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  1. Screenshot2025-11-06at9_36_02PM.thumb.png.47672715908c4eb65e1268be91a75286.png

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai

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    In 2023, Meta laid off “everyone who worked on the team handling advertiser concerns about brand-rights issues,” then ordered safety staffers to limit use of computing resources to devote more resources to virtual reality and AI. A 2024 document showed Meta recommended a “moderate” approach to enforcement, plotting to reduce revenue “attributable to scams, illegal gambling and prohibited goods” by 1–3 percentage points each year since 2024, supposedly slashing it in half by 2027. More recently, a 2025 document showed Meta continues to weigh how “abrupt reductions of scam advertising revenue could affect its business projections.”

    Eventually, Meta “substantially expanded” its teams that track scam ads, Stone told Reuters. But Meta also took steps to ensure they didn’t take too hard a hit while needing vast resources—$72 billion—to invest in AI, Reuters reported.

     

     

  2. Enjoyable essay from a reporter who covered The Sandwich Guy trial https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sandwich-guy--thrower-of-hoagie-or-hero

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    The jury seems to find all this funny too. We can’t see the jurors on the screens in the dedicated media space, but a reporter in the courtroom confirms that they struggle at times to contain their smiles—and one juror in particular must cover her face with her notebook to conceal herself cracking up. Comments on my Twitter thread recounting the case in assiduous detail include many mentions of how much readers “relish” the coverage. They doubt that the government’s case can “pass mustard.” They proclaim the prosecution “bologna.”

    Attorney for the defense Sabrina Shroff emphasizes the joke of it all when she asks in closing: “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended, by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” carry around mementos of the event? The government, prosecuting this case “in some purported effort to keep law enforcement safe and free from food fights,” is trying to turn a “gag-gift worthy moment into a federal criminal offense.”

    Sandwich Guy, on lunch break, sits in the cafeteria eating soup.

     

     

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  3. Over at Heritage they're concerned they may have to eat a meal with some jews in order to show contrition and they're attempting to draw a line in the sand

    the rest of the article is interesting too. What a bunch of extreme deplorables.

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    I actually love this. 

     

     

    Good news, babe. There's more to love. It begins with a banger - the thing you say when you don't mean anything after it. But I can't get past the, "My use of the phrase, 'venomous coalition...' without falling into a very zen, hysterical fit.

     

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  5. irobot's Roomba is the tesla full self-driving of robot vacs.

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    People who owned lidar bots, even cheap ones, tended to be much happier with their experiences than Roomba owners, mostly because of the speedy, accurate navigation. In 2021, we ran an AI analysis on thousands of buyer ratings for about a dozen popular robots and found a stark contrast: For every lidar robot, the navigation system was one of the main reasons people said they liked their robovac. For each Roomba model, feelings about navigation tended to be neutral or negative.

    Any time iRobot tried to fix one of the problems with its camera-based navigation, it seemed to break something else. The last few models the company released on its legacy hardware platform got some of the worst reviews, often because the vacuums had trouble finding their way back to their increasingly bulky and feature-packed charging docks. 

     

     

     

     

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  6. On 11/3/2025 at 3:42 PM, Vegas64 said:

    As discussed in the other thread that had to be last night, went through IAH earlier and it took 5-7 minutes max. 

    Which thread? Or is that Houston-specific?

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    so many ATCs are calling out of work in order to put food on the table the FAA says they need to cut the amount of air traffic at many major airports beginning Friday.

    “U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is expected to order scheduled air traffic cut by 10% at 40 major airports starting Friday…”

    https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-may-cut-air-traffic-10-by-friday-without-shutdown-deal-sources-say-2025-11-05/

  7. I'm not sure if there's a good place to post this but I thought I'd share. If anyone here has progressive offspring who'd want to be a social media manager for a TX journalism site and has 3 years experience...

     

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