@drbruced@aus.social2025-06-22 00:13:37
And this is why I won’t travel to the U.S. anytime soon https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-21 15:30:41
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users (Mike Allen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/21/sam-altman-openai-trump-dc-fed
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-19 20:48:18
Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.
I got lucky—when I was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told me, explicitly and proudly, why I’d been pulled out of the customs line.
“Look, we both know why you are here,” the agent told me.
He identified himself to me as Adam, though his colleagues referred to him as Officer Martinez.
When I said that…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-22 12:16:55
Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
RONTANE: With respect, Supreme Commander, we are aware of the facts. They are simply that with all the resources that the Federation can call upon, this one vulnerable, lucky man is still free to cause havoc.
SERVALAN: You have some criticism of my handling of this matter, Secretary Rontane?
htt…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-07-21 01:41:48
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-06-19 16:35:00
Read this shocking story about what the US has become and how ordinary travellers are treated.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation
@mapto@qoto.org2025-06-21 04:17:21
"He has identified three levels of human signals that we’ve lost in adopting AI into our communication. The first level is that of basic humanity signals, cues that speak to our authenticity as a human being like moments of vulnerability or personal rituals, which say to others, “This is me, I’m human.” The second level consists of attention and effort signals that prove “I cared enough to write this myself.” And the third level is ability signals which show our sense of humor, our comp…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-19 15:16:00
An Australian journalist who had reported on the Columbia University protests while studying there recounts his interrogation and deportation by CPB at LAX (Alistair Kitchen/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/ho
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-21 18:27:54
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
ZEN: Fifteen minutes.
JENNA: How long before her detectors pick us up?
ZEN: Twelve minutes.
JENNA: We can't go down, if that's all the time we've got.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/625 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-22 06:12:33
