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The ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including
“hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
#JONATHAN #ROSS, the I…

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.

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'I was not the right kind of Jew,' says US Jewish teen deported from Israel
(RNS) — Since its founding in 1948, Israel has welcomed American Jews and encouraged their immigration. Now certain Jews supporting Palestinians, like Leila Stillman-Utterman, are deported.

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid ... I realize now that Prince wasn’t paranoid, he was prescient."
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It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine
If AI music takes over "humans will begin to echo the machines, and there will be a downward spiral into slop."

Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I reorganized my Christmas tie collection. Decades ago my wife bought me a joke Christmas themed tie believing I wouldn't wear it. The joke was on her as I wore it. Over the decades we keep adding to the collection. At the start of every December I wear a different tie to work until new years.
Multiple tie racks hold 31 unique ties and I have 10 duplicates. I told her that Amazon has them and she whimpered. Then I told her they have socks too that we can add to the collecti…

You have to tilt this one to the side to see it properly, for some reason.

So @… told me W3C TAG was looking at a `<canvas>` method to do split-text:
https://hachyderm.io/@jyasskin/116019609903019948
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Moody Urbanity - Relations IV 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 IV 🧶
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technol

Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg.

At 5:49 p.m., air traffic controllers told pilots over the Caribbean that a SpaceX Starship rocket had exploded.
All planes were ordered to avoid an area where the Federal Aviation Administration estimated debris would fall
launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths,
Last year, three of Starship’s five launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths,
twice raining flaming debris over congested commercial airways and disrupting flights. …

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.