is coffeezilla getting a pulitzer

The news from Scotland

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

This is what real media literacy looks like now

when It happens I'm posting hole

BIG MAN

the opposite of a death threat is a death treat

Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"

Joe spent years trying to ingratiate himself with members of the Epstein class and is now at the center of a sprawling nexus of pedophiles and powerful figures trying to cover up their crimes. Real monkey paw shit.

Authoritarianism 101: the sloppiness is a feature, not a bug. It directs money to regime cronies (Palantir), discretion to paramilitaries, and fear to citizens. A system designed for legitimate law enforcement or border control would not fulfill these goals as well.

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

Joe spent years trying to ingratiate himself with members of the Epstein class and is now at the center of a sprawling nexus of pedophiles and powerful figures trying to cover up their crimes. Real monkey paw shit.

This is evil

🔥🔥🔥🔥 -- Not business as usual.👇 "When Wired senior reporter Dell Cameron, who covers different forms of surveillance, commented, “I don’t like this,” Wyden reposted the comment." @hcrichardson.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @dell.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5...

It can be hard to keep up with EVERYTHING that the Trump admins is doing—and planning to do—right now with ICE and Border Patrol around the US So @wired.com created the ICE Tracker newsletter to ensure you know exactly what's happening....and it's FREE Sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...

Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:

Follow the gang go.bsky.app/Acr6kiY

WaPo dumped its local desk ... to write local stories about NYC? 🤔

In an opinion dismissing Trump's attempt to get an unredacted copy of Oregon's complete voter registration list, a federal judge cites Bondi's extortion letter to Gov. Walz as support for denying the government a presumption of regularity storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thousands of high school students rally against ICE in downtown Seattle 👏🏼

Meet the brain geniuses that RFK Jr has put on a key US government autism committee. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

NEW: Defense attorneys for a Minnesota man convicted last year of dragging ICE officer Jonathan Ross are seeking access to training records and other files tied to him killing Renee Nicole Good, arguing the files could affect post-trial motions and sentencing. www.wired.com/story/jonath...

Epic investigative journalism by @wired.com www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:

I'll be at State of the Net on Monday chatting with @scottwiener.bsky.social at 4:15pm ET. Come say hi!

Canadians need to stop fighting one another with their penises.

anyone else playing cairn?

Every American needs to watch this:

Facial recognition on the streets is bad. Facial recognition that claims to identify people but can’t is worse. Facial recognition that skipped over the limited privacy and accuracy protocols that you might hope for is our current reality. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

"Mobile Fortify’s primary function is to expand the number of photos and biometric data that DHS collects by shifting its collection from ports of entry to routine ICE encounters far from US borders."

NEW: ICE will soon spend up to $50 million to anchor a regional transfer hub in the Upper Midwest run by private contractors. An internal forecast reviewed by WIRED points to a Minnesota town with a long-dormant prison. ICE is looking to ship people up to 400 miles across 5 states.

This important story, which details the dangers of ICE and CBP’s face-recognition app, is available to read for free, thanks to @wired.com's initiative in partnership with @freedom.press to unpaywall FOIA-based reporting. Other outlets should follow suit.

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

During the week after Pretti was killed by DHS, Fox News made at least 75 claims blaming Pretti for his own death or contradicting video evidence.

This is a clear-cut scenario where the press can definitively say either the president or his chief intel advisor is lying. This isn’t a debate over internal states. There’s no room for self delusion here.

the chess move here is to give him dulles so when we inevitably change it again we can then not have an airport named after one of the dulleses

“military grade” is a dumb marketing term and vague noun modifier that literally means whatever you want. it doesn’t identify any actual capability & is also basically an admission that you’re describing something the military doesn’t use.

Insane that this was even a question. I deal with this all the time. “What do you mean you want to depose our boss? He’s a very special boy. How dare you.”

In the DOJ's Epstein documents, Lawrence Krauss, facing a complaint of sexual misconduct, noted Australia's plaintiff friendly defamation laws: "We may need to initiate a lawsuit (and against Gizmodo in Australia, where basically anyone can sue and win)"

Commercial AI is rarely built to be fit for purpose, and yet they're used regardless in safety critical applications they're not intended for, becoming a tool to avoid accountability while enabling indiscriminate harm. Something we've also seen in defense.

I'm reminded of how drug sniffing dogs are mainly there to let officers stall for time and generate probable cause for invasive searches through false positives

when i got started in journalism i met someone who worked at the post, and i legit thought were a fucking rockstar. writing for that paper was my dream at the time. it feels now like something essential has been amputated.

one thing i’d be very interested in reading is an oral history or investigative piece on border patrol, but also law enforcement more broadly, using simulated peril (eg, standing in front of a moving vehicle) to satisfy the conditions to perform a murder with “plausible” deniability.

accepting this is a reaction to “perceived threats” is called begging the question; rhetorically, laundering the presupposition that this justification (“immigration is a threat to free speech”), which is not substantiated, is its authentic motivation.