Sadly 404 media is heavily paywalled.

I’d love to have no WhatsApp in my life. Many years ago, I signed off it as I did with Facebook. Sadly, because of where we are at the moment, my partner is now the main hub for communication with businesses and people who don’t care about or aren’t aware of Meta’s privacy practices. After many arguments, I’m now being forced to share the communication responsibilities and reinstall WhatsApp.

For those who can, I read a suggestion once that struck me with its simplicity: turn your account into a business one and set an automatic reply letting anyone who messages you know that you’ve moved permanently and how to find you.

Iran was going to charge $1 per barrel to “hostile” nations who transit the Strait. At oil’s current price, that’s a 1.33% fee. Trump is implementing a 20% fee to ALL traffic. With BS moves like these, It’s becoming hard to swallow the rhetoric that Iran is the evil player here.

It has nothing to do of the fact that it’s constantly being shoved and pushed down our throats by some of the worst human beings imaginable, wanting to maximize profits at the expense of humanity itself.

Billionaire technocrats pitch “AI will cure cancer and free humanity” but instead this shit steals jobs, creates poverty, abuses natural resources and rapes our privacy.

Fuck AI, it was always about helping ascend the elite to an untouchable place.

I would love to not have YT in every corner of the internet though. I wonder how developers of Youtube forks will deal with this?

IronFox, Fennec (F-Droid), Waterfox and IceRaven are all community-maintained Firefox forks that you could try. They are all built around privacy, some more than others, they all have different design approaches for user needs, but are worth checking out.

I didn’t know it and although the read was interesting to me I didn’t immediately make the connection, no divisiveness intended on my behalf. Disregard the post if you like, we are all free to listen to eachother’s point of views, then arrive at our own conclusions .

They worked on it in stages—starting with early ideas up to mid-2025, then continuing to build from there. But instead of sticking with that first draft, they threw it out and started over from scratch.

They also didn’t settle on just one ending. After finishing their first version (the one marked in red), they created a second, more hopeful outcome starting from roughly the same point. That version also went through several rounds of revisions.

And this wasn’t made up out of nowhere—it was based on about 25 tabletop exercises and feedback from over 100 people, including dozens of experts who work directly in AI governance and AI technical fields.

If you don’t understand why AI is going to be akin to a failed industrial revolution, maybe give this scenario a read. Here a think tank has written a forcast on how AI will potentially unfold and influence the global future.

Smells like clickbait.

Why not add an overview. From the article.

“Freedom 250, a public-private partnership backed by President Donald Trump, announced a list of performers Wednesday, but shortly after, Morris Day and the Time, Young MC, Martina McBride, The Commodores, and Bret Michaels announced that they would not be making appearances.”

For those that just want to see a Video

Great! Maybe these same prosecutors could look into deepfakes used to win political campaigns as well.

So is this essentially the “gain of function” version of testing digital security? Sure it needs to be done, sure there are huge bug bounties, but this reads like a group of egotistical nihlists Chaos enthusiasts who are leaning heavily on an AI tool, assessing its output, then cleaning the conclusions up for the photo finish and bragging rights.

The last sentence makes me uneasy "But this is the fun part about AI. Small teams can suddenly do things that used to require entire organizations. With the right strategy and people, even a tiny company can become mighty enough that the world’s largest companies start asking for its help.

Thanks Mythos Preview.

Aaand… WSK what recommended exotics we should be partaking in right?

Apple is also developing smart glasses and an AI pendant that could launch as soon as early 2027, according to Gurman.

Nobody asked for this. This AI push is stagnating innovation.

Also, link is paywalled. https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theverge.com/tech/926376/apple-airpods-cameras-ai-production

Only Trump will know which company gets to insider trade ahead of public announcements for new facility construction. It’s all a con, and drug prices will surge as tariffs get passed down to us Americans with empty wallets.

Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers will drop coverage for essential life-saving medications they currently guarantee, while non-critical drugs will begin vanishing from coverage lists across the board.

God help anyone without insurance. It’s a complete disaster, and Trump’s already raking in billions a month off the American people. Another day another grift.

Iran media has already refuted the claims. How many times does Trump think we are to believe his lies, this moron doesn’t have a plan except keep the markets from tanking.

Friday’s press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards. At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 12:31 he said everything was perfect. At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz. At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed. At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran. At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.

By 3:43 PM he told CBS he doesn’t want a ceasefire. By 5:13 PM - 13 minutes after futures markets closed for the weekend, in a coincidence that should be studied in every securities fraud textbook - he posted on Truth Social that the US is “getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts”. The S&P reversed more than 1% in seconds. QQQ had already surged 1.1% in the 80 minutes before the announcement, with call options flowing in at a pace that suggests someone, somewhere, had an itinerary.

From N01 Substack

I’m in the exact same boat looking for a replacement for my macbook pro M1 that had a screen failure. Was looking at the MB air with a 15" screen and the best performance possible for photo/illustrative design purposes. Not happy with the screen on the MBA but portability is also a thing I miss.

I may be wrong but didn’t Apple introduced a specific Liquid Glass section under System Settings > Appearance, allowing users to switch from the default “Clear” mode to a “Tinted” mode.

Another way is within the Accessibility pane. By navigating to System Settings > Accessibility > Display and enabling Reduce Transparency.

Also I hear that the app OnyX, the version designed for macOS Tahoe, includes a dedicated toggle to disable Liquid Glass elements that may persist even after reducing transparency.

Personally I don’t expect that apple will stoically force this on us without toggles to tweak it in the future, due to user pushback on liquid glass, I’d expect there to be workarounds in Tahoe and future os rollouts.