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Oh dear just discovered that the White House's LinkedIn pic is now a photo of Trump, so for anyone who's ever listed the White House as their place of work, it shows up like this.
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Oh dear just discovered that the White House's LinkedIn pic is now a photo of Trump, so for anyone who's ever listed the White House as their place of work, it shows up like this.
Every single part of this entire interview is nonsensical. As in the words, strung together as sentences, in the form of questions and answers make no sense. Two men who think they sound smarter if they never admit they don’t know wtf the other one just said or meant. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
June 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Every single part of this entire interview is nonsensical. As in the words, strung together as sentences, in the form of questions and answers make no sense. Two men who think they sound smarter if they never admit they don’t know wtf the other one just said or meant. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
A Philly city council member kept replying to sexy girl accounts (likely bots) on Threads and is now claiming he thought they were constituents trying to reach out. 🫠https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/councilmember-jimmy-harrity-social-media-posts-20250402.html
April 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A Philly city council member kept replying to sexy girl accounts (likely bots) on Threads and is now claiming he thought they were constituents trying to reach out. 🫠https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/councilmember-jimmy-harrity-social-media-posts-20250402.html
It's quite something to see these guys try to one-up each other on the size of their data centers. Every single time these things get proposed they face mass protests from the people who actually have to live and work nearby because they're so huge and ugly and power intensive and disruptive.
January 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It's quite something to see these guys try to one-up each other on the size of their data centers. Every single time these things get proposed they face mass protests from the people who actually have to live and work nearby because they're so huge and ugly and power intensive and disruptive.
I'm as suspicious of widespread surveillance as the next guy, but the idea that tech was useless in catching the UHC shooter seems totally false to me. Yes, a random guy was able to ID him from distributed photos, but how do you suppose police got those photos?
December 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM
I'm as suspicious of widespread surveillance as the next guy, but the idea that tech was useless in catching the UHC shooter seems totally false to me. Yes, a random guy was able to ID him from distributed photos, but how do you suppose police got those photos?
One interesting nugget from this: how Meta AI, which is now baked into WhatsApp's search bar, is complicating WhatsApp's encryption promises. restofworld.org/2024/how-wha...
December 9, 2024 at 2:51 PM
One interesting nugget from this: how Meta AI, which is now baked into WhatsApp's search bar, is complicating WhatsApp's encryption promises. restofworld.org/2024/how-wha...