Finally, the Supreme Court stops Trump
Friends,
 *The Supreme Court blocked [the persecutor] from sending the National Guard into the Chicago area — finally setting a limit to [his] executive power.*
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The Intercept
Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See
Under the TikTok deal, its Chinese owners will sell U.S. operations to a group of pro-Israel billionaires eager to censor critical content.
 *Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Will Now Control What TikTok Users See.* In the US at least. Regardless of the specific preferences of any particular antisocial media platform, the general practice of boosting whatever gets viewers mad, upset or riled (because that leads to "more engagement" of viewers) is harmful - the site's "algorithm" (recommendation engine) is a tool for manipulating them. Such manipulation
MacRumors
Apple May Have to Enable Always-On GPS in India
India is reviewing a proposal that would require Apple to keep GPS location services permanently active on every iPhone sold in the country, accord...
 India withdrew the plan to require all snoop-phones to have an app for the state to track them. Now it demands that Apple enable GPS tracking for all iMonsters all the time.
the Guardian
Australian PM rejects Netanyahu’s linking of Palestine recognition to Bondi beach attack
Israeli PM on Sunday accused Anthony Albanese of doing ‘nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism’
 *Australian PM [Albanese] rejects Netanyahu's linking of Palestine recognition to Bondi beach attack.* Criticism of a country's crimes is not the same thing as bigotry against its dominant ethnic group. To blame Jews in general for Israel's cruelty and atrocities is where antisemitism enters the argument.
TechCrunch
OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecu...
 Some Fake Intelligence companies admit - in words that downplay the point - that "agentic" FI carries such a large risk of falling for scams and attacks that no one should use it.
The Horns and Whistles Work – Mother Jones
Glossary
 Journalists report on driving to follow deportation thugs and the neighborhood activists who warn about their dreadful visits.
civicshout.com
Tell the UN: Condemn Israel's Killing of Journalists
Journalists are being killed by Israeli forces at an unprecedented rate — and the world’s silence is enabling it. It’s become a horrifyin...
 US citizens: call on the UN Security Council to condemn Israel's killing of journalists. Demand accountability, and defend the right to report news, by protecting the people who do that.
civicshout.com
Applaud U.S. Diplomats Standing Up for the Rule of Law
Career U.S. diplomats are courageously standing up for the law, their livelihoods, and the strength of American diplomacy. The union representing F...
 US citizens: Applaud U.S. diplomats standing up for the rule of law instead of trumpish arbitrary rule.
the Guardian
‘Slightly haunted but manageable’: new signs cause confusion – and delight – in Christchurch
Six absurdist signs resembling official city council information boards have popped up across New Zealand’s second-largest city
 Funny imitation municipal signs posted in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Opinion | JD Vance and the Prophets of Trumpism (Published 2024)
For this group of Christians, “Trump is good. He’s been baptized by their theology.”
 The most extreme of the right-wing Christians are a rapidly growing sect of Pentecostals whose doctrines are un-Christian as well as un-American.