We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
Once owned a semi-professional yet obscure microblogging account. This is less than that.
(1/X) Check out a typical Harper's letter signatory's Twitter feed and you'll mostly *still* find 80% complaints about the "woke left", even in the midst of the greatest government crack-down on free speech in at least 60 tears. Why? Because the "free speech" movement is donor/patron-driven.
This is great.
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young@dannagal.bsky.social · 4d agoDo yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 6d agoCompletely damning. These people can't be collaborated with.
Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4d agoNew: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
It's going to get bad in ways big and small, while we continue to build data centers.
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's very easy to ignore them, but it's notable how so many of the people within industries who are tasked with understanding supply chain risk and resilience are just very worried right now. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536592...
The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate
A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
independent.co.uk
TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.
TSA officers must now stand up on the job
The agency is removing chairs from document-checking stations.
washingtonpost.com
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
journalofdemocracy.org
I'm not joking when I say CC is now an extension of the IDF worth noting this was done under Biden btw, not so much as a Biden/NSC directed initiative as it was CENTCOM doing Kwantung Army things while Lloyd Austin cluelessly stumbled through life
Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 6mo agoMakes sense that this would be the legacy of Erik Kurilla, the recently departed CENTCOM commander who lashed CENTCOM up with Israel to an unprecedented degree—the whole second half of his career was about mowing the grass in a CT context in Iraq and Afghanistan
For people unfamiliar with this list of schools Hegseth claims are essential to America's defense, Liberty and Hillsdale are small religious colleges. Hillsdale is the pet project of the DeVos/Prince families, and its whole admin helped Trump with his fake elector scheme, organizing MI electors. 1/
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHegseth: "Enter a new core of cadets. To meet this critical need we are partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including LSU, Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University, and Hillsdale College."
Meanwhile, Treasurydirect.gov is forcing all of its users to transition to privately-owned authentication at id.me. You literally lose the ability to log in to your U.S. treasury account unless you provide personal information, including your photograph, by Oct. 28. I'm shuttering my account.
Home — TreasuryDirect
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Original OPM hack level bad.
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 6d agoAs data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...
"Afterwards, this buffer zone is itself settled to mark and protect the newly expanded borders, at which point another buffer zone becomes necessary. In this manner vulnerability is produced and then mobilised in a feedback loop that the genocide scholar A. Dirk Moses has called ‘permanent security’
All it could take for the national popular vote compact to reach a majority of electoral votes is for Democrats to flip six legislative chambers across Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 7d agoDems need to win PA by around 9 points to flip its Senate (~D+11 nationally). In that situation, they likely also take the state legislatures of WI, MI, AZ and NV Gov. Dems would have the votes to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over the line and eliminate the Electoral College.
It's overwhelming how weird is the human species
Aaron Kimball@gremblor.com · last wk.Regarding "the monks and the neoreactionaries get along" -- can you explain this? The long read from June about Leverage Research (lydialaurenson.substack.com/p/the-inside...) also mentions this harmony but never elaborates. I don't get how the whole nazi thing isn't an anathema to all the EA ppl.
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
hollywoodreporter.com
Guys I keep telling you all about The Plot to Enslave America and people treat it like its some conspiracy theory or something when it's all happening right out there in the open.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2w ago🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
nytimes.com
Immigration agents are actively sabotaging FOIA requests to withhold records immigrants need to fight deportation, a new whistleblower complaint reveals. This story and more in The Classifieds.
Whistleblower exposes FOIA sabotage at immigration agency
Plus: The Agriculture Department arbitrarily threatens to close a year-old FOIA request for SNAP data within four days
freedom.press
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
![Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreieocoa2jelvyioyspfyjhchhj6lqvjgxf6vm73l4mamvtls72tzmq)
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w agoThis will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
This isn't random, and it isn't about the PRC specifically. It's about an admin that is out to eliminate public access to information and expertise in all matters of national defense beyond junk emitted from a DoW Press Office. It humiliates this admin that expertise exists.
Will Yale@wayale.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and…
Neither Newsom nor Bonta should ever be able to show his face in a grassroots Democratic party event again. The entire state leadership should be tainted with this.
Jessica J. González@jgo4justice.bsky.social · 2w agoAccording to Bloomberg, the deal is sealed and it's incredibly weak. Here's @freepress.bsky.social's take on this disappointing cave. From the bottom of my heart, I thank the hundreds of thousands of you who showed up to #BlockTheMerger. We will not stop fighting with you for a better media system.
Prior episodes of media consolidation were bad in a generic, structural way. This one is much worse. Paramount sucked and was failing. Warner Bros has the potential to make it viable. And Larry Ellison is Trump in a skinsuit. This is the Hungary model.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w ago*PARAMOUNT TO SETTLE LAWSUITS, PAVING WAY FOR WARNER BROS. DEAL
A good thread for those confused about sophisticated outputs from rudimentary inputs.
Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 2w agoWe can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.