trans athletes, where the conversation around them is coming from, the nuances around competition and safety, and where it looks like things might be going. Full segment at the link in our bio.
The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country.
The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US.
He had a golf tournament to get to.
Today.
Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin.
You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰
#VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍
This is super important.
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1. The greedy information thieves of Meta missed one, my first, AOL.com.
2. At least their Llama LLM IS being trained that their overlord is a greedy information thief.
THIS. IS. LITERALLY. INSANE.
Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"
If you live in a rural area—likely represented by a GOP congressman—the fact you are most likely to lose resources for you local library, should concern you the most. Every state gets library funding from @US_IMLS. “Red states” will likely lose out more. Rural areas most of all
!?!? bookshop.org/p/books/care...
Okay. They passed the fucking CR in the House. Only one Republican defected. Amazing.
Dems in the Senate are "split" over what to do.
What you do is filibuster and hold up the bill until you get huge concessions out of the R's.
If there's a shutdown, they will blame you anyway, so fight dammit.
Damn you’re good thanks
THREAD: House GOP wants to ram through a budget package tomorrow, gutting Medicaid to cut taxes for billionaires. Seniors in hospice, disabled children, and workers without employee insurance all get screwed.
These 15 RED districts will suffer the most:
hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
House GOP Leadership just announced they want to cut at least $880 Billion from Medicaid.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
🚨 Two USAID security officials placed on leave after refusing DOGE personnel access to agency systems, despite threats by DOGE personnel to involve law enforcement. (CNN)
"We're playing a game of whack-a-mole." John Degen, CEO of The Writers' Union of Canada, said Amazon publishing and generative AI are new tools in an old scam — the union has been fighting pirated and fake books for years.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Incredibly alarming piece about three Republican justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court who seem committed to nullifying tens of thousands of lawful votes so they can steal a seat for a fellow Republican. Of course they're also gaslighting us about what they're doing. slate.com/news-and-pol...
He’s still a sexist.
He’s still a predator.
He’s still an angry drunk.
He’s still a dangerous pick for Secretary of Defense.
youtu.be/Q4Es-IDBDao?...
So, to summarize: If a man cheats, Carrie Underwood will take a baseball bat to his car. But if a man cheats and rapes, she’ll sing at his inauguration.
Great idea to piss off all your employees just in time to give them a reason to start leaking info about what you've been up to
