NEW: ICE has drastically increased the number of people from whom it’s collecting DNA to enter into an FBI criminal database, including children as young as 4 and 5. @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

wired.com

there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability

Bernie hasn't tried this on here yet but here he is doing free marketing for OpenAI. He has been captured by the worst people in AI for a few years now and has been parroting company hype talking points instead of guarding against them. It’s like the public is being assaulted from all sides.

give thx to the anonymous indians who make it all possible.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w ago

This is the most loser thing I’ve seen in at least a week.

ai is gr8 if u wanna be spreadsheet

I wish world bank happened every four years and teams of financial wizards played against each other to impoverish each other's countries with increasingly complex contracts and loans

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/p...

Made in America: The Products of U.S. Prison Labor Are All Around Us

A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces.

themarshallproject.org

Nature's colorful good night....

Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me.

Welcome to the age of Nepomaxxing

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2mo ago

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”

Signal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance

The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.

bloomberg.com

Remember that we can do lots of amazing things. Don't fall for the nihilism of the ruling class just because *they* cannot imagine a world in which we solve our problems and build a future.

Michael Le Page@mjflepage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delighted to share some good news 🧪 “This hugely encouraging news shows the life-saving impact of the HPV vaccine, and it’s incredibly exciting to be able to say to this whole generation: cervical cancer shouldn’t be a risk for you,” says Caroline Temmink www.newscientist.com/article/2530...

if ur not a number do u even exist?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

“Researchers have given this tendency a name: quantification fixation, the tendency to trust a number over your own account of yourself, even when the number is a rough estimate dressed up as a fact.”

Meta is being rather obvious about their allegiance to authoritarian structures while also trying to claim their products are a cool and fun way for people to enjoy their freedoms. These two things are not compatible.

you guys go ahead. I'm going to go into the john and will meet you guys at the performing arts

IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

looking pretty stormy at the White House right now

New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews

What Trump Delivered for Amazon

The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.

bloomberg.com

“However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I will. There’s no hiding from me.” 💛 open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...

If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

Did you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell.

open.substack.com

everything in american politics boils down to this

Trump in Beijing on Fox interview : Taiwan, iran, soybeans, oil, semiconductors, boeing www.foxnews.com/video/639577... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Special Report with Bret Baier - Friday, May 15 | Fox News Video

Special Report, President Trump, Interview, China Relations, Iran Conflict, Trade Deals, Nuclear Threat,

foxnews.com

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump TACO recipe: 1 tbsp Rare Earths 1 bushel soybeans 1 cup advanced AI chips 1 tsp Fentanyl 1 shot of TikTok

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

theguardian.com

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Odd Showers (1870) — An odd little book about frogs and fishes raining down from the sky and the reasons why they do so: https://buff.ly/3o3tHCg

“Forcing”

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/u...

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tomorrow, the California Supreme Court will issue the most important court decision ever decided on this question--and probably the most important decision in U.S. history in terms of the number of people in jail.

the alex karp hack: write a book, wait fourteen months, drag the PDF into claude and ask for it as a multi-part manifesto, repost.

one of the guys at the sticker place took some of the test prints and put them on his car 🥰

its almost like the fascism was in built and impled from the start i dunno maybe cld be too strong of a take www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i...

reuters.com