Urgent call for international solidarity with protestors in India. Please amplify this as much as you can. Source: x.com/di_shawarma/...
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👁️ Delhi, India. Pandwala Khurd Community Centre. Civilians that attended a peaceful protest (including children) were kidnapped and beaten by authorities. 📸 from disha verma’s (@di_shawarma on X/Twitter) recount. Though the civilians have been released, international solidarity is needed 👇
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 3d agoThings got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”
Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.
A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.
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When I speak to students, I always tell them to feel free to email me with questions. Sometimes they worry that I won’t actually respond, but what they should really be worried about is me sending a new link relevant to what they asked about every three days forever.
Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)
Guess what? I had some *thoughts* on Michael Shellenberger & the State Dept's Sarah Rogers losing their minds about a disinfo conference in Lithuania having a panel exploring if the US interferes in foreign information systems... and then interfering to get the conference sponsors to pull out.
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 4d agoUS Gov’t Interferes To Get Foreign Sponsors To Drop Conference Because A Panel Asks If The US... @eudiplomacy.bsky.social https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/us-govt-interferes-to-get-foreign-sponsors-to-drop-conference-because-a-panel-asks-if-the-us-engages-in-foreign-information-interference/
All well and good but the real question is who's gonna get the FIFA prize in literature this year
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d agoBreaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH
My Amazon "this is what we think about you" listing is pretty boring. Also, Amazon thinks I live in a city I don't actually live in, which I find amusing.
Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 4d agoAmazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"
For those who don’t know, the State Dept appears to have pressured Lithuanian, French, & other attendees of a conference in Vilnius this week. Shellenberger was suddenly concurrently in all of the attendees’ inboxes. 🤷🏻♀️ www.rapporteur.com/news/eeas-ru...
EEAS runs scared of US 'disinformation' debate | Rapporteur
Europe is ready to talk about foreign interference provided it does not have to identify the US as a possible source
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🗳 midterms.graze.social is @graze.social's most ambitious project to date. And as of today, it's live. Let's take a look at what the next 27 days will look like 🧵
Election Night 2026
Vetted coverage of the 2026 midterms, by state.
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It's good to point out these sorts of lame intimidation efforts. But it's also important to put the ineffectiveness in context. If the goal is to promote voting, flagging the structural limitations of federal threats should be part of that process.
Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 5d agoNEW: In a major break from past norms, the Trump administration sent criminal prosecutors and an FBI agent to monitor voters in Arizona's primaries earlier this year. The push comes as Trump exerts pressure on state elections as part of an ongoing attempt to find fraud before the midterms.
Inside you are two wolves: one wishes to write a quick snarky headline and the other chimes in with "actually, it's much more nuanced than that" and begins to write a 2000-word blog post.
"The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint." NBC's indefatigable @ryanjreilly.com reports buff.ly/bBe5Xnz
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Ghosting is the new dysentery. I made a game about job hunting. Think Oregon Trail meets The Office. You get 52 weeks, some savings, and a finite supply of morale. Reply with your week and cause of death. labs.ficuscreative.com/job_trail/?r... #indiegame #gamedev
The Job Trail
It is 2026. You have been laid off. Somewhere there is a job.
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Nothing to worry about, just the attorney general of Texas and a possible future U.S. senator engaging in a conspiracy-fueled crackdown on pediatricians administering life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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y’all @officialjackwhite.bsky.social’s Phoenix show was incredible. 🤯🤯🤯
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...
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I was looking forward to the opportunity to make fun of Cybersecurity Awareness Month like everyone else does, but then Thorin had to go and do something cool. With cute badges. Foiled again.
Thorin Klosowski@thorinklosowski.com · last wk.last year we did a little made up holiday called Opt Out October that was all about taking control of your data across platforms. This year we decided to talk about how many excellent alternatives to the products made by big tech are out there www.eff.org/pages/welcom...
I was trying to figure out if my husband borrowed my car or something since my seat was so far back and then remembered I wore these insane platforms yesterday.
last year we did a little made up holiday called Opt Out October that was all about taking control of your data across platforms. This year we decided to talk about how many excellent alternatives to the products made by big tech are out there www.eff.org/pages/welcom...
Welcome to Opt Out October. Let’s Take Control of Our Data and Our Devices
Big tech companies are hell-bent on taking away our agency and forcing us to use their surveillance-based services, apps, and devices. It’s hard to fight against, and it often feels much easier to giv...
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When white nationalist are a part of your voting base
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
For October, I thought I'd post a piece of unsolicited advice every day. It must be spooky because grumpy platitudes tend to scare people off. 1. If you find the need to start an email or a text with "I know this is bad form, but..." then don't send it. You're welcome.
CISA would like you to today become aware of cybersecurity. Some might argue it has recently been unaware of cybersecurity. Regardless, upon reading this, awareness of cybersecurity washes over you.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 Kickoff
YouTube video by CISA
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