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  • Amazon's sinister new gadget makes Alexa speakers look tame

    07/24/2025 3:50:04 AM PDT · by Adder · 51 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 07/23/2025 | Alice Wright
    Amazon is buying AI bracelet maker Bee in a major move to dominate the next wave of personal tech. The wristbands — which cost $50 — record everything you say, even when you're talking to yourself, and sync with your phone via Bluetooth. Powered by AI models from Anthropic, Google and Meta, Bee turns your day into a searchable database, creating personalized to-do lists and even tracking how many times you swear.
  • Volkswagen's Secret

    07/23/2025 4:28:24 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | July 23, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. EDT | Terrence McCoy and Marina Dias
    History forgot the horrors endured by laborers on the automaker’s massive cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon. But a priest had recorded it all. SANTANA DO ARAGUAIA, Brazil When Ricardo Rezende Figueira saw the headline, he felt a chill run through him. It was about Volkswagen. The company said it was finally ready to atone for its past. After admitting that its staff had cooperated with Brazil’s military dictatorship to target workers for political persecution, the automaker had begun to negotiate reparations. Rezende read to the bottom of the article, then sat for a moment, quiet. The story didn’t say...
  • Jordanians in Quantico Truck-Ramming Finally Identified

    08/02/2024 11:56:38 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    Center for Immigration Studies ^ | July 31, 2024 | Todd Bensman
    The Biden administration has refused to answer reporters’ questions, rule out terrorism, or even reveal the names of two Jordanians in the country illegally, one of whom had illegally crossed the U.S. Southwest border, who on May 3 conducted a box truck ramming attack on Quantico Marine Corps Base.The Department of Justice, Department of Defense, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the FBI all circled wagons to guard even the identities of the two Jordanians against five written congressional inquiries, a sixth by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin seeking government briefings about the incident, and most recently a subpoena by the...
  • Illegal Jordanian Migrants Who ‘Tried To Breach’ Quantico Base Allowed To Walk Free After Posting Bail

    08/01/2024 7:05:59 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 11 replies
    NY Post ^ | 08/01/24 | Jennifer Taer
    The two illegal Jordanian migrants who are charged with trying to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in May posted thousands of dollars in bail and were allowed to leave federal custody, The Post can exclusively reveal.Hasan Yousef Hamdan, 32, and Mohammad Khair Dabous, 28, were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention despite their immigration status — Hamdan had crossed into the country illegally in April and Dabous had overstayed his student visa and is subject to removal proceedings, law enforcement sources told The Post.They were arrested on May 3 for trespassing onto the military installation and handed over...
  • Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite is lost in space

    07/06/2025 7:20:18 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 74 replies
    A satellite backed by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been lost in space while carrying out an important climate change mission, New Zealand officials said Wednesday. Designed to measure greenhouse gas emissions with "unprecedented resolution," the MethaneSAT space probe was also funded by Wellington and the US-based Environmental Defense Fund. Plagued with technical problems, the satellite recently stopped responding to its Earth-bound controllers.
  • What's up with Amazon?

    07/01/2025 4:46:00 AM PDT · by LouAvul · 57 replies
    My wife ordered some exotic-ish tea and I got an email that my Samsung remote control device had been delivered. I ordered some water filters and I got an email that my Makita tool accessories had arrived. I never ordered, nor received, a Samsung remote control device. Ditto Makita stuff. Are they transitioning to all AI?
  • Amazon Eying Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon for ‘Bull Durham’ Sequel: They Can ‘Top’ the Original

    06/25/2025 8:56:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    www.closerweekly.com ^ | June 17, 2025 | Nicholas Erickson
    Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner had sizzling chemistry in 1988 romcom Bill Durham and a source exclusively tells Closer they’re being wooed to reprise their roles and team up for more spicy on-screen fun almost three decades later! “Kevin and Susan are incredibly different personalities on every level, but they both know they had all time great chemistry on Bull Durham almost forty years ago,” the insider says. “Over the years they have both had talks about doing a sequel or revisiting that world in some way.” The late-80s hit was a product of writer/director Ron Shelton, who found fame...
  • Massive Internet Outage Cripples Dozens of Websites

