Rt. Hon. Rakesh

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Comic. [Person 1 talking to a person with shoulder-length hair and a person with a white hat.] PERSON 1: I would never get an electric vehicle. Sure, they sound great, but what do you do if the battery runs out of charge? [caption] I felt pretty silly when someone finally explained tome that EVs are rechargeable.

Electric Vehicles

xkcd.com/3214/

Oh, as a fan of the series… ♥️

A “special military operation” lol. Straight out of the Russian playbook?

Again, these authorities are the same ones the NSA strategically reinterpreted commonly understood words to mean very different things in order to enable mass surveillance. And OpenAI's agreement is "sure, yeah, obey those same authorities."

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

I was cut from USAID and landed somewhere else. Some of my new colleagues have asked what it was like at that time.

I could have written this article. I don’t know the author, but his story resonates with my own.

The “AI” could be a post-it note saying, “do layoffs”.

Absolutely love this video of two 50 y-o women attempting every Winter Olympic sport (and laughing throughout). This is the #Joy we need to cultivate in our lives.
youtu.be/LtwjMsJoOZc?...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Yuuuck.

I think people are way more sensitive to how this could be easily repurposed or abused. I wonder why this didn’t come up in the feature design review? (Rhetorical)

I had a way easier time explaining gender and identify to my kids than bigotry. I still can’t explain that, tbh 💯

Also true for Kendrick last year as well. I think haters just have an identity that craves the outrage

The famous Batman of San Jose makes an appearance!

So many of the ads last night were for scams: AI scams, crypto scams, online betting. Things that insult the interests of the viewer for impact.

Can we just see ads for real products and things people would actually want? (I miss when it was mostly car ads I guess)

♥️

I got that reference. 🦄

I can't stop thinking about how incredible the Bad Bunny halftime show was, and I haven't even heard him before today.

What an amazing performance, and what a beautiful celebration of love.

Super Bowl champs Seattle Seahawks logo

My kids are now wondering what evil thing Salesforce has done because they’re using Mr Beast.

My kids have no idea about CRM but they have an immediate aversion to Mr Beast and anything he represents.

Whaaat? An actual touchdown!

I’d not heard of Bad Bunny until relatively recently but man that halftime was bumpin.

More of this America, pls.

I don’t get why they’re blowing the at horn.

My kid pointed it out to me. I missed it in the moment too!

The coca-cola polar bears doing the Coldplay thing is a brilliant Pepsi ad.

I have never seen Linux explicitly represented at the Super Bowl before, tbh

Green Day has been on already. They were part of the pregame.

I love our folks in uniform, but someday we should honor librarians and teachers similarly.

Like a synchronized library-cart demonstration during the national anthem or something.

National security also includes intellectual and academic security.

TY!