gAlienLifeform

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Could green card holders face deportation for free speech? in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
Allbirds pivots from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 400% in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Anybody make one of those Tesla "I bought these before they went evil" bumper stickers for shoes?

OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 100 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Me neither, I feel like all the publications talking about how it's so popular are gaslighting me or being taken by some bullshit bottled streaming numbers

OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Did it? I mean, it may have bought President Pedo the couple of months he needed to win an election against a historically awful opponent, but given his 32% approval rating and being stuck in a war that was supposed to distract from the detention camps that were supposed to be a distraction from the tariffs that were supposed to be a distraction from DOGE which was supposed to be a distraction from the pedophilia, I think it's fair to say that buying a mouthpiece isn't a durable solution to the problem of being objectively stupid

Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
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OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’ (www.ft.com)
 

OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon "side quests" and focus on its core business.

The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a "low hundreds of millions of dollars" deal, according to a person with knowledge of the terms.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VfGEx

A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Eh, that's what they're trying to do, but that's always what groups like them have tried to do throughout history and it never really works for very long. We aren't reaching the end of anything, it's just the next stage of the game.

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A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone. (www.wired.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260303185619/https://www.wired.com/story/how-big-tech-is-powering-trumps-immigration-crackdown/

We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now. in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

I definitely think it would be a good fit for other comms but I also think it fits this one. The fact that a bunch of dipshit white supremacists in Texas trying to get laid actually does give a lot of insight into our politics is something that feels to me like it could have been a bit on a sketch comedy show in the 90s but here we are.

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We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now. (thebarbedwire.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260227131606/https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/24/300-texas-accounts-white-supremacist-dating-site-politics-right-now/

EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

They've stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money

Exactly, and the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was pro microtransactions really tells you the kind of scum we're dealing with here

El Paso Airport Closed After Military Shot Down Random Party Balloon: The Pentagon appeared to believe the balloon was a foreign drone in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the Trump administration have always been fans of things that sounded better in the original German I guess

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El Paso Airport Closed After Military Shot Down Random Party Balloon: The Pentagon appeared to believe the balloon was a foreign drone (newrepublic.com)
 

Archived at https://archive.ph/zLJdz

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What police surveillance technology looks like in Cleveland (signalcleveland.org)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260206123527/https://signalcleveland.org/what-police-surveillance-technology-looks-like-in-cleveland/

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How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us (minnesotareformer.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260205123528/https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/03/how-ice-is-watching-you/

Red hats sweeping the U.S. as resistance knitters embrace 'melt the ICE' pattern in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Speaking as someone who didn't read the article I think it's pretty cool people are being inspired by the French Revolution

Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

I was about to say something about how Brexit must have really messed up municipal governments' budgets in order for a town to approve something this obviously shoddy, but down in the middle of the article

It remains unclear who is behind the shoddy artwork. A source familiar with the situation said the decoration had been put up by the landlord, not Côte Brasserie or the Bill’s Kingston Restaurant. Futurism has also reached out to the local municipality for clarification.

That headline is misleading

Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais - "Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective" (inv.nadeko.net)
 

YT: https://youtu.be/RRh3r_AhUw0

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After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence (coloradosun.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20251030114314/https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/

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U.S. parole board can’t jail people because it doesn’t legally exist, suit says (www.washingtonpost.com)
 

Public defenders in the nation’s capital are asking a judge in a federal lawsuit to block the U.S. Parole Commission from arresting D.C. residents and to release at least three people currently in jail on its orders, arguing that the federal body no longer has authority to jail people because, as of Wednesday, it does not legally exist.

The U.S. Parole Commission — a division of the Justice Department that primarily supervises several thousand D.C. residents who were released from prison but still serving their sentence — didn’t just have a lapse in funding when the government shut down this week. The agency was also set to sunset on Sept. 30, unless Congress passed legislation that extended it.

In a lawsuit filed in D.C.’s U.S. District Court last week, the D.C. Public Defender Service argues that because Congress instead took no action, the commission expired and now has no power. The public defenders asked a judge to block the parole commission from operating and to order the release of three D.C. residents recently sent to D.C. jail by the commission on alleged violations of their supervision.

“All three of these claims ask the same question: Does the Commission have congressional authorization to issue arrest warrants, detain, and sentence individuals to further incarceration? The answer is no, because, effective last night, Congress has abolished the Parole Commission,” public defenders wrote in their motion for a temporary restraining order seeking to stop the commission’s operations. They are seeking class-action status on their lawsuit so that it would apply to a broader number of people who’ve been jailed.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes declined to grant the temporary restraining order, saying the question of whether the U.S. Parole Commission legally exists needs deeper review. She stopped short of blocking the commission from continuing to arrest people — but suggested that the commission should avoid sending a large amount of people to jail while its legal authority is in question.

“Until we get this settled, they might not want to be issuing arrest warrants left and right,” Reyes told the attorney representing the commission, noting that might require her to move more quickly in the case. “I would counsel your client that sometimes discretion is the better part of valor, and if it’s not absolutely necessary to act … I think that would be better with respect to arrest warrants.”

Archived at https://archive.is/vHE1y

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Spanish broadcaster RNE breaks open RSS apps (podnews.net)
 

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE is blocking podcasts of its national radio station, RNE, from some third party podcast apps.

But unusually, the company still publishes open RSS feeds for all its shows - so shows appear in every podcast app that uses them. The broadcaster has chosen to deliberately block specific podcast apps from downloading the audio.

One such podcast app that RNE is blocking is AntennaPod, a free podcast app on Android. It’s one of the most popular apps on Android - and in Spain, 78.8% of Spanish mobile phone users use Android mobile phones.

Users have discovered that RNE is specifically blocking AntennaPod, based on the app’s user-agent, which is correctly set for every download. It’s unclear why: the app contains no advertising, and is open-source. It’s free to download, and acts in accordance with the unwritten contract between podcast publishers and apps.

“We will review the case of AntennaPod,” said J. Javier Hernández Bravo from RTVE, in an email to Podnews, after we asked for comment. He told us: “RNE Audio continues to publish open RSS feeds, and at the same time, it has decided to block some third-party podcast applications from downloading audio. Many of those platforms were making money from our content.”

There are no podcast platforms that Podnews is aware of which charge for access to open RSS feeds. (We’re always grateful to hear of any). Some podcast apps contain display advertising, but this is not the case for AntennaPod.

...

RNE had just told us that some companies were “making money” of RNE’s content - but then gives three examples of those that do. Spotify makes money off podcast content by aggressively marketing premium upgrades to its music app, and in some cases playing audio advertising before and after episode audio. YouTube puts advertising in front of podcast content, and markets a premium version. And even Apple Podcasts makes money off podcast content by exclusively being available as an app on iPhones and Macs, which only Apple sells.

AntennaPod does none of these things: so why is it blocked?

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250721123131/https://podnews.net/article/rne-blocks-open-rss

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When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories (www.themarshallproject.org)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250509114029/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/09/new-jersey-prison-jpay-viapath-tablet

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Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” (www.wired.com)
 

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250418115851/https://www.wired.com/story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/

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