In many ways Snowden did nothing to promote privacy and surveillance reform in our society. In some ways it just created a blackpill, moving the Overton window from a society that had some expectations of privacy to a society that had an expectation of overwhelming and comprehensive surveillance.

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: ICE has drastically increased the number of people from whom it’s collecting DNA to enter into an FBI criminal database, including children as young as 4 and 5. @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...

Is that a lot. www.businessinsider.com/flock-camera...

Golden Kamuy 3 👍👍

Only when you begin to view every form of media through the lense of "violent and continuous psychologic assault" can you really start to come to grips with our current socio-political reality. #PsychicWWV #PsyWar

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

Really incredible analysis youtu.be/h3lTl8VPm9o?...

The violence of public Gooning/Andrew Tate//Israel-Palestine/Obscene Supplements/Žižek/Lacan/Fetish

YouTube video by Julian de Medeiros

youtu.be

Just dropped the latest version of Local-Pilot: github.com/DaveForan/lo... Includes support for #Opus5, notification support via #ntfy, and updates for the latest Claude SDK. If you're interested to control Claude on a device of your choice from a smartphone or laptop via #tailscale check it out.

@norvid-studies.bsky.social what models should I use since fable 5 won't let me work on cyber security or bio-chem?

whole new forms of trash talk dreamed up by the computer

𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was setting up home server remote access & sent qwen "is a hotdog a sandwich no hedging" as a test query & qwen ultimately said "yes". then I tabbed over & told claude about this and uh lol

Koyaanisqatsi

Casaubon@zas.bsky.social · last yr.

I think it’s crazy how cities do actually have veins under their skin

I want to visit Japan for many reasons, but the current highest is the possibility of meeting Robin the island cat: www.instagram.com/p/DajMhZNk6t8/

The entire "insurance" system needs to be destroyed and replaced with the "assurance" of health.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · 3w ago

dental insurance is such a scam. at a routine cleaning today, the dentist noticed something that she thought was odd and wanted to refer me to a specialist because she couldn't say for certain, except this is now a second consult in a year since i just moved, aka a $150 bill to me. Fucking bullshit.

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

wondering how that fly is doing after 4 mo in the matrix

Eris@isolyth.dev · 5mo ago

I did not realize that emulation was this far ahead. The previous iteration was able to do very simple behavior like extending and retraction a tongue based on smell, but now they have an uploaded fly brain capable of controlling a simulated fly. Won't be too long until lobsters at this rate

Here’s an in depth report on progress in brain emulation: arxiv.org/abs/2510.15745 A friend of mine who worked on this is quite confident that we’ll see human brain emulation in our lifetime.

State of Brain Emulation Report 2025

The State of Brain Emulation Report 2025 provides a comprehensive reassessment of the field's progress since Sandberg and Bostrom's 2008 Whole Brain Emulation roadmap. The report is organized around t...

arxiv.org

I did not realize that emulation was this far ahead. The previous iteration was able to do very simple behavior like extending and retraction a tongue based on smell, but now they have an uploaded fly brain capable of controlling a simulated fly. Won't be too long until lobsters at this rate

The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload

The Singularity has belonged exclusively to artificial minds, until now.

theinnermostloop.substack.com

ICE is a menace to democracy and its murderous conduct should be soberly considered. But we should also recognize that these people are weak and sad and ought to be made fun of. Read more: www.theverge.com/policy/96430...

Mood

Ma$on@masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Everyone has a role to play in combating the surveillance state.

30, 50, 70, and 100-year sentences for the Prairieland defendants so far. Dark day, man. Truly.

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

theguardian.com

Can't help but think we should visualize umwelts for every machine

eke@eke.bsky.social · last mo.

this is so insane

Lots of ink spilled on "Loop engineering", but no one seems to connect it to its much older name: Cybernetics. Maybe by the year's end, we'll recognize that it was all Control Theory engineering all along.

A lotus never waits for the water to clear. The water never does.

I guess people don't understand that having a loud motorcycle is a safety precaution on the highway, not a feature to bug people.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the reasons we need automated traffic enforcement is that people who make lots of noise with their vehicles should have those vehicles impounded and lose their driving privileges. Surrendering our public spaces to anti-social morons is a choice.

“The future being built is one in which the camera is no longer just a camera, the phone is no longer just a phone, and glasses are no longer just glasses. They are portals into identity systems. They make the face a query and turn public presence into searchable data.” 💀

Smart glasses, mobile FRT normalize ambient biometric surveillance | Biometric Update

Meta smart glasses and ICE mobile facial recognition reflect growing normalization of wearable, real-time biometric identification systems.

biometricupdate.com

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

So many now are posting as "Anti-AI" as if AI has anything to do with their dignity as persons, professionals, and artisans. The problem is not AI, the problem is a set of legal and economic infra that denies people their humanity, security, dignity. The problem isn't AI - it's people and politics.

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

Very easy to take them down. Step 1: Saw at stem Step 2: Throw in the trash

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...