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[Al @1AlOpondo]

This is like shooting a flea with a AK47. Total overkill. Cybercrime prevention is a legitimate purpose -but blanket logging of all sessions for 3 years is not proportionate nor rational.

[Al @1AlOpondo]

what a dumb idea! This will only create repositories filled to the brim with personal identifiable information (pii) and other sensitive information. Hackers will have a field day! Do you really think the cyber cafes have the capacity and resources to protect that data?

[Al @1AlOpondo]

what a dumb idea! This will only create repositories filled to the brim with personal identifiable information (pii) and other sensitive information. Hackers will have a field day! Do you really think the cyber cafes have the capacity and resources to protect that data?

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

All cyber café sessions must be logged, stored for 3 years , CA rules https://t.co/TgDpbREFRl

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨OMG: Wolf Blitzer just presented the Wall Street Journal an award for uncovering Trump’s ties to Epstein and reveals Trump doxxed the journalist’s home address in his lawsuit causing her to move.

Trump is sitting humiliated as Karoline Leavitt comforts him. This is unreal.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

A gene therapy given to a 13-month-old boy has, years later, led to a tumor in his brain after the virus carrying the gene inserted part of it directly into his DNA, researchers report.

The mass was safely removed, but his case appears to be the first time a gene therapy delivered directly into the body has been linked to cancer.

Learn more: https://t.co/PKqkpAauOR

[Valérie Ndegwa @LadyValeriee]

Just married 🤍🥂

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

In a lab in central Pennsylvania, a tiny fly is suspended in a magnetic field inside a dome lined with rotating LED bulbs. The insect flaps its wings and spins, believing it’s actually buzzing through this virtual reality environment—one that can even distort what the fly sees.

The contraption may seem like the work of mad scientists—and indeed, it wouldn’t be out of place among other recent setups that let fruit flies ride on a carousel or spun locusts in a centrifuge. But like those experiments, this tiny virtual reality flight simulator has a deeper purpose. Here, researchers are probing the inner workings of the insect brain.

Learn more this #InsectWeek: https://t.co/MRMCjfLxdl

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.

Here’s what this means for you:

Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.

On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.

We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country. 

We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“It’s time to wake the fuck up”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A federal judge in Boston struck down President Donald Trump's hefty fee on H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers.

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin on Monday called the $100,000 fee an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.

Before Trump announced the charge last September, employers typically paid between $2,000 and $5,000 in fees.

The H-1B program was created in 1990 and offers visas to some 85,000 people each year, many involved in the tech sector.

The Trump administration had argued that the program aims to replace, rather than supplement, American workers.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley responds to Trump saying he doesn’t care about the country: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan, and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the president has ever done any of those things for his country. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment, you love the country. While all the other descriptions the president used about me might be applicable, not that one”

[The American Conservative @amconmag]

The U.S. House votes 215-208 to end President Trump's war in Iran. Cheers erupt as the vote is read.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

[𝐀𝐒𝐊 @askghmedia]

“President Mahama sent 300 Ghanaians back to Ghana. Tell me how many jobs have been created since then. These foreigners do the jobs you don’t want to do and are often underpaid. You refuse to do these so-called ‘slave jobs’ because you want jobs with benefits and pensions, yet you still claim foreigners are taking your jobs, which is not true.”

— Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), addressing South Africans, arguing that immigrants are not the cause of unemployment but rather South Africans attitudes toward low-paying work.

[Herman Waita @HermanWaita]

The United States has a massive military base on an isolated island off the East African Coast called Diego Garcia.

They could easily set up an ebola containment centre on that military base instead of bringing the Ebola patients to Kenya.

If there's an outbreak, contain island

[New Scientist @newscientist]

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach us in today’s genetic age https://t.co/CD6QZ9pp7g

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An experimental pill has shown unprecedented success in treating pancreatic cancer, upending conventional wisdom about the disease that leaves only 13 percent of people alive after five years.

Here's what to know: https://t.co/HyYUOlbjyG

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

India calls America out for Trump’s racist comments and Rubio calls Americans stupid.

President Trump amplified a post last month referring to India as a “hellhole.” So when Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited New Delhi, he was confronted directly about remarks viewed as offensive toward Indians coming from the United States.

Rubio responded: “Every country in the world has stupid people who say dumb things.”

The State Department initially posted the exchange online, but later removed it after people pointed out that Rubio’s answer appeared to indirectly characterize Trump’s comments as “dumb.”