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Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was 'so irresponsible', shows court filing
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/meta-executive-warned-facebook-messenger-encryption-plan-was-…

Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/m

Grüner Strom-Hammer: Morgen Mittag habe ich einen negativen Strompreis. Schlimm diese linksgünen Öko-Energien!!!

I hear Southwest's lavatories are going coin-op in FY27. 🤣
✅ Southwest Airlines Begins Assigning Chores - The Onion
https://theonion.com/southwest-airlines-begins-assigning-chores/

Southwest Airlines Begins Assigning Chores
DALLAS—Saying the decision had been reached following an extensive internal review of the company’s boarding procedures, Southwest Airlines confirmed Tuesday that passengers would now be assigned chores ahead of time. “There has always been a degree of chaos around passengers having to choose right as they’re boarding how they’re going to help keep the plane […]

Aerial scouting was an effective, and very scenic, way to find the most intense #wildflower blooms in the Carrizo Plain and Antelope Valley
#flying

“Iran attacks wipe out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years” costing $20 billion.
Bribing potus with $400 million plane wasn’t good from an ROI standpoint.
Surveillance gear installed can’t have given anything yet because he’s not flying it yet, and they’re out $19.6 billion on the $400 million “investment” bribe.
They got rid of an outdated plane, but still: potus doesn’t stay bribed.

One of the main areas of pushback that Republican leadership in Congress has faced in trying to pass an extension of "section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Fisa) is push to keep the bill “clean”,
-- despite GOP hardliners insisting that reforms and additions are needed.
Some members of the conference, like Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, have said that
if Donald Trump’s sweeping voter ID bill ends up falling off th…

There is white stuff falling from the sky again! My wife asks, "can we pretend that it's pollen?" 🤣
Alas, no... this is just "spring" in #Vermont.
The irony, of course, is that I'm starting the morning at a mechanic getting the snow tires swapped off for the summer tires on one of our cars. 😃

Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/1

Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
A new proposal calls on social media and AI companies to adopt strict verification, but the company hasn’t committed to following its own recommendations.

Aerial scouting was an effective, and very scenic, way to find the most intense #wildflower blooms in the Carrizo Plain and Antelope Valley
#flying