Cisco, IBM, and the data center lobby is trying to kill an *already existing* right to repair law in Colorado by massively fearmongering lawmakers into exempting their tech under the guise of "security" of "critical infrastructure" www.404media.co/data-center-...

What the US wants is the reopening of the Hormuz Strait; Iran will not open it in exchange for empty promises - Senior Iranian Source.

In two weeks the national press corps is going to laugh at his jokes and applaud him at their annual Hilton dinner for being a fun and interesting president to write about

For those still backing the phone bans/social media bans for kids, you need to understand: This. Has. Nothing. To. Do. With. Mental. Health This is a reactionary move to squash dissent in young people.

truly beyond parody

My newest piece examines the expanding fallout from the BillGates-JeffreyEpstein scandal. Sorry, Bill—-the attack on Iran will not save you from accountability. timschwab.substack.com/p/buffett-di...

Imagine how good it must feel to shoot down a $100 million dollar plane invading your country.

It’s unclear to me what the “markets,” in their inexhaustible wisdom, think will happen if Trump does pull a Taco. Oil prices aren’t gonna drop if tankers have to pay a $2m Ayatoll to pass through the straight. 17% of the world’s LNG is offline for 3-5 yrs. Gulf States aren’t gonna feel secure.

“Fuck ADA” and “no crips allowed”

This fucking guy. One disappointment after another.

5 just how routine and normalized the answer to EVERYTHING in America is more cops, more cops, more cops. To do every job. TSA unpaid? More cops! Congress can’t budget? More cops! To *me* there is intimidation by their mere presence, but I feel like their PR move is not to conjure fear but normalcy…

The historic irony that Tiger Woods can't drive.

I never need to watch a baseball game on Netflix ever again #openingnight #yankees

Cannot wait to hear the justification for shutting down Sora but I imagine the actual reason is that Disney suspected they were being swindled and could not work AI into their workflows without audiences noticing.

Iran has created a "Q route" (a cleared maritime passage through an area that may be mined or otherwise closed) and they're charging a $2 million toll per ship to pass through.

"I feel such deep rage that the wealthiest country in the world would inflict this totally needless misery on its poor, tiny neighbor. A billionaire president is taking these destitute people’s last means of eking out a living—and for what?"

From a disability studies scholar and cs professor: bsky.app/profile/frac...

It was and is a science. Science can be done for terror. That doesn't make it not science. It doesn't help to try and paint it as "not science" because then we can fool ourselves into regarding certain things as safe and cozy real science when they're still doing harm.

Richmond PD has paid over a million bucks to Flock, a controversial Atlanta-based surveillance-tech firm backed by right-wing billionaires. My investigation for the @richmonder.bsky.social compares RPD's claims about the system to independent scholarship, national reporting, and city payment data.

I'm not a scholar, I just consume the product, this is becoming so clear to me, read superb work, a phd thesis, some papers, then nothing. Also depressing is how few people do read this excellent work, which is often freely available, instead choosing some popular media bad version.

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023 (1/4)

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

This is false. Jamal Harrison Bryant, a Megachurch pastor, has said the boycott is over. He is not leaders, plural. He and his church were not the ones to start the calls for boycott. Nekima Levy Armstrong, who founded the Racial Justice Network, and other Minnesota civil rights activists were.

BREAKING: the 52.0c/gal weekly rise in the national average price of gasoline is now the fifth largest ever recorded by GasBuddy data going back to 2000.

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank. A short 🧵 #nzpol

NYU is, at this point, doing censorship on behalf of a political position that is more conservative than the average *American*, let alone Democrat

I have been saying for many years that a reason to watch F1 is every weekend you can watch someone like Lawrence Stroll find out that spending infinity money doesn't actually make them smarter and better than everyone else

Another reminder that billionaires are not billionaires because they are smart. They are rich because they are broken in a way that allows them to completely ignore morality in order to gather more wealth in a doomed attempt to fill the unfillable hole inside them.

That escalated quickly.

Yes, and I recall illuminating @deathpanel.bsky.social epidode with @lizjackson.bsky.social and @fractalecho.bsky.social about the history and ongoing practice of technologies co-created with disabled people for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war when they discussed the article.

I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse newrepublic.com/article/1793...

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

Iran can make Americans hate this war with One Weird Trick

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

Paramount making war propaganda with a guy credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Israel bombed 170 elementary school girls… What is there to even say…

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

I don't really have words for how embarrassing it is that they are willing to do this crybully authoritarianism to assert dominance. Like way more embarrassing than the usual behavior.

I deleted my earlier post about this because it was unclear from the media articles [and Oz's comments] that the enrollment moratorium is on new *suppliers.*

Comments are stressing me out. In all likelihood, the reason he shouted that was because it was his biggest fear that he'd shout it.

Not only is this a betrayal to core campaign promises, he’s using neoliberal rhetoric to paint libraries as “costs” rather than capacity. i.e. what @moneyontheleft.bsky.social calls Neoliberal Public Finance. moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

News: Nancy Guthrie has gone missing Also: - Nest cameras store data even when you're not subscribed - Third party ALPRs have questionable efficacy - Modern pacemakers transmit a unique and trackable BLE signal - Walmart is happy to let the FBI comb through their sales records and user data

this is so funny to me liberals literally don’t understand positions further left than them exist

You should search his name in the Epstein files

king no more

trans women are women, trans men are men, and none of us will vote for gavin newsom