The euphemism "Violence Dispensery" for gun store is gonna stick with me for a while.

OCP HBF spec 0.7: www.opencompute.org/documents/oc... This is going to be very important.

New Sim City patch just dropped

In the last several weeks, @courtwatch.bsky.social has been behind two HUGE scoops on surveillance and security. First, they discovered Trump had resuscitated an old never-used terrorist deportation court. And today, a judge ruled cell dumps unlawful--which we know bc of CW's push last year.

The trick to breaking news is to never sleep and file motions a year ago that finally bear fruit.

Court Watch@courtwatch.bsky.social · 3h ago

BREAKING - A federal judge has just ruled that 'Tower Dumps' are inherently unconstitutional. Story below, details on a case that was only unsealed because of our court motion. www.courtwatch.news/p/judge-rule...

An important point from the former chief strategist for the Bush–Cheney 2004 campaign:

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 3h ago

Nearly every one of El-Sayed's issue positions is supported by a majority. In fact, his stands are the center of American politics today. Saying he is far left/left wing is just so old. The center of American politics has moved over the last 30 years, and El-Sayed's position are center now.

A big get for @courtwatch.bsky.social and @seamushughes.bsky.social Unsealing an opinion holding that tower dumps are per se unconstitutional and therefore denying the warrant. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Order on Sealed Motion – #41 in United States v. SEALED (S.D. Miss., 3:25-cr-00038) – CourtListener.com

ORDER denying 40 the Governments request to reverse the Magistrate Judges decision denying its applications for search warrants. Signed by District Judge Carlton W. Reeves on 08/05/2026.(SMH) (Entered...

storage.courtlistener.com

This so reeks of corruption: CoreCivic sells the physical building but keeps the contract to run it!

Kansas Reflector@kansasreflector.com · 3h ago

CoreCivic sells Leavenworth prison, leaving city with oversight and financial questions | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

I repeat: This guy had the money to live anywhere in the world he wanted. He chose to spend the first 73 years of his life in Manhattan before finally fleeing to a jurisdiction more likely to let him get away with crimes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Trump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."

a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 11h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

My 2-point reform platform: 1. Naming your product after sci fi requires a 10-page essay with your TM application to prove that you understood the source material; 2. CEOs of >$1B market cap companies must spend one day per year in a dunk tank, where anyone in America can pay $1 to drop you.

Especially since its a business where the competition has become a billionaire dick-wagging contest

A family member was working at AVID back in the day, doing well. At a big company-wide meeting the execs announced “95% of television & movies are edited on Avid!” and during the cheers, their boss quietly said “that means one good competitor cuts our sales in half.” They left the next week.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 6h ago

I always feel crazy pointing this out, but it's such an important point: having 85% market share isn't actually a good thing, especially when you're buying more of your own product than that 85% of the market is

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

I think we can agree that AI detectors are out. But universities are ignoring the fact that faculty cannot really out-design assessments to meet the challenges of this moment. We need sustained institutional support to be the best teachers we can be, and we aren't getting it.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 12h ago

AI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI? https://bit.ly/4wGitF7 #EDUSky

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

Some trans people can't grasp the idea of a trans woman transitioning because we want to be happy. I'm not here to "destroy the binary", to be "gender-fucky", or to be a revolutionary. I want to be my true self. I'm not trans to be a hero or for attention, I'm trans cause I was born that way.

this is truly motivating me to use inshallah even more than I already do after all it’s the faster and more fun way to say “if the good lord’s willing and the creek don’t rise,” speaking as someone with Southern roots.

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 9h ago

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

I recently booked a car viewing via a dealer's website, and didn't even realise I was talking to an AI chatbot. And fair play, it was great! Apart from it booking us in to the wrong department, for the wrong vehicle, and not telling anyone we were coming, which took half a dozen people to sort out.

An iPhone with a 10 digit random PIN, in a powered off state, is expected to take 15 YEARS to crack even if you had an exploit for the Secure enclave. The only way to speed things up would require literally taking the phone apart on a transistor level to get the random secret contained inside.

13/ This is why the ZSU is not only after the archer, but also after the arrow-factory. Attack the 🇷🇺 defence-industrial complex should be a much higher priority of 🇪🇺 support.

And I think it's notable that the actual candidates recognize this, know that the factions have far more in common than separates them, and are quickly moving to mend fences and look toward winning in November.

This is how crypto proliferated, and then billionaires like Mark Cuban and lobbyists suggested it was true and that we should simply cave to the crypto industry’s demands. I’m curious how many young dudes have been fully set back to zero bc of people like Cuban.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 12h ago

Asking gamblers why they’re gambling and actually believing them when they say “I see no other way to get ahead in life” is incredible.

Spoke to WELTTV about the drone found at Leipzig/Halle airport. Given that it was apparently armed with explosives, the consequences could have been catastrophic.

as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

One of the shocking things is how much Flock gouges for these things: You can make its equivalent with a Raspberry Pi Zero-2-W, a cellular modem, a solar/battery charger, and a $60 camera module.

barbisblue@barbisblue.bsky.social · 11h ago

All 8 cameras were taken Aug. 1, according to the Winona Police Department. A patrol officer first noticed the cameras had not sent any alerts in 24 hours. When officers checked the locations, they found the cameras had been cut from their poles and taken. The poles were left behind.

At the current Disney pace you're going to be an embarrassment if you're a Jedi who could not find a way to survive Order 66

Elon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.