So...Louisiana just past a bill that if youre homeless you go to jail for 2 yrs to work on a plantation picking COTTON!!! SO SLAVERY IS LEGAL IN OUR TIME?? My beautiful black ppl please understand what's happening to us as a race right now in this country
Food alerts should be issued as phone emergency alerts, like the weather and AMBER alerts. Why did I have to learn from a YouTube video that the blueberry recall has been upgraded to DEADLY?
Flock takes their privacy very seriously.
But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.
Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
SERIOUS QUESTION: “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”
That Girl’s AI music video taking directly from Cool World which was beautifully made by human hands is probably a great example of generative AI stealing from artists as a whole
The United States has had more than one hundred and fifty years to label the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist organization and has never done so. The fact that the Black Panther Party was dismantled by the US government but the Klan still exists tells you a lot about this country.
🚨 The Trump Administration has ended crucial regulations protecting Americans from arsenic exposure.
Experts predict this will significantly increase cancer risk for many Americans.
Terrifying thread.
Due to a legal ruling which lets AI companies off the hook for copyright infringement as long as they destroy the original book, they're buying up millions of rare books, scanning them as AI training data, and then destroying them.