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Cowboys vs. Lions: Three must-know storylines for Thursday's Week 14 prime-time game https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-vs-lions-three-must-know-storylines-tnf-week-14

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/

New Hearing Aid Company, Foretell, Brings in Steve Martin and Others as Fans
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. Now, it wants to be in your ears.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/story/the-louisiana-department-of-wildlife-and-fisheries-is-detaining-people-for-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p32#a251204p32

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

It's interesting that all the press coverage of a police raid of cyberscammers in Bihar, India emphasizes that the majority of the people arrested were women.
15 women among 22 held for cyber fraud in Bihar
https://www.ptinews.com/story/national/15-

Press Trust Of India

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

No shit?
'End-To-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Is Not Actually End-To-End Encrypted - Slashdot https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/04/0436234/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-en…

What are the NFL's Week 18 Sunday storylines? https://insidethestar.com/what-are-the-nfls-week-18-sunday-storylines

Week 18 NFL top storylines: Conference seeding, final playoff spots, Black Monday and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6934211/2026/01/04/week-18-nfl-storylines-playoffs-black-monday/

A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation
run by armed contractors
—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-building-a-24-7-shadow-transporta…

ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas
A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.