#toplink — Public Fediverse posts
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The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/05/14/the-ai-layoff-bill-is-coming-due-and-ctos-are-going-to-pay-it-twice/
Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.
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Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-counterterrorism-plan-ignores-far-rights-gorka
Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
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U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyregion/gautam-adani-billionaire-doj-trump.html
The decision came after a meeting in which a lawyer for the billionaire, Gautam Adani, made an unusual offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Poll: Democrats want to beat the GOP — even if that means fewer Black districts https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/poll-democrats-redistricting-black-voters-00919972
A new POLITICO Poll suggests many appear willing to embrace a maximalist posture on redistricting.
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AI Is entering health care, and nurses are being asked to trust it https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-is-entering-health-care-and-nurses-are-being-asked-to-trust-it/
When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk
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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/01/where-to-buy-a-non-apple-non-google-smartphone/5219681
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/01/where-to-buy-a-non-apple-non-google-smartphone/5219681
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
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‘Mass mobilization’ expected in Selma, Montgomery this weekend after Supreme Court decision https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2026/05/mass-mobilization-expected-in-selma-montgomery-this-weekend-after-supreme-court-decision.html
The National Day of Action for Voting Rights will include rallies in Selma and Montgomery against plans that include threatening seats held by Black representatives.---
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The UK is set for a staycation summer - and there are plenty of hidden gems https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjpv9pdnpwo
Seasoned staycationers share their favourite spots as Airbnb and Booking.com say interest in UK stays are up on last year.
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Rep. Rob Bresnahan sold stock in several Medicaid providers before voting for cuts https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-rob-bresnahan-sold-stock-medicaid-providers-vote-big-bill-rcna244859
WASHINGTON— A week before he voted to significantly cut Medicaid, Rep.
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Musk promised his data center would reuse water. That's now stalled. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/xai-water-reuse-project-musk-ai-spacex-ipo-environmental-project-ee-00896170
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company abruptly stopped work on a water reuse facility meant to alleviate strain on the Memphis-area water supply. Nobody’s saying why.
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Extortion Using Smart Glasses Is a Thing Now https://gizmodo.com/extortion-using-smart-glasses-is-a-thing-now-2000755562
A woman in London was asked to pay up if she wanted a video of her removed from social media.
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Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report finds https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/children-bypassing-age-verification-social-media-b2968803.html
A third of children in the UK have bypassed age verification gates, research from Internet Matters suggests
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A message from Lebanon: The Israeli Government’s impunity will not end without action - Greenpeace International https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/82573/lebanon-netanyahu-israel-war-middle-east/
Governments must hold the Israeli government accountable under international law, impose arms embargoes and meaningful sanctions that create genuine political and economic consequences.
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NHS Goes To War Against Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappoint
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Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/26/israel-destroys-solar-panels-in-south-lebanon
Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon
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California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/california-coastal-community-must-reject-cbps-ai-powered-surveillance-tower
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking permission from the California city of San Clemente to install an Anduril Industries surveillance tower on a cliff that would allow for constant monitoring of entire coastal neighborhoods. The proposed tower is And
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew https://www.wired.com/story/usaid-whistleblower-says-it-was-even-worse-than-people-knew/
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/trump-crypto-pardons-corruption.html
The president is one of a kind.
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Southern Poverty Law Center faces Justice Department criminal probe https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law-center-criminal-investigation-db7fdcf9baa0d1b24b8f1e1f2cebc0be
The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The Alabama-based civil rights organization made the announcement Tuesday, saying
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Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” https://theintercept.com/2026/04/14/facebook-instagram-antifa-censor/
Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”
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To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/
LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.
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Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259
Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.
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Especial Masters of Voices – Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens: Donde arde la voz | vía #iRock
#atenea #ateneaevents #livebeats #livebeats #mastersofvoices #metal #teatroteleton #teatroteletón #timripperowens #toplink
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Especial Masters of Voices – Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens: Donde arde la voz | vía #iRock
#atenea #ateneaevents #livebeats #livebeats #mastersofvoices #metal #teatroteleton #teatroteletón #timripperowens #toplink
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Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/
You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
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Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them https://www.newscientist.com/article/2287879-female-octopuses-throw-things-at-males-that-are-harassing-them/
The common Sydney octopus ( Octopus tetricus ) An analysis of footage of octopuses off the coast of Australia "throwing" shells and silt suggests that they intentionally target – and often hit – other octopuses . In most cases, it is females that do the throwing, often at males t
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OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
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Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-technical-coding
The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.
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Airlines are starting to cancel flights as they face jet fuel shortages and rising prices https://www.businessinsider.com/airlines-cancel-flights-rising-jet-fuel-prices-shortage-iran-2026-4
Jet fuel prices have spiked and supplies have dwindled as the US and Israeli war on Iran drags on, forcing some airlines to cancel flights.
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LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told https://thenextweb.com/news/linkedin-browsergate-extension-scanning-privacy-fingerprint
In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resulting fingerprint, and att
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Iran war live: Israel targets UN peacekeepers in Lebanon as fighting rages https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/29/iran-war-live-houthis-attack-israel-anti-war-protesters-rally-in-tel-aviv
Helicopters transporting the wounded UNIFIL troops after artillery fire on their base in Aadshit al-Qusayr.
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Homeowner Called ICE on Migrants She Hired, Worker Says https://www.newsweek.com/homeowner-called-ice-on-migrants-she-hired-worker-says-11742032
A video shared online showed agents arriving at the home in Cambridge, Maryland as workers wrapped up construction.
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Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate/offshore-wind-gas-trump-total.html
In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.
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The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview
Ghost in the Machine — out on Kinema March 26th — director Valeria Veatch speaks with The Verge about gen AI’s roots in eugenics.
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Israel systematically torturing Palestinians in custody, says UN expert https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/21/israel-systematically-torturing-palestinians-in-custody-says-un-expert
Report by Francesca Albanese says ‘torture in detention used on unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance’.
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Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out https://theconversation.com/paul-ehrlich-often-called-alarmist-for-dire-warnings-about-human-harms-to-the-earth-believed-scientists-had-a-responsibility-to-speak-out-178492
Paul R. Ehrlich will be remembered as a scientist whose books about population and threats to the environment shaped the idea of limited gr
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