Well, it makes sense in that he is inherently corrupt.

God@thegodshow.com · 24h ago

If the president votes by mail, then EVERY CITIZEN should be able to vote by mail.

Absolutely! #BookSky

Ordinarily, if you are recorded against your will, you can try to leave the area or otherwise resist. But many people are encountering smart glasses for the first time while at their job, especially those who interact with the public. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: buff.ly/NCRVnoe

Oh man, and the video doesn’t even have all of it. ADD THESE TO THE RECALL LIST: 🥖 Grand Central Bakery Potato Sourdough: METAL 🧊 Outshine Fruit Bars: GLASS 🐶 Oma’s Pride Canine Food: SALMONELLA 🥜 Prolon Almond & Cocoa Spread: UNDECLARED ALLERGENS 🫐 GreenWise Organic Frozen Berries: E. COLI

The one area of successful negotiation with Iran is rounding up dissidents + exiles, then turning them over to the regime who will torture + kill them.

Tegus Heike@tegusheike.bsky.social · 7h ago

Trump promises ‘help is on its way’ and tells Iranians to ‘keep protesting’. Then during the war he deports Iranian refugees of the regime to be tortured and murdered. Pure madness

You'd think one of the first things they'd learn in spy school is not to drop your illegal recording device while infiltrating a church. But then, the administration cut ICE agents' training time in half + fired most of he instructors.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5h ago

NEW: An undercover ICE agent’s dropped recording device revealed a purported operation that religious groups say violates a court order barring most immigration enforcement in/near churches. Now the groups want ICE held in contempt. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

It's worth stressing that we only know about ICE's secret surveillance of anti-ICE meetings through the discovery process initiated by the government's prosecutions of protesters. There is likely a lot we don't know, and that's alarming (as I try to show the piece/thread below).

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h ago

NEWS --> A group of religious organizations suing DHS just alleged that agents violated an ongoing court order when they secretly infiltrated a church in Minneapolis to conduct covert surveillance on anti-ICE meetings. Full backstory in my reporting and thread below.

I'd classify death as a serious adverse health consequence.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 8h ago

The FDA has upgraded a recall of blueberries to the highest risk level, indicating a reasonable chance of "serious adverse health consequences or death" from E. coli contamination.

Way too much ragescrolling before my first cup of coffee. So I clicked at random + ended up at Crockett Hills Regional Park in the East Bay (Contra Costa County). The open space of the East Bay is one of the gems of California. There are miles of blissfully quiet trails through the hills.

Sunset from the back porch.

“The ICE and Border Patrol agents who murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti have been hidden away and protected, while DHS turns its attention towards spying on union members, civil rights organizations, churches and individuals who stood up for their community in whatever ways they were able.”

Union members, activists defiant in the face of federal surveillance • Minnesota Reformer

Unions, progressive organizations and churches that were the subjects of a wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Department of Homeland Security are presenting a unified message: We will not be i...

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I have found my soulmate.

www.samsung-news.com/articles/Ps3... Too late damage is done. You might of had some Texans still in your pocket here but that land is the pride of Texas and you molested and forever scarred it for a wall. When maybe .01% of immigrants come through the area.

I don't need you to like me. I need you to like YOU.

At one time my sister would simply say 'I have 3 big brothers.' When she started winning ribbons at Krav Maga, she was long past the need to invoke us; now she teaches martial arts. I can see a specific move created for idiots using those glasses. Why'd they assume there wouldn't be consequences?

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.

Instagram vowed to crack down on Meta glasses creeps. A month later, it was easy to find dozens of the videos still up.

Instagram said it would remove harassing videos filmed with Meta AI glasses. Weeks later, dozens remain.

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As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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www.tomsguide.com/ai/meta-file... Data which Meta will archive and ultimately sell or use to manipulate you.

Meta files patent for AI facial recognition glasses that identify people around you and record automatically

Meta has patented AI glasses that could recognize your friends, detect when they laugh and decide which moments are worth saving.

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Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI

Futurism@futurism.com · last mo.

"This isn't something we normally test for."

"An accessible tool does not have to be an intrusive one," writes Ariana Aboulafia of CDT. She argues Meta used disability rights as a Trojan horse for facial recognition that threatens the privacy of people with and without disabilities.

For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought

Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.

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Meta is going back to court as more states argue that the company is a “public nuisance” because it hid evidence that their products cause harm to kids. We talk to Jake Ward about the trials and the “fring legal theory” that circumvented section 230 and cracked the code on suing platforms.

BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫@bostonjoan.bsky.social · 7d ago

Direct link to the discussion on audio: www.youtube.com/live/EeJujaa...

Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.

Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.

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An army unit is offering some soldiers a 4-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI as an incentive to reenlist for a minimum of two years. Twenty soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army's 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion have already chosen this incentive. www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-t...

Army unit offers 4-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI as reenlistment incentive

Eligible soldiers must reenlist for a minimum of two years and up to six years.

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On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.

Human exploitation on a grand scale: www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...

Monterey couple who housed nearly 300 in greenhouses pleads no contest

Two Monterey County property owners have pleaded no contest to crimes related to housing hundreds of agricultural workers and their families in unpermitted dwellings.

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Anyone telling an author not to mention their books here can go fuck themselves Also anyone telling anyone else how to run their own social media accounts can go fuck themselves too If the way someone does their thing here bothers you, unfollow/mute/block them, but you don't get a vote otherwise

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d ago

A Bluesky user has written to me to ask me to stop mentioning my books on here. I wonder... Should I continue trying my best to make a living in a tough world via the writing I've spent decades putting my heart & soul into? Or should I obey them? Nah. I'm going to continue mentioning my books.

Two new California land deals have added hundreds of acres to Big Sur’s scenic backcountry while protecting hiking trails and tributaries that flow to the region’s steelhead-supporting rivers.

Big Sur’s famous wilderness just got bigger as national forest expands

Two new California land deals have added hundreds of acres to Big Sur’s scenic backcountry while protecting hiking trails and tributaries that flow to the region’s steelhead-supporting rivers.

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Is it me or is the new mayor of New York City getting an intense amount of -to-day coverage unlike other recent mayors?

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

New Yorkers sweat the small stuff, so why shouldn't their city government?    From potholes to permits to parents needing a night off, there is no problem too big — and no task too small — for us to tackle.

Didn't take long for the Attorney General to break the law. How's that disbarment, going by the way?

James Hughes@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here are 10 ways Trump and his allies tilted the midterms in their favor before anyone cast a vote.

Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...

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