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Hypertoroidal Pan

@christbot.bsky.social

Age 44. Warning ⚠️: sarchasm ahead.

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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is concerning for a zillion reasons but, a dispensary in Michigan went viral for blocking a Flock camera in its parking lot designed to create a record of every car that goes there. Easy to imagine this being used in abortion, gender affirming care cases

It is not difficult to imagine police in one state using Flock to track a resident of their state cross state lines to, for example, obtain an abortion that is legal in one state but not in another. Last year, 404 Media reported on police in Texas who searched more than 80,000 cameras across Flock’s nationwide network for a woman who had a self-administered abortion. The case is also particularly concerning considering that Flock cameras have popped up outside of weed dispensaries in Michigan. The JARS Cannabis dispensary in Madison Heights, Michigan, went viral this week for putting a “No Flock Zone” sign in front of a Flock camera in the dispensary’s parking lot. “We share our community’s concerns about increased surveillance, which is why we placed the No Flock Zone sign in front of the camera to block its ability to record,” the dispensary said in a public statement. “JARS does not control the camera or have access to any of the data it collects … after we installed our No Flock Zone sign, the city issued a demand letter warning of sanctions if we did not remove it within 48 hours.” But that Flock camera exists specifically to monitor the license plates of people who come and go to the dispensary. It was required by Madison Heights as one of the conditions for giving a dispensary license to JARS: “[The dispensary] must place a FLOCK license plate scanning camera system at the entrance of the customer parking lot prior to commencement of retail sales, and it will give the Madison Heights Police Department unhindered live access to the FLOCK camera, camera footage, and any and all data, which must remain operational at all times.”
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7h ago

As opposition to data centers grows across the United States, the tech industry is "pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks" to bypass it, write Dean Jackson and Samantha Totoni—from nonprofit front groups to super PACs to tightly managed public forums.

Big Tech’s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents

The tech industry is pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks to bypass and securitize public opposition, write Dean Jackson and Sam Totoni.

techpolicy.press

Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid@andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 19h ago

Girl, same. When I used to be on Facebook, I had so many people private messaging me about their LC (I'm a therapist.) They were not posting about it publicly. Many of these people knew each other, yet they all swear they don't know anyone who has long COVID, and *they* have Anything But Long COVID.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

if you think you’d don’t know anyone with longcovid, but you don’t use any mitigation yourself, consider: yes you do, they just may not feel safe enough to tell you.

Hypertoroidal Pan@christbot.bsky.social · 19h ago

Yeah, we don’t want the situation of our munitions to be “oops: all nukes” because that’s sets up an excuse to use them. We gotta restock that as a country ffs. 🤦

US military has used up nearly 80% of key missile interceptors as commanders warn stockpiles ‘dangerously low,’ sources say | CNN Politics

The US military has exhausted nearly 80% of its interceptors for a key missile defense system as senior US military commanders are warning that the Pentagon’s munitions stockpile is “dangerously low,”...

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 20h ago

🚨Someone did, in fact, take a knife to the Reflecting Pool! 🚨 Only it was a National Park Service engineer, trying to stop the peeling from worsening. “The government’s own engineer determined that it was better to cut off the peeling sections than to let them flap around."

Olympic canoeist charged by Pirro seeks to permanently sink Reflecting Pool case

Amid Trump’s criticism of the decision to drop the case, attorneys for David “Davey” Hearn said prosecutors shouldn’t be allowed to try to bring new charges.

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iNaturalist@inaturalist.bsky.social · 21h ago

"It is giving evil Olaf from Frozen," as said by the observant person who captured these amazing photos of an insect-colonizing fungus species, Erynia rhizospora, on a caddisfly.

A caddisfly with dark wings resting on a leaf. Its body is coated in fuzzy white fungus.A person's fingertip holding up a green leaf, seen from below, with small dark specks along its surface. The caddisfly is a small speck on the leaf. Green foliage in the background.Close-up of a caddisfly on a green leaf, its body covered in dense white fungal growth with dark markings that look like eyes and a mouth.Extreme close-up of the white, fuzzy fungus covering the insect's body, with two dark spots and a dark opening below them.
Hypertoroidal Pan@christbot.bsky.social · 20h ago

Waiting in line at the ups store a guy told me he lets his Tesla drive for him 95% of the time and he’s so super impressed his AI figured out his name is Jerry (not our Jerry or my friend Jerry lol) without him telling “her”. Uhhhhhh…

Santa Fe Public Library@sfnmpl.bsky.social · yesterday

"The Baroque library has cherubs sequestered randomly about, gilded ornamentation, moody paintings on the ceiling, elaborately carved woodwork, and best of all, the smell of very old books!" bookedsolidinsantafe.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/l...

Libraries Worth Visiting : Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland

by Christina S The Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland is the quintessential over the top romantic European library. The Baroque library has cherubs sequestered randomly about, gilded ornament…

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Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ok. But then Melanie Wood’s comments re OpenAI and Erdos conjecture: “It is easy to draw incorrect conclusions about the current state of AI and research mathematics. In many cases, it will be easier for AI to convince humans it has a proof than to come up with a correct mathematical argument.”