What if instead of that red light, Meta's smartglasses blared out "Alert! Alert! I am filming you!" every time you filmed someone... No one would want to film people, right?

And that's the point. It's understood everywhere that you can film people secretly, without their consent, using these glasses.

Secrecy is what changes the whole equation. Imagine a woman sitting next to a man on a subway. The man pulls a giant TV camera out from under his seat, and starts filming her. "Stop filming me," she says. "It's legal!" he replies. "Because it's a public place!"

The truth is, no one would try that TV camera stunt, because it's so clearly wrong. (Someone would call the train's security phone saying "There's some creep here filming women against their will...") But if you can film in secret with your Meta smartglasses...

The astronauts returned to earth several days ago.

The public money was for nothing but security work - specifically tools for automatically checking new Python packages for malware.

What was irrelevant was the new-this-year requirement that even different work (not funded by any public money) would now also have to stop if (in the administration's view) it promoted inclusion.

Vigo says on Twitter that he did in fact track down the thieves of his wife's phone.

That tweet also links to a podcast episode where he discusses it in more detail - but it's in Spanish.

Civil charges are still very much pending.

Here's what you learn about Free Beacon on Wikipedia....

Financially backed by Paul Singer, an American billionaire hedge fund manager and conservative activist...

The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf called the Free Beacon's mission "decadent and unethical" (and part of the radical right's "smear movement")

Don't worry about it. Slashdot's excerpt just included the word "inclusivity" in one of its sentences, so now all the trolls have to pretend that they're angry.

Epoch Times is far-right site, owned by the Falun Gong, that "spread conspiracy theories such as QAnon and anti-vaccine misinformation, and false claims of fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election," according to Wikipedia.

In 2020, The New York Times called it a "global-scale misinformation machine."

You know what? I admit it -- that's actually a really interesting headline.

I'm not sure why you left that information out. 6,000-plus people is a lot more newsworthy than just "Amazon visits school."

Stem cell research is one of the most promising technologies of our lifetime. It's already performing medical miracles, and will continue to do so. So I'm really glad it's potential is being seriously investigated and fully funded.

"Amazon Visits School."

The NancyTracker site is also misinformationn-spewing hate site, for the record. So this actually applies to both of them.