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What happens when you speak for a bit too long at a city council meeting in opposition to a data center being built in your town? In Claremore, Oklahoma, a man was arrested and charged with trespassing. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/man-opposing...

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

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this has been going on in non-fiction and low content books for a long time -- it was only a matter of time; Ms. Hart is selling access to her technique and developing proprietary tech, just taking advantage of how many people out there are desperate for some kind of income

I’m literally so tired of characters being treated like real people. I’m so tired of fans dictating art through the conduit of marketing and producers. Because that is what is happening when we hyper focus on something being made “right” and “by fans”. We are actually taking the microphone and-

Burke is a brilliant commentator and his insights are meaningful when it comes to critiquing "change" as a political idea. But change is not merely an idea or a choice, it is also a real phenomenon driven by historical forces outside of our conscious control.

Because liberals view police abuse as aberrant behavior as opposed to a systemic problem, their approaches to combatting it involve saddling departments with procedural hurdles as opposed to outright just limiting their power.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

NEW from me: Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one. That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...

In the last several months, @ddosecrets.com has been powering through archives of Epstein emails and files and releasing them for free to the public. No DoJ meddling, no institutional power making decisions about what to release. They sure could use your help tho... DONATE donorbox.org/ddosecrets

“In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.” Editor @adriennebuller.bsky.social and @geoffmann.bsky.social write for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

Karl Barth's words on the Christmas message: barthcenter.substack.com/p/the-conten...

I saw the new Knives Out film the other week and I kind of have mixed feelings about it.

Great rundown of the Section 230 debate and why its necessary to preserve by @backdrifting.net! backdrifting.net/post/078_sec...

Looking back, I actually think this essay kind of sucks and is like 70% wrong. It was stuck in draft hell for so long that I let myself fall into the Substack-slop trap.

This month at #beyond40, we got our founding chapters regularly meeting and are expanding our presence into the following regions: New York, the Bay Area, and West Massachusetts. Read more here: beyond40.codeberg.page/blog/recap/n...

New from 404 Media: the creator of ICEBlock just sued the U.S. government over it pressuring Apple to remove the app earlier this year. Says it violated his First Amendment rights. www.404media.co/iceblock-cre...

The NYT will pay a pittance to a woman on the verge of giving birth to make videos that they'll never air but will pay Bret Stephens $200k to write two 700-word columns a week like "Let's Return to the Feudal System"

Do you organize or run a group? Are you sick of planning tools that drown you with unnecessary features? Are you looking to get off Google Forms? Here's three FOSS planning tools I use in my own organizing work: notthesolution.substack.com/p/3-simple-f...

I'm by no means a nationalist. But when I see the kinds of people who are now claiming to represent America, it makes me start to ask some questions.

big ruling today

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/wh...

What a cancerous statement.

FULU has just started putting out bounties for hackers to try and revive abandoned smart devices. This seems like a great strategy and use of resources for the repair movement! bounties.fulu.org/bounties

Cutting down the Amazon has devastating impacts on endangered ape species

I found this old draft from July lying around on my hard-drive, went ahead and published it since I doubt I'll be polishing it up further: notthesolution.substack.com/p/some-notes...

Infuriated to see how many of these stories end in ghosting. I hire people for $15-$17/hr customer service roles. Everyone who gets an interview gets an email after. If the local cafè can write back a barista, what’s your excuse?

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

They keep telling us that progress is inexhorable but why are all the interesting computers in the past www.inexhibit.com/case-studies...

Weird analogy but studying political theory is essentially like building a PC. You get obsessive about researching components (i.e. traditions/axioms) and once you've settled on something you'll be surprised at how quickly you stop caring. Because once you have what you need, why keep shopping?

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FWIW I agree... I'm co-author of ActivityPub and I wrote about combining ActivityPub and DIDs in 2017 github.com/WebOfTrustIn... (Also appears in the Bluesky proposal I co-authored with Jay back in the day, amongst other things gitlab.com/-/snippets/2... )

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Remember the "race to 5G" when it was essential to give telecoms anything they wanted (deregulation, tax cuts, subsides, whatever) to "defeat the dastardly Chinese," then when the U.S. ended up with shittier more expensive 5G suddenly lawmakers just stopped talking about it? good times

The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

One of the best critiques of the Abundance fad (as @resnikoff.bsky.social points out) is that it's literally just this meme but reversed. publiccomment.blog/p/the-groups...

This entire article is just one massive testament to the pathological stupidity of MBAs. fortune.com/2025/08/17/c...

Just read the newest American Affairs issue and its so slop. Half of this has nothing to do with industrial policy and is just spitting out Substack-tier punditry on the usual rotation of culture-war topics.

Unless your social media platform is not just theoretically -- but also practically and actually decentralized -- it's not resistant to enshittification, period.

say what you will about skynet but at least it kept things platonic

Internet Forums are alive and well, and I have tried to create the most extensive list of active, interesting or useful niche communities I could find. Here is that list, for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/best-active-...

@afrocicero.bsky.social On the odd chance you've read this essay ("What Was Wrong with Dred Scott, What's Right About Brown"), I wanted to ask what your thoughts were on it. From what I've read, it takes a pretty interesting angle. scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

When my friend asked for recommendations for FOSS audiobook players and I suggested "either Cozy or Voice" I took a step back and realized we have a problem on our hands. notthesolution.substack.com/p/brief-and-...

Pratik Chougule wants to make wagering on politics as popular and legal as wagering on sports. Is that all in good fun—or a bad bet for democracy?

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