apropos of nothing i thought this was funny
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This should be the only kind of video game that's legally allowed by the state. Drawing peaceful scenes very slowly. Antisocial behavior would plummet
videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · last wk.art alive!, print ad, promotional display, mega drive (1992) www.mobygames.com/game/64390/a...
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House Investigation of BreakThrough News Is an Attack on All Journalism theintercept.com/2026/07/27/b...
House Investigation of BreakThrough News Is an Attack on All Journalism
Favorable coverage of U.S. adversaries is constitutionally protected speech.
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The Right Seeks to Capitalize on Berlin Pride Attack — Even as It Poses Its Own Existential Threat to Queer Lives… latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/07/27/b...
The Right Seeks to Capitalize on Berlin Pride Attack — Even as It Poses Its Own Existential Threat to Queer Lives
The AfD and right parties in Germany are leveraging the Berlin Pride attack, but they pose their own existential threat to queer lives.
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I stumbled into watching this sort of by accident, having never heard of it, and it's turned out to be one of the best and most moving things I've seen in a very long time mubi.com/en/us/series...
The New Years | MUBI
Madrid, New Year’s Eve. Ana and Óscar meet for the first time on the night they both turn thirty. That night, their worlds collide in an unexpected romance that will unfold over an entire decade of Ne...
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Google is censoring reviews of ICE detention facilities that describe poor conditions, lack of translators, inability to reach prisoners, and other problems, because they are "off-topic" and "unhelpful." theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...
Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers
In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.
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A US official told The Intercept that recent attacks had wounded “far more” personnel than are reflected in the Pentagon’s current casualty count. They did not provide numbers but said “dozens” had received medical attention.
Google is censoring reviews of ICE detention facilities that describe poor conditions, lack of translators, inability to reach prisoners, and other problems, because they are "off-topic" and "unhelpful." theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...
Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers
In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.
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Virtually no one who cites a need to "beat China" in the "AI race" ever bothers to explain what any of that actually means: what the stakes are, where the finish line is, why we're racing in the first place, what "winning" looks like, etc. Largely vibes-based techno-nationalism.
First, we’d like to make clear we have no problem with the business of private ICE prisons. Second, how dare you question our commitment to immigrants.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 3w agoGod what a despicable statement though, like it was just so impolite to bring up that they were funding concentration camps. Financial interests stay punching down. Really can't overstate how much I do not respect this.
The government is investigating Havana Syndrome using the surveillance services of a company that once boasted how it could spy on the movements of CIA personnel, according materials I obtained via FOIA theintercept.com/2026/07/12/a...
Company That Bragged It Could Track U.S. Spies Hired to Investigate “Havana Syndrome”
American phone-tracking firm Anomaly 6 boasts its technology can pinpoint CIA and NSA officials. Now it’s part of a government “Havana syndrome” task force.
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I've decided it's time for me to get into Michael Haneke, I started with The Seventh Continent last night (quite an intro!), what should I watch next?
they're cultivating real Tom Clancy's The Division 2 vibes in my hometown
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.
"'Nobody is laughing at us anymore!' declared Trump, like a school shooter explaining himself." open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Bad Fascist Party
At the Great American State Fair, a celebration of death.
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I think this makes a lot of sense, "Russia hacked our democracy" discourse was largely an off-ramp from meaningful political action
NEW: The Israeli has regularly asked Meta to censor Iran war-related posts/accounts on Facebook and Instagram, according to internal records I obtained. The company granted some of these requests, but will not say how many. theintercept.com/2026/06/18/i...
Israel Asked Facebook to Censor Iran War Content, Internal Documents Show
Company records reviewed by The Intercept show Israel urged Facebook and Instagram to take down posts supportive of Iran.
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I think it might be helpful to divorce the question of "should little kids be on social media?" from "should keeping kids off social media be enforced via surveillance?"
NEW: The Israeli has regularly asked Meta to censor Iran war-related posts/accounts on Facebook and Instagram, according to internal records I obtained. The company granted some of these requests, but will not say how many. theintercept.com/2026/06/18/i...
Israel Asked Facebook to Censor Iran War Content, Internal Documents Show
Company records reviewed by The Intercept show Israel urged Facebook and Instagram to take down posts supportive of Iran.
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Casualties in Iran Are Still Rising The official count of U.S. personnel hurt or killed in the war on Iran inched up, but it still omits hundreds of known casualties. theintercept.com/2026/06/16/u...
U.S. Casualties in Iran Are Still Rising
The official count of U.S. personnel hurt or killed in the war on Iran inched up, but it still omits hundreds of known casualties.
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New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests
I find it genuinely heartwarming that there are still guys like this/exchanges like this out there on the internet in 2026, a decades-long universal constant
I wrote a new post about the privacy risks of on-phone agents like Apple’s new Siri, and how private inference isn’t any sort of silver bullet. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a...
The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enough
Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and…
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Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? ...And it's US national security first agenda? by @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2026/06/06/a...
Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?
Anthropic wants to keep AI away from repressive regimes. But what about its part-owner, the repressive dictatorship of Abu Dhabi?
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