Theft and fraud? I bet it's theft and fraud.

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

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Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

“This sounds like the “move fast and break things” mentality of Silicon Valley we now realise is responsible for a level of damage we’re only just beginning to comprehend” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

5/31/2026- The Slush Fund www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ma...

Sure, the WaPo has no weather or sports desk, the Metro team has been gutted and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists have been laid off, but at least you can still find the worlds worst opinions.

CBS News Radio was shut down last week after being on the air for nearly a century. Brooke speaks with historian @abradschwartz.bsky.social about how CBS became the home of hard-hitting, on-the-spot news coverage for so many years: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Donald Trump's violent threats against both foes and supposed friends can't hide the truth: he's a humiliated bully on the world stage. https://bit.ly/43ARPAi

New publication #fisheries #foodsystems #politicalecology 🧪🌍🌊🐟

"John Roberts Literacy Test"

New "Antifa" bases just dropped...

Did a 10 minute interview on @france24.com earlier today, discussing ways in which Trump, RFK Jr, and Bhattacharya have dismantled US outbreak preparedness and response (I did indeed say “Marco Rubio is talking out of his behind, oops, at least I didn’t say bum 😉) youtu.be/Z9uC_9P4X40?...

“Their silence is a choice.”

The digital divide isn’t just about infrastructure. It’s about trust, skills, and the human support systems that help people stay connected, write Kyla Williams Tate and Colin Rhinesmith. They urge policymakers to restore the Digital Equity Act to sustain the ecosystems that digital equity requires.

"Berger Cookies are proof that our wives love us and want us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

FYI y'all

At the Center for Civil Rights and Technology's 2026 annual convening in Washington, D.C. on May 12, Justin Hendrix hosted a conversation with author and scholar Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, vice president of the center, about how to build collective power towards a better future.

In the UK, facial recognition is everywhere—but no statute authorizes it. Police rely on their own internal policies, and a recent High Court ruling refused to look beyond them. Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball considers the legal vacuum enabling Britain's surveillance boom.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. This is what experts say you need to know:

"Canada slipped into a technical recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in 1st quarter." And with CUSMA hanging on a thin thread, what's next might be worse ... continued recession, stagnation and maybe even depression (rare). 😐 www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

“Complete political control of science.” www.science.org/content/arti...

Today local groups in the San Francisco Bay area turned out to let @lowes-official.bsky.social know that their partnership with Flock, sharing customer data with law enforcement & ICE, is unacceptable. We are demanding Lowe's prioritize customer safety & drop their contract with Flock now!

Samsung workers in South Korea are demanding a share of record AI profits, challenging the surge of new tech fortunes https://restofworld.org/2026/samsung-south-korea-union-ai-profits/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1780104840

An @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode happening in real time, with even more gri(f)t.

99% of the chemicals in your food did not go through FDA review. Food and chemical makers instead used a loophole known as GRAS to bypass the FDA. And sometimes new, untested chemicals enter the market and cause a lot of trouble. buff.ly/f20n4WN

How massive bonuses for Samsung's employees in the memory division have sparked debate over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

NEW: Protesters call for Lowe’s to cancel their contract with Flock & remove Flock cameras from stores nationwide, starting in San Francisco. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

If all these people actually read and internalized the only book they own, we wouldn't be where we are. But as my Nani said "if wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Having seen several absolutely false posts purporting to show how great Trump's economy is compared to Biden's. The last one I saw, threw in statistics from 2020 (the last year of Trump's first term) and tried to pass that off has Biden's fault. Here's an honest comparison.

"As much of it as he can get, as much of it as he can put at the disposal of his monomaniacal dork squads, in order to support an imaginary someone, on another planet, in another life." (from February 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/what-do-you-...

World Cup 2026 $5 hot dog and a ticket night coming soon...

"The S&P 500 reform now under discussion is removing the requirement that companies be profitable (as SpaceX is not, as will be seen below)—but only for the largest 100 companies." The "Free" Market.

The First Amendment protects our freedom to anonymously criticize our government online. We can't let the Trump administration weaponize subpoena processes to unmask critics.

More than half of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than at any other point in their lives

A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from reality.

Love this idea that you need "tech literacy" to use AI, a tool you can learn to use in three minutes

According to Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage.

Warning DC folks, DO NOT go outside this weekend as you will not want to come back inside. Ever.

NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.

The true irony here is that Project 2025 itself was named in direct response to the 1619 Project, demonstrating how race is sitting at the center of their reactionary project, and in response to this, Project 2029 has no answers or remedy.

If I were a progressive very rich person this is where I'd put my money:

NEW: A @wired.com analysis of the data pub'd by the White House's Aliens.gov and the site's code shows ICE arrested hundreds of US citizens and includes what appears to be a pirated version of the X-Files theme song. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/white-...

Fourth Circuit judges: "We cannot allow our black robes to insulate us from taking notice of items in the public record" Supreme Court justices, actively stuffing black robes into their ear canals: LA-LA-LA we can't hear you ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Fine overview of a giant but surprisingly little-known environmental problem: Great Salt Lake is drying up, exposing 800 square miles of lake bed laced with toxic metals from industry, which get blown as dust over huge populated area.

We are continually forced to pay more and more for our own destruction.