Tejano singer Bobby Pulido, left, stands with James Talarico, center, and Gina Hinojosa, right, during a rally in Beeville, Texas. Credit: X / Bobby Pulido for Texas

Tejano singer-turned-Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido is surging in the polls, the latest of which shows him leading the GOP incumbent in South Texas’ 15th Congressional District by 13 points.

A survey released Thursday by the House Majority PAC, a political action committee that works to help Democrats get elected, shows the Latin Grammy winner leading Republican U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz 54% to 41%.

“The polls confirm what we already know and have felt on the ground since we launched this campaign. South Texas is with us,” Pulido said in a statement. “When I think of the people of South Texas, I think of their courage. They deserve leadership that’s just as courageous as they are – and that is not Monica De La Cruz.”

Even so, it’s probably best to view the new poll with some skepticism.

The House Majority PAC didn’t immediately include vital details, including when the poll was conducted or how many likely Texas voters were surveyed.

Still, it comes days after the nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed its forecast for the district from “Leans Republican” to a “Toss Up.” That’s significant, considering Trump won the district, which the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature redrew last year, by 18 points in 2024.

“Monica has turned her back on her people, taking votes to cut our healthcare, raise our grocery and gas bills, and make life harder, all while never holding a single town hall to answer for her terrible record,” Pulido said. “South Texans have had enough, and on Nov. 3, they’re going to make that clear.”

While De La Cruz’s track record may not be ideal to some South Texas voters, Pulido’s campaign has also been the target of negative headlines. The singer has a history of crass social media posts, and a convicted sex offender once played in his band.

Even so, attacks from De La Cruz and her allies haven’t stuck as they’d hoped.

Texas voters have until Oct. 5 to update their voter registration in the upcoming 2026 midterms. Early voting runs Oct. 19-30. Election Day is Nov. 3.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52513533

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Sometimes I will share a resource on YouTube here. I think it is good on its own for the community, but really its a good intro to share with friends and family.

People often push back because of the link being YouTube, fair, but simply saying find a front end is kind of entailed. Many that are public go down and never come back, and the link does have the video ID at the end of the URL so if you are self hosting you can just load it up.

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Predictive surveillance is here and it's near impossible to escape. My independent research cannot happen if you don't support me: / thehatedone

What if I told you that McDonald’s has a 500-page-long dossier of your personal life? A dossier that doesn’t just contain information about what you ate the restaurant but one where the company has followed you everywhere on the web? Where it tracked down your social media posts and spied on you from inside third party apps on your phone? It’s a personal file on you individually with your name, address and everything that identifies you and your movements. And it’s not just a historical record of what you did. It’s a list of predictions McDonald’s made about what they think you’ll do in the future.

If this doesn’t sound real or too much like from a dystopian SciFi novel, all you need to do is to visit McDonald’s Privacy policy website and request your very own copy of every piece of data McDonald’s holds on you. If you are a resident of California or any member state under the European GDPR law, you can get access to your very own Minority Report.

Not only is all of this real. The true scale and depth of the new age of AI corporate surveillance goes far beyond what we previously thought was even imaginable.

McDonald’s isn’t alone in this new surveillance scheme and in fact, they probably weren’t compiling these records all by themselves. They could’ve been helped by what is now a secret AI industry that is doing something behind closed doors that nobody has any inkling about.

They are collecting information on hundreds of millions of people with a new purpose. Not for targeted advertising. They don’t run any ads. Not for personalized experience either. They don’t have any users. What they do with all that data is to give every individual person a secret “consumer score”.

It’s a hidden rating that can determine everything from how long you’ll be put on hold during a customer service call, what offers you get or what rewards you’ll receive from a loyalty program. A retailer can use your score to fix prices you pay or products you see. Airliners use these scores to choose who gets a seat upgrade. Credit card companies can use these consumer scores to decide if they want to make you a counter-offer if you want to cancel your card.

