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Green shapes, wooden roof
Would love to see a series of photos as the camera pulls back from whatever this is.
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Green shapes, wooden roof
Would love to see a series of photos as the camera pulls back from whatever this is.
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Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows
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Getting vaccinated isn't part of a political spectrum.
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Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows
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Doesn't mean we should feed it.
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Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to tackle bot traffic without CAPTCHAs
The basic idea is that sites with strong knowledge of "personhood" can issue anonymous tokens. A user's browser can then present those tokens elsewhere as proof that a human is involved, or that an automated agent is acting on behalf of one, without revealing the person's identity or browsing history.
These issuers will 100% sell these identifiers to be matched up with other databases.
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I got to pet a giraffe today
I'm sorry, I have to downvote this for not being dull.
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Turns Out Rich People Didn't Really Want a Handbag Made of T. Rex Leather
There's a photo on the original source article.
I wonder if that was dyed or if that blue is somehow natural.
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What's in the west wing?
Go look
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why is it frowned upon to describe a person according to appearance and ethnic background?
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It’s disrespectful to refer to someone as “the fat guy” too, perhaps moreso.
As a fat dude, I think it's a perfectly valid way to describe me. It's not insulting nor in this case used to be derogatory, it's just a fact.
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Are all Virtual Card providers careless with privacy?
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I use privacy.com for some things where I'd rather not share my data with the vendor. I like them, their privacy policy doesn't have anything too weird. I'm also under no allusion that it's subpoena-proof though, but that's not really what I'm looking for for banking anyway.
EDIT: OP appears to be concerned with how they handle the PII they collect. As far as I know, I've never been impacted but tbh how would I know if they didn't tell me? If anyone has heard otherwise, I'd like to know.
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How does one even colloquially describe the flipping of the lid
Might need to explain what that means.
EDIT: like saying "He flipped his lid"?
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How does one even colloquially describe the flipping of the lid
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UK actress charged with importing meth worth almost $300 million into Australia
Thought the thumbnail was Blossom at first.
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Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
I enjoy how this article basically enumerates every name removed from their sites.
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US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War
Law enforcement also drew a gun on the burning man during the incident, according to a report by Task and Purpose.
When you're a hammer...
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Armed ICE officer in Portland called 911 during confrontation: ‘I’m going to have to shoot this kid’
“Why? You can drive away. We have officers en route to you,” the dispatcher said. “I don’t want you guys getting into any more of a dispute.”
I love the interjection of reason by the 911 operator.
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Thanks for including the mirror, OP.
Companies that obtain mobile phone location data generally do it in two different ways. The first is through software development kits (SDKs) embedded in ordinary smartphone apps, like games or weather forecasters. These SDKs continuously gather a user’s granular location, transfer that to the data broker, and then sell that data onward or repackage it and sell access to government agencies.
The second is through real-time bidding (RTB). When an advert is about to be served to a mobile phone user, there is a near instantaneous, and invisible, bidding process in which different companies vie to have their advert placed in front of certain demographics. A side-effect is that this demographic data, including mobile phones’ location, can be harvested by surveillance firms. Sometimes spy companies buy ad tech companies out right to insert themselves into this data supply chain. We previously found at least thousands of apps were hijacked to provide location data in this way.
I really despise these practices. I don't know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.
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Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris
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Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee for US president.
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Dems reportedly angry that progressives are pushing them to act like an opposition party
"We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights," Schumer told The New York Times earlier this month.
Bro is ineffectual in even his own metaphors.
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The holy journey
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Bro went to Mecca tripping on acid.
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Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
I'd rather be a free and open society than win any kind of industrial race.