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Facebook should be held partially liable for the death of people like Mr Friesen who were radicalized by the algorithms on that platform during the pandemic.
This leader of the anti-mandate/vax movement in Saskatchewan had to be sent to Ontario for treatment at one point, had pneumonia multiple times since, and died of dementia and pneumonia.
COVID is a life altering and potentially ending disease.
please get vaccinated (for everything!)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/grizzly-patriot-mark-friesen-saskatchewans-most-well-known-covid-19-dissident-has-died/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Trial lawyers, with big liability litigation earnings, are among the most active lobbyists against autonomous vehicles, even as data shows clear safety benefits (Alex Tabarrok/Marginal Revolution)
https://marginalrevolution.com/margina

Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles - Marginal REVOLUTION
Roughly 37,000–40,000 Americans die in auto accidents every year. We now have large‑scale, real‑world evidence—from Waymo and a joint analysis with Swiss Re—that driverless operations can be substantially safer than matched human driving within their current operating domains. The latest data show that over 220 million miles driven, Waymo vehicles–in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, […]

Progressive Rabb wins 3rd District race with boosts from 'the squad' and local grassroots activism (Carmen Russell-Sluchansky/WHYY)
https://whyy.org/articles/third-district-congressional-race-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p61#a260520p61

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort.
If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.
“We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it.
It will do damage,”
Sammy Azdoufal told me in May.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code…

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Cannabis Club Systems, also known as Nefos Solutions, left passports and photo IDs potentially exposed on the public web.

Visits by Canadians to major U.S. cities have crashed by 42 percent during President Donald Trump’s second term, new research has found.
The 42 percent figure—uncovered by a University of Toronto research tool that tracks cellphone activity—dwarfs the roughly 25 percent drop captured by official border-crossing data, the newspaper said. The researchers said they had been struck by “the marked decline in visits to large metropolitan economies.”

Staggering Drop of Canadian Visitors to U.S. Cities Under Trump Revealed
Visits by Canadians to major U.S. cities have crashed by a staggering 42 percent during President Donald Trump’s second term, new research has found. The eye...

🤝 Meet the #TNC26 partners – Part 2!
What else is coming back this year?
🔸 The Exchange Theatre – still right at the heart of the TNC Exchange, but with a Finnish twist (a small hint: don't forget your towel 😉)! During breaks, our Gold and Platinum partners will host bite-sized presentations using silent disco headsets. Grab your lunch, pop on a headset, and tune in.
🎟️ Regul…

Conservative economist Andy Hall offers a damning condemnation of conventional politicians (although he is apparently oblivious of the import of his argument) 👇
Hall writes:
"Politicians do not respond mechanically to shifts in public sentiment
—they answer to donors, activists, and primary challengers,
not just median voters…
and sometimes they stake out new positions well before the public asks for them,
or refuse to move long after it has"

AI is the Democratic Party's Next Villain
We analyze roughly 280,000 candidate fundraising emails to trace the rise of anti-billionaire populism in the Democratic party and see how it is slowly merging with a new kind of anti-AI populism.

Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is "a 180 day lease with 90 day notice"; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic "agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029" (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/how-

How long is Anthropic's lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary | TechCrunch
Elon Musk is publicly reframing xAI’s massive Anthropic compute deal as short-term and cancellable, despite SpaceX’s own S-1 filing describing payments through May 2029.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez here.
𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀.
Which makes sense — many get elected as millionaires.
I was elected as a waitress. I don't trade stocks, I rent my apartment, and I don't come from generational wealth.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘴 – 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘺𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.
My primary election is on June 23rd
— and I'm facing t…

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Roughly two dozen immigration advocates, faith leaders, Japanese internment camp survivors and their descendants
completed a four-day, 45-mile pilgrimage Saturday to an immigrant detention facility outside of Dilley.
The activists demanded the closure of the only federal family detention center,
described by a Japanese internment survivor as inhumane and a tragic “repetition of American history.”
Free Families, a national coalition of organizations advocating for imm…