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Aaron Vehling

@aaronvehling.com

Journalist in law, music, film, etc. Currently: Legal news pub. Also, Publisher/EIC/Words: Vehlinggo.com. Past: Stuff in City Pages (RIP), Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, and several newspapers. Rosendale, NY, via NYC via Minneapolis.

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jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · yesterday

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:

Aaron Vehling@aaronvehling.com · 4d ago

It’s funny to consider that in 30 years I’ll be in a retirement home where, as a group, we’ll sing such oldies as “Electric Feel” and “Young Folks.”

Jesse@requiemarm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Not everyone knows this but the name of that song by The Who is NOT ‘Teenage Wasteland’; it’s actually called ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ and it’s actually by the band Wheatus

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is insane. When I was in first grade my parents let me walk 3 blocks to school in the mornings, and home after it was over. The independence that I got as a child helped me so much in my life. No parent should face charges for something like this, let alone be convicted!

In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more. Parkinson said yes. It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning, she says. Off he went while she made lunch. A passerby saw Sam and alerted security. One of the community's security guards escorted the boy back and gave Parkinson an earful. Pretty soon there were three cop cars, just as many cops, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services (CPS) workers at Parkinson's door. CPS ended up investigating her for abuse and neglect. The cops, meanwhile, charged her with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CPS found the allegations substantiated and placed Parkinson on the state's child abuse and neglect registry. She will remain there for seven years.
Reason Magazine@reason.com · last wk.

A mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.

Emperor Norton@ashleynaftule.bsky.social · last wk.

Taking notes listening to BITCHES BREW and man, I could never write about jazz. Look at this nonsense: "ghost trumpets" "this shit owns" "my guy here playing the drums like they're on fire and he's trying to put them out" "anyone who says they can tell when one song ends & another begins is a liar"

David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...

ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database

As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.

wired.com

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · last wk.

Is Flock the only mass surveillance tool/network that people should be worried about? No. But it is an entry point for people from all walks of life to the fight against mass surveillance and I'm glad people are paying attention and taking action.