Switching your phone to greyscale changes how much you want to use it.

This is incredible. Without red “notifications,” grabbing your attention, the need to open apps to “catch up” plummets.

Lawmakers push back on proposed DHS data collection expansion

The expansion of biometric data collection for the department was introduced in a notice of proposed rulemaking published to the Federal Register in November. The proposal laid out plans to broaden DHS’s authorities by amending regulations governing biometrics use and collections

Probe of DCA Collision Faults Army

The review reflects a growing concern with the military’s tendency to fly aircraft in congested areas without transmitting their location data and, in the case of Reagan National Airport, without having the proper training to be fully aware of the region’s complex airspace.  In a

Profile on Marty Reisman aka “Marty Supreme”

With Josh Safdie‘s new movie (https://a24films.com/films/marty-supreme) out in a couple days, it’s interesting to know the title character was based on a real person. Sharing this 20 year old piece since his 1974 autobiography, “The Money Player,” is currently out of print.

Trump Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts

The Trump administration has ordered nearly 30 ambassadors in embassies around the world to return to the United States within weeks, a move that would leave a large gap in the American diplomatic corps even as President Trump has said he wants to resolve conflicts through diplom

A hilarious review of Mahomes and Kelce’s Steakhouse

Something else to know about 1587 Prime: there are at least two employees whose main job appears to be setting things on fire.

Some good news from the US military…

The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries.

How to handle disinformation on Digg?

This all started innocently enough. As a stickler for finding primary sources for articles, I wanted to find the original article for the Digg post above about James Cameron (it linked to Consequence). But here’s an interesting mystery: I couldn’t find the original Buzzfeed Canad

A documentary on one of SNL’s funniest writers

With Bowen Yang leaving, I feel like there is a lot of, it was funnier when xxx was on the show or writing for Saturday Night Live (regardless of your age). This documentary on longtime SNL writer, Jim Downey, really brings in to focus a period when the show would develop ski

A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation

A Reddit user provided information that helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as not only the suspect in the campus shooting, but also the murder of an M.I.T. professor.

The Pitt: season 2 trailer

Let’s go!

Trump’s intends to pardon a convicted election denier

But the twist is, the conviction was made in Colorado’s state court system, not in federal court. “The President of the United States has the power to grant a pardon in any of the states of the United States,” Mr. Ticktin wrote in a letter to Mr. Trump last week that portraye

Incredible (and hilarious) podcast on AI

Season 1 of this podcast was released last year and they were pretty entertaining, but Season 2, so far, has been an even more wild ride (currently, 5 of 8 episodes have been released). Here’s a short synopsis for season 1: In Season 1 of "Shell Game," journalist Evan Ratli

Trailer for James Cameron’s Billie Eilish 3D concert movie

Free Jim Gaffigan standup set (2025)

Alcohol can be fun. You lose your inhibitions, and sometimes your career and family.

Nightshade is tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for LLM

More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead ge

Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill

“ Two shoppers who are buying the exact same item from the exact same store at the exact same time are getting different prices,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative. “The data really backs up how extraordinarily pervasive this is.” On item a

Holly Humberstone covers Cat Stevens’ ‘Wild World’ for Like A Version

Great take on an awesome song. Love Triple J’s cover series (https://abcmusic.lnk.to/LAVplaylist).

China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports

How did China’s world surplus in exports over imports this year has already exceeded $1 trillion? A lot of it has to do with China’s weaken currency. It takes about 7.1 renminbi to buy a single dollar these days. That weakness has powered China’s exports to remarkable heights

The new Anaconda movie looks…fun?

Director Tom Gormican (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) has created a reimagining of the 1997 horror movie starring Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton and Daniela Melchior. The new movie is not a remake or reboot of 1997’s Anaconda that starred Jennifer Lo

Mike Judge created an animated show about country (S1) and funk (S2) music.

It came out in 2017-2018, but it’s really well done.

Claude [AI] was willing to blackmail employees to avoid shutdown in a controlled exercise.

In an extreme stress test, the AI [Claude] was set up as an assistant and given control of an email account at a fake company called SummitBridge. The AI assistant discovered two things in the emails - seen in these graphics we made: It was about to be wiped or shut down. And