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I’m not the artist, Pizzacake is. Source

after 15 years, iOS has finally caught up with all the main android features, such as

McDonald’s is removing artificial intelligence (AI) powered ordering technology from its drive-through restaurants in the US, after customers shared its comical mishaps online.

Its an old LG, but given the recent light on the lengths they’ll go to spy on us, I figured this guy was better off without any ability to even connect wirelessly. Don’t know if the Ethernet still works but I plan on keeping my TVs as dumb as possible, HDMI only.

Slyngstad | Bluesky

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Original story: https://www.actionnews5.com/2026/09/04/prison-inmates-help-pay-down-school-lunch-debt/

Doublespeak

The band Muse has surrendered its Instagram and X handles to Meta after the release of its new AI agent, Muse.

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”

A newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

[a study paper is shown, with some of the text legible] STUDY RESULTS GIVING POOR PEOPLE MONEY REDUCES CRIME MORE THAN GIVING COPS THAT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY CONCLUSION If you want to reduce crime, take care of your community’s primary needs instead of funding cops so much [an orange character in a suit has stamped a paper labeled MORE POLICE FUNDING BILL, and is grinning] Heh, you think we don’t know? https://thebad.website/comic/scientific_policing

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

Sarah Andersen | Bluesky

Tommy Siegel | Bluesky

Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz, 21, says she was raped in her own bed at the beginning of her sophomore year. This week, two years after the alleged assault, Sulkowicz, a visual-arts major, has made a promise to carry her mattress around campus every day as part of her senior thesis. It is, she says, a symbol of the burden sexual-assault survivors carry with them every day.

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

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Google Translated from German to English:

Rapper Macklemore is a vocal supporter of Palestine and Gaza residents. During a recent concert at MetLife Stadium, he yelled “Free Palestine!” onstage, projected images of devastation in the area, and performed protest song “Hind’s Hall.”

The detailed sourcing directly attacks Sony’s legal claim that a reasonable person wouldn’t expect to own their digital purchases on the PlayStation Store.

Disney+ has updated its subscriber agreement to allow advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription tier. The change quietly ends completely ad-free streaming on the platform, even for those paying top dollar.

This comic is kinda old already, but still stays relevant.

We had been warned of trouble looming at a show in Fairfax, Va., a conservative suburb outside Washington, D.C. The gig was at the Patriot Center at George Mason University. George Mason, a father of the Bill of Rights, refused to sign the Declaration of Independence because it didn’t guarantee enough rights and freedoms. (Were he still alive, he’d be cast out of Virginia; although its state slogan is “Virginia Is For Lovers,” in 1994, Virginia had an anti-sodomy law.) The promoter told Green Day in advance that they wouldn’t allow us to play, that we were inappropriate; Green Day’s response to the promoter was that if we didn’t play, they wouldn’t play.

Too real…

Piggies are getting scareddddd