Little blip at 1701 (NCC-1701). I wonder what the other individual blips represent.

This can only end well …

There was a NYT article about three different incidents of ice impersonators back in February.

Until they change their ToS (without telling you) and enable it by default (and hide the controls that let you decline).

In other words, meta is harvesting your WhatsApp data, and gives you a (potentially inaccurate) summary in exchange for feeding their LLMs.

Just a reminder that the “border” in the US extends 100 miles inland from any actual physical border - so 100 miles inland from Canada, Mexico, the Atlantic, Pacific or Arctic oceans, or the Gulf of Mexico.

And that for the last decade or so, they’ve also been trying to claim that any international airport is also a border, so the “border” would extend 100 out from Denver, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, etc.

And they’ve been trying to claim that an “international” airport is any airport capable of landing an international flight, regardless of whether any international flights actually fly there.

Concentration camps.

How is a manufacturer going to be held responsible for their flaws when musk DOGE’d investigating his companies?

Just a reminder that it’s illegal to wear masks in New Orleans unless it’s Carnivale.

the fulfillment of biblical prophecy that “God would anoint Christian ‘kings’ to preside over an ‘end-time transfer of wealth’ from the wicked to the righteous.”

A) I thought the Bible taught against hoarding wealth.

B) Aren’t they all supposed to be Raptured into Heaven anyway, leaving us sinners alone here on Earth, where we’ll end up with their stuff anyway 'cause their stuff isn’t going to Heaven with them? So what do they need it for?

Fuck spez.

“dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives”.

the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. […] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"

I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT …

The APIcalypse.

https://archive.is/by20l

There were a lot of them today!

the slain lawmaker as State Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park and her husband, Mark, while state Sen. John Hoffman of Champlin and his wife, Yvette, were injured. Both lawmakers were members of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. […] The assailant, who is still at large, allegedly impersonated a police officer.

My support and sympathy to the families. Absolutely no surprise at any of that news.

So, face shields are clear shields that cover your face. You’ll see really thin plastic ones in doctors sometimes (they were common during covid), and there are heavier ones for welders and such. Cops often wear them as part of their riot gear get-ups.

Thing is, the medical-type shields aren’t going to very useful during the LA protests, and the higher-grade ones that would be useful are pretty expensive to be just handing out to people. And then you come to this line in the article

along with a broadcast clip from Fox News appearing to show a man providing masks to protestors from the back of a pickup truck.

So - masks. He was providing some kind of masks to people - surgical, N95, carnival, Halloween - hell, little ballroom masks on sticks or thin cloth Zorro masks. But I’m pretty sure that the prosecutor will decide the charges against him are overstated and drop the charges.

It’s mostly a tactic to get this guy off the streets for a bit because he was prepared more than they liked and was helping other demonstrators potentially hide their faces, and to give anyone else with similar ideas reason to pause before they do it themselves.

This can only end well …

A slight chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 88. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

The weather doesn’t sound that bad.

Just seven of 50 surveyed GOP lawmakers are planning to actually attend the president’s birthday festivities over the weekend, reported Politico. Source

Oh, now that sounds good!

Oh, cool, more people to block, thanks!