Instagram alternative Flashes publicly launched its Bluesky-based photo-sharing app on the App Store this week, gaining nearly 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours. The app offers a classic Instagram-like experience, allowing users to upload up to four photos and videos of up to a minute in length. Built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, Flashes […]
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The Department of Education is teaming up with the far-right Hitler-admiring group Moms for Liberty, launching a portal yesterday where parents can submit tips to the department to investigate as part of the crusade to end diversity and inclusion efforts in schools. Kids, I think you all know what to do! Via Salon:
In a press release, the department announced it was launching the portal so that anyone can “submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools,” which the department would then use as a guide “to identify potential areas for investigation.”
The press release included a statement from Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty and Heritage Foundation employee. Justice claimed that “parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies — but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely.”
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Figure is planning to bring its humanoids into the home sooner than expected. CEO Brett Adcock confirmed on Thursday that the Bay Area robotics startup will begin “alpha testing” its Figure 02 robot in the home setting, starting later in 2025. The executive says the accelerated timeline is a product of the company’s “generalist” Vision-Language-Action […]
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During a discussion on Wednesday's The Source with Kaitlan Collins, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson sparred with Collins over the budget resolution which just passed in the House this Tuesday, which lays the framework for massive cuts to our social safety nets while boosting defense spending and extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich.
Johnson, of course, tried to lie that the bill they passed wasn't going to slash Medicaid funding, even though, as Collins repeatedly tried to point out, they aren't going to ever get to the numbers they're giving without doing exactly that.
Collins asked Johnson about the blowback Trump and Musk and their Republican enablers have been getting at these town halls, where angry constituents have been turning out to give them a piece of their minds over what's been happening with the DOGE slash and burn mayhem, and Johnson blew it off as just a bunch of "paid protesters" or Democrats showing up early.
Fox's Dr. Marc Siegel needs to hold a mirror up to his own network if he's upset that people in the United States no longer want to get vaccinated.
As the Independent noted, Siegel failed to mention Fox's part in creating that problem:
Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel sounded the alarm on Tuesday that the measles outbreak impacting the southwest United States “is not going to be stopped without the vaccine,” all while lamenting that “vaccine confidence is at an all-time low.”
Siegel suggested that vaccine mandates during the coronavirus had led to lower vaccination rates, while conveniently leaving out his own network’s role in peddling anti-vaccine rhetoric to its conservative viewers that contributed towards plummeting confidence among Republicans.
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Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Elon Musk instantly has broken the codes to government agency data with his algorithms which will comb through the data, deciding who lives and dies in the federal government.
This is beyond disgusting and despicable.
Turning the entire federal government and all their agencies, which include thousands upon thousands of employees into the hands of the richest man in the world who doesn't understand how government works is criminal. To allow him access into the heart of the government's computer systems with his personal algorithms is treasonous to the public at large.
Notice how Johnson claims there is some global cabal conspiracy that has all the codes to unlock the deep state.
The problem is for decades, as we know, we haven't been able to do that job well. Because even though we requested the data and requested the insight, it was hidden.
How many of you know that bureaucracy was not forthcoming, right?
They're not transparent. That's the whole point. That's the problem.
That's the deep state we talk about.
So they were hiding from Congress.
We didn't know that USAID was funding drag shows in Peru or whatever, you know, transgender operas in Columbia or whatever, you know.
I mean, it's madness, but Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies.
He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data, and as he told me in his office, the data doesn't lie.
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