“Why is climate action so difficult?” Mainly because the people who benefit most from not acting just made $93 billion, about $700,000 per minute, in three months. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Getting tired of memes like this going around every time we have bad forest fires. We are not adequately angry at the the Epstein class, the end times fascists and their boot licking troll armies. Time to get in touch with our anger? #memes #fascism #forestfires #fossilfuels #climatechange

This matters a lot because people are constantly asking me if they should set up a duress passcode in order to fool law enforcement.

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New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

This seems like a step in the right direction against #surveillanceCapitalism in the workplace. thenextweb.com/news/uk-trib... The stuff companies are getting away with in terms monitoring employees should honestly be enough to spark a revolution against the machine(s). #ethics #workersRights

I formally propose that the preamble before the main section of LLM output be called the "gotcha". Because it's a gotcha moment when we see brainless repetition of #AI text like this #Canadian politician did. Also the AI agent is mimicking cognition saying I gotcha, you want this, not that.

ICYMI: i have my own bit part in this drama. @404media.co revealed that Madison Square Garden was keeping a dossier on me, in a folder titled "facial recognition activists." To be fair, I am a facial recognition activists. @fightforthefuture.org has led some of the most prominent campaigns on this

Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition

The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.

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"“It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,” said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert. Boutry and Bill Buddington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both said they had not seen a similar case."

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

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My friend @dawndreams.bsky.social sent me this video and honestly it's amongst my favourite videos ever. I raise my hat to you Donttarob (not sure if they are on here) for your socio political analysis of backyard animals. #politics #video #analysis #funny #economics #animals #capitalism

First, the VPD said they couldn't explain how they would spend $1.4 million city council gave them to police five blocks of Granville for seven weeks because it was an operational matter. Then they said they were still figuring out their plans. Now they're saying it's too complicated to reveal.

Gee, seems like the arrest of Meta exec Josh Felker for sexting a child and Meta’s history of consistently lax standards around child protection might be related

Jeff Horwitz@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it. AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting

He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.

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WTF is this cringe FIFA anthem? Gross. #FIFA #WorldCup

The Hidden $19 Billion Cost of Canada's Wildfires Canada doesn't escape paying for climate change damages. Economist Dave Sawyer lays out the costs imposed on healthcare, workplaces, etc. by wildfire smoke. @enviroeconomics #cdnpoli youtu.be/KVrI7deOoSM

The Hidden $19 Billion Cost of Canada's Wildfires

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This is a level of billionaire surveillance & control (and downright pettiness) that should send chills down all of our spines. To what lengths will Jim Dolan go to assess the "risk score" of MSG attendees? And why in the world would his enterprise identify their sexual orientation in a database?

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

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Holy shit the accuracy

B.C. First Nation challenges dredging plan to accommodate larger tankers in Vancouver cheknews.ca/b-c-first-na... True leadership coming from Tsleil Waututh Nation while Carney and Eby and others keep trying to make things worse. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

B.C. First Nation challenges dredging plan to accommodate larger tankers in Vancouver

A British Columbia First Nation says it has launched a legal challenge against a plan by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to dredge Burrard Inlet to make room for oil tankers with larger loads to o...

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A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over. Read now: www.404media.co/footage-show...

Another gross abuse of ALPR surveillance tech by a law enforcement officer in pursuit of a woman he refers to as 'a shiny thing.' This tech should be BANNED. Dozens of cities are working to do so- join them & fight back. Get the toolkit: www.flockout.org www.local10.com/news/local/2...

Keys deputy misused official databases to pursue woman he met on set of ‘Bad Monkey’: MCSO

An arrested Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy misused official law enforcement databases in pursuit of a woman he met on the set of the television show “Bad Monkey,” according to documents obtained by Loc...

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social media platforms that operate to maximize engagement, nazi ideology built on hate and rage, weak regulation and enforcement... democracy is dying before our eyes and big tech is fuel powering it www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD

Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts

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Good morning. Everything is totally normal in the world. Carry on. #dogsofbluesky #dog

The Merlin Bird ID app will soon allow users to contribute data to monitor bird populations and aid conservation efforts. The project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app was funded by NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which was gutted by the Trump regime. 🪶

Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Evacuation ordered for events at National Mall as storms gather near Washington ahead of Trump's July 4th speech.

Presidential historians say no other president ever entered into new business enterprises just before moving into the White House. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History

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I wonder if anyone bet on the chances of this happening? 🙃 Polymarket says hackers stole users' funds | @techcrunch.com @lorenzofb.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/p... #cybersecurity #infosec #hackers

Polymarket says hackers stole users' funds | TechCrunch

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...

Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey Globe

The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies

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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone | @techcrunch.com @lorenzofb.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/e... #cybersecurity #ethics #cryptography #privacy #AI

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone | TechCrunch

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

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Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”

Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site For ‘Canvassaing’

“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”

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“Surveillance infrastructure is just that: infrastructure,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @nytimes.com. “It will outlast the current World Cup and leave cities with drastically more surveillance to be used on a day-to-day basis."

U.S. World Cup Cities Are on a Counterdrone Spending Spree

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