The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
An image of the “Skinner Out of Touch” meme, with the top frame saying, “I was unlikely to win the case in Delaware because the facts were extremely biased against me?” and the bottom frame saying, “No, it’s the judge who was extremely biased”
Have you seen this fun little webapp? Apparently when someone’s annoying noise is recorded and played back with a delay, it’s disorienting enough to make them turn it down. Not sure if I’d be brave enough to try it, but maybe?
stfu.pankajtanwar.in
Source and backstory:
github.com/Pankajtanwar...
"Hey Manus, can you give me suggestions on what to name my new product? It should make people think of buttholes every time they use it."
@katie0martin.ft.com This is about as grim as you’d expect from the spy glasses:
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips…
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex and other intimate moments.”
Meta absolutely cannot be trusted not to spy on anything you see if you wear their smart glasses
www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
humming charli xcx’s party 4 u while i throw handfuls of unshelled peanuts to the corvids in the back garden
Easiest “Betteridge’s Law” headline ever @ianbetteridge.com
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Oh man. Mind your sources, folks, until you have confirmation. Goodnight.
respectfully, really, am i supposed to just believe news from a substack screenshot
vishnu i just read this and now i want falafel
when the podcast ends with someone saying “no generative AI was used in the writing or production of this podcast” 🙏😤🙂↕️👏
The Trump administration’s global havoc is unending.
My latest story is about how the Trump admin is amplifying anti vaxx conspiracies just as measles outbreaks are spreading across the globe; many countries have just lost elimination status, and others are on the brink.
bsky.app/profile/3r1n...
Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones, not from the government advising caution, but from a prayer timing app called ‘BadeSaba Calendar’ which has been downloaded 5 million times from the Google Play Store. The messages arrived in quick succession over a period of 30 minutes, starting with the phrase ‘Help Has Arrived’ at 9:52 am Tehran time. No party has claimed responsibility for the hacks. Screenshots shared with WIRED Middle East show messages urging Iranian military personnel to surrender their weapons with the promise of amnesty. It also urged army personnel to join “the forces of liberation” and to “defend your brothers.”
Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app
www.wired.me/story/hacked...
www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
The Epic Handshake meme, with “Dry NYC sidewalks” at the top and “Dry UK pavements” underneath
bb ghost it feels like it has rained every single day here this year and i have also had enough
To clear things up they should hire me to do comms for them:
“‘There is no pause,’ explained government spokesperson Mr. Pause.”
The problem when ppl in a panoptic surveillance paradigm say they want to "do better than this" is that they mean they want perfect, error-free surveillance tech & not only is that functionally impossible, it's not morally desirable, even if it were. It'd still be a panoptic surveillance paradigm…
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
Given all the discourse today about Bluesky vs. X... seems like good timing for @lastweektonight.com's latest video on just how bad X has become...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...
Glad to hear you made it, Vishnu. Safe travels and all that
