Sean

If you've never seen this show: Watch it. Especially anyone who likes the Coen brothers.

100%

You haven't lived until game 7 goes into double OT and your watch is informing you of a suspected cardiac event

Even in Siminoff’s absence, Ring had always, explicitly been intended to assist law enforcement. In a series of investigations we did back at VICE (mostly written by Caroline Haskins, who is still covering surveillance at WIRED), we uncovered thousands of pages of documents, emails, and chats via public records requests and leaks that highlighted Ring’s surveillance ambitions. The company threw parties for police, employees wore “FUCK CRIME” shirts to internal parties, and helped police facilitate the retrieval of footage from its customers’ cameras if they initially refused to cooperate. It helped police set up elaborate, completely useless package “sting” operations designed to catch criminals but that did not result in any arrests. Ring gave cops devices that they could raffle off to people in their towns, gave police “heat maps” of where its customers lived, used its social media accounts to post footage of supposed suspicious people, and incentivized customers to create “Digital Neighborhood Watch” groups that could earn them swag if they used their Ring cameras to report suspicious activity to police.

For a while, Ring tried to rebrand as the "watch the delivery driver dance" gadget, but its founder is obsessed with crime, threw parties for cops, and its employees wore "FUCK CRIME" shirts to parties

"ChatGPT said it was a good idea..."

Brother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for years Exclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent

NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social:

“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”

"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here @districtcon.bsky.social - despite the snow - and we've got some amazing content on deck today INCLUDING a session from @timstarks.bsky.social @kimzetter.bsky.social and Mary Brooks (our DisCo Press Lead) in 5 minutes.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

Company creates new metric, announces they are best at that metric.

"AI"

in the days since members have fled the discord, the chatbot wished people happy holidays and of course the anthropic exec responded and you just have to read this lmfao

www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

In other words, all the things required to build a building?

It's a wink wink and a nod

Well whoever runs IT for Hassett better take note, just tell em to use AI and close the ticket.

sorry about your cookies this is probably TMI

“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”

Wow.

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.

Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Something positive in all this AI trash.

Dental insurance isn’t a scam — but it’s also not insurance How we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up.

The thing about dental insurance is that it isn’t really insurance — it’s more like a half-helpful discount plan with a maximum. And once you reach the maximum, you’re on your own, often to the tune of hundreds and thousands of dollars. As though going to the dentist needed to be less fun.

Spam - give the people what they want

Tell us Sour Patch Kids won the contest

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:

FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements The commission’s Republican chair, who voted against the rules in January, calls them ineffective and illegal.

Cool...cool...cool...

www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...

Because their recruiting team isn't looking at their resumes...

some minor improvements

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.

🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

From last night.

Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

How are folks finding what MCP servers are in use in their organizations? Not just remote ones, but local also. There are a ton of places where they are configured that I've seen even for just something like Claude.

Another day, another solidity malware.

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“Every ideation he has or crazy thought, it supports, it justifies, it asks him to keep exploring it,” Mr. Raine said. And at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in. “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March. “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

incredibly reporting by @kashhill.bsky.social on an impossibly difficult topic, as always