Edit sources fixed thanks to @[email protected]

Sources [0] https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/ [1] https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/corp/nfl/pdf/MCD%202025%20Annual%20Report.pdf [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html [4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-hold-for-45-minutes-it-might-be-your-secret-customer-score-1541084656 [5] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/electronic-scores-rank-consumers-by-potential-value.html [6] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/personalized-pricing-has-spread-across-many-industries-heres-how-consumers-can-avoid-it [7] https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/personalized-pricing-ban-9c0d92a9 [8] https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/privacy.html [9] https://innovationcenter.msu.edu/who-goes-there-a-new-whole-body-biometric-recognition-system/ [10] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1116295/how-a-new-type-of-ai-is-helping-police-skirt-facial-recognition-bans/ [11] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17206 [12] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/malte-spitzs-ted-talk_n_1701775 [13] https://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching [14] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/02/china/china-beijing-protests-police-mobile-signal-intl-hnk/index.html [15] https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-content/uploads/sites/412/2025/10/17195957/The-Loyalty-Trap.pdf [16] https://futurism.com/future-society/reddit-breaks-mobile-website-download-app [17] https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260401139/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept [18] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb [19] https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7 [20] https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-billionaires-city-startups

Predictive surveillance is here and it's near impossible to escape. My independent research cannot happen if you don't support me: / thehatedone

What if I told you that McDonald’s has a 500-page-long dossier of your personal life? A dossier that doesn’t just contain information about what you ate the restaurant but one where the company has followed you everywhere on the web? Where it tracked down your social media posts and spied on you from inside third party apps on your phone? It’s a personal file on you individually with your name, address and everything that identifies you and your movements. And it’s not just a historical record of what you did. It’s a list of predictions McDonald’s made about what they think you’ll do in the future.

If this doesn’t sound real or too much like from a dystopian SciFi novel, all you need to do is to visit McDonald’s Privacy policy website and request your very own copy of every piece of data McDonald’s holds on you. If you are a resident of California or any member state under the European GDPR law, you can get access to your very own Minority Report.

Not only is all of this real. The true scale and depth of the new age of AI corporate surveillance goes far beyond what we previously thought was even imaginable.

McDonald’s isn’t alone in this new surveillance scheme and in fact, they probably weren’t compiling these records all by themselves. They could’ve been helped by what is now a secret AI industry that is doing something behind closed doors that nobody has any inkling about.

They are collecting information on hundreds of millions of people with a new purpose. Not for targeted advertising. They don’t run any ads. Not for personalized experience either. They don’t have any users. What they do with all that data is to give every individual person a secret “consumer score”.

It’s a hidden rating that can determine everything from how long you’ll be put on hold during a customer service call, what offers you get or what rewards you’ll receive from a loyalty program. A retailer can use your score to fix prices you pay or products you see. Airliners use these scores to choose who gets a seat upgrade. Credit card companies can use these consumer scores to decide if they want to make you a counter-offer if you want to cancel your card.

Edit sources fixed thanks to @[email protected]

Sources [0] https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/ [1] https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/corp/nfl/pdf/MCD%202025%20Annual%20Report.pdf [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html [4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-hold-for-45-minutes-it-might-be-your-secret-customer-score-1541084656 [5] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/electronic-scores-rank-consumers-by-potential-value.html [6] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/personalized-pricing-has-spread-across-many-industries-heres-how-consumers-can-avoid-it [7] https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/personalized-pricing-ban-9c0d92a9 [8] https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/privacy.html [9] https://innovationcenter.msu.edu/who-goes-there-a-new-whole-body-biometric-recognition-system/ [10] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1116295/how-a-new-type-of-ai-is-helping-police-skirt-facial-recognition-bans/ [11] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17206 [12] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/malte-spitzs-ted-talk_n_1701775 [13] https://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching [14] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/02/china/china-beijing-protests-police-mobile-signal-intl-hnk/index.html [15] https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-content/uploads/sites/412/2025/10/17195957/The-Loyalty-Trap.pdf [16] https://futurism.com/future-society/reddit-breaks-mobile-website-download-app [17] https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260401139/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept [18] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb [19] https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7 [20] https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-billionaires-city-startups

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52447942

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52447942

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52438557

Siempre he sentido que llego tarde: tarde a la universidad que quería, tarde al español, tarde a la traducción, a la poesía. Durante años pensé que la vida era una carrera y que yo iba perdiendo.

