This has been happening at Strava for years. From 2018: www.ictworks.org/strava-data-... From 2025: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Now all you have to do is find a data broker.

In all fairness, they call it what it is.

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement inked a new contract to teach agents how to pull data from encrypted Apple products like iPhones & Macbooks, a newly published contract reveals. ICE awarded a $211,618 contract to the Delaware-based Sumuri for classes and software to break Apple encryption.

A Google engineer made $1.2M on Polymarket betting on who would be announced as the most searched person of the year was just arrested for insider trading. People need to realize only government officials get away with that blatant a degree of insider trading.

This is the way

I think about this a lot.

This is an extraordinary story, and like a lot of extraordinary stories about wrongdoing and corruption, will become much harder to report if the Trump administration succeeds in requiring NDAs of all federal employees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

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To be clear, DC is a living community on the periphery of the headquarters of the federal government where not even a majority of people are white. We are severely oppressed & denied autonomy by this government. DC isn't the feds, so quit identifying them with our community. We're real people.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

This IS great…

NEW: UK Visa Portal, a website that lets people apply for a UK visa, spilled thousands of applicants' passports, selfies, and location data online. The data exposure is now fixed, but not before it sent attorneys and a public relations firm our way — which is very weird! My updated story:

Looking at CALICON agenda and @misseli.bsky.social wins for best session title that I've heard in a long while. 2026.calicon.org/sessions/if-...

The metaphor is awfully loud.

Striking an embassy in an act of war under international law. The use of armed force against a foreign embassy is an act of aggression. Medvedev's post is evidence Russia is prepared to make such strikes.

They’re going to start arresting attorneys who defend immigrants.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Exactly this. Every statement from almost every institution is kneecapped waaay before it begins by the unspoken but unilaterally understood requirement to first accept/protect the interests of the investor class. Without capitulation, you cannot be taken seriously. But the Pope can just go for it.

Oh no! BASED APPAREL, the online store run by FBI director Kash Patel, was hacked to serve ClickFix attacks (🎻). Website visitors see a fake Captcha-style screen and are then tricked into hacking themselves by copying and pasting malware code. How this works: this.weekinsecurity.com/clickfix-att...

"Nearly 4 in 10 Americans surveyed by Lending Tree, or 39%, said a car is a luxury they cannot afford."

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

The Department of Homeland Security has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral, @aurabogado.bsky.social of @injusticewatch.org reports.

Who doesn't love to get pardoned for future crimes?

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

"Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic." 🎁 article

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

The way the Judgment Fund is being used for the Trump “settlement” creates a profound loophole in the Appropriations Clause, allowing an administration to fund any program it wants without an appropriation. Sort of thing the Court needs to stop.

State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.

Reminder: THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT. There can't be a settlement because Trump voluntarily dismissed the case before any notice of settlement was filed. No lawsuit, no settlement. Any news article that refers to a "settlement" is not telling the truth.

My local elementary school PTO is hosting an online auction with over 170 different items, from restaurant gift cards to summer camp scholarships to vacation home rentals. If you're anywhere in the DC area, there are some incredible items on offer takomapto.betterworld.org/auctions/202...

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

Weird how so many Fun New Ways To Use ChatGPT also seem to line up with granting a massive corporation access to some of your most sensitive personal information...

TrumpMobile is now evidently shipping a two-year old Chinese-made phone, the T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G, to MAGA die-hards who ordered the $500 Trump phone. The T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G is available on Amazon for about $125 and sells in wholesale quantities for $40 to $50. Grifters gotta grift.

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

This may be the greatest evidence I’ve seen (yet) for the “rewilding the Internet” frame.

"The governance of R&D priority-setting, who shapes the agenda and whose interests get reflected, also remains largely unexamined, and we think it is important to start exploring it and encourage more research on this" www.innovationgrowthlab.org/blog/unpacki...

At this point, if the "first hit, er grant, is free," logic fools these essential sectors into building dependence on "AI", well, fool me twice, can't get fooled again. www.anthropic.com/news/gates-f...

This is Natty. He's the first official team dog for the Washington Nationals. He makes his big-league debut on Friday and will learn basic skills and socialization with the team before he goes on to formal service dog training with Canine Companions. 13/10

*definitely surveilling you

Creating effective governance structures is undoubtedly the aspect of the environmental knowledge commons that will require the most care, experimentation, patience, and goodwill issues.org/environmenta...

Liability sponge is more accurate than human-in-the-loop

Absolutely fuck you, Amazon. When I bought this device there was no mention of my purchase being time limited at your discretion. It does not require software updates, so the only "support" necessary is that kindle books are available in a format that can be sent to it. This shouldn't be legal.

We have ironically miserable language for how important (and complex) shared sense-making is to virtually everything we hold dear.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing