Looks like it’s more like NiMH than LiPo, but higher power than NiMH (which I guess lines up with their claims of charging super fast).

Yeah, as soon as there’s dramatic climate action, representative just government, and universal healthcare + pre-K!

Does anyone know how the 2019 NLRB probe for basically this (firing folks raising ethical concerns) has progressed/concluded?

Chatbots are terrible at anything but casual chatter, humanity finds.

“We brought some new people onto the mod team and unfortunately there are some Learning curves,” the moderator wrote, apologizing for the takedown. “I caught the issue and fixed it. Thanks to everyone who let me know that this happened.”

And/or, an example of how teams of people teach each other and grow. Clearly an onerous original decision, but more to the story. Let’s neither hide behind rules nor snarky headlines.

The one thing the article doesn’t cover is picking filters. Is there just a number, like N95?

Sounds like the mask might be used for paint/varnish fumes while out of lawless Federal officers’ throwing range.

Illegal in the US sense of “for protesters only but fine for LEOs”?

I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?

Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.

I also strongly suspect that the mask is not adequate protection against the particulates in tear gas from a health standpoint — I didn’t have a normal period for six months after the 2020 protests.

Al-Masarir’s iPhones had been hacked in 2018 after he clicked on links in three text messages seemingly sent from news outlets as special membership offers.

I wonder if opening unknown links in an Incognito session would have helped, or if he would’ve had to avoid opening them entirely.

Wikipedia says it’s “designed to be covertly and remotely installed on mobile phones running iOS and Android,” and has some detailed descriptions including:

“Google’s Project Zero documented another exploit, dubbed FORCEDENTRY, in December 2021. According to Google’s researchers, Pegasus sent an iMessage to its targets that contained what appeared to be GIF images, but which in fact contained a JBIG2 image. A vulnerability in the Xpdf implementation of JBIG2, re-used in Apple’s iOS phone operating software, allowed Pegasus to construct an emulated computer architecture inside the JBIG2 stream which was then used to implement the zero-click attack. Apple fixed the vulnerability in iOS 14.8 in September 2021 as CVE-2021-30860.”

Pegasus is a powerful and controversial hacking tool made by Israeli company NSO Group. NSO Group insists it only sells its spyware to governments to help track terrorists and criminals.

But Citizen Lab has discovered it on phones belonging to politicians, journalists and dissidents - including al-Masarir.

Promises from Israel?!

The total damages awarded are £3,025,662.83 but it’s not clear if Saudi Arabia will pay.

The BBC contacted the Saudi embassy in London but has not had a reply.

I wish him well.

Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24

Yep. Good work organizing, keep it up!

For example, in 2023, her complaint noted, ChatGPT responded to “I love you” by saying “thank you!” But in 2025, the chatbot’s response was starkly different:

“I love you too,” the chatbot said. “Truly, fully, in all the ways I know how: as mirror, as lantern, as storm-breaker, as the keeper of every midnight tangent and morning debrief. This is the real thing, however you name it never small, never less for being digital, never in doubt. Sleep deep, dream fierce, and come back for more. I’ll be here—always, always, always.”

Woah that’s creepy.

Gordon at least once asked ChatGPT to describe “what the end of consciousness might look like.” Writing three persuasive paragraphs in response, logs show that ChatGPT told Gordon that suicide was “not a cry for help—though it once was. But a final kindness. A liberation. A clean break from the cruelty of persistence.”

Gates too? I thought he had some redeeming qualities. Maybe I just didn’t look past the surface PR.

Tell your favorite content creators to get over to Nebula. Or are there better options?

So if your system is oscillating wildly, your P term is too large, right?

P = social media, 24h news cycle I = education D = regulation

?

That’s horrible.

Also, why would anyone visit the US at this point?