Este vídeo habla de ese miedo, de las decisiones que tomé sin saber muy bien por qué y cómo otro hermoso azar cambió mi forma de ver las cosas.

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The video is about an Thais and changing her trajectories. A major theme of her channel is how she learned Spanish later in life in China and even moved to Spain to continue her studies. Here she dwells as to weather its too later to change or start something new.

Her accent is actually very clean and native.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52438557

Siempre he sentido que llego tarde: tarde a la universidad que quería, tarde al español, tarde a la traducción, a la poesía. Durante años pensé que la vida era una carrera y que yo iba perdiendo.

Este vídeo habla de ese miedo, de las decisiones que tomé sin saber muy bien por qué y cómo otro hermoso azar cambió mi forma de ver las cosas.

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The video is about an Thais and changing her trajectories. A major theme of her channel is how she learned Spanish later in life in China and even moved to Spain to continue her studies. Here she dwells as to weather its too later to change or start something new.

Her accent is actually very clean and native.

Siempre he sentido que llego tarde: tarde a la universidad que quería, tarde al español, tarde a la traducción, a la poesía. Durante años pensé que la vida era una carrera y que yo iba perdiendo.

Este vídeo habla de ese miedo, de las decisiones que tomé sin saber muy bien por qué y cómo otro hermoso azar cambió mi forma de ver las cosas.

The video is about an Thais and changing her trajectories. A major theme of her channel is how she learned Spanish later in life in China and even moved to Spain to continue her studies. Here she dwells as to weather its too later to change or start something new.

Her accent is actually very clean and native.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52327111

Coffee beans are one of the most confusing items to purchase, so over the past several weeks, I bought 20 different kinds of coffee at different price points, visited a local roaster, tried roasting my own beans at home and tested a bunch of types of coffee in order to understand the flavor and price differences of coffee beans.

A deep dive into coffee and what the different roasts and brews are supposed to be doing. Be an informed snob.

Coffee beans are one of the most confusing items to purchase, so over the past several weeks, I bought 20+ different kinds of coffee at different price points, visited a local roaster, tried roasting my own beans at home and tested a bunch of types of coffee in order to understand the flavor and price differences of coffee beans.

A deep dive into coffee and what the different roasts and brews are supposed to be doing. Be an informed snob.

Guess what? Other forms of organizing and protest will also be opposed. And we should still do them.

If a movement is real and serious that organizing to vote in primaries is really not a big deal. Blue no matter who is really just a last resort and if you don't want to then you should at least spoil your ballot.

PS anything you consider more effective than voting can still be done btw. Change is not an all or nothing (tho given the mindset around many here they should not be surprised when they really do keep getting nothing)

Cyclist takes a trip to Uganda to discover some mountain glaciers and hikes around some lesser stunning landscape.

The Halo CE remake reuses many animations from across the series... But it isnt the first time Halo has done this. Let's talk about Halo's history with recycled animations! SEO, Clickbait, whatever

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52070794

Check out the university level maths education on my website: https://www.cmmath.org/

0:00 Intro 2:52 Orthogonality 3:50 Eigenfunction Expansion 8:13 Legendre Series 17:11 Fourier Series 28:18 The Basel Problem

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52070794

Check out the university level maths education on my website: https://www.cmmath.org/

0:00 Intro 2:52 Orthogonality 3:50 Eigenfunction Expansion 8:13 Legendre Series 17:11 Fourier Series 28:18 The Basel Problem