    06/12/2025 3:02:18 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 39 replies
    msn.com ^ | June 12, 2025 | Yasmeen Hamadeh via The Daily Beast via MSN
    An apparent internet service outage has disrupted operations on countless major websites including Google, Spotify, and Amazon Web Services.Around midday Thursday, outage monitoring service DownDetector.com reported widespread service disruptions across commonly used platforms like SnapChat and YouTube, with many social media users reporting difficulty accessing several sites.Some notable web services experiencing disruptions include: Spotify, Discord, Google and related services like Google Maps, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, SnapChat, YouTube, OpenAI, CharacterAI, FuboTV, Etsy, Vimeo, UPS, Shopify, Microsoft Azure, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google Gemini, DoorDash, Calendly, Paramount+, IKEA, Twitch andMicrosoft 365.A full list of shuttered services can be found on DownDetector.com.Cloudflare, an...
  • Amazon plans to invest $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation

    06/10/2025 10:57:38 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    www.aboutamazon.com ^ | June 10, 2025 | Staff
    Planned investment will establish multiple innovation campuses, create 1,250 jobs, and support new workforce development training programs and local community projects. Key takeaways Amazon plans to invest at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its AI infrastructure, creating 1,250 new high-skilled jobs and supporting thousands more in the AWS data center supply chain. Since 2010, Amazon has invested $26 billion in Pennsylvania, contributing more than $26 billion to the Commonwealth’s GDP and supporting 27,000 full and part-time jobs, as well as 37,100 indirect jobs across various facilities. Amazon will bring training and education programs, including data center technician programs,...
  • NYC councilmember urges residents to take up arms after robbers tied up Queens family in shocking home invasion: ‘Constitutional right’

    06/11/2025 7:03:41 PM PDT · by Libloather · 32 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/11/25 | Hannah Fierick
    A City Council member from Queens is urging her constituents to arm themselves following a terrifying home invasion in which robbers posing as Amazon drivers tied up a family and snatched thousands of dollars in cash, according to cops. Republican Vickie Paladino offered to help residents in her district — which covers Whitestone, where the ordeal took place — obtain gun permits in light of the break-in Monday morning. “I want to remind my constituents that New Yorkers have a constitutional right to protect themselves,” Paladino said in a statement. “I urge my constituents to avail themselves of their rights...
  • Amazon Prepares To Test Humanoid Robots For Deliveries

    06/05/2025 8:00:00 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 35 replies
    Reuters ^ | 06/04/25
    Amazon, opens new tab is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Amazon is completing construction of a "humanoid park," an indoor obstacle course at one of the company's San Francisco, California offices, where it will soon test such robots, the report added. The company is developing the artificial intelligence software that would power such robots, the report said, adding that Amazon plans to use hardware from other firms in its tests, for now....
  • What’s Up with the Post Office?

    06/03/2025 5:53:02 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 69 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | June 3, 2025 | Rob Pue
    I realize there are many more pressing problems in our nation and world today than what I’m about to discuss, but these issues are already being addressed very well right now by others. What’s not getting much attention — and I feel needs to — are the ongoing failures within the US Postal Service. The USPS has been in a nosedive, downward spiral for years and it’s only getting worse. While this agency continues to raise prices and continues to operate as an unsustainable, failing business, the service has gotten so bad now I feel we must address the situation...
  • Massive Saharan dust clouds to approach Florida, Gulf

    05/29/2025 3:53:26 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 27 replies
    Accuweather via Yahoo ^ | 5/28/25 | Jesse Ferrell
    It's Saharan dust season in the Atlantic, when massive clouds of dust from Africa's Sahara Desert are carried westward by wind, sometimes reaching all the way to the United States.
  • ICE Raids Luxury Homes... Occupied 'Entirely' by Migrants

    05/28/2025 10:48:35 AM PDT · by Morgana · 7 replies
    Cash Jordan youtube ^ | May 28, 2025 | Cash Jordan
    Homeland security has gone about apprehending suspects living in luxury homes (Hollywood Hills and Burbank), some of whom are in america illegally. Journalistic report, including news footage and commentary on current events.
  • Indigenous Amazon tribe says New York Times story led to its members being smeared as porn addicts

