Asking journalists to sign a pledge not to disclose anything the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see just as Pentagon is: -sending troops into US cities -illegally murdering alleged low level drug runners -possibly preparing to invade Venezuela

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

one of the things that was most jarring about being undercover in nazi chatrooms for my book was how often violent videos were posted in the channels. executions, murders, blood. purposeful desensitization to violence can be detached from ideology and just entail inurement to the sight of death

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Bolsonaro found guilty of plotting a coup. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

He and Maxwell tried to have a baby in secret. She helped distribute $1.8 million in gifts and wire transfers to underage girls and powerful men. They coordinated efforts to discredit women who came forward. And she nurtured Epstein’s ties to the world’s elite.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

We begged Korea for factory investments. Our visa system is too slow (and was shut down altogether for a while earlier this year) , so they used ESTA/B-1 workarounds. Now we're raiding the sites and halting the investments we wanted. 22 projects frozen. www.kedglobal.com/business-pol...

Unfortunately, I expect that the fact they won a pretty resounding fair use victory is going to be lost in much of the coverage. They lost on downloading & storing the LibGen dataset, but the actual act of training on copyrighted material (and making their own ebooks) was a win.

Breaking: In landmark agreement, AI firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors and publishers. Story to follow.

Wild story on the stillborn death of a baby via surrogate, which truly has it all—capitalism run amok, America's unregulated surrogacy industry, maternal mortality crisis, VC hubris, class conflict, weaponization of fetal personhood laws, Facebook echo chambers. www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

"Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital, where she was often based. [...] Dagga was killed Monday by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, according to health officials."

The whiplash is dizzying. “Just a few hours before the Supreme Court decision, I got an e-mail that I was able to resume spending,” one researcher tells @dangaristo.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social. Now, the grant is likely to be cut again. “It’s heartbreaking.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

3/ Halimi initially wonders if Musk’s accusation is an April Fool’s joke. After all, the decades of work he had done consulting for U.S. diplomats wasn’t in service of the Taliban; it was the opposite. Little did he know his nightmare was just beginning.

LOL. Some humor in today's insane political corruption news.

Ukraine's vital Starlink access largely comes down to the unofficial community of users and engineers that keep it running. Welcome to "The People's Starlink" New Big Story from @charliemetcalfe.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...

A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Hey local news lovers - LA’s hardest working journalist is going to be out of action while he heals up. Can we show @acatwithnews.bsky.social some love and financial support while he takes the time to recover without worrying about making ends meet ❤️ venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews

RFK Jr. used to warn about a government takeover of our data. He said wearables and their tech were part of a plot to surveil us, enabled tyranny, caused cancer, and turned users into “permanent consumers” to Big Tech. Now, he'd like your data, please. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

I feel like people tell a story in their head about who people in Gaza are- but some are bad ass women who ran a gym.

SCOOP: We filed a Freedom of Information Act Request and received hundreds of pages of documents about the system access DOGE members Edward Coristine and Donald Park received at the Small Business Administration. But nested in there was something even bigger... www.wired.com/story/edward...

wake up babe, a new modality of surveillance just dropped

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Scoop from @eileenguo.bsky.social - huge amounts of personal information are embedded in a major data set used to train AI models www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

The bottom line, says @willie-agnew.bsky.social, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” The paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17185

Another major AI privacy violation and, again, almost no way for injured individuals to get remedy—or even to know who stole or misused their sensitive personal data.

NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

The only kind of good cam is a surf cam

This is truly wild: @josephcox.bsky.social got the user manual for ICE's new facial recognition app, which appears to be one of the most powerful face rec systems ever because it is connected to tons of different government databases and surveillance systems www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

In a stunning reversal, the Senate voted 99-1 this morning to strip from Trump's big bill a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. Gift link to my story on how it happened and who's celebrating: wapo.st/3TOyiaG

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

This will go down as one of the most important AI Ethics piece.

Deeply disturbing, deeply urgent reporting by @dmehro.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social into how unprepared ICE detention centers are to handle growing #s of detainees and medical emergencies—and how little oversight exists, since Trump gutted the oversight offices. www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

LOL "Your [public records request] email was deleted without being read." Love when public agencies are transparent. Nice job, SFPD.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

A military ethics professor resigns in protest: "Civilian faculty at America’s military schools...are told that academic freedom still exists, but that their institutions are following directives from Hegseth that...seem aimed at ending academic freedom." www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”

This guy in Missouri saw the strike package as it headed out of Whiteman AFB and tweeted it 24 hrs ago

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...