My favourite new hat. Already got a compliment on it.
Mike Hall
@mikehallishere.bsky.social
🇺🇸/🇬🇧 Politics 🔬 Science 📍 Edinburgh
Can we say that dystopian America has finally arrived now? www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Metacognitive difficulties in learning to code including the three new difficulties from using AI coding agents. Great video: youtu.be/DkhhE97Swmo?... #coding #llm
Great lecture by @eoinaldo.substack.com at the @libraryofmistakes.bsky.social tonight. I'm definitely going to pick up his book tomorrow.
She's either completely nuts, or his latest Russian handler. No I'm not being misogynistic. This is not normal professional behavior. It's obsessively creepy and weird.
Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 3mo agoAlrighty then.
TIL that the American legal system has discriminated against people based on their dialect. In this case, Miranda rights were violated, but the judge threw it out: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Suspect Asks for “a Lawyer, Dawg.” Judge Says He Asked for “a Lawyer Dog.”
This assault on the Sixth Amendment is barking mad.
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I agree with Republicans. I want a bigger government too. I just want it with more social programs and environmental protections, not with more flock cameras and military spending.
Had a photo with these fine young gentlemen today. Hoping @doctorow.pluralistic.net and Jimmy Wales come back to Edinburgh for another talk soon!
Well this isn't terrifying: "Every eyebrow raise, every flicker of doubt, every moment of discomfort was scanned and analyzed by an algorithm designed to detect who would obey orders without question—and who might resist," www.rawstory.com/trump-ai-sto...
'Stopped me cold': Ex-Trump insider reveals 'eyebrow-raising' reason for military meeting
There may be a surprising reason why President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called an in-person meeting of America's top military brass this week, according to a former Trump-world ...
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"During his recent visit, US Vice-President JD Vance said he did not want the UK to go down a "very dark path" of losing free speech." I mean, come on, JD. www.bbc.com/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
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Who's ready for President Just Dance Vance to make his first appearance?
I was all set to write up a big political post about there being no point to DOGE and all its cuts if Trump is going to just outfit the whole oval office in gold, but this, this is just so much better.
After Big Balls was beaten up, Trump deployed the National Guard to DC to "clean up crime" even though crime in DC hit a 30 year low last year. So are Republicans just going to roll over and allow this military state to continue to spread across the US? www.foxnews.com/politics/nat...
Downtown Indy earlier today. I know exactly who can blame for these turds.
Holy shit you guys, the Newsom meme game is giving me so much life right now. 😂😂😂
300,000 people dead due to DOGE cuts after 4 months. Projected to be 14 million by the end of Trump's term. All for only $18/taxpayer. And that tax money didn't even go back to you. It went to the ultra-wealthy. This is why you shouldn't vote Republican. www.reddit.com/r/law/s/7NLX...
Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts
A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.
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Better get your handmaid outfits ready, ladies. apnews.com/article/wome...
Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote
The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...
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Headlines in 10-20 years: "Child mortality rate hits record high" www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts
The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
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Her visa doesn't expire until December, but ICE grabbed her anyway. So Trump is only going after the criminals, right? www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue pharmacy student released days after ICE arrest
Yeonsoo Go was released to her mother in Manhattan Monday, days after she was detained over an allegedly expired visa and taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana.
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🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election. That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.
Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions. Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.
