@CauseEffects

Forgive me if I don’t believe congress will do shit. Their cajoles have shriveled up from lack of use.

Elon #Musk Asked People to Upload Their #Health #Data. X Users Obliged.

Over the past few weeks, users on X have been submitting X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot, asking for diagnoses. The reason: #Elon Musk, X’s owner, suggested it.

(free link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/well/x-grok-health-privacy.html

'Something sketchy is going on': Deleted Mitch McConnell statement causes alarm

This news of McConnell telling Trump 'no recess appointments' has been DELETED by the D.C.-based New Yorker reporter….

AFTER a sitting US Senator (@BasedMikeLee) and basically the entirety of X got wind of the news. It is a SEVERE F-up for a reporter with a news organization to somehow devise a quote up out of nowhere and attribute it to the wrong person

Scammers infiltrating Substack. A note I posted got a like and follow from "this guy" who was selling himself as Dr. P Walker

Why does Mat Gaetz cry after sex?

Pepper spray.

‪Taegan Goddard‬ ‪@politicalwire.com‬ on Bsky.app:

Donald Trump is spending political capital on Matt Gaetz, personally calling GOP senators to support his nomination as attorney general. He’s serious about putting Gaetz in the post.

^^ 🤣

PITA Adobe stealing from us now..

over double the charges for past six months and they keep asking for more and threatening to end our subscription because i'm wary of giving them my card again

Spotted elsewhere. See, the Maga level of intelligence isn't limited to the 🇺🇸🤣
#cosohumour

Deportation.
Is not the goal.

My fear is not that a million folks will be forced to leave the country. But that private owned "camps" will force them into, what is essentially slave labor. The shit work still needs to get done. And the government ain't paying for it. So the private prisons will hire them out, and keep the profits.

The KGB Never Left—They Just Went Digital 🕵️‍♂️

From cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns, former KGB agents—like Vladimir Putin himself—are still manipulating nations and undermining democracies. Their shadowy tactics shape the world we live in today, and the danger is closer than you think.

🔍 Discover how their legacy continues to threaten global security. Read "The Shadowy Legacy of Former KGB Agents in Modern Espionage": https://osintdaily.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-shadowy-legacy-of-former-kgb-agents.html
#NationalSecurity #security

'Went to Mar-a-Lago': Morning Joe and Mika reveal weekend face-to-face meeting with Trump

***wow this is disapointing

🐧 🐧
From 2020 but came up in my memories elsewhere

BBC:
Widowed penguins hug in award-winning photo

The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died in 2020. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years earlier. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights. 💖

#Photography #Nature

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-55416365

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Trump nominated Ben Carr, Project 2025 author, to be the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
https://rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-fcc-chairman/