Also, California's FasTrak tolling system has a little switch on the Flex version of the transponder to select the current number of vehicle occupants for HOV lanes.

TIL there a dozens of car models with windshields that block toll transponder signals and you have to do clown shit like mount your toll transponder inside your bumper.

It is more important than ever that you, yes YOU, write. Write about imporant things, silly things, normal things, write for yourself, write for the public, write for your friends or colleagues, write a journal, a blog, a note, a letter. Just exercise that muscle.

The amount of surveillance equipment providers using actual real customer data in their marketing is not zero.

Google is killing Earth Desktop, and telling users to use the Web version. Earth Desktop suuucks but Web is far worse.

What did Taylor Farms know and when did they know it?

"Black women are particularly affected: in a 16 month period between 2024 and 2025, over twice the proportion of Black women received a maximum-security designation from SAFER, compared to white women."

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

It turns out Superman is also vulnerable to shame.

“Macon County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to defund the county's Flock Safety license plate reader camera program after hours of public debate over privacy concerns and public safety.”

I will burn this entire place down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am literally in this video. Seems like they pulled local news B-roll of us building emergency food boxes at Second Harvest Heartland. People really did show up for weird, middle of the day packing shifts that were always full.

AQI under 200 LFG

6-6 vote on Skydio Drone Pilot Program in North Mpls so it didn’t pass. Way too close for comfort. Yes: Rainville, Vetaw, Warren, Shafer, Whiting, Palmisano No: Payne, Wonsley, Osman, Stevenson, Chavez, Chowdhury Thanks to all that showed up to testify, called and emailed.

This is why Dems are reluctant to run on retribution, despite its popularity. They want the power he accrued and the surveillance infrastructure he formalized. Period.

What's awful is any org not cancelling their outdoor events. Smacks of COVID lockdown indoor events. www.startribune.com/boundary-wat...

New publication from me! 🎉 Please check out my latest investigation where we identify (no surprise) a crypto guy to a popular 'leaked' nudes website. Users could even get paid out for sharing leaked/hacked nudes from women. Within 48 hrs of reaching out to him, the site went offline. Impact! 🙌

New: cops are using Flock to track people, not cars. We reviewed Flock search data and found many, many cases of cops searching for people based on their appearance, race, tattoos, etc. Some searches are so vague like "tall man" that innocent people likely swept up www.404media.co/how-cops-use...

Woof. We're on the cusp of privately operated GNSS (GPS) systems. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

Chatte, is it good if everything is on fire?

"So, how did you get involved in privacy activism?" "So, you know Mister Rogers?" "Yeah, of course." "Okay, and you're familiar with the US political and cultural landscape in the few years following 9/11?" "Ye... yes?"

Googling how to positively pressurize the atmosphere in my house.

Maybe it's finally time to invest in a PAPR.

*jaws theme*

Never going to get this because I always batter and fry my lettuce like a true patriot.

This is worth the read

📣 We're excited to announce this year's Blue Team Con Keynote Speaker - Ian Coldwater! Learn more about Ian and their keynote address here: blueteamcon.com/2026-keynote...

Last month, the U.S. gov't asked a court to allow it to use a cell-site simulator, or "stingray," to track a criminal in Ohio. In a rare rebuke, the court denied the warrant, saying it would have also allowed the feds monitor the locations of nearby private citizens "at all times for thirty days."

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Suno also scraped episodes from roughly 420,000 different podcasts, which was at least ~1 million hours of audio. They had code that specifically sought acapella versions of songs on YouTube for vocal training

The state is accepting public comments on the proposed Tamarack nickel mine until Sept. 14. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe opposes the project. Written by Andrew Hazzard

oh shit they all got signed!! here’s some good trans legislative news for once

Also, the great jerky packing mission of 2026 has begun.

Food bank crew found the smallest potato.

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!

I'm actually a little concerned wildfire smoke and its relationship to my health will have me leaving the midwest when I'm older.

it's working; keep shaming the pervert glasses wearers

It's "Canada is on fire again" season y'all. If you had any gardening, outdoor tasks, or events scheduled for Wed or Thurs in the Twin Cities, consider rescheduling. The heatwave continues, and the air will be unhealthy. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/air-q...

I was always gonna boycott the Harry Potter TV series but I would urge anyone on the fence to stop engaging with the franchise as long as JKR is using her proceeds to fund her continued attacks on trans people and allies. Reheated nostalgia slop just isn’t worth it.

Boston Dynamics was first sold to Softbank, and now they're owned by Hyundai Motor Group. They're not making money and desperate for addressable market.

Smoke from the wildfires burning in northern Minnesota and across the border in Canada is expected to affect much of Minnesota this week.

New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.

It’s a win a for now. What was in the OIG report confirms what activists and community members said would happen over the past year or so. Maybe the dept will listen. Likely not. But the people, journalists, and researchers were right about the harms Flock and other ALPRs pose to the public.

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Abolitionist organizers have been warning about this since the beginning: the issues with ALPR is not “privacy.” PDs are reacting to public anger about Flocks many abuses. Vendors (axon etc) are literally waiting with contract in hand to be the replacement w/ the same potentials for abuse.

The title of the talk is in fact "I want to use my fucking brain"

The website for this Canadian buckthorn removal tool is adorable. www.extractigator.com

This is hot.

I submitted this talk and said "please, you pick how long you want me to talk about this".