Activists are posting cardboard signs pointing out the locations of nearby Flock cameras in San Francisco. #SFGraffiti #Flock

This won't rank in the same way as other deaths this week -- but as a Gen Xer who grew up watching GONG SHOW after school, I'm particularly sorry to learn Jaye P Morgan died a few days ago. Although at a respectable 94! https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jaye-p-morgan-dead-gong-show-1236844264/

What conservative scholarship is underrepresented in academic institutions? Not a rhetorical question. Business is the most popular major, Econ has many free marketers, so that's not it. My area of Security Studies has a lot of scholarship that reads as pro-military, so not that either. What is?

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 4d ago

Viewpoint diversity is the opposite of peer review. You should not be leading a university if you don’t believe in peer review asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

Under the US$125m (£94m) deal, ICE will pay the technology and content conglomerate to access its Clear database – which includes property records, social media and geolocation information – in order to identify “voter fraud” and “immigration fraud”, according to reports.

Canadian government urged to block Thomson Reuters data deal with US ICE

US agency is to pay Canadian media company US$125m for use of investigative database to detect ‘immigration fraud’

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Putting your name on this open letter which claims that Nathan Cofnas’ academic freedom is in danger is a career-ending move. Career-ending in the sense that you are signaling to us that you should not be mistaken for a serious or historically informed researcher.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)@katjathieme.bsky.social · 6d ago

In other words, this defence network in favour of race science has its most established academic insiders placed at UK and US universities. We’re talking about a uni in Belgium, where teaching is in Dutch. And the signatories are mostly reactionary academics seated in the UK and the US.

If temperatures were ever to stabilize, impacts do not reverse. A community displaced by repeated drought does not return home. A farming household that sold its land after successive crop failures has no capital base to re-enter. Lives lost to heat extremes are not restored. A scientific […]

One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/117124994866755313 This. Most of your microplastics exposure? Car tires. Most of the PM2.5 outside fire season? Car exhaust and tires. Most of the things that will cause lung damage other than smoking? Car exhaust and tires.

“…He attached hundreds of court records and asked the AI to read all of them and create a defense of #3M that showed that Watson Grinding was responsible for the explosion… "Autenrieth, purportedly an expert with 20 years of experience in gas detection, also uploaded a picture of a gas detector […]

The article includes a practical guide on how to help people who are hounded like that. 1. Send a private message of support 2. Send a public message of support 3. Don’t join in 4. Advocate for others 5. Ridicule them back 6. Change the frame 7. Bring in experts

"[T]here are ways to help someone who comes under attack. Arday wasn’t the first and he won’t be last. This isn’t an aberration. It’s a business model." The media played a huge part in the culture war that resulted in the digital lynching of Jason Arday. Will they hold themselves to account? […]

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

Forgiving infrastructure assumes people make mistakes. A person on a bike who loses their balance and falls shouldn't pay for it with their life just because there was no buffer between them and a vehicle 100 times their weight.

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

Northwestern University just closed their flagship African American Studies program (1st in the American academy), because the Ulines (far right billionaires) donated 35M. thepurplewire.beehiiv.com/p/scoop-nort...

SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)@themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 3w ago

“I think there’s a real question about whether these spaces are safe for us and whether we just have to start doing this outside universities,” says Kehinde Andrews, who was the 1st Black Studies prof. in the UK but was recently made redundant from Birmingham City University.” shorturl.at/nxVv5

People have a hard time holding multiple realities in their head & w/nuance: mRNA vaccines are a scientific breakthrough and amazing COVID vaccines don't make you immune Everyone should get COVID vaccines and boosters COVID never ended, ppl still dying/being disabled Not masking is eugenics

The pandemic isn't over..people are dying and more so, becoming disabled. You may think COVID is over bc you don't see required masking. You pretend the pandemic is over thx to vaccines bc it's easier to believe than the reality: your inaction is a part of eugenics-white supremacy-racial capitalism

JustMe@justmegi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reading the replies in requotes of below post and....the COVID vaccines were great. Are great! But the way people talk about how they finally went to see family and were safe finally...it's just, SIGH. COVID vax are great but they don't make you immune & never did and they didn't end the pandemic.

"When the United States bought Alaska from the Russians in 1867, Alaska's indigenous people had already been living there for thousands of years. Alaska Natives have had to fight to keep their land, from the point of contact to present day."

This Is The Story Of Alaska Natives' Fight For Their Land [Our Fight To Survive, Pt. 1] | AJ+

YouTube video by AJ+

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Our failure on COVID is one we didn’t internalize from AIDS: that we need a coherent and confrontational politics; one cognizant of structural power but built on individual and collective action.

🔴 A defense contractor is now selling technology that scans every electronic device in your car as you drive past a camera. It ties everything to your license plate. You cannot opt out. It is called SignalTrace. Made by Leonardo, an Italian military contractor with existing U.S. Special […]

"Flock planned to use dashcams installed in hundreds of thousands Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers’ vehicles to scan license plates those drivers travelled passed." If they did this, who else are they making deals with? […]

"When Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg and Andreessen mine science fiction for blueprints, they are not finding the only possible futures. They are selecting the futures that justify their power." https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-problem?ref=life-in-the-21st-century.ghost.io

2. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, we will hand an advantage to our commercial rivals, who are bound to continue (because foreigners are perfidious). 3. The slaves / planet will then be worse off, because foreign slave traders / fossil fuel producers are dirtier than ours.

No, we don’t want Flock drones, either. 😒 “…the company’s first U.S.-built quadcopter, is designed to launch autonomously, stream thermal video to officers, and plug directly into the same ALPR camera network that civil liberties groups have spent years calling a mass surveillance system.”

Meet Flock's Alpha Drone – It Reads License Plates from 2,000 Feet

Flock Safety's Alpha drone reads license plates from 2,000 feet and plugs into its existing ALPR network, raising serious surveillance concerns.

gadgetreview.com

#COVID19 reactivates long dormant viruses that are extremely common among us. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02443-2

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

nature.com

Apple's "Private Relay" isn't. «“In short: any website that supports, or pretends to support, passkeys can see the user’s real IP address despite having iCloud Private Relay on,” security researcher Tommy Mysk, who discovered the issue along with Talal Haj Bakry, told 404 Media.» […]

Oz's own words say the quiet part loud: we're padlocking the cookie jar and letting them starve. That is 1 billion in Medicaid withheld from California and Minnesota, skipping the years long audit process. A historian calls it the oldest trick, use fraud talk to gut the program itself.

Trump admin withholds Medicaid funds in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud

Expert breaks down how Trump's health officials are trying to prove that Medicaid itself is wasteful.

salon.com

“Studies in recent years have shown that the Arctic is warming much more rapidly than the rest of the planet due to feedback from the loss of sea ice —so it is not surprising that we are seeing these all-time record temperatures at high latitudes,” says independent meteorologist Alan Gerard […]