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'Highly problematic': Trump admin faces internal doubts over ICE shooting response (Myah Ward/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/09/highly-problematic-trump-admin-faces-internal-doubts-over-ice-shooting-response-00720663
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p118#a260109p118

Handy RStudio addins for reshaping and navigating in code: #rstats #rstudio

Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS' Emergency SOS Live Video, letting US users on Android 8 or later to share live video with 911 responders (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841503/android-emergency-live-video
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Android users can now share a live video on 911 calls
Android phones are getting a new Emergency Live Video feature that allows them to share a video feed with 911 responders, mirroring a similar feature on iOS.

“When you hear her voice, you can’t unhear it,”
says the award-winning Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania,
whose new Oscar-shortlisted film,
"The Voice of Hind Rajab", incorporates recordings of Rajab’s emergency calls
to depict responders’ race-against-the-clock attempt to save her
— and the ultimate failure of the international community to prevent her violent death.
Ben Hania says the film, a hybrid of documentary and drama,
is an eff…

“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza
Two years ago this month, the world was gripped by a series of shocking recordings of a 6-year-old girl in Gaza pleading for help as she sat trapped in a car riddled with bullets alongside the bodies of her cousins, aunt and uncle, who had just been killed by Israeli forces as the family attempted to flee the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City. Emergency responders with the Palestine Red Crescent Society attempted to secure safe passage to rescue the child, an elementary school student named …

Just found this while going through my dad's stuff. What a great response! I can only guess what he wrote to get this response. Happier times.
#usa #uk

Another Grok Lobotomy incoming

this response does address the request, technically speaking https://mastodon.social/@gnu_ebooks/115357348177151270

Lego says its Smart Brick is "here to stay" but "does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind", after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (Tom Phillips/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles…

LEGO Says Smart Brick Is 'Here to Stay,' and Responds to 'Questions and Concerns' Around Abandoning Non-Digital Play - IGN
A day on from the official reveal of LEGO Smart Brick, the company has responded to concerns that its big announcement poses a risk to its core basis in physical play.

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/an-

An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.

The Right Response to the Minneapolis ICE Shooting (The Free Press)
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-right-response-to-the-minneapolis
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p55#a260108p55