Scott Johnson
@scottjohnson.wtf
Creative technology, tech policy, film, music. Cleveland isn't the Midwest.
There