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The problem when ppl in a panoptic surveillance paradigm say they want to "do better than this" is that they mean they want perfect, error-free surveillance tech & not only is that functionally impossible, it's not morally desirable, even if it were. It'd still be a panoptic surveillance paradigm…

You're telling me that word association tools trained on internet comments don't know how to deescalate? www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

I've been spiraling in stress and worry about the encroaching and increasing nationalization of the military-surveillance state, so it is uplifting to remember there are folks doing good things with their skills.

#ShareGoodNewsToo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“This feat is a clear signal that electric mobility in Nigeria is practical, scalable and ready for adoption,” Falaye said. It is simple economics.... "EV charging costs average about $3 for up to 200 kilometers (123 miles), compared with more than $15 in petrol costs for similar distances."

#lolWUT #srsly #dafuq #zuckerberg #law

Body shaming and ableism are not and will never be woke, and this is the problem with not understanding the difference between how Black folks talk to each other and how the right co-opted a term for their own purposes.

I mean; this really isn't a surprise. #fuckICE

♫ America, ♫ America, ♫ This is you. #elonMusk #grok #llms #deepfakes #csam

MAGA: Looks like comedy's legal again lulz Hakeem Jeffries: Kristi Noem needs to be… Hakeem Jeffries: (•_•) Hakeem Jeffries: ( •_•)>⌐■-■ Hakeem Jeffries: (⌐■_■) Hakeem Jeffries: …put on ICE. MAGA:

Ilhan Omar: “In the 4 years when Biden was president, my death threats went to almost zero — now they are back up — so there is a clear correlation between his presidency & the political violence that we see & the political danger that a lot of members of Congress & electeds feel across the country”

The penalty for disrespecting the vehicle of a masked goon getting paid by taxpayers to kidnap children is death. You'll be restrained then shot in the back and the government will protect your killers. That's the idea here.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it: Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted

Alex Pretti's Phone Is What ICE IS Afraid Of; The Truth......

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

#fuckDonaldTrump #fuckMAGA #fuckWhiteSupremacy #2020election #youLost #getOverIt #pabotus

An addendum to this reminder: A large number of websites use content distribution services provided by #Amazon, and they've acquired a large number of other companies over time. If you think you're gonna bring 'em down just by not using their stores or main website, I got some bad news for you.

Lot of us been sayin' this shit for years. #fuckWhiteSupremacy

Reading this article, I realized that last month, I had a dream that I was reading it. #fuckDonaldTrump #fuckMAGA #fuckWhiteSupremacy #2ndAmentment

His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him

My abject apologies to the writers of Captain Planet, I didn’t realize that literal cartoon villains were just a few decades down the pike. Your gift of prophecy was unappreciated in your own time.

It's gonna take #ICE making some poor old elderly white lady the next #BreonnaTaylor over some kinda #AIhallucination from a #flockCamera before some people actually take this shit seriously.

I haven't been wrong about this, so far. #fuckICE #fuckMAGA #fuckDonaldTrump #fuckWhiteSupremacy

But are we surprised? #fuckDonaldTrump #fuckElonMusk #fuckDOGE #fuckMAGA #socialSecurity

These are voices of Russian soldiers confessing to their families about crimes they’ve committed in Ukraine. It’s similar to confessions from Wagner paramilitaries who’ve committed numerous human rights abuses in Africa

It's Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here in the US, & you know what that means! A bunch of people who would have called him n----r with the hard R or tone policed his rhetoric & tactics painting erroneous mythologies about who he was & what he stood for! 😃 So here's Letter From Birmingham Jail

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

Dear #youtubers, Leave "America's most #racist man" alone. Not because I respect him, I'm just sick of seeing his face pop up in my recommended videos. Thank.

Now that #Newsom walked back his "state-sponsored #terrorism" quote, can we finally be done with his ass? #fuckICE #fuckMAGA #fuckDonaldTrump #fuckGavinNewsom #fuckWhiteSupremacy

ICE is really out there mistaking Minnesota's kindness for weakness. #fuckICE #fuckDonaldTrump #fuckWhiteSupremacy

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

A DHS whistle blower has dropped 4500 ICE agents names and Identity on the website ICELIST.IS icelist.is?fbclid=IwY2x...

They keep making watch lists and databases explicitly for the sake of destroying people—on top of literally just physically attempting to destroy the people they would put on those lists—then demand they aren't fascists. #fuckICE #fuckWhiteSupremacy

Just… You know that OpenAI is going to basically correlate everything you do online in anything connected to their product, right? Like… Just like facebook used to do, but worse? Because they have connections across… way more sectors of supposedly private life than they should? You get that right?

In the need of some spicy adult products? Want to support folks in Minneapolis? Buy them from our super ethical, trans-owned Smitten Kitten. They’ve not only become a hub for mutual aid and community ICE watch, they’ve basically turn their socials into a local news source.

Blocking on #bluesky isn't private. #headsUp #bsky #fuckICE

the rare blessing of the Unexpected Whole-Ass Potato

Played by Daniel Kaluuya (very good and suitably charismatic, if a bit old) in Shaka King's excellent JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (2021), worth a watch if you haven't seen it. Also features LaKeith Stanfield and Jesse Plemons.

If you ever somehow find yourself in charge of literally billions of dollars you don't know what you do with, you could do far worse than modeling off of MacKenzie Scott.

Does #elonMusk seriously think that #childPornography is #protectedSpeech? #twitter #grok #csam #wtf #jfc

The only principles they care about are "fuck you i got mine," & whatever lets them physically & systemically degrade those they deem "other" while letting those they deem "like them" do whatever they want. "Hypocrisy"— flouting norms they demand others adhere to— enacts/reifies their will to power

ICE agents are going door to door in South Minneapolis, kicking in doors and using force. Reporting says agents rely on administrative ICE paperwork, not judge-signed warrants, which do not authorize forced entry into private homes.

"You need liberal democracy to protect what journalism is. And I think part of the problem is that the traditional media doesn't know what to do as we slip further and further away from a pure liberal democracy." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on The Rebooting Show with Brian Morrissey: