Maybe we should call AI "Wile E Coyote Intelligence".

This "new" site is part of a larger effort by that slob to kneecap or compromise US government Web sites, and steal your personal data.

I first read about the effort here: https://thedreydossier.substac...

Yesterday, she took a look under the hood of America.gov, and yes, it's as bad as everything else the DOGE vandals have been doing: https://thedreydossier.substac...

Up until this point, government Web sites were designed, built, and maintained by the agencies responsible for that government service. For example, if you wanted to apply for or renew your passport, you would go to state.gov, which is run by the US Department of State, which is responsible for processing applications for and issuing passports. No other department has lawful jurisdiction over passports.

From the point of view of the law, that's still true. But the slob, without anyone's permission, kluged together passports.gov. This site was built and is run by the White House's "National Design Studio," completely outside the law and without any independent oversight. The State Department was not consulted and has nothing to do with it. Further, the site is filled with third-party trackers, analytics, and some custom code that copies every page you view, including form contents, to an unknown third party.

Oh, and the guy leading the National Design Studio and in charge of building these fake sites? He's Joe Gebbia -- cofounder of Airbnb. Read both articles for more details.

In short, you should treat America.gov as a malware site and stay well away from it. Under no circumstances should you feed it any of your personal information.

We've been doing that for years. AI allow you to fuck up much faster and more efficiently however.

what's the point?

The point is to be able to use your hardware in the manner you deem appropriate, and to ensure it is not doing sneaky shit behind your back.

If, instead of a Playstation, we were talking about rooting LG televisions to run custom Linux builds stripped of pervasive privacy-violating code and "apps," I suspect your opinion might be rather different. (And no, when the entire industry has turned to the Dark Side, voting with your wallet doesn't work.)

In the Olden Days, when somebody built a machine that did something illegal, we put the builder in jail, rather than pretend the machine should feel bad itself and just let it keep going.

Thank you! Now configured.

Think I'll thrown mullenweg in there while I'm at it.

And now thanks to Intergalactic Warming, these storms will be bigger and even more frequent.

... once the new maps come out, POTUS may suddenly want to annex YOU.

... about when the numerous elderly run roughshod over the outnumbered youngsters: Boomers of the Corn.

The point is that these are books already being taken out of circulation... these are pallets of unsold books that nobody wanted, otherwise destined for the recycling center. They're just inserting an extra stop at the scanner before going on to the recycling center.

I don't support LLMs destroying lots of things, but the problem part of this is not "destroying books slated to be destroyed".

It has happened under both.

He'll be out of office before anything could come of this... it's purely about positioning himself for the 2028 election cycle (since he lost in the primary for the US Senate seat he'll soon be out of a job). If Marshall issues a press release, it's all about political posturing; it's all he knows how to do. He certainly doesn't know how to prosecute actual crime when presented to him, such as obvious voting fraud by the former chair of the state GOP.

Iovine, the music executive and Dr. Dre's partner in Beats by Dre, [ ... ]

...Yeah, thought so.

Sony MDR-V6 forever, dudes...

"It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing," [emphasis mine]

They misspelled, "Orwellian suveillance and harrassment."

Law enforcement officers are already abusing Flock's existing capabilities for stalking. This will not improve matters one iota.

You're approaching a border crossing. Before your plane lands, you put your phone into this new mode (call it "future wipe"), with an amount of time you enter at that moment. This locks the phone until your password is next entered. If the amount of time specified passes before your password is entered, the phone wipes itself; no action necessary.