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me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

folks, the Wall Street Journal is not the NYT, it is a paper for people who want a headline like "New Dictator Installed, Stock Market Up." they do not mess around

if they're getting worried, there's reason to be worried

a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road . ALT: a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road .

A rare video of terfs in the wild

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

License plate readers. Cellphone location data. Social media monitoring. Now, real-time facial recognition on the street.

DHS is building a surveillance apparatus—and you're probably already in it.

Our latest with @france24.com:

Deepfake 3.0: When Artificial Intelligence Can Imitate People in Real Time Artificial intelligence has evolved rapidly over the last decade. At first, most people noticed it through small conveniences. Voice assistants, recommendation systems, and automated translations have become part of daily life. Later, more advanced tools emerged. Some could generate images, write articles, or compose music. Now, as we enter another stage of AI evolution, new concerns are emerging. AI systems can now replicate a person’s voice and appearance almost instantly.

Welcome to Deepfake 3.0, where real-time voice cloning and video manipulation are creating new cybersecurity threats around the world.https://t.ly/MoghX

#Deepfake #Deepfake3 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CyberSecurity #VoiceCloning #TechTrends #AIEthics #DigitalSecurity #FutureOfTech #SyntheticMedia

So, Bluesky is blocking you if you use a U.S. VPN endpoint. Interesting. You can login, but it won’t load any content.

A painting of a bird beside the text "i always wondered what would happen if we put a total fuckin' moron in charge"

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

Every single one of those links proves how correct Parker is, and how corrupt you are.

Exhausted with humanity

You know we can go back and read archives of your front page, right? You are liars at best and active agents for authoritarianism at worst.

You mean all the times you sanewashed Trump? Or exaggerated Biden’s speech issues to make him appear incompetent? Just admit that you are a propagandist working to advance fascism. You are professional liars.

Glenn Beck not beating the allegations that he's one of the biggest dipshits alive

It would be great for Newsom to go a single day without sucking.

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

I refuse to root for Ken Paxton to pull this out because even though I think he’s more beatable I’m old enough to remember thinking that about Trump in 2016.

So AI made things less secure? Whoever could have seen that coming?!

Reminder that @nora.zone and I are building a bot that will respond with Gavin Newsom Facts when people @ it BUT we need your help to populate it before we can launch. Fill out this form to add your favorite moment(s) in Newsom history.

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it.

#fightlikenewsom 🙃

www.tomshardware.com/software/ope...

Drawing/watercolor by Greg Pak of Garfield staring at us with a deadpan, maybe scornful look, with the text "YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA" in Impact.

NYT’s Anti-Trans Bias—by the Numbers The New York Times used its front-page coverage primarily to wonder whether trans people's rights and access to healthcare have gone too far.

fair.org/home/nyts-an...

…you know that the New York Times reporting is consistently and obviously anti-trans, right? And they sane washed Trump in 2024, right? This isn’t even the opinion section. Their “reporting” is little different from any Murdoch organization.

Breaking character: If you want to learn a bit about the risks of "regime change" in Iran, I recommend this article by James Fallows about the second Iraq War.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I won’t say what Glenn Greenwald needs or deserves. I would be banned.

If we depend on tech company CEO's to do the right thing we're all gonna die in a fire

So let’s think about this.

A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.

The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

I’m pretty sure they’re actually doing that.