Today’s Canadian painting is “Cobalt” painted by Yvonne McKague Housser in 1931. N

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Medical technology is near miraculous compared to even 10 years ago, let alone 40. It’s one of the reasons that efforts to ration and profit off these spectacular advancements are so grotesque.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Hey, so I’ll be at #DEFCON34 talking about the national fight against ALPRs with my @eff.org friends. (Friday 4pm @ Crypto / Privacy Village) But like, I need @404media.co to slow down its reporting, I’m trying to finalize our slide deck. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

Oops I did it again.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of my other summer hosting tricks is keeping a ton of those shelf stable polenta tubes. Then when people are coming over on a whim or I'm invited somewhere, I prepare them like this, with homemade stock from my freezer and whatever is in my cheese drawer. www.mysequinedlife.com/creamy-polen...

The US population has doubled since the 1950s and no urban center has met its obligation to build adequate housing since then. So people moved where they could afford, and now we have to listen to wildfire blame game of who lives in Wildland-Urban Interface as if they're voluntarily "in harm's way."

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

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An exciting day tomorrow in the rural PNW: this rail bridge replacement project (slightly the bane of everyone’s existence for a year) has been building the new bridge next to the old one, and tomorrow they do the hot-swap with the crane. Everyone is gonna come out and watch.

Important Tiny Tug TUpdate: I found out that this lil guy is named the Joseph George. And the construction crew (who love it as much as I do) call it BOY GEORGE.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This tiny tug is barely the size of two garden sheds on top of each other, I’m obsessed. I have decided to call it Lil’ Pushy.

"In Wisconsin, a police officer allegedly used Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic, according to a police affidavit for a case set for trial this month." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Our apt is on the top floor with a sloped/vaulted ceiling, so there are nearly no closets and my entire life is a war against lack of storage and 45 degree angles. Today we have made great progress on the front lines, for I have found clothing racks that are half-height and so fit under the slope.

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

How grateful I am that I was able to find someone who cares about all this, the National Center for Public Lands Counties!

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee.bsky.social · 4w ago

Spent an evening finding out, to my compounding horror, that my intuition was right and my county, along with several other rural American West counties, are pinned by state and federal tax laws into permanent deficits. There is *no choice* that can be made at the local level to close the gap. Ahh!!

Been working for weeks on a data dashboard to show how our county is trapped in a structural deficit by layers of federal and state policy. I asked the National Center for Public Lands Counties for feedback, and they said on our call my template could help other counties make their case too. 😭

This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

Data center (and other extraction industry) reforms that work: - NDA bans and strengthening of rights to public records - decommissioning bonds, a proven administrative model from mines et al Stuff that IMO needs work: - how utility ratepayer locks work in YOUR geography, attend a PUD meeting!

Taking on the thankless task of trying to get my neighbors to deal with the substance of data center issues: our counties are broke. There is no conspiracy required. We are bidding for other cities' garbage for our dump contract because we can hardly afford to stripe more than 3 local roads a year.

Going to be talking about this for decades to come, but I am convinced more and more that computing theory, our collective information, the intrinsic meaning it surfaces is fundamentally pro-human. All the harm we see from AI et al is a function of capital struggling violently against that reality.

I can't even tell you how much this capacity has advanced in the last months. I moved from digesting public meetings to grinding 30+ years of national county-level financial data to draw insights on how a particular stack of federal and state laws are strangling public lands counties.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One day for the curious I will give a workshop on how to use LLMs to parse enormous piles of public records, like the thousands of pages on how certain federal agencies are screwing my tiny broke rural county. The kind of investigative reporting possible doesn’t require AI to write the article.

Many of my dentist/doctor neighbors have their loans paid for working in our rural area. I joke that there should be a similar program where they send public policy grads to small ailing counties and you get your loans paid if you attend the weekly board of county commissioners meetings.

In the cauldron tonight at the Village Data Witch's hut: fulfilling an activist group's request to surface all county or city-owned parcels that could potentially hold a public-private partnership funded childcare center for Klickitat county, one of Washington state's most extreme childcare deserts.

I subscribe to the notion that cyberpunk is a genre where technology creates dissonance between people and their world. And solarpunk is one where technology is leveraged to improve the relationships between people and their world, including (and especially!) nature.

I’m skeptical of the “AI companies are destroying antique books” story. True antiques (pre-1960s or 19th century editions) are rarely sold as bulk liquidation pallets because valuable titles are sorted out by dealers. Bulk vintage aesthetics are sold by the foot, unassorted bulk lots sold by weight.

Books have become this fetish object among well-meaning liberals who conflate the value of their content with the object itself, something taboo to destroy for any reason, not just censorship. Meanwhile about 320M books a year are sent to landfills, or pulped, about 1/3 of all we print.

My county, Skamania Washington, is one of them. We don’t even have an OBGYN in the county, and as I recently found out, not even an ultrasound machine.

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · last wk.

'Millions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospitals.' 19thnews.org/2026/07/mate...

Among the many deficits of our medical system: I feel like every 5 years at least everyone should get a PT tune-up appointment where they make sure you're not sitting, standing, walking (even sleeping in a weird position) in a way that's going to keep causing compensation pileups and pain.

Did you know: the Hyundai Elantra is perfectly sized to fit one (1) quarter height nuclear fuel assembly in its trunk?

The most important thing I have (so far!) learned in years after recovering from a spinal injury: almost all of us push out our ribcage while sitting, standing, walking like on the right. We need our pelvis and ribcage to be tucked towards each other like on left to make a more stable stack.