Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Utah A.G. Sean Reyes continued a pattern of lavish travel and high-dollar events last year, using campaign funds at luxury resorts and to pay for several outdoor adventures — including another trip to shoot feral hogs from helicopters in Texas.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/01/12/utah-ag-sean-reyes-didnt-ease-up/

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me
Matthew 25:35

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Luke 3:11

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor
22:9

Get a job you little punk. Bootstraps
GOP 1:6

"Heavy #US and #UK air strikes pounded targets in rebel-held #Yemen early on Friday after weeks of disruptive attacks on #RedSea shipping by #Iran -backed #Houthi forces....'Our country was subjected to a massive aggressive attack...' Hourhi Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Al-Ezzi said...'America and Britain will have to prepare to pay a heavy price and bear all the dire consequences of this blatant aggression,' he added"

#News

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/01/us-uk-air-strikes-pound-yemen-after-weeks-red-sea-attacks

when i was told a kabillion of years ago to try out Google Chrome the first thing that came out of my mouth was:

Why would I want Google to know everything i do on the internet?

people were like, butButBUT "DO NO EVIL"

yet here we are with Google doing every evil they can get away with; from recession-by-mass-layoffs, to killing adblockers & now with this new DRM #enshitification, "Web Integrity API"

from now on, when people call me a Luddite, am gonna take it like a g'damn badge of honor

Today, on January 11th, we have to remember who died #OTD in 2013: Aaron Swartz :AaronSwartz:

You may know him from his contribution to or creation of:

• Markdown
• The Creative Commons License
• RSS
• Reddit

We must never forget him and his contributions to our world forever - especially due to circumstances of injustice and the cause he became a martyr for.

The White House is backing legislation that would let it seize frozen Russian assets to help pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine, a shift as the Biden administration seeks to rally support in Congress to further fund the war against Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/11/world/politics/white-house-frozen-russian-assets/?utm_content=buffer0d72a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #politics #us #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #eu

Alex Jones has a branded game on Steam. I just reported it for "child exploitation". I don't think this is what Steam intends by "child exploitation", but the Alex Jones *brand*, which is what the game is promoting, is a brand that is foundationally built on denigrating and exploiting *murdered children* for his (and the brand's) profit.

There is no “Alex Jones" without child exploitation, and a game that makes him money *should not be on Steam*.

Well apparently OpenAI stated that without copyrighted materials they won't be able to train their ChatGPT models, or as they say those models won't meet needs of today's citizens. Looks like a hypocrisy to me, large company with lot's of money in the bank, wants creators to forfeit their rights and then charge them for use of their models. No comments ... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

Good grief.........😱

The Pope has publicly called for a universal ban on surrogacy, which is pretty bad news for Mary, mother of Jesus, the OG surrogate.

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is a feature.
This is AI working exactly as planned. Cutting costs. Why else would we use it? And perfectly targeting older people because they're old and weak and won't fight back. AI has a bright future ahead of it. Well done, AI designers! Because a 90% error rate takes quite a bit of designing.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

Whatever forces ate away at the social contract undergirding our democracy, they acted while we slept, not completely unnoticed but not unchecked either, until one day we had a reality-show president, QAnon, horse dewormer, and the sacking of the U.S. Capitol.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/01/09/maga-epistemolgy/

Thirty years ago, I used the holidays to rewrite our in-house 3d tool from scratch, based on specs and design I worked on for a year. On January 2nd 1994, the first version was running!
I'm incredible proud, humbled and impressed of where it went. Happy 30th birthday :) #b3d

from Bell's 1951 “The Telephone and How We Use It”: instructions on how to use a dial telephone and how to be a good telephone neighbor (full pdf here if you're interested https://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-telephone-and-how-we-use-it/The%20telephone%20and%20how%20we%20use%20it.pdf) #othernetworks

@shuttersparks Only if out failed lying media would go for it and do their job.

Yes the New Yorker when there.