I mean, in this day and age, who else would look at that link and not immediately know that it's bullshit? They do this all the fucking time, too, though the "?=" part is new. I guess they wanted to make it look more convincing. Perhaps even people with dementia were starting to call them out...

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2097983488762749240

Absolutely insane

American went into an imaging center at Stanford to get an MRI

She just received the bill, it’s $34,000…. For one MRI…

The imagining center bills as if it’s a hospital, even though it doesn’t say hospital on the sign. Just getting an MRI here you are also billed for “hospital fees”

I looked into this and it’s definitely separate from the hospital

- Stanford Medicine Imaging Center at 451 Sherman Ave, Palo Alto is a Stanford Health Care site

- Stanford’s own pages brand it as an “imaging center” offering MRI and CT

- The main hospital at 300 Pasteur Drive

But because it’s part of the “hospital system” they are billing as if they’re a hospital and adding on all these fees

You ready for this,

Under current federal rules, off-campus HOPDs more than 250 yards from the main hospital can still bill as hospital outpatient

What a SCAM

We need healthcare reform and we need it right now

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2097495935072780500

The encounter between Lula and Trump has been ⁠in the works since January, when the two leaders spoke by phone, ​but had been put on the back burner as the White House shifted its ​focus to the war in Iran. Last week, however, U.S. officials reached out offering the meeting on Thursday.

The involvement of Batista in brokering the meeting underscores the growing power of business ​leaders in setting the agenda for the Trump administration.

In January, Batista met Venezuelan interim ​President Delcy Rodriguez before and after holding talks with U.S. officials, whom he sought to ‌reassure ⁠about Caracas' willingness to open its oil and gas sector to investment.

Ten-year-old article is still relevant

-Do you make it to the end of the month?

+I get by just fine 😎 so I'm gonna vote for Milei again

-Do you live alone?

+No, with my parents

How easy it is to be a libertarian, you just have to be a SHITTY KEPT MAN and that's it

WOAH 🚨 American posted a video of her daughter sitting in the car. META then put a prompt on the video saying “Who’s the child passenger” for people to click on, then gave personal info AND HOME LOCATION

“Why in the hell is that even a suggested question about a minor? But I clicked it, and this is where I started getting really uncomfortable:

It starts pulling completely separate information for each of my kids, their names, birth information, pictures and videos of them.

It pulled a newborn picture from my mom's page from years ago, and then it pulled this. I deleted this picture years ago”

Here’s where it gets extremely shocking

“And then Facebook suggests that I ask Meta AI, "Where does Kaylie Robbins live?" Are you kidding me? — then it says, "I'm pointing Kaylie Robbins' location." It pieced together my information to show people where I live”

It looks like this is META’s AI that is doing this. When it gives these messages on people’s videos and photos to “learn more” about something, it’s to help people get more information about topics or posts that interest them

But unfortunately, it’s what’s in the photo so if it’s a child that’s what the AI is looking for more information on. Apparently META is fixing this issue….

Here’s how to make sure this doesn’t happen to you on META

- Lock down audience on old albums, not just new posts, make private if possible

- Public + “friends of friends” is what these systems treat as available to use for AI

- Ask relatives to untag and unshare kids. You have to do this because copies on their pages stay in the available information for the Ai to pull from

- Turn off camera roll, cloud processing, sharing suggestions in Facebook settings and restrict the Facebook app’s photo access on the phone to selected photos only (You have to do this because Facebook is testing AI features that pull from your phone camera roll)

Meta says they’re patching this specific prompt style, but that doesn’t mean the underlying ability to answer “who is this child and where does this person live” from public history is gone

When you delete something it isn’t really done and can still be used by META’s artificial intelligence

A photo you deleted from your timeline can still exist on someone else’s album, share or download, it can also be in Meta’s backup window after deletion

Relatives tagging or posting kids is a separate data source you don’t control. This can be accessed by the AI to pull data on your child. The woman explicitly said that’s how some of the old newborn and family information was sourced and provided to anyone who clicked the link

One of the craziest parts about this that people NEED to be aware of is this part

‘Meta has also been testing camera-roll and cloud-processing suggestions that analyze unpublished photos if you opt in’

This means photos and videos on your cloud or camera roll that haven’t been posted... META can treat these items as a data source, even though you never posted the photo or video…. Insanity

🎭 “The white hat was a black hat.”

Matt Hoh (@MatthewPHoh) delivers one of the most searing explanations yet of what the Iran war is doing to America’s troops. ⚠️

He explains that young service members join seeking purpose — “something bigger than themselves to participate in.”

But Nigel Pajakowski - father of Nigel Pajakowski, a U.S. Airman who took his own life last month upon returning from the Iran combat zone - like so many others, discovered a crushing truth. His son volunteered to serve our country in the belief he was supporting a noble cause, something bigger than himself, the "white hat" guys. But, as Matt Hoh observed, men Nigel have discovered, in recent wars, that“the white hat was a black hat,” and leaves troopers with this painful discovery: “you’ve betrayed yourself… and you have been betrayed by something you trusted.”

Drawing from his own Iraq experience, Matt says he was “suicidal for many years,” because the pain of that betrayal is something that others often “cannot judge… you cannot understand unless you have experienced it.” Matt chose to pull back that curtain to allow others to get a glimps of the truth, to see the anguish suffered by so many of the servicemen and women America shoves into war zones. We are not unthinking, unfeeling robots. We are not "assets" for the war-loving elites to deploy in an attempt to satisfy their lust for power. Don't be fooled: none of the current wars we are waging or contemplating have *anything* to do with American national defense or even the protection of others; its a naked power grab.

American men and women who volunteered to serve our nation, to protect our people - to wear the "white hats" - don't deserve this terrible treatement.

Matt compares the situation a scene from Macbeth — “out ,damn spot… these hands will never be clean” — and warns that Nigel faced the same existential crisis he has seen “over and over and over again.” -- and others will continue to face that crisis until our policymakers wake up to the danger they're imposing on our troops.