tech grifters want you to think AI is ubiquitous and inevitable, but you know what's actually ubiquitous and inevitable? new yorkers' ability to dunk on this dumb slop nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/

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Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Police-tech giant Flock is entering a new market www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

I caught it Hannibal Lecter is pretty high on the list which makes sense

Hello! I have been thinking a lot about the tech organizers are using right now (what works & what the risks are) & I am going to write something up. If you are organizing, tell me about how you hate or love your tech stack & why. Please DM/text me on Signal ASAP.

I have found a way to be myself in situations that really do not on their face lend themself to that, it feels like a trick or I have unlocked something critical

i’m really imoressed with solidarity.tech. built by a member-organizer of rideshare drivers united to facilitate worker-to-worker organizing.

"the Data (Use and Access) Act received Royal Assent" bums me out (the UK is doing a lot w Digital ID right now)

"More than a million people had canceled Disney streaming subscriptions as of Monday, the Disney source told me, and the company likely knew that trend would only continue the longer they kept Kimmel silenced." @marisakabas.bsky.social w/ a doozy. 👀

one of the only good subway ads that has ever existed (dc metro usually has drone ads)

YouTube falling is bigger than TikTok.

an early abundance boy

NEW: Here's our report on the "SIM farm" the Secret Service discovered, which hopefully helps better explain what the hell is up with all this. @agreenberg.bsky.social, @lhn.bsky.social, & @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/sim-fa...

Well THIS. I’d love to know what joke review is happening now too. If Disney lets Jimmy go hard that’d be more of a redemption, but if the show Hacks has taught me anything…

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir? A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

this is me lately, except it’s not always a great day 😎

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

So many people signed onto this out of a misguided belief people were being brainwashed into caring about Palestinians.

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

KNKX Public Radio and Cascade PBS recently obtained thousands of pages of these logs from city officials in Washington state. Now, MuckRock wants to know what agencies we should request ChatGPT logs from. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

whenever I see school children in those little roped lines, that’s Weapons

We collectively post to Bluesky: “This is exactly what I was worried about,” while being taken to a camp. Nate Silver posts to X: “It makes sense Blueskiers are being taken, they’re a type.” Bots fav. Ezra Klein uses his huge platform at the paper of record to post: “The solution is deregulation.”

A timeline in which I have to rally behind Jimmy Kimmel. Dark times, indeed.

the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I was chatting about this op-ed w/ a friend; what is the best way to communicate to a general audience about police surveillance? etc. & one of my conclusions was that people fixate on the power of the tools when they are new to the subject, but eventually they evolve past the tools

maybe everyone knows this but covidtests dot gov goes to the lab leak page now and the lab leak page has an Andrew Cuomo failure section (either way this is your sign to sign up for your covid/flu vaccine now if you can)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if I was in a town, small or large, that wanted to prove it would protect its citizens from an authoritarian federal government, one of the first things I’d do is cancel the Flock contract.

Reporter: "there's also groups called 'transtifa,' so perhaps you could label them a domestic terrorist group. . . you could take that [trans] flag down because it would represent transtifa." Trump: "I think that you probably could."

data for good: www.dcinbox.com

Thinking about how Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, Ezra Klein, and Donald Trump have all used the internet to move the needle/Overton window/etc. more to the right. Look, even I’m amplifying their names on this thing when I want the opposite.

what are you using instead of google groups?

it is very interesting to see how, to abdicate responsibility, they differentiate “replicate”, “repeat”, and “regurgitate” from “generate”

reduced is true

🤠 NEW ORGANIZING TOOL 🧗 LPL has developed Postal Pulse, a new webapp that makes it easy to find and contact your elected officials about Chicago ordinances. Right now, you can use it to oppose the City's mandatory camera expansion network. aldercontact.lucyparsonslabs.com

We are launching a new investigation today, which reveals new details about Trump's deportation program. Our first story is by @maanvisingh.bsky.social and @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I've been thinking about the Nate Silver Blueskyism post & there are interesting things you could say about the bsky echochamber (is it nature vs. nurture; the folks fleeing or platform features etc.?), but his piece is ultimately about the echo chamber in his own mind, which is also revealing.

this is such Op language, I thought it was the NYT at first

good account

recalling that time I went for a long walk in the woods with the dog after Kavanaugh got appointed

Make no mistake about it, modern "papers please" implementation includes facial recognition technology, digital ID including mDLs, and various scoring databases akin to what has been taking place in China (to Uyghurs) and Gaza (to Palestinians). Every call to ban those tools was correct.

what is getting criminalized & what is getting decriminalized

I’m surprised TikTok hasn’t picked this up unless it has

a better ending than Her

👋 propublica.org/tips

the meme parts of this (“based” and “many such cases” are interesting)

Folks confused by this missed the thesis. The book’s vignettes always pinned “why we can’t have nice things” on liberal regulation. Of course these guys are down.

the exact kind of thing I’m interested in I’m afraid

I like the hideousness of color e ink & the headline they chose for this image; I hope the tablet/reader market explode w out them all becoming phones