The bank came under an intense public campaign for its relationship with CoreCivic and GEO who demanded that Citizens cut ties with the two companies. At least two city councils in New Jersey — Montclair and Jersey City — have voted to withdraw their money from Citizens if they did not cut ties with the private prison operators.

“Today’s announcement that Citizens Bank will exit its current lending relationships with private prison giants CoreCivic and The GEO Group is an important victory for the people who refused to let a major bank finance human suffering brought on by ICE detention activities of the current federal administration,” said the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition, in a statement.

Later on they said they did this out of business reasons not because of public pressure so the headline isn't true cause and effect. It's possible they just didn't want to say the protests were effective publically.

[–] 12 points 7 months ago

After my Google maps was updated to use Gemini things got so much worse. I was trying to send a message to my daughter to send a message to the group chat. Every time I said group chat in my dictation it would search for the group chat never finding it and making me start over. I finally gave up and told her to call me.

OTOH Alexa is better at farting so we have that.

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