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Call-out culture ruined a whole generation's minds and made them into self-proclaimed vigilantes who can't have normal relationships with people because everything the other person does will be used against them once they inevitably fall out of friendship
The White House will reportedly block states from making their own AI laws and, in exchange, it's indirectly backing a national age verification push.
So to post online you'd upload a government ID or do a face scan through the Kids Online Safety Act and the NO FAKES Act...
Anonymous communication has protected whistleblowers, journalists, dissidents, abuse victims, and ordinary Americans for generations. In fact, our country was founded by anonymous speakers.
The FCC should not create a de facto phone registry in the name of fighting robocalls.
@SK_Jynx Yeah, I'm just starting to learn Python and I'm not using AI because I don't want to learn bad habits from it. I know a lot of beginners use it, but it's so bad that I think there's going to be a demand for people who don't use that stuff.
Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.
DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.
Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.
Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."
The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.
Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.
The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.
Until it didn't.
BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.
Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.
A reminder that the USAID shutdown was a gross violation of the Constitution, and was permitted by the Supreme Court on the shadow docket for no valid reason at all (literally almost no serious scholars think POTUS can shut down a program funded by Congress).
This is disgusting behaviour from Google.
It is using its monopoly power to try to force creatives to let it train on their work.
It is career suicide for artists not to upload to YouTube. Arguing that doing so allows Google to train AI on their videos/music - AI that competes with them - is outrageous. Whatever the Ts & Cs say.
Rollins literally asked "where are all the sterile flies?" on national television.
DOGE cut the USDA screwworm monitoring program. DOGE cut USAID's border parasite prevention program. Both happened after she was sworn in.
The sterile flies were in the budget she let get gutted. That's where they went
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