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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 18 hours ago • 374 comments

An airline-owned data broker collected US travelers’ flight records, sold them to Customs and Border Protection, and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to a contract obtained by 404 Media.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

"A 2024 paper from researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Caltech found that data centers could contribute to 600,000 asthma-related symptom cases by 2030, with overall public health costs exceeding $20 billion."

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Follow the thread: The White House got it from a White supremacist account on X

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration is trying to invoke martial law. This is not the time for this kind of hedging. This is the time to take a stand for democracy, rule of law, and freedom of association.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Shame on these 5 Democrats who joined Republicans in voting for a bill requiring the Small Business Administration to take money away from "sanctuary" cities: Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gillen Jared Golden Marie Gluesenkamp Perez They're just straight-up bigots.

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

submitted 20 days ago • 116 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 22 days ago • 602 comments

pure evil

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

“there’s a real conflation by people really invested in...the generative AI form of machine learning" "they’re conflating what they’re invested in and what their business is with these other forms of machine learning" - @jathansadowski.com nails it on the "AI for climate" narrative -->>>

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

It's worse than you think. jewishinsider.com/2025/05/king...

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

it’s giving

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Casey Newton, in his latest newsletter: “Every time I feel like progress in artificial intelligence is beginning to slow, a week like this one hits — and suddenly, it's all I can do to keep up.” Me, a stratcomm professor: YES EXACTLY THAT’S A COMMS CAMPAIGN. www.platformer.news/openai-jony-...

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.

submitted 30 days ago • 91 comments

This quote from Grammarly’s head of education should include a guy in a hot dog costume next to it. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time

submitted 37 days ago • 87 comments

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

submitted 37 days ago • 221 comments

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

This Grok non sequitur issue is extremely funny - it’s now telling users it’s better again. But also: who remembers the howls of mad rage from Elon & his stans ab Big Tech’s woke safetyists putting their thumbs on the scale when Google Gemini started returning unfortunate pictures of Asian Nazis?

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

submitted 38 days ago • 244 comments

ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her. It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 39 days ago • 148 comments

We are well & truly cooked.

submitted 40 days ago • 49 comments

This--> "The billion-dollar disasters database is not easily replicable, such as by a nonprofit or private company, since it contained myriad non-public data shared with the government by private industry." www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Columbia bylaws state that the president can only send police on campus to arrest protestors after consulting with the university senate. Once again, the president has neglected to follow these rules, which have been in place since 1968.

submitted 45 days ago • 41 comments

In case it’s unclear: products like this strip everyone of consent. It means that one person in a public space wearing these glasses has made a decision for everyone else.

submitted 45 days ago • 28 comments

"The excesses of the woke era"

submitted 46 days ago • 397 comments

yet another way streaming makes everything worse

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

1. Overnight, federal officials began what one advocacy group is calling "the largest eviction of a homeless camp in recent history." @hansonmphoto and I spent the last two days in the forest alongside desperate people trying to find a place to go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/r...

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: A Freedom Flotilla ship was reportedly targeted in a drone attack. The front of the vessel was struck twice, causing a fire and a breach in the hull. The ship was stranded in international waters near Malta. An SOS distress signal has been issued. Video: Freedom Flotilla Coalition

submitted 50 days ago • 11 comments