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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-24 05:41:39

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)
reuters.com/legal/government/m

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-03-22 23:16:49

I hear Southwest's lavatories are going coin-op in FY27. 🤣
✅ Southwest Airlines Begins Assigning Chores - The Onion
theonion.com/southwest-airline

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 […]

@cosmicray@mastodon.social
2026-03-22 04:40:43

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

Aerial view of a broad plain with bright white drive rover channels, distant lakes and mountains, and a carpet of yellow wildflowers
Aerial view of a wide desert valley with large areas of intense orange colour on the ground and mountains in the distance
A great many orange California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) blooming in a field and stretching off into the distance
A smiling man in a blue shirt and sunglasses lays in a field surrounded by flowers, including orange California poppies and purple owl’s clover
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-03-20 15:21:14

“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They got rid of an outdated plane, but still: potus doesn’t stay bribed.

@danyork@mastodon.social
2026-04-20 12:02:30

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. 😃

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-04-20 19:34:45

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…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-20 04:15:43

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)
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.

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-03-16 10:22:41
Content warning: gun violence, nazi shit

On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creat

@cosmicray@mastodon.social
2026-03-22 04:40:43

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

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-04-19 10:25:08

My research into educational theory and philosophy and how to relate them to the teaching practices in film and media arts schools continues. Here are some notes from a talk I gave on April 16th, which I believe will form the basis of an article I plan to finish before the summer.