I think the response to seeing these weapons deployed by ICE while they’ve been in use for policing, even at schools, is an excellent demonstration of how effectively policing is propagandized here in the US.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2d ago

In early August, ICE revealed plans to purchase $20 million worth of electric-shock gloves. Police departments, jails, and even school resource officers across the country have used the gloves for years—though human rights groups like Amnesty International say they’re “readily misused for torture.”

I will not be forgiving people. I will not: Someone should be I. Charge of healing and forgiveness for those who will. It is not in my ministry . They thought hating trans people and stifling Black people was more important than a functioning world They chose that

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tough talk for a guy actively losing a war so pointless his troops are throwing themselves into the ocean

Surveillance carcinisation is when everything becomes ankle monitor.

Today in luxury surveillance.

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors

Comcast is activating free Wi-Fi motion sensing on Xfinity gateways, allowing its routers to detect movement at home.

theverge.com

Honestly, just saying this should get these people charged with criminal fraud, given their positions, expected knowledge of how false this is, and how they personally profit from creating a narrative like this.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...

Scam economy. The sort of nonsense that should result in a competency hearing, reported on as if it were a credible claim.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...

Once again have to point out this entire “HR training” frame is applied exclusively to modules dealing with sexual harassment and not being a bigot in the workplace.

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 5d ago

As silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter

An eternally relevant statement right here.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d ago

They have to use euphemisms because it sounds terrible when you make it explicit.

We leave out the step where journalists publicly insult and embarrass the audience when they ask them to actually acknowledge how this is a pattern and has been for years .

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago

True to form, Meta says they will do something—in this case removing creep content—and it gets widely reported. Meta doesn’t really do the thing, but gets the credit until researchers, activists, or journalists point it out. Wash, rinse, repeat.

People are starting to note the prevalence of white academics who fail up and are rewarded after attacking Black people …. now do journalists . Or does it not count when white journalists convince you their theft is “social listening” or Black journalists call it “community work”

Law enforcement officers love giving confusing or contradictory orders, and then shooting people when they try to comply. See the shooting of Daniel Shaver. In order to follow their instructions (and not get shot), Shaver needed to somehow crawl, without moving, and without using his hands.

‘You’re Fucked’: The Acquittal of Officer Brailsford and the Crisis of Police Impunity | ACLU

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Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d ago

ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE

They aren’t doing this to appease anyone They are doing it because they can and they know the rest of academia will do nothing

John Aerni-Flessner@lesothojohn.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

Two children are without a father this week because the right could not stand the existence of a black man in their sacred halls of power, and that should be a lesson to everyone about giving *any* rightwing fever any air at all. Fuck the Telegraph.

Ironclad surveillance dictum: any failure of surveillance tech will be used as a rationale for more surveillance tech, and any success of surveillance tech will also be used as a rationale for more surveillance tech.

Exclusive: The Founders of Flock Say Their Surveillance Tech Would’ve Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case

In their first joint interview at the company’s sleek but rather deserted HQ in Atlanta, Flock cofounders Garrett Langley and Paige Todd deflect all the criticism and lament that they haven’t megaphon...

vanityfair.com

They plan on doing their worst things , during times of upheaval and turmoil. It’s not accidental they are it good actors And people stay stuck on triangulated nonsense instead of addressing the power imbalance within a “dynamic political environment”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

If GenAI was everything they claimed it was, they wouldn't need to do this, people would be clamouring for it, but they're not. The deception and brute force approaches are damning.

Little V@littlevmills.bsky.social · last wk.

Adding GenAI to everything and not telling you in hopes you don't turn it off is for sure a great sign that everyone likes it and it's a totally valid business and not a scam.

I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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Can Twitch please stop fucking everything up for just one goddamn month.

And that user base is always the most profitable and the people who are left out are “expendable” And the problems are their fault… Until they aren’t and then they are EVERYONES problem And those expendable people are always first

Cracked Lemonade@crackedlemonade.bsky.social · last wk.

Modern tech works until it has a large user base that swears by it and quietly stops working here and there but by then you're hooked and finding alternatives is hard

“So when supporters of mass surveillance talk about stopping ‘crime,’ keep in mind that Louisiana’s government now defines being poor in public as a crime.”

“When you submit to be surveilled, what you are doing is handing over a copious amount of power. So you’d better be very, very sure you can trust the people you hand it to—and even if you do, can you trust their successors, five or ten years from now?”

“AI-Powered” Surveillance Networks are Worse Than You Know

In New Orleans, everyone is being watched with facial recognition cameras and police drones—and your hometown might be next.

currentaffairs.org

This brings to mind the way white conservatives in the US talked about Jazz music and jazz clubs during the early days of Jazz. Lotta claims about it being "obscene", about it destroying public morality and being used to seduce white women. Nazi Germany called it "degenerate art".

TBSkyen@tbskyen.com · last wk.

Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.

Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · last wk.

if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.

Get out of the way! There's ten days to go until Early Access #indiedev #gamedev

So: - she’s quoting someone else - but she’s quoting someone else to try and promise that Hong will be more centrist - for someone whose media game is one of her biggest strengths ? She should have had a better answer - she doesn’t have a better answer because she didn’t think she’d need one

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.

Love living in a country where protesting the police killing Black people is a laughing matter for everyone seeking power. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Love living in a country where protesting the police killing Black people is a laughing matter for everyone seeking power. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Ocasio-Cortez on Hong positions: ‘Woke 1 was crazy’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday quoted a New York City Council member in describing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s (D) past positions, saying “Woke …

thehill.com

And on top of that, they were all focused on people of color Trans poc, especially trans black people, rarely get any representation in media at all, let alone children's media. So taking that away is a huge slap to the face.

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 2w ago

Disney has now shelved three episodes featuring storylines centered on transgender characters and gender identity. The episodes, from ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,’ ‘The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,’ and ‘Win or Lose,’ were either cut from release or have since leaked online.

So CNN is just openly suggesting that the Mayor of New York City should not be allowed to attend 9/11 memorial just because he is Muslim. "Some 9/11 families say" and it's one guy who doesn't even live in the city anymore and an online poll with no verification of the status of those polled.

Feministly explaining that young women are stupid lemmings that can't be permitted to make any decisions without my approval.

In a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"