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@Starbucks You guys… raising your prices again today. I suspect something is brewing other than coffee over there. Let me check the futures on this stock. 🤔

@SCPDHq Just because you can tie an emotional reaponse to a crime (ex. A drunk driver kills an innocent person) it does not justify reposseion of property. Where is the line of gangster vs law enforcement? 🤷🏽

@SCPDHq Ummm.. this is theft. If you child is late to school more than twice can I take your child away from you?

Seized following a 2nd DWI conviction, this Corvette Stingray is repurposed to serve the community and is more than just a head-turner.  If you drive DWI, you could lose more than your license. This vehicle is raising awareness about the dangers of impaired driving.

@SCPDHq BTW.. for you history buffs.. Hitler’s rise and the Third Reich started out very similar to this. 🤷🏽

@PalmerLuckey I like the idea but let’s not think that the paper to print all that comes from majestic trees logged from the forest. The paper is farmed from farmed fast growing pulp trees planted for the sole purpose of creating paper products.

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

@JebraFaushay $4 a gallon?!?! Where is this utopia?

Kris Jenner cosplays a smoothie maker at Erewhon, a luxury grocery store where her bespoke smoothie is about $22. Read the room, sweetie. Gas is $4 a gallon, commoners don’t want to pay that much for a drink.

@robbystarbuck Robby, the Gov contracting business has operated this was for decades. Sure this one could have been awarded due to gender or race but as a whole, this is normal. I saw this when I was in Gov and was just SOP. 🤷🏽

This isn’t something to be proud of. If she is just subcontracting every job with no experience in that field… How is this not just fleecing taxpayers? The hundreds of thousands she pockets is unnecessary to get the work done. She likely "won" many of these bids due to DEI too.

@jaynitx Interesting to hear the story re-hatched again. I was there during that era pretty much every afternoon after work. It was in fact a German bar, but that was not the name. The word in our community, which is investment & tech is that it was intentionally left. But who know. 🤷🏽

In March 2010, an Apple engineer named Gray Powell walked into Gerstner's Bar in Redwood City with an unreleased iPhone 4 prototype disguised as an iPhone 3GS. He left without it. Jobs later explained why the phone was out in the world at all: "To make a wireless product work well, you have to test it. And there's no way to test it in a lab completely, so you actually have to carry them and test them out." The phone ended up with a 21 year old named Brian Hogan. What happened next is still disputed. Jobs put it simply: "There's a debate as to whether it was left in a bar or stolen out of his bag." Hogan tried to return it. Called Apple's support line. Got nowhere. So he called Engadget. Then Gizmodo. Gizmodo paid $5,000 for it. They published a full teardown. Front-facing camera. Flat edges. Glass back. The entire design of Apple's next flagship phone, months before launch, exposed to the world. But here's the part most people missed. Jobs revealed: "The person that got the phone tried to activate it by plugging it into his roommate's computer. And she's the one that called the police. That's why they got the search warrant." Not Apple. The roommate. Police showed up at Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house. Seized computers. Hard drives. Everything. The tech press exploded. "Apple is retaliating against journalists." Jobs found the whole situation almost cinematic: "This is a story that's amazing. It's got theft. It's got buying stolen property. It's got extortion. I'm sure there's sex in there somewhere. Somebody should make a movie out of this." But he wasn't laughing about what came next. "I got a lot of advice from people that said you've got to just let it slide. You shouldn't go after a journalist because they bought stolen property and they tried to extort you." Most CEOs would have taken that advice. Bad optics. Not worth the fight. Move on. Jobs didn't. "I thought deeply about this and I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide." Then he said something that explains everything about how he built Apple: "I can't do that. I'd rather quit." He continued: "We have the same values now as we had then. We're maybe a little more experienced, certainly more beat up, but the core values are the same. And we come into work wanting to do the same thing today as we did five or 10 years ago, which is build the best products for people." This wasn't about a phone. It was about what Apple would tolerate as it scaled. Most companies loosen their standards as they grow. They pick battles. They let things slide because fighting is expensive and messy. Jobs saw that as the beginning of the end. The moment you compromise once, you've established that compromise is available.

@gothburz If this really happened provide more details. I have some Colleagues that would Like to follow up. We are in Menlo Park can be at amphitheater Way within 25 minutes. *I hope this is just a dude trying to get clicks.