    05/23/2025 8:25:02 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/23/2025
    An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography. The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the rainforest, filed the defamation lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages this week in a court in Los Angeles. It also names TMZ and Yahoo as defendants, alleging that their stories amplified and sensationalized the Times’ reporting and smeared the tribe in the process....
  • What’s Wrong with These People? Amazon Is Selling “8647” Trump Assassination T-Shirts, Hats, and Stickers

    05/20/2025 9:35:21 AM PDT · by Kazan · 105 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May. 20, 2025 | by Jim Hoft
    Last week former Trump-hating FBI Director Jim Comey posted a threatening photo on his Instagram account with the message “8647” which means “kill Trump.”Comey later lied and said the shells were already lined up on the beach as he walked by. Comey is currently under investigation for calling for Trump to be assassinated in a cryptic Instagram post. Comey continues to walk free after threatening the President of the United States.But the fad he created is going viral.Amazon is now selling “8647” T-shirts, hats and stickers!In fact Amazon has 7 pages of 8647 merchandize on their website.Examples at link.The unhinged...
  • U.S. Kentucky boy uses mom's phone to order 70,000 lollipops — costing $4,000: "He wanted to have a carnival"

    05/11/2025 7:22:35 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 61 replies
    CBS News ^ | May 08, 2025 | Staff
    U.S. Kentucky boy uses mom's phone to order 70,000 lollipops — costing $4,000: "He wanted to have a carnival" Updated on: May 8, 2025 / 8:18 AM EDT / CBS/AP A Kentucky woman was in a sticky mess when she found stacks of boxes containing lollipops on her front doorstep. The surprise delivery was ordered by her young son while he played on her phone. Holly LaFavers says she tried stopping 8-year-old Liam's Amazon order for about 70,000 Dum-Dum suckers before the treats arrived but it was too late. Amazon had already delivered 22 cases to her home. "He told...
  • UPS to slash 20,000 jobs after parting ways with Amazon

    04/29/2025 7:55:57 AM PDT · by DFG · 56 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 04/29/2025 | Alice Wright
    UPS will cut 20,000 jobs this year after breaking with its biggest customer Amazon. The delivery giant is looking to slash costs after its decision in January to halve the number of Amazon deliveries it takes. Deliveries for the e-commerce giant makes up around 12 percent of UPS's revenue, the company said. However, UPS said the profit margins for Amazon deliveries were too small and it wanted to refocus on more lucrative markets such as healthcare and international deliveries. The decision will also lead to the closure of 73 UPS buildings this year, the company said on Tuesday. UPS CEO...
  • Bishop Prohibits Prelature from Accepting Aid from Those Damaging Amazon

    05/20/2022 6:58:54 PM PDT · by marshmallow
    Catholic Sentinel ^ | 5/12/22 | Lise Alves
    SAO PAULO (CNS) — A Catholic prelature in Brazil's Amazon has decreed that its parishes will not accept donations from any person or company that displaces minorities or damages the earth. Bishop José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira of Itacoatiara has prohibited parishes, pastoral communities, groups and movements linked to the prelature -- similar to a diocese — from receiving financial resources from those he says "damage the Amazon." "We decree, for an indefinite period, that in parishes, communities, pastorals, groups and movements of the Prelature of Itacoatiara, we will not receive financial resources, in currency or other goods, from politicians,...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Brazilian Bishop who denounced Pachamama and was expelled from his diocese by the Vatican, dies

    11/23/2024 12:18:48 PM PST · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    Catholic Vote ^ | November 22, 2024 | Louis Knuffke
    [Catholic Caucus] Brazilian Bishop who denounced Pachamama and was expelled from his diocese by the Vatican, diesCV NEWS FEED // The outspoken Brazilian bishop who condemned the worship of the Pachamama and was expelled from his see by the Vatican after his retirement died this week.The Order of Augustinian Recollects and the Catholic Church mourn the death of Monsignor José Luis Azcona Hermoso, emeritus Bishop of the Prelature of Marajó in the Brazilian Amazon. Bishop Azcona, who died on November 20, leaves behind a legacy of fearless defense of the faith and an indelible mark on the Church.Born on March...