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Flock’s ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring of ALPRs, to mix a metaphor. And that’s when the bad news began to roll […]

When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps like Bluesky or Threads, they use this little trick to replace the “Follow” button with the app’s logo.

Slack on Thursday launched Slack Code, a new kind of Slack channel that’s built for coding agents and the developers

The post Slack has a new channel type — but only agents can create one appeared first on The New Stack.

MS NOW: “Two hundred and fifty years into the American experiment, our national debt has hit an all-time high of $40 trillion.” “During his first campaign for president, Donald Trump promised to pay down the national debt within eight years.” “Since then, it has doubled.” “In fact, Trump has accumulated as much debt since entering […]

@dave I got the “isn’t” you meant. Yes, replies are stored separately, they can be edited under the Replies section.

Improved cross-posting to Mastodon to link back to your blog post when you have more than 4 photos in your post, since Mastodon only allows 4 photos.

Had a breakthrough with Claude this morning re how builtin verbs have no special powers in Frontier. It's why we were able to build glue first for the truly builtin stuff, then over Apple Events on the Mac, then HTTP, XML-RPC, the Metawebolog API and on and on, all of this we...

The Atlantic: “Early this year, Ukrainian officials came to President Volodymyr Zelensky with a risky new plan to end the war with Russia. It would require expanding their bombing campaign to include a set of targets and a class of weapons they had long avoided. In addition to Ukraine’s ongoing strikes against Russian military bases, […]

Cook Political Report: “The battle for the Senate is about to intensify ahead of the traditional Labor Day starting gun. Republicans still retain a structural advantage given the partisan challenges of the map, and Democrats still need almost every key race to break their way. But as we recently wrote, in a wave election akin […]

ICE is trying to deport a CIA spy who infiltrated al-Qaeda after 9/11 and helped convict multiple terrorists.

He risks being deported to Kosovo, where he is at risk of being tortured and killed.

This release of Mastodon focuses entirely on technical improvements that are not necessarily visible on the user side, ahead of the ambitiously user-focused Mastodon 5.0 release later this year. Our goal is to improve compatibility with other fediverse platforms, improve per...

They even had to hire someone to demolish the Pepper, which was a permanent structure on the fairgrounds until this year.

Gigi and I have signed the Statement on Superintelligence, which calls for a pause on the development of superintelligence. This blog post lays out our rationale for doing so now after having previously held off on supporting other “pause AI” appeals. We have a broad set of initiatives in the Hudson Valley and beyond aimed at securing human thriving in the AI age. These include a basic income pilot, various steward ownership projects, and a community learning center. Two preconditions appear,...

In a kinder world, WNBA expansion teams are allowed to flail and muck about in peace for a few years before anyone pays close attention to them. But this is an unkind world, one that finds the Golden State Valkyries second in the standings and headed to the playoffs for the ...

“Alina Habba, the president’s former personal attorney, ruled herself out as a candidate for White House press secretary as speculation swirls about who President Trump will pick to follow Karoline Leavitt,” NewsNation reports. Said Habba: “Flattered by the Kalshi odds, but I’m not in the running for any job. However, if I’m getting a new […]

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. will soon unveil its plan to economically isolate Iran and its trading partners,” Bloomberg reports. Said Bessent: “Economic pressure means that we are going to all of our allies — and this is going to be the greatest coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world — […]

The post Strangest State: Skulls, Shells, Smugglers, and Sheriffs appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Body cam footage shows ICE agents using racial slurs during immigration operations

Prophesy When MyTerms succeeds, CMP—Consent Management Platforms—will mean Contract Management Platforms. From the Annals of Enshittification Seth Godin on The Amazon Tax: "Amazon is stealing from the customers they said they were here to serve."

Fox News' Outnumbered program, which features a bevy of beauties day in and day out, attacked Democratic politicians like Mayor Mamdani, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Abdul El-Sayed for being very attractive. This is high comedy. Watching blonde beauties Kaylee McEnany...