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Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents.
Ethnic cleansing is what it looks like.
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-09-26/des-moines-public-schools-…

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents
The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, according to DMPS Board Chair Jackie Norris.

Neon, which pays users to record their phone calls and sells that audio data to AI companies for training, becomes the #2 social app on the US App Store (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/neon

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

Duos - Scales of Collaboration
#creativity #collaboration
https://muz4now.com/2022/duos-scales-o

Duos - Scales of Collaboration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Rare pygmy whale swallows plastic bag and dies on Honduras coast #AnimalRights

Rare pygmy whale swallows plastic bag and dies on Honduras coast
A rare whale died off the coast of Honduras after ingesting a plastic bag in what's been described as a "tragic event."

Kommentar: Schluss mit der zweigeteilten Welt
Apple gewährt iOS-/iPadOS-Nutzern in der EU mehr Freiheiten. Mit begrenztem Effekt: Niemand will etwa separate Browser mit eigener Engine für die EU entwickeln.
https://www.

Neon,
the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store,
pays users to record their phone calls
-- and sells data to AI firms
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/neon-the-no-2-social…

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

So apparently the lesson is that unless you are a charity that can raise a massive backlash on Hacker News then you should expect the $230bn company that is Salesforce to utterly fuck you over if you use Slack. But luckily these folks WERE one of those unicorns, so they are just going to go with it.
"Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase "
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This week I tell a story of reading a book that cast an entangling spell.
#bookstodon
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/massive-massive-oil-slick

Massive Massive Oil Slick
A reading of the book Massive Massive Oil Slick by Sean Ashton.

Tell me again how 'AI is going to revolutionise education' when roughly a quarter of primary schools globally don't even have electricity, toilets, drinking water, and basic WASH facilities.
It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
#Education #GlobalEducation

Google has been banned from selling the Pixel 7 in Japan due to a patent dispute related to 4G connectivity; further bans against the Pixel 8 and 9 are possible (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/26/google-pixel-japan-sales-ban/
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Google banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan, and it might not end there
Google has been banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan over a patent dispute, and it might not end there.