Tootfinder

The US Congress has passed a 45-day extension of a law that grants US intelligence agencies warrantless spying powers.
Bitter infighting over section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Republican wing of Congress has repeatedly tanked conservative leaders’ plans to renew the controversial surveillance law for multiple years.
The deadlock continued on Thursday, as the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson refused to include key reforms pushed by hardliners in …

from my link log —
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all
saved 2026-03-04

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
OR: the long overdue forest fire

I have to say I don't hate the faces of DLSS 5. Maybe I don't get the Snapchat reference because I've never used it? They don't look exactly off and uncanny to me either. Maybe because of the comparison which shows they are more or less derived "from the artwork"? The more upsetting explanation would be that my uncanny valley threshold is kind of low.
One thing I strongly agree with--the end results look uniformly AI-perfect, dull across the board even with th…

watching the consolidation of American news and media into the hands of a few Trump-connected technobros is really something. Fascism is wild.
"“The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better,” said Hegseth, a former Fox News show host and combat veteran, referring to Paramount’s $110 billion deal to acquire CNN-parent Warner Bros."
#USA #TheAmericanFascist #Propaganda #TheMediumIstheMessage