PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
Trump is holding far fewer campaign rallies than in previous elections but filing far more lawsuits and it's pretty obvious what's going on
Republicans are filing a barrage of election lawsuits in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The cases may be a road map for a legal battle over the results.
Return of the Jedi in the theater, 5 yrs old. I was so young I'd only seen the first two on tape. The speeder bike chase on Endor was the single coolest thing I had ever seen. Sparked a lifelong love of the movies. Visiting Muir Woods as an adult, my awe was for that memory as much as the redwoods.
It is literally just being subbed in for things like web search, where it is demonstrably less useful than the much less environmentally disastrous methods we had before, and illustration, where is it replacing unique artistic visions with uncanny Thomas Kincaid garbage.
It is so, so very clear and simple that this should not be allowed. AI is close to useless as a technology, and absolutely catastrophic for the environment and the power grid. And yet, it is being shoved on all of us. Kill AI. Kill it dead. Exceptions only for things like identifying cancers.
For the record, Project 2025, the blueprint for the incoming Trump administration, would privatize the National Weather Service, disband oceanic research (too climate "alarmist") and dismantle NOAA, which is the primary source of hurricane info. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
