In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

One of my favorite recurring things on Shark Tank is how a bunch of times when Kevin O'Leary makes an effort other Sharks who previously weren't interest will jump in and make a competing offer because they clearly all find him really damn annoying

Axon wants police to push a button and let AI write police reports and create the formal written record of officer encounters and use of force incidents. Does this make you feel safe?

This bit from Ars Trchnica seems to be the most important takeaway: The trillion dollar possibility will get lots of attention, but it’s also based on bold long term goals. Musk can be a replacement level CEO and still reap obscene rewards. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Have to wonder whether the incredibly over-the-top arrest with full tactical team wielding drawn weapons and riot shields - and gloating White House post about it - influenced Sandwich Guy verdict. nypost.com/2025/08/15/u...

ICE treatment of facial recognition matches as a definitive ID is reckless and dangerous. There is virtually universal agreement — even by police that promote the tech — that treating matches as defintive IDs is irresponsible.

EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

so far, grand and petit juries are the institutions with the best track record in standing up to authoritarianism

Yes, a photo can tell a recruiter the applicant's race, gender, and maybe other protected traits like disability or religion, but not much else. SO IT'S REALLY EFFING ILLEGAL TO MAKE HIRING DECISIONS THIS WAY.

He beat the wrap.

Smart takedown by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social on Meta claim that it's smart glasses are no different than a phone: It's not just that recording with these glasses is (obviously) more inconspicuous, Meta's made central design and selling point that they're inconspicuous! Have cake, eat it too.

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Once more, for old times’ sake

This appears to be happening at the same time ICE is pushing its facial recognition app out to the cops it’s deputizing into immigration enforcement with 287(g) ICE is treating facial recognition matches as definitive IDs, a lax standard that police departments have consistently rejected as unsafe

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Assault With A Deli Weapon

The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Scary stuff reported by @404media.co @josephcox.bsky.social: DHS (which was just revealed to be ignoring basic standards by using facial recognition as a definitive ID) appears to be handing out the tech to local police it's deputizing for immigration enforcement www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Yup. There’s an entire class of pundits and commentators across the ideological spectrum that every election will immediately and with pathological certainty preach how the results confirm their priors on running Left/Center/Populist/Pragmatic/Whatever Get ready for it tonight, and ignore them.

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock www.404media.co/flock-logins...

It’s not that we (meaning the broader we) decided we didn’t like the solution. We decided we didn’t like the accuracy.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

The Purge, 2013 lataco.com/federal-immi...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Congrats to @jamellebouie.net on prevailing in the great "Actually Getting Chopotle and Food Delivery Is Cheaper Than Cooking!" debate of 2025 finance.yahoo.com/news/chipotl...

Counterpoint: No there's not, and it is obvious to anyone with a fourth grade reading level

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

DHS’s patented response to anything that proves they didn’t tell the truth is just to go on the attack, without offering any factual rebuttal.

My guess would be … 1642.

Treating facial recognition as a definitive ID is at odds with virtually every law enforcement agency in America that has policies & procedures for using the tech. Don't treat a match as a defintive ID is perhaps the most basic rule of the tech, including by DHS. These actions violate agency rules:

This is an incredibly irresponsible and dangerous way to treat facial recognition matches. Facial recognition is highly situation dependent and error prone. ICE's own internal communications from this year admit that facial recognition isn't even as reliable as fingerprinting for field IDs

Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

A huge concern with Meta's smart glasses potential use to stalk, harass, & dox people in sensitive spots, especially if combined with face recognition Meta says its camera indicator light will stop that. Yet @404media.co @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social show its already being used to spy on sex workers:

"Nearly half of ICE recruits failing open book written exam on constitutional and legal requirements for conducting stops, searches, and seizures: www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

A cool concept, but I'm pretty skeptical. Beyond the glasses blocking simply being insufficient to stop matches in some cases (as the article describes), police for years have been CGI-ing fake eyes or sections of faces onto incomplete photos and running AI scans of partially AI generated faces

Gonna go out on a limb and say waiting 4 month's after he became the party nominee and until literally the day before voting is not a "normal time" for endorsing

Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I think about this Globe mockup and the "Stop with the hysteria and hyperbole!" broad reaction it received all the time

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts. User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent. First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

Once again: "There's no law that authorizes the president to use federal troops for local crime control," says @lizagoitein.bsky.social.

An amazing story of this decade was the ADL turning all its fire on Israel critics while tech companies dismantled their censors and Hitler-lovers came roaring back.

Fascinating story: The first case (at least to my knowledge) of government using a "keyword search" style warrant for data on AI users: The government issued a warrant demanding info on users who entered a specific prompt into ChatGPT www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.