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In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

October 2025:

Related: Robert Reich posted earlier today that Tesla paid ZERO taxes on $5 billion in sales (earnings?), so that’s just fucking great.

TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

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Billie Eilish joined Bad Bunny in speaking out against ICE during her acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards, slamming the organization after winning song of the year for “Wildflower.”

Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it’s a “cognitive amplifier,” claims Satya Nadella.

As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed “courageous whistleblowers” who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user’s messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app’s end-to-end encryption. “A worker need only send a ‘task’ (i.e., request via Meta’s internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job,” the lawsuit claims. “The Meta engineering team will then grant access – often without any scrutiny at all – and the worker’s workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user’s messages based on the user’s User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products.”

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/57305272

*The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”*

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”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!”

Silverio Villegas González, Keith Porter Jr, Renee Good and Alex Pretti (and countless others who’s names we may never know) will not be the last people we will have to mourn, but we can take steps to prevent as many future deaths as we can, while enacting our last means of non-violent offense against the regime.

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon?r=1t17zr

Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?

https://www.gog.com/en/work/senior-software-engineer-c-gog-galaxy

I’m pretty sure that’s a reference to the midterm elections in November 2026

https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/808104605026320384/this-is-progress

A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 for help.

*While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports*

Countries are growing uneasy about their dependence on U.S. technology firms.

Summary: Republicans are 50/50, everyone else is strongly opposed.

transcription: just saw a straight woman CONFIDENTLY say lesbian marriage isnt a real marriage its just “two best friends who get each other off” and like bestie, idk what has gone wrong in your life but thats exactly what marriage is supposed to be, regardless of the genders involved. as opposed to real marriage, where you have two people who dislike each other and dont get each other off.

Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Come into my house with shoes on and you’ll be lucky to leave alive

Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

According to Statcounter, Windows 11 held a 55.18% market share in October 2025. That share dropped to 53.7% in November and dropped again in December. Now, Windows 11 holds a 50.73% market share.

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