The LAPD is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city.
huzzah!
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.
Genuinely stomach turning. Sports betting needs to be banned and these people deserve so much worse than what I want to say publicly online.
A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.
Mystery has fallen in love with Grok!
Everything around you is ads and it's only getting worse. I have lost so much patience for advertisements lol
Climate action is increasing its reliance on completely avoidable new fossil fuel infrastructure, and what it gets in return is more lies, less trust and direct participation in big tech’s attempt to destroy access to reality.
Turns out that recent "Bezos quote" about humans drinking too much water was entirely made up, likely an AI hallucination, and reported by an Indian news outlet as fact. Never underestimate the lack of care of the modern overworked/underpaid journalist.
Isaac Chotiner interviews Shimon Riklin, an anchor on Israel’s right-leaning Channel 14, and a Benjamin Netanyahu ally, who feels stabbed in the back by Trump’s Iran deal.
🚨🚨🚨NEW CHOTINER ALERT🚨🚨🚨
AI "assisted" Code is still generative AI and it's weird how people try to justify that it's not.
Good breakdown of a current messy situation regarding SpryFox and generative AI.
Here is the thing I want to say to the brilliant people in Singapore’s conference rooms — and I say it with genuine affection: the transition is not coming. It is here. The countries of South and Southeast Asia are not waiting for a cleaner technology to arrive at scale. They are building it, deploying it, and in some cases, leading the world in doing so.
Some good news.
Rosa Luxemburg coined the phrase “socialism or barbarism” in 1916, in the middle of the first world war, as a general statement about humanity’s choices. In the Caribbean in 2026, it is a concrete question on the table.
Carlos J. Martinez knocking it out of the park here. Viva communist Cuba.
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
I truly feel like complete abstinence from these tools is the most practical option. Avoid as much as possible. You don't have "just a little" of an addictive substance like this! Just avoid it! Stay away!
COVID-19 infections have plummeted in recent years. In 2022, there were around 1.5 infections per person, meaning almost everyone was infected once and many people had more than one infection. In 2023, the number was around 1. In 2024, we stopped recording really good statistics on the number of infections, but every indicator we had showed another huge decline. By 2026, we are looking at record low rates of COVID-19 across hospitalizations, deaths, wastewater data, and cases.
Some good news, at least.
Until now, riders needed to purchase and reload a TAP card to ride Metro buses and trains. Transit officials say the new system eliminates that extra step by allowing passengers to tap a contactless credit card, debit card, smartphone or smartwatch directly at fare gates and onboard bus terminals.
Real contactless NFC payments for LA Metro! World Cup stuff notwithstanding this is a great step forward for the Metro.
The balance of power has shifted, and nations of the Middle East will no longer accept a regional order dictated by the US and Israel.
History continues apace!
Iran's claim over subsea chokepoint pushes US tech companies to overland fiber.
Uh oh hee hee hee
Furries arrived in formal wear, some toting their fursuits in. Pursell arrived wearing his authentic Escamillo matador costume from that evening’s performance of Carmen. Before the show, he hosted a free meet-and-greet, handing out stickers, signing posters, and giving out head pats.
awesome. very cute. amazing looks throughout.
An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.
so what the fuck does this mean.
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"