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Sources: OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are real people (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026

OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem
OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.

Antenna: 57% of new Fox One subscriptions between its August 21 launch and October 31 came from Prime Video Channels, giving Fox One an edge over ESPN Unlimited (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/antenna-amazon-gives-fox-one-edge-over-es…

Antenna: Amazon Prime Video driving sign-ups to Fox One
Fox's decision to partner with Amazon for sales of Fox One helped it grow faster than ESPN Unlimited, according to Antenna.

Reminder: banning anything to any age group means everyone else get to hand over a ton of personal info, biometrics, face scans and worse.
I am sure it’s only a coincidence though.

Was doing some light photo roll cleanup and was reminded of finding this at the thrift store.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that is so counter to “my aesthetic”, that I wanted so much.
Even now, at a remove of a couple months I regret not asking if it was actually for sale.

@… This seems strange. If you going to go FOSS on every tool you want to use on the computer, you might as well go FOSS on the OS. The main barrier to ditching Windows is not Linux, it is the apps anyway. With macOS, I can understand that for M-series Macs, switching the OS is not a viable option. But anything before that should be fine.

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https://open.spotify.com/track/5F8igi12VvSWsxY44FgQtz

Prosecutor: A. Brown could face 30 years if guilty https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46999335/prosecutor-antonio-brown-face-30-years-prison-guilty

Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport

It’s sometimes said that presidents pivot toward foreign policy in their second terms.
Unburdened by the prospect of having to face voters again, and sometimes opposed by a hostile Congress, presidents often go overseas in search of a legacy. 
If the past week or so is anything to go by, Donald Trump is doing the same.
My colleagues Shelby Holliday and Lara Seligman reported exclusively Tuesday that a large number of U.S. troops and special-operations aircraft have deployed…