“Democracy dies in darkness.” First as warning, then as how-to manual.

Looks like Penn got hacked

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

This is a really important resource and reporting cataloguing the scale at which AI is scraping the internet and allowing people to search these datasets www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Don’t threaten me with a good time

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

If you live in Colorado get out there and make some noise about this however you can

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If you need a reason to resist and refuse the entrenchment of AI technologies in schools and demand a different vision of education, here's one: "The Trump administration is willing to put resources behind AI education and AI literacy, while it strips funds for actual public education."

“Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke.”

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

he's bitin the heads off the angels now

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

WGBH building in Boston today

It sounds like Clearview but with a database of government photos instead of photos scraped from the internet. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

We might also ask what a person who has access to all of our information might do with it, now that we know he has a penchant for turning his AI machine into a Hitlermobile.

whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government. After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.

The singularity is awesome

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Today, Los Angeles received ts first honor of three Michelin Stars. The head chef of Somni, which received three, removed his jacket to reveal a t-shirt which read “immigrants feed America.” www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

when you give authority to people who can't be held accountable, you get anonymous militia roaming the streets

Once again Meta launches a feature without even taking a basic stab at privacy considerations www.404media.co/meta-invents...

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

ICE is bankrupting itself www.axios.com/2025/06/16/i...

At yesterday's protests in Atlanta, police arrested the respected journalist Mario Guevara—clearly ID'd as press and, crucially, known for tirelessly documenting ICE abuses—for livestreaming their crackdown. He was booked on charges of "obstruction" and "pedestrian walking on or along" a roadway.

Terrifying

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more

Interesting. Polls are showing American voters don’t like the idea of being under military occupation by a wildly angry game show host for no reason www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It looks like today was the largest single-day protest since 1970

No Kings Protests; Just So Everyone Knows....No One Walks In Los Angeles The Crowds In L.A. Are MASSIVE

I will hold the line on this. Right-wing violence has far more support, materially, institutionally and ideologically, in the U.S. than left-wing violence. There is no both-sidesing it.

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV. To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.

(Reuters) - U.S. Marines have moved into Los Angeles and will take over protecting the Wilshire federal building in the coming hours, the head of the military's efforts in the city said on Friday.

“OMG they’re rioting in L.A.!!” Meanwhile, in the beautiful landscape that is Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles. 💙

Yeah, I haven't left my house since last Thursday when I went to DTLA for a blood test, then stopped at Superior to withdraw my rent money & pick up some tamales for Elderly Housemate. My Anglo sounding name and my mixed/Northeast Mexican heritage give me some privilege but even I don't feel safe.

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

Legs!

This is the curfew zone. So many people live there and major hotels are there. This is way bigger than the active protest zone. This is stupid.

besides newsom, i literally have no clue if a single other democrat has said anything about the president's ongoing war against multiple american cities + preemptive attempt to grab more power by taking control of the largest state's national guard without permission of its governor

NEW -- When Trump wanted his defense secretary to order soldiers to shoot Americans back in 2020, Mark Esper told him no. This time, Trump has a solid "yes" man in that job in Pete Hegseth. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...