Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
01.02.2026 21:44
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Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, βYouβre all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times.
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
07.12.2025 11:05
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Trump has pardoned:
(1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
(2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold
(3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/
03.12.2025 06:20
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
02.12.2025 18:46
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I remember reading and posting about this before the 2016 election. It's time Katie Johnson was back in the news.
16.11.2025 17:11
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Donald J. Trump &
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@realDonaldTrump
Seth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to "perform" live in the history of television.
In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise. I watched his show the other night for the first time in years. In it he talked endlessly about electric catapults on aircraft carriers which I complain about as not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults. On and on he went, a truly deranged lunatic. Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? - NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!
β100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL.β
01.11.2025 20:13
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For an American First isolationist he sure is invade-y.
01.11.2025 21:03
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I'm thinking this through further and there is no difference between deporting people to form a "culturally coherent group of people" and Hitler saying jews could not be aryan.
Caution around Godwin's Law should be dropped. Katie Lam has openly supported nazi ideology.
19.10.2025 13:16
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Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Hereβs how to stop him
Itβs not too late to puncture the Reform leaderβs populist myth. His βmake Britain great againβ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain.
Reform funded by the super rich would erode worker rights, human rights, hand the NHS to private sector, divide society, deepen inequalities and environmental crisis.
21.09.2025 07:55
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From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
11.09.2025 15:22
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Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
YouTube video by GraceJonesVEVO
Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.
03.09.2025 22:57
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Nina Simone - Feeling Good
YouTube video by M M P F
youtu.be/xlNpmSN7mRg?...
04.09.2025 21:37
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Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal
Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of βbut they arrived by illegal meansβ. Thatβs just a fact. Thatβs why you donβt see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
01.09.2025 05:56
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Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable itβbecause of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions
www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
30.08.2025 12:18
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30.08.2025 14:26
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This is such a a depressing post.
30.08.2025 14:48
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A little write-up of our Psych Review paper (with @chazfirestone.bsky.social) on culture and visual illusions β out now in Slate! π
24.08.2025 18:23
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βI was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that islandβ¦ and I was not the only girl on that islandβ¦ Ghislaine must die in prison, because Iβve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.β
Listen to the survivors.
24.08.2025 14:00
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Flyer for the stop Trump demonstration on September 17th
Trump manipulated by Putin again this week, offering up Ukraineβs land
Meanwhile, thanks to Trumpβs support, Israelβs violence is continuing to escalate beyond imagination against civilians in Gaza
THE TRUMP STATE VISIT TO THE UK MUST BE CANCELLED #r4today
18.08.2025 07:41
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16.08.2025 03:11
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"I was Donald's Closest Friend": Inside The Trump-Epstein Relationship with Michael Wolff
YouTube video by Wajahat Ali
"Epstein & Trump are, in so many ways, the same person...here are these 2 guys joined at the hip for nearly 15 years, doing the same thing, pursuing the same goals, two guys who are functionally partners, partners in crime if you will"
- Michael Wolff (16:33 mark)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdJ-...
08.08.2025 23:35
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
04.08.2025 15:29
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Fossil Fuel subsidies = $5.7T globally, 2022. Trump, once again, is spreading lies for his constituents: the billionaires -- at the expense of everyone one else on the planet.
31.07.2025 03:04
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I canβt stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator
very grim
23.07.2025 23:57
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π§΅Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today Iβm launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarianβstyle actions from Trumpβs second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
21.07.2025 20:56
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#Resisters
@bluewavesurfer.bsky.social
@kimberindy1974.bsky.social
@coolblueskies.bsky.social
@bluewaveresister.bsky.social
@tomwillard.bsky.social
@roryoconnor1.bsky.social
@saswbmb.bsky.social
@galaxy16.bsky.social
@swmmp.bsky.social
@adamscollins.bsky.social
@boxdonkey17x2.bsky.social
20.07.2025 14:30
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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
14.07.2025 06:49
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