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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses."

Celtics' Jayson Tatum (Achilles) available to return Friday Jayson Tatum is officially available for the Celtics' Friday night home game against the Mavericks. Tatum suffered a torn right Achilles tendon in the playoffs less than 10 months ago.

Achilles healed: Celtics OK Tatum for Fri. return.

Remember when, just weeks ago, the Dems told the military that they must not obey illegal orders. We passed that red line when they obeyed orders to start a war that had not been declared by Congress.

Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts. www.reuters.com

Alysa Liu on Dancing Her Way to Olympic Gold: ‘The Music Carries My Body.’ www.nytimes.com

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die.' people.com

I’ve spent most of the last week using Claude to work on full browser based apps in JavaScript, and having fun as long as I let it do all the programming.

On the other hand, it's hard to get Claude to apply itself to my own software. It likes to drive. Same with ChatGPT.

What if friends treated their friends as nicely as they treat dogs. When you sensed they needed a little support, you'd look them in the eye and say "Who's the good girl?" Rub behind the ears. When they sit give them a treat.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester "A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the...

"A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI." werd.io/proton-mail-...

Which of the countries being dragged into the war have nukes.

Portrait of Cristina My Sister, 1928 #fridakahlo #kahlo

Pizza has something to say.

Pizza has something to say.

‘Without such options, a large class of telecom devices and XML‑based enterprise systems will lose their only practical browser‑native UI layer, and many deployed devices will be left without a functional interface.’

issues.chromium.org/issues/43562...

when Zuck comes to me I say open up your services so a wide variety of tools can connect via open protocols in both directions so we can build on and around his massive resources so innovation isnt stalled by the limits of his employees.

Disclaimer — I’ve never spoken with him.

Inside of us, everyone, including you, is a little pup who just wants to know they're in the right place doing the right thing

What if friends treated their friends as nicely as they treat dogs. When you sensed they needed a little support, you'd look them in the eye and say "Who's the good girl?" Rub behind the ears. When they sit give them a treat.

I don’t care what you say, this is art.

Pete Hegseth - Wikipedia

Hegseth went To Princeton so he isn’t stupid or uneducated.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_He...

The war is spreading.

These is the “river” of news from the feeds in my blogroll. feedland.social

Notes for FediForum meetup The FediForum home page says "the Open Social Web still has only a tiny fraction of the users of the closed social media platforms, and growing that number significantly has turned out harder …

My notes submitted for FediForum meetup, but it wasn’t selected. If this were a real developer and user community, imho, this is what would’ve been covered.

It’s not a bad idea. That’s the problem, except for his paranoia about vaccines a lot of his ideas are based on real science.

Dancer, 1877 #degas #edgardegas

when Zuck comes to me I say open up your services so a wide variety of tools can connect via open protocols in both directions so we can build on and around his massive resources so innovation isnt stalled by the limits of his employees.

Disclaimer — I’ve never spoken with him.

AI slop - Wikipedia

Trump is president the way slop coders write code. Not sure if it’s working but if it’s not who cares.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop

Filtering News Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need to watch it?  In 2018, I wrote about how to...

Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need to watch it?

The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down | TechCrunch Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California's 17th congressional district.

Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California's 17th congressional district.

I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. Amazing. Why have I not tried this before. It made me a little spreadsheet in two minutes. this.how