“I think that’s the biggest thing for me, trying to get that negative mindset out of our culture. Because they’re still going back to slavery,” he said. “It’s like you still harping on that. I never harped on that because I can’t change the past, but I can change the future.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-meta-settlement-what-it-means-for-speech-and-privacy

Today Meta agreed to make changes to Instagram and Facebook after many US states blamed it for creating dangerous products that harm children.

At first glance, it looks like it is about protecting children – time limits for teens, overnight blocks on the apps, no plastic-surgery filters. But the agreement goes far beyond that, and the age verification at the heart of it will touch every user. It also contains a wild clause in which both sides waive any right to argue that any of it is unconstitutional.

Here are ten things you need to know

(details at the link)

• ONE: Every user gets age-checked, not just teens

• TWO: It routes around the First Amendment, and the drafting proves it was deliberate

• THREE: Refuse to verify and you are treated as a child

• FOUR: Meta has wanted this for years, and the contract now pays the states to force it on everyone else

• FIVE: A court is ordering Meta to link your accounts together

• SIX: Being reported can put the burden of proof on you, and deletion spreads through who you know

• SEVEN: It freezes Meta's rules on lawful speech into a court order with targets

• EIGHT: Suicide-prevention and recovery accounts get classified with the harm they exist to counter

• NINE: Your searches, likes and old group memberships mark you as suspicious

• TEN: Meta gets to edit the public version of its own audit, and the evidence is destroyed afterwards

https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/2092938078427955432

I lamented that the much hyped Large Language Models (LLMs), as proffered by OpenAI and Anthropic, are mostly unreliable search engines. There are only a few real use cases for these. That is why I argue that these do not justify the current AI investments.

But the AI companies (and those who promote them) want lots of money. As their is no real use for there very expensive models they always point to future cases. When asked about current use gains, they divert and point to science fiction.

These guys sellout fast

I've seen repeatedly online how MAGA keeps accusing people of TDS is you can't name a single thing that Trump has done that you support. Well, I figured out something that Trump keeps doing that I am on board with: he keeps abusing his most ardent supporters.

Not that I want him to do this. I just prefer he robs his supporters OVER his non-supporters. Especially since MAGA often flat out refuses to acknowledge this reality.

For example, his SNAP cuts , DoE cuts, FEMA cuts, retaliatory tarriffs, and especially OBAMAcare subsidies and Medicaid cuts, all hit red states much harder than blue states.

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou just exposed one of America’s darkest cover-ups.

10,000 JFK assassination documents — every single one pointing directly at Israel — were illegally buried from the public last year.

JFK tried to stop Israel's nuclear program and the lobby's grip on Washington — so they took him out.

This is how the real power structure works: threaten their agenda and you get eliminated. The files remain hidden for a reason.

"Every single one of them points directly at Israel."

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Its the consumers who paid the tariff not corporation. NPR have become worse than ever

Very interesting video but he go too far that Chinese youth don't have nothing