“Bizarrely, what once stood out as one of the most dehumanising aspects of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, namely their tendency to spy on their citizens, … is fully normalised, even celebrated, in societies that have made data-gathering a core aspect … of how their economies work.”

#Florida woman in Key West shop "sells MAGA bumper stickers directly adjacent to LGBTQIA rainbows because, as she explains, money is the bottom line." oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/in-ke... via @oxfordamerican.bsky.social

These chatbots should be pulled off the market, at least until the companies can prove they’re safe. We used to regulate the ads kids would see; now companies can push products that manipulate and exploit them and it’s all fair game. @nitasha.bsky.social is doing fantastic work on this topic!

UPress ‘Campus, not prison’: FAU students protest ICE collaboration on campus

9. DeSantis this weekend attempted to deflect responsibility, blaming the legislature: “There’s laws that are on the books that I enforce that I may not fully agree with, but I took an oath to do it and so that’s the way the cookie crumbles, and so but there was a change in law."

8. Suarez’s attorney was on-site for the arrests and delivered a blistering critique to reporters. “I would like you all to look behind me and ask what damage actually occurred. It rained while they were being arrested and there is no longer any chalk on the sidewalk.”

The Kant Car

I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*

Opinion from our Editorial Board: Delray officials are fighting a state order to remove its rainbow intersection by demanding a hearing before the Florida Department of Transportation. No one has any doubt the city will lose. The state is judge, jury and executioner and there is no due process.

"Today, among my four part-time and consulting jobs, I sell frozen chocolate bananas on the beach in Jacksonville Beach. That cannot be the best return on taxpayer investment." — fired #NOAA scientist Holden Earl Harris, whose doctorate was funded partly by NSF. 🎁 www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

Apparently learning about the Civil Rights movement is "inappropriate." www.upworthy.com/parents-comp...

#Florida man's cellphone camera captured every undocumented immigrant’s nightmare on video when ICE and the Florida Highway Patrol detained his landscaping crew, dragged them from their van & pushing their faces to the pavement. One problem: He's a U.S. citizen. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...

Aight so what is this going to mean for Floridians who depends so heavily on ALFs for eldercare?

right and THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING @npr.org having to scroll through a bunch of insane advertisements, and rage bait as a pre-req for MAYBE getting up-to-date news on a life-or-death hazard is NOT GOOD.

Really straightforward but worth repeating. Good journalism illuminates reality. Bad journalism obscures reality. False equivalency obscures reality, so naturally it’s bad journalism.

i only find out about shit when it's time to boycott it, apparently churromania's pretty good but they sent a food truck to the everglades detention camp so now i won't have it

Condo/HOA fee costs are skyrocketing after being kept artificially low, a lot of Florida owners are trying to dump them because their retirements can't keep pace. Basically the party has been over in South Florida real estate for a year or two.

Good day as any to delete Facebook, Instagram, and/or Threads if you have not already The fact that Meta will not rule out using private photos on your camera roll to train AI is abominable, full stop futurism.com/meta-sketchy...

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

"Cruelty aside, it defies common sense to put a mass of people, vehicles & development in one of the most significant wetlands in the world." -- #Florida enviro groups suing to stop construction of Gov. Ron DeSastrous' "Alligator Alcatraz" in Everglades. www.axios.com/local/miami/... via @axios.com

My "I'm not trying to buy the election" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt.

It’s amazing how many people in the replies are openly going ‘I can’t tell if this is AI.’ Facebook ruined boomer faculties.

Labour are wrongly appropriating the term antisemitism to cover up for past wrongs, while perpetuating the genuinely antisemitic trope that all Jews are linked to the IDF. The trope being - all Jews are Zionists in league with Israel. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. Wake up. You're harming us.

they ask politicians like Mamdani if they are communists but they never ask anyone if they are a fascist and that's all you really need to know

I feel trapped between people who are terrified to use LLMs, and people who are terrified not to. Can we please bring back boredom and indifference when it comes to overhyped new tech?

My HS art teacher had us drawing old shoes on newsprint and made us throw them away each day cause you’re not trying to make something good you’re trying to get used to being bad at something

it's a jokey line in Adventure Time, but "sucking at something is the first step toward getting kinda good at something" is absolute truth

The cult vibes have escaped contain.

Haven't seen a newsletter of mine hit the top 20 on Hackernews and then get flag banned faster, feels like it barely made it 20 minutes before it was descended upon by guys who would drink Sam Altman's bathwater

Thank you to @himself.bsky.social for saying most of what I wanted to about @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social's new book Abundance: www.combinationsmag.com/the-abundanc... I have been hoping to find the time to write a review but have yet to do so.

"television promised me i'd be a kickass dude but instead i have a shitty office job that sustains a meaningless consumerist life, lets go burn down civilization" turned out to be a pretty good read of the primary motivation for a bunch of american fash

Back in 2022 I did a whole podcast about the origins of the immigration detention system called Detention By Design. As I detailed in the second episode, it started mere miles from "Alligator Alcatraz," in the Florida Everglades. They will once again be a symbol. www.wlrn.org/podcast/dete...

Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Incredible how many of the world’s Smartest People simply fail to think through the logical implications of their own statements

I feel the same about your post written by/with ai as I do about your substack. Unlikely to read it either way.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

Everyone screaming antisemitism for the past two years for protesting a genocide is now going all out doing the most obscene, ham fisted racism imaginable towards Mamdani. Take any of the comments about him from elected officials and imagine saying that about Judaism or a Jewish person.

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous is racing ahead with construction of an immigration detention facility in the Everglades over strong opposition from Native American leaders: “We live here. Our ancestors fought & died here. They are buried here." www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/26/n... via @apnews.com

A badly misguided court order in a copyright lawsuit requires OpenAI to store all consumer ChatGPT conversations indefinitely—even if a user tries to delete them.

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2...

Seminole Tribe joins Miccosukee Tribe in denouncing #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' plan to build an "Alligator Alcatraz" on their sacred land in the Everglades. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...

Your tax dollars at work: “We don’t have a set timeline for this mission due to the fluid nature of the situation, but we will stay on the ground for as long as we’re needed and at the direction of Governor DeSantis,”

“I’m just very upset that we’re having to fight this all over again." Native Americans, environmental advocates & hunters join forces to oppose #Florida AG's idiotic plan to build an "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... via @miamiherald.com

Lawyers, technologists, advocates, users: "In addition to undermining our privacy, security, and expressive freedoms, age verification isn't even accurate enough to do what you want" Government: "shut up it's to Save the Children" Government (after trying it themselves):