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Bruce Melendy
@brucemelendy.bsky.social
Product owner, business analyst, agilist. He/him.
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Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Privacy advocates and cybersecurity experts say the growing use of ID scanning at venues raises the risk of personal data breaches. They argue a more ambitious overhaul of privacy laws is needed www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Scanning an ID for club entry isn't uncommon — but is your data safe?
Privacy advocates and cybersecurity experts say the growing use of ID scanning at venues raises the risk of personal data breaches. They argue a more ambitious overhaul of privacy laws is needed.
www.abc.net.au
February 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The New York Times reports that Trump is making the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board de facto inoperable. This punches the first major hole in EU-US data transfers agreement (TADPF).

Using US Cloud providers could quickly violate the GDPR.
noyb.eu
January 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Meta envisions filling social networks with AI-generated bots that would blend with humans. Making it in ways indistinguishable from humans would be illegal considering EU AI Act. My assessment. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/filling-soci...
Filling social media with indistinguishable AI-bots is illegal with EU AI Act
Meta considers a future where AI-generated bots, avatars or artificial accounts seamlessly integrate into its platforms, filling networks with artificial agents that mimic human users. I must repeat: ...
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
January 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM