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An "AI" Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account

«Margolis adds that this sort of sensitive information about a child's thoughts and feelings could be used for horrific forms of child abuse or manipulation. “To be blunt, this is a kidnapper's dream,” he says. “We're talking about information that lets someone lure a child into a really dangerous situation, and it was essentially accessible to anybody."»

Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.”
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act,
millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement.
“Republicans are singularly focused on making it harder to vote and pursuing this MAGA fever dream,”
explains Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for …

Ja, Demokratie ist schon irgendwie ne coole Idee.
Aber Demokratie ist halt nicht immer geil, sondern ganz häufig ein mühsames Geschäft. Auf Parteistammtischen, in Versammlungen, Gemeinderäten und endlosen Sitzungen allen möglichen Kram diskutieren, um Geschäfts­ordnungen streiten, Gemeinde­satzungen sezieren, sich durch Aktenordner kämpfen, das muß man schon mögen und abkönnen. Politik, wie sie ganz real stattfindet, ist nicht für jeden was¹. Auch wenn ich verstehe, daß Politikys darin…

Utterly bizarre dream. It's about 1880. A party of travellers from Finland are on a train which halts in a marshalling yard in a northern Prussian city at night. A fire has started in a warehouse close to the marshalling yard, and the travellers notice that there is a train of empty naphtha wagons close to the fire. They disembark from their train and persuade the marshalling yard staff that this is dangerous and the naphtha wagons should be moved.
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Just finished "Caught Stealing" and it was great. Wondering who was responsible for such a delightful romp and it was none other than Darren Aronofsky!
#Film #Movies #CrimeDrama

Until Sen. Bernie Sanders began holding rallies in Republican-held districts to address DOGE’s destructive impact on federal workers and programs,
most progressives had not dared to dream of rural America as fertile ground for a backlash.
But it’s central to the concept of the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" ( #RUBI ),
a group determined to breathe new life into rural organizing st…

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: Your levels of volcanic activity are high.
BERSHAR: Not dangerously so. We monitor the volcano constantly.
TARRANT: Could you control it, if it became necessary?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/257 B7B3

“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…