With billions in new funding, ICE is buying the most powerful surveillance gear on earth to spy on civilians. In our latest video, we expose the scariest ways that ICE are spying on people, and break down how the tech actually works... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1K7yLWs2DM

Frankly the possibility that he might be, or even when he was younger just have flirted with being, a Nazi, while concerning, is less an issue at this point than the fact that THE MAN HAS NO LEGISLATIVE EXPERIENCE AND YOU'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT SENDING HIM TO THE US SENATE.

Hey @skywatch.blue, Morty is about as far from MAGA as one can possibly be. Please remove the label, yeah?

This would *significantly* set these kids back from being able to enter the modern workforce, not to mention kneecap their online security/anti-scam education, and devastate a significant number of kids through social isolation. Especially at-risk kids. Cascading generational damage.

The one time I try to have dinner with friends, apparently I got hit by something that isn't COVID or the flu or a cold. Human metapneumovirus is apparently surging in northern California. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

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That's not true. But it is true that the humpback whales in Star Trek IV agreed to go to the future not to save Earth from an alien probe but just to avoid an interview with Chotiner.

I feel like this new research showing that Covid *literally* infects the heart and gives "healthy" people new serious cardiac problems should somehow be bigger news.

Sorry but I'm a man of profligacy and waste

Paternal: worked for the railroad Maternal: owned a jewelry store, did engraving and watch repair Maternal grandfather fought in WWII Paternal grandfather fought in WWI

Well, y’all own it now

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

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San Jose Burger King Workers are ON STRIKE after the employer violated the California Family Rights Act. As healthcare workers strike and win across California and the United States, we’re looking out for our co-workers who take care of their health and are punished by greedy fast food bosses. 🧵

All 100 episodeds are free on Pluto TV now and you get get a taste of the spiritual successor to The X-Files with these self-contained cases

Billionaires don't do any work to maintain or expand their wealth. "Billion" is as much an abstract concept for them as it is for us. But by the time they got there they'd amassed a circle of vassal money people whose own wealth depends on the growth of the billionaire's, and *they* do the work

THIS THINGS HAVE BEEN WORSE BUT THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN STUPIDER

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Everything is horrible, but fuck that guy

I hate that Mister Rogers told us to look for the helpers when we were little and then you grow up and learn that cops and nurses are the favorite career fields for bullies 😞

This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10 (TT: kelseydarragh)

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Let's just be clear: Jay Bhattacharya is getting a media makeover this week. NYT gave him a glowing review for his new role at the CDC. He went on the MAHA-friendly WSITY podcast and lied freely for an hour. He's telling CDC employees he's pro-vaccine.

trans is an advanced class, like druid in 1E; you have to have have a certain number of levels in gay first and then defeat the Keeper of the Grove.

Hi, it's me, the parent who is homophobic but not transphobic. I am working with the same doctors currently being threatened with prosecution by a fascist but are nonetheless beholden to trans activists. We want to create more trans women because they are universally heterosexual

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LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous users — their success rate is “far greater” than humans alone can manage. [arstechnica.com]

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Couple this depressingly scary thread from Brian Goldstone with Jelena Woehr's late night thought experiment thread We really do have to think beyond just "build more housing" bsky.app/profile/jele...

My kingdom for an updated version with new Spitting Image puppets youtu.be/Yq7FKO5DlV0

Inside the fight to save Texas’ Native American studies course The anti-DEI movement put the future of the high school class in question, but it ultimately survived state board review. Its supporters say that offers a lesson for other states.

Um...

A reminder that the drama of the courtroom in no wise resembles your stereotypical tv courtroom drama 🧵:

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

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The amount of people trashing Jim Carrey for his looks right now is pretty disheartening but it's a reminder that nobody, not even a famous cishet white man, is immune from 90s-level bullying and awfulness if they don't keep conforming to a physical standard given to them to maintain.

well, this kept getting more true, huh

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I would also like people to swear properly on here so it gets picked up by SwearSky

do they know the people who called it that are black and gay. someone should tell them the people who called it that are black and gay

I find myself wondering if Fred Merz has a wife named Ethel Clearly I need more sleep

A WIRED analysis shows that ICE and CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.

Heartbreaking thread. Different states get used as testbeds for different MAGA horrors; now it's Idaho's turn in the spotlight, defunding special needs care programs

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I guess we don't need teachers anymore

PHAN is now accepting requests for proposals for projects that will have measurable results in reducing indoor airborne pathogens. These could be projects like breath-based multi-pathogen detection systems, continuous HVAC compliance verification systems, or indoor air infrastructure deployment.

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In this week's Threat Model: #Cybersecurity @violetblue.bsky.social brings us •DHS/ICE business partners exposed •Meta Glasses detector app •Noem's toady out at CISA •much more, including a lovely eulogy for Felix FX Lindner Read/share/support: www.patreon.com/posts/152109... #Infosec #Natsec