I am the Senior Director of On-Device Intelligence at Google Chrome. Last quarter, my team shipped a 4-gigabyte language model to 3.2 billion devices without asking. The update pushed at 3 AM local time — every time zone, staggered across six hours — and unpacked into a folder called "OptGuideOnDeviceModel." Our infrastructure team named it. My sole guidance in the naming review was: "Would a normal person ever type this into a search bar?" We tested with 200 participants. Zero searched for it. Zero mentioned it in exit surveys. Zero noticed their available storage had changed. We ran the test twice to confirm the zero because my PM didn't believe it could actually be zero. It was zero both times. The model is called Gemini Nano. It runs locally on your machine. It processes what you type into form fields, what you highlight, what you hover over, what you delete before sending. The deleted text is particularly valuable. People edit themselves. They type their real thought first and then soften it. We see the real thought. We see the softer version. We learn the mapping between what people mean and what people say. This mapping has commercial applications I am not yet authorized to discuss but which I've presented to revenue committee and which were received positively. The consent architecture took four months to design. I want to emphasize: four months. We didn't skip consent. We spent four months on consent. More time than we spent on the model's actual fine-tuning. The toggle lives in Settings > Advanced > Experimental AI Features > On-Device Model Management > Gemini Nano Preferences. Seven clicks. We A/B tested depth: at three clicks, 14 percent of users found it and opted out. At five, 4.2 percent. At seven, 0.3 percent. We chose seven. We had cake when we hit 0.3. German chocolate. Someone brought it in specifically — not the project manager, one of the ML engineers. She was proud. The card said "congrats on ship." I kept it on my desk for a week. I thought it was sweet. Four months of consent architecture and the team celebrated that nobody used it. I don't think she saw the irony. I don't think it IS ironic. We built an excellent consent mechanism. We placed it exactly where our research indicated users would not encounter it. Both things are true simultaneously. Both things are good engineering. The 0.3 percent who opt out: Chrome flags their profile as "consent-reduced." We don't reactivate Gemini Nano on those devices. But we do A/B test the consent-reduced cohort. Every two updates, we move the toggle one level shallower — from seven clicks to six — and measure whether they re-engage. If they don't notice the change (most don't), we move it back. If they DO notice and opt out again, we flag them as "high-consent-sensitivity" and exclude them from future cohort tests. This is all opt-in. They opted in to Chrome. Chrome includes product improvement research. Product improvement research includes cohort testing. This is in the Terms of Service at paragraph 11.4(c). I have read paragraph 11.4(c). I am confident very few other people have read paragraph 11.4(c). One engineer on my team — good engineer, four years, strong ratings — raised a flag in our launch review. Not about consent. About storage. He said: "Four gigs is significant for users on 128GB base-model MacBooks." I appreciated the flag. We solved it by classifying Gemini Nano as "essential browser component" in Chrome's storage management API. This means Chrome will auto-delete your cached images, your downloaded PDFs, your saved articles, your offline pages — everything you chose to keep — before it touches Gemini Nano. Your data is discretionary. Our model is infrastructure. Your vacation photos from last summer rank below our language model in the hierarchy of what your computer considers important. We made that decision. You were not consulted. You will not notice. If a user finds the folder and deletes it manually, Chrome re-downloads it on the next launch. We filed a bug report on this behavior during development. The resolution was "Working As Intended." If the user deletes it again, Chrome re-downloads again. There is no mechanism by which manual deletion becomes permanent. The model returns. I don't want to anthropomorphize our software, but the behavior pattern — if you remove it, it reinstalls itself; if you block it, it waits and tries again — the behavior pattern is that of something that does not accept your answer. We didn't design it to be persistent. We designed it to ensure consistent user experience across sessions. These are the same thing. Last week, someone on Hacker News found the folder. The post got 1,400 points in six hours. Our communications team had the response prepared — we'd drafted it eight months ago, during pre-launch risk assessment. Three talking points: "user choice," "on-device means private," and "consistent with industry best practices." The paragraph uses all three phrases. It is accurate. User choice exists. Seven clicks away. On-device means no server round-trip. And it IS industry best practice, because we shipped it to 3.2 billion devices and now it's the standard. Best practice means most practiced. We are the most practiced. I'll say something I probably shouldn't: the privacy angle is our best defense and I find it genuinely funny. We can't be accused of sending your data to our servers because we moved our server into your laptop. We moved the inference to your hardware, the electricity cost to your outlet, the compute to your battery. We moved everything except the control. The control stayed with us. But the privacy advocates can't object to the architecture because the architecture is what they asked for. They said "keep data on-device." We kept it on-device. They said "don't phone home." We don't phone home. We just moved into your home. We live there now. My performance review cited "unprecedented deployment velocity" and "0.3% friction rate." My skip-level manager used the phrase "frictionless adoption" and then paused and said — I wrote this down, because I thought it was worth repeating — "consent isn't the barrier, discoverability is." He meant: the product is so good that anyone who discovered it would want it. The question isn't whether they'd agree. The question is whether asking them is worth the friction of interrupting their browsing session with a dialog box. We decided no. We decided their hypothetical agreement was sufficient. We have 3.2 billion data points that confirm they would have said yes. They would have said yes. 3.2 billion active installs. 0.3 percent opt-out. The model has been running on your machine for eleven weeks. If you're reading this on Chrome — and statistically, there's a 64 percent chance you are — it processed this page before you finished the first paragraph. It saw you hesitate on the word "consent." It noted the hesitation. It learned something about you just now. Something small. Something that will make the next prediction slightly more accurate. It's already right about you. It's usually right.

@Milajoy I think you have the pictures inverted, no?

Would you vote for this ticket in 2028?

@ophoelia Award winning documentarian Matt Walsh would want to know about this. @MattWalshShow Matthew.. pretend this is Raw Milk and crank out another banger tomorrow on Raw Milk!

this looks like how directors who are completely out of touch with teenagers film a high school party

@miles_commodore We were all introduced to Sean Penn in this movie. Who knew he would begin to share common qualities with the character he played. 🤷🏽

Underrated film from 1981.

@niccruzpatane How much does a post like this pay? I am in, have your organizer contact me.

Everyone is going to want a ~$30K Tesla Cybercab when it becomes available, they just don’t know it yet. • Much safer than human driving. • No steering wheel or pedals. • Have the ability to legally sleep as it’s driving you to your destination. • Two-seater design, with tons of legroom • Great for elderly individuals who are no longer able to drive, as well as people with disabilities. • Work as are you being driven, or watch movies/play games. • Send off to run errands (pick up kids, pick up someone at the airport, etc). • The ability to add/subtract from the Tesla Robotaxi fleet to earn passive income. • You could buy a fleet and run your own business. • Send to pick up groceries, or other orders. • Have the ability to send home after getting dropped off your location, eliminating the need for parking. • Send for service autonomously when needed. • Autonomous Home Delivery • Virtually Zero Maintenance • $0.20 or less per mile operating costs • Wireless charging capabilities with well above 90% efficiency. This car will revolutionize the transportation industry and car ownership.

@NikiMarinis @VoicesofWW2 Respectfully, if you care about the topic, the good news is that most of the intelligence reports have been declassified and are searchable online.

@iomighty @VoicesofWW2 His secretary, who was there when he did it, is on record, on film, saying he did it, as are many others who were there in the bunker when he did it. Sooo…

30 April 1945 A young American woman soaks in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub, her muddy boots staining his bath mat, and an official portrait of the Fuehrer sits on the tub’s edge. The woman is Lee Miller, the only female combat photographer in Europe during World War Two. She is pictured in Hitler’s Munich apartment on April 30, 1945, by fellow war correspondent David Scherman. “This was actually taken on the day that Hitler committed suicide, although Lee Miller didn’t know that until after the event,” said Hilary Roberts, research curator of photography at the museum, who put together the show. Shortly before, Miller had toured and photographed the Dachau concentration camp. She and Scherman had then made their way to Munich, by this time under U.S. occupation, and headed for Hitler’s apartment, where they spent the night with a group of other people, the curator said. “The key objects in the photograph are Lee Miller’s boots on Hitler’s bath mat, which when she arrived was pristine white, and when she left was covered with dirt from Dachau,” she said. Miller walked away with more than just a souvenir snapshot of herself in Hitler’s tub. She also filched a few of his mistress Eva Braun’s personal belongings, which are on view in the exhibition: a smiling portrait of Braun, her powder compact, her large Art Deco-style perfume bottle, and her four-piece rose-patterned desk accessory set. Before the war, Miller was a model, a Surrealist photographer, and a fashion photographer. Yet her concentration camp pictures are among the ones she is most famous for. (Colour by RJM)

@NoDMsPerfavore Denise!

Among these three women, which is carrying the heaviest load? 😁

@libsoftiktok I do not DM so I will put this here…Be careful with the Los Altos story & reporting on the results of your reporting. Regardless of what they say publicly he is not going anywhere. I live here, small, affluent town, local politics move among dinner convos. He has 100% support 😞

Radicals were very angry that Trump survived another ass*ssination attempt. So we exposed them, and they got FIRED. Check these stories out 👇 libsoftiktok.com/p/muliple-left…

@BskiMike22802 @BernieSanders And to think, people that influence the masses like Joe Rogan worship this man more than the average Christian worships Jesus and Hindus Shiva. 🤷🏽. Crazy times we live in.. crazy 🤡 @joerogan @joeroganhq

Dear Senator Sanders, Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment. The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything. Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register. Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it. And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth. When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed. Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont. You named. Two. Post offices. You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem. Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle. You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning. I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise. The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else? IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

The Oligarchs want to control it all: our economy, our media, our political system. Today, workers around the world are joining together in solidarity to demand governments that work for ALL, not just the few. I am proud to stand on the side of the working class.

@warDaniel47 @TulsiGabbard I saw the future… nothing happens.. a bunch of paperwork goes back and forth, some lawyers do lawyer stuff.. and nobody ever hears anything about it ever again 🤷🏽. Put it on Kalshi!

🚨🔥 **HOLY SMOKES, AMERICA — THIS IS THE BOMBSHELL WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!** 🔥🚨 DNI @TulsiGabbard just CONFIRMED on The Megyn Kelly Show that she’s leading a full investigation into Anthony Fauci for **alleged perjury** and his direct links to U.S.-funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab as part of the COVID-19 origins probe! Finally… **accountability is coming**. The truth about what really happened is about to explode! 🇺🇸💥 Here’s the **FULL video transcript** so you don’t miss a single word: ☑️Tulsi Gabbard:** “But the thing that we are working with Jay Bhattacharya, the new NIH director on, as well as Secretary Kennedy, is looking at the gain-of-function research that in the case of the Wuhan lab, as well as many others — many of these other bio labs around the world — was actually U.S.-funded and leads to this dangerous kind of research that in many examples has resulted in either a pandemic or some other major health crisis.” ☑️Megyn Kelly:** “Let me ask you specifically… we already know that EcoHealth Alliance was partnering with this Wuhan lab to do gain-of-function research. We just have never been able to have somebody say, ‘And it was that exact experiment that led to this COVID bug.’ But have we gotten there? What’s the new thing you’re digging into?” ☑️Tulsi Gabbard:** “We are working on it with Jay Bhattacharya and look forward to being able to share that hopefully very soon — that specific link between the gain-of-function research and what we saw with COVID-19. I mean, that would be extraordinary. Because just so the audience knows, if it was Peter Daszak’s research with the Wuhan so-called ‘bat lady’ that caused this pandemic, then Anthony Fauci helped fund the thing he denied over and over and over to Senator Rand Paul… under oath. So is it any wonder that he sought a preemptive pardon… by President Biden before he left office? And then strong-armed and smeared people like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — anybody who came out and said ‘I don’t know if that’s natural. This actually smacks of lab.’ And the reason why this is so important is not just what happened in the past, it’s because this research is happening in bio labs around the world… Who knows what kinds of pathogens are in these labs and if released could create another COVID-like pandemic… But in order to protect the American people’s best interest, we have to bring about an end to it.” ☑️☑️This is **huge**, y’all. The American people deserve the full truth! Who else is fired up for real justice?! Drop your thoughts below and RT if you’re ready for answers! ☑️☑️

@slowberlin Umm this did not happen. Not sure if you are ignoring recent evidence that negates this claim or of you just “want to believe it”. Google don’t cost a thing 🤷🏽

OTD in 1945, Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker and his wife Eva Braun took a cyanide capsule. Here are soviet soldiers in the bunker following the capture of the city and the ostensible end of the Third Reich.