I'm dying over here. This guy says he's created the world's first AI-based call center for actively disrupting and screwing with scammers. Their AI bots are taking live phonecalls at scale and keeping the scammers on the line for hours, and sometimes taunting the scammers. They're tying up entire scam call centers. So entertaining.
Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed.
Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.
Historic & inspiring leadership.
The problem, aside from the product recalls, the fact you can die inside when it catches fire and the doors lock, the substandard programming and the fact they look like the entire genre of vaporwave shit itself in vehicle form, is the fact that at this point it is known the only people who want one are fascists and/or smug dicks with raging compensation issues. This is the truck you buy when you hate yourself and everyone else.
Jeff Bezos is living proof that if you can get your parents to give you $500,000 and chronically underpay your workers, you, too, could spend your midlife crisis in low orbit
Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's lab notes
You can learn a lot of useful OPSEC lessons by examining the ways in which people get caught, so I'm just going to leave this right here.
https://www.404media.co/how-three-alleged-tesla-vandals-got-caught/
This is an actual post from the guy who does not understand why people are torching his Tesla dealerships.
I believe Eric is spot-on about this. It needs to be a committee that can't be disbanded by any POTUS.
Looks like the transatlantic airline business may soon start to experience a significant drop, as tourists, scientists, and business people find out about the recent horror stories about US Immigration procedures.
Just one example: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly67j35y99o
"White House officials informed the Navajo Nation that an artificial intelligence-powered automated review process looking for content with DEI initiatives led to the elimination of anything mentioning “Navajo,” according to a statement from Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren."
(Comment: Blame the AI... right....)
Having travelled to some pretty dodgy and autocratic places in my life, my advice is not to travel to the US if at all possible.
If you do have to travel there:
1. Make sure your passport has more than 6 months left to run.
2. make sure your visa is absolutely complete and covers you for exactly what you plan to do in the country
3. take ALL social media apps off your phone. If you use your real name on any of your accounts, change it before travelling.
What is the opposite of fascism? Living freely, colorfully, openly. Humanizing. Connecting with others. Gathering. Hoping. Following your dreams. Communing. Nurturing. Refusing despair. Laughing loudly. https://the.ink/p/the-opposite-of-fascism
The same people outraged over Confederate statues being toppled are the ones who erased Jackie Robinson from the DoD website -- because to them, history only matters if it honors the losers.
Billionaire-proof open social media is now mission-critical infrastructure for the future of democracy.
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Please boost for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies.
I was so excited to find out that after being the blue oasis, in a very red neighborhood, for at least the last eight years our neighbors are coming out of their trance.
Our closest, in proximity, neighbors actually apologized to us and said they are sorry for voting the way they did in the last three elections. It seems they have also convinced the ranchers across from us, too.
Our neighborhood is practically purple!
I know sorry isn't enough, but I actually feel a little bit safer now that we aren't completely surrounded.