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Mary Graber, 30, was up in the middle of the night, nursing three-week-old daughter Sloane while scrolling through her Facebook mommy group. She’d joined the group when she was pregnant, in search of helpful advice and reassurance. Instead, she found anxiety and shame. The already nervous new mom was stunned to discover a thread filled with judgmental comments aimed at parents who let little ones nap on them, something she had been excited to try. “My instinct was wanting to cuddle with , but then I saw all of these comments like, ‘you’re setting her up for never falling asleep without you,’ or ‘you’re ruining her sleeping schedule’ or ‘she’ll never sleep alone in her crib.’ There were all these warnings,” Graber, a teacher from New Jersey, told The Post. “I was made to feel bad.” Mary Graber, 30, with her three-week-old daughter, Sloane.Courtesy of Mary Graber While mommy forums on Facebook and other social media platform can be a godsend for nanny recommendations,  » Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on April 4, 2013. Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action privacy lawsuit. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on April 4, 2013. Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action privacy lawsuit. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it improperly shared users' information with Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm used by the Trump campaign. The proposed settlement is a result of revelations in 2018 that information of up to 87 million people may have been improperly accessed by the third-party firm, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018. This is the largest recovery ever in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has paid to settle a private class action,  » Read More

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) -The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office now is suspended from accessing military-grade equipment through a federal surplus program.The North Carolina Department of Public Safety State Law Enforcement Support Services (LESS) officially suspended the sheriff’s office from the 1033 military equipment program for at least 60 days, according to a Dec. 16 statement from the LESS State Coordinator Gregory Weavil to Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Captain Dustin Fowler. The 1033 surplus program is a national program that allows local law enforcement agencies to request and access military-grade equipment, from trucks and helicopters to riot shields.Weavil noted he was made aware of “racist and incendiary comments” by Sheriff-elect Jody Greene during his first term in office. District Attorney Jon David then filed a petition to remove Greene from his position. Greene later resigned, but continued campaigning and weeks later was reelected as sheriff.“Mr. Greene’s statements and alleged conduct reflected in the amended petition and sworn affidavits are deeply troubling and do not reflect the values and mission of the LESS Office or the Department of Public Safety,” Weavil said in his letter to the sheriff’s office.  » Read More

Gardner Minshew will start at quarterback for the Eagles in Saturday's NFC East game against the Dallas Cowboys, Head Coach Nick Sirianni said on Thursday at the NovaCare Complex in his final press conference before kickoff. Sirianni said that Jalen Hurts, the starter all season for the 13-1 Eagles, has made progress rehabbing his right shoulder sprain, but that he isn't ready to play this week."Jalen did everything he could to get his body ready to go and at the end of the day, he's not going to be able to do it," Sirianni said. "He tried like crazy. I know he still wants to go. Jalen Hurts is the toughest player I've ever been around."Hurts did not participate in the team's practices on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week while Minshew, after missing Tuesday's walkthough practice as he attended the funeral of his former college head coach, Mike Leach, took the first-team reps on Wednesday."Gardner will be our guy and Gardner will be ready. Gardner worked his butt off for this opportunity against a really good football team.  » Read More

Inspired by the past, subterranean developments might be the future of our cities CNN  —  There is a megaproject underway that’s not so much breaking new ground, as burrowing beneath it. In Singapore, a series of extensive tunnels are being bored into the soil some 60 meters down – below subterranean shopping malls and even the city’s metro. Originally envisioned in the mid-1990s, the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) is an underground “superhighway” that could provide a blueprint for other cities around the world. It’s all part of a masterplan to conserve two precious resources: space and water. “We were faced with the challenges of a rising population and also increasing developments for industries,” said Woo Lai Lynn, chief engineer for the project, which is run by PUB, the national water agency. “With this added demand, we couldn’t keep on relying on expanding the existing wastewater infrastructure. We had to find a solution that was more sustainable and gave us greater resilience for our water supply.” The first phase,  » Read More

Robot vacuum cleaner took photos of woman on the toilet…and the images ended up being shared on FacebookRobot vacuum cleaner took photos of woman sat on the toilet in data collectionThey were sent to contracted workers around the world to be categorisedThe images were then shared to Facebook and Discord by Venezuelan workersBy Jessica Warren For Mailonline Published: 10:51 EST, 21 December 2022 | Updated: 11:20 EST, 21 December 2022 A robot vacuum cleaner took photographs of a woman sat on the toilet, with the images ending up being shared on Facebook.The iRobot Roomba robot vacuum entered the bathroom and took intimate images of the woman before they were circulated among closed social media groups.They were taken by a development version of the cleaning robot and sent to Scale AI, a software start-up with contracted workers from across the globe.Their job is to categorise data which is then used to train artificial intelligence,  » Read More

Every element of a cheeseburger tells its own little tale of markets.Lettuce, for instance, tripled in price this year after a drought and a virus stifled iceberg and romaine supplies. And while most everything costs more in 2022, beef has actually gone down year-over-year as supply has improved.Consumers don’t always think about this stuff the way produce brokers or restaurant owners must in times of inflation. But they always want tasty cheeseburgers for a decent price.One thing I know: If you want a tasty cheeseburger in St. Petersburg, go to El Cap.I visited the vintage sports bar on Fourth Street N after work on a recent Tuesday seeking to compare the costs of a restaurant burger versus cooking one at home. Then I compared both to a McDonald’s quarter pounder. On value, there is more to consider than price, but we’ll get there.This is also the inspiring true story of how one reporter came to eat five cheeseburgers in a 24-hour period — a high and low point of my life that I do not recommend.  » Read More

Image source, ReutersBy Anthony ZurcherBBC NewsA committee in the US House of Representatives has voted to make public six years of Donald Trump's tax returns. The move caps a nearly four-year legal battle by Democrats to obtain the documents, which was ultimately decided by the US Supreme Court last month.US presidents are not required by law to release their tax returns, but for decades they have done so voluntarily.The former president has fought hard to shield his tax returns.The US House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-16 on Tuesday evening to publish the documents, with all Democrats on the panel in favour and all Republicans opposed.One of the committee members, Pennsylvania Democrat Brendan Boyle, said afterwards: "This is one of the most important votes I will ever cast as a member of Congress, and I stand by it 100%."But Kevin Brady, the ranking Republican on the committee, said Democrats had just "unleashed a dangerous new political weapon".  » Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission on Monday said it has warned Facebook parent company Meta that it is breaching EU antitrust laws by ...  » Read More

It took a covert operation after nightfall and the help of freshly fallen snow to round up four cows from a herd of cattle that have been on the loose for months in central Quebec, an official with Quebec's farmers union said Monday. The four runaways, who along with the rest of the herd have wreaked havoc on farmers' fields, were reunited Sunday with their owner in St-Severe, Que., about 130 kilometres northeast of Montreal, Martin Marcouiller, with the Union des producteurs agricoles, said in an interview. "The owner was very happy to have at least the four back," Marcouiller said. "He put them in a barn with a lot of hay, litter, a lot of grass to eat, and water. So, now they need to get used to being around humans again." Marcouiller said the farmers union kept the operation on Saturday night quiet so that curious onlookers wouldn't compromise the plan, adding that not even the owner of the animals was in the loop.  » Read More