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You think web ads are bad? Wait until you can't start your car until an ad plays. BMW, enshittified.
BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The AutopianYou know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an automaker with a respected name. Like, ...www.theautopian.comThe Interior Department provided additional documents to the U.S. Attorney’s Office “indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor."
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.
How do you expect a poor corporation to survive if it can't sell every damn piece of information it gets its hands on.
404 Media404 Media has mapped out this supply of data by reviewing U.S. government procurement records and internal documents. It highlights the sometimes unexpected ways ICE is gaining access to peoples’ personal information. www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
Final bracket for the apocalypse: AI vs "an elite herd of super-yaks".
What’s horned, fluffy, and ethically dubious? Yak clones | CNNOn the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones.www.cnn.comElon Musk deserves a criminal negligence charge.
Rachel Maddowforest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
It may be the apocalypse, but at least the beaches are still open.
Auke-Florian 🪹Welcome to the Anthropocene 🔥
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David HoFacing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
Companies don't need to fire you too replace you with AI, AI can just write a resignation letter. Moral: maybe read what the AI writes
James GrimmelmannI’m not sure if this is a case of failing to check the AI’s outputs, or a case of retroactively trying to blame the AI for a decision she now regrets. runtimewire.com/article/chat...
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies
David RobertsWhew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
AI isn't just chatbots, it's part of the corporate surveillance state.
Drew HarwellGreat @khari.bsky.social piece on the workplace surveillance of Kaiser triage nurses: "You aren’t calling Comcast. We’re dealing with life here." calmatters.org/economy/tech...