"we went the extra step to add a control to let you opt out"
"why isn't it opt in? there's an honest answer, if it was opt in, nobody would opt in"
ok, so you're perfectly aware that people don't want this, and you're going to force it on people who don't realize this is happening, therefore they don't opt out?
Relying on people who didn't give consent to have their content used because they weren't even aware, very generous indeed.
NYT just made a huge discovery.
It corroborates my reporting for the New Yorker on the disappearance of the Ecuadorean fishing boat, Fiorella -
possibly sunk in a secret U.S. or U.S.-assisted boat strike.
Reporters found flight data that matches what 2 survivors told me (1/2)
🧵 THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAD I'VE EVER MADE.
These are the people directly responsible for the crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the village of Qusra on August 10th 2026.
These people need to be held accountable.
This is actually nuts. It sounds hyperbolic to say it, but the Trump administration just deliberately made tax fraud, money laundering, counterfiting and even terrorism financing easier.
Short thread for the short version of the full story.
El valor financiero está inflado porque todos los sectores le andan invirtiendo como si fuera la solución mágica al único problema de producción que habían querido solucionar desde hace décadas: el de pagar sueldos.
Es extraño que cualquier función que ofrezca la IA siempre va enmarcado de un mensaje tipo "Adios artistas, despídanse de su trabajo. Espero terminen en la calle, ahogados de su propio vómito. Que las llamas del infierno les sean eternas. Dios, cómo odio a los artistas"
An FT visual investigation found systematic destruction across Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, crippling systems essential to civilian life, from water and energy infrastructure to medical care. Raya Jalabi reports on the scale of the devastation. https://t.co/BcUPUBtpGz
This is how pensions died. They were standard. Then one company dropped it, then another, until you worked for a unicorn company and your friends said "wow you have a pension??" Then your company dropped it too.
getting a few questions on this. copy and pasting text into a notepad will NOT strip out the fingerprint. the model gives certain words a special number. for simplicity let’s call these odd or even. maybe “great” is odd, “fantastic” is even. it does that to a whole—(cont.)
@HB134lv@ShadowBoxYoon with tinnitus in my left ear. Turns out I’d somehow developed high-freq hearing loss without even realising 😰. Specialist intervention with high-dose short-term medication couldn’t fix it unfortunately. I wonder now if it had been picked up sooner if it would’ve made a diff…
@HB134lv@ShadowBoxYoon Second everything you’ve said. I didn’t notice anything wrong with my hearing (except maybe a slightly unbalanced tuning fork test which I should have pushed for more investigation on but didn’t bc I didn’t notice any differences with my hearing) until I suddenly woke up one day
@datgirl_ot7@eternalhyyh you actually do the stairmaster?? 😭
stronger than the marines. i could never, my knees are dust, they prolly sound like firecrackers going off when I kneel 💀
Google has quietly stopped searching by Exact Phrase when you use quotes.
Now by default Google will return pages and pages of results you don't want. Google now thinks you use quotation marks for no reason even though quotes have specifically been the correct format for exact phrase searches on Google.
Maddenly, even using the Advanced Search page and the "This exact word or phrase" text box no longer searches by exact phrase.
I was trying to see if the air purifier company IQAir ever mentioned a key air filtration term on their website. So I typed in an exact phrase search for just the IQAir website:
" "most penetrating particle size" site:https://t.co/gIIt4CmjPW "
What I got was 6 useless pages of links to pages that do not contain the exact phrase "most penetrating particle size," but instead contain some or all of the words. That's the result I should get when I don't use quotation marks.
You can fix this behavior on a search results page by going to the "Tools" drop down menu and changing the "All results" setting to "Verbatim". There is no way to set Verbatim as the default for future searches AFAIK.
Here’s one of the stories I broke using this database. I was able to work out what these staffers were actually doing (rather than just a brief description of their role) because it included their names.
NO, no tengan miedo, el Aguará guazú está en peligro de extinción, es inofensivo para los humanos e incluso para otros animales. Si te lo cruzás es un regalo.
Hay que tenerle miedo a la ignorancia.
"Water companies circumventing bonus rules? What did ministers expect?."
The whole thing has been a joke from day 1 and it's not a matter of what did ministers expect it's they knew because I for one told them, to their faces, several times.
https://t.co/ngtGPGF582
@ScotNational Here's an English translation of the original Viginum French report. It details the artificial amplification tools, social media accounts and techniques used by Blackcore, not just in Scotland but France and USA.
https://t.co/JWZYXmTC1Y
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has blocked the release of files on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in the Scottish parliament elections 🚨
Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would 'prejudice relations' with another state
This is remarkable and incredibly worrying for democracy. A French government agency detected interference from an Israeli firm in the Scottish Parliament elections, but the UK Labour (friends of Israel) Government won’t release more info in case it harms relations with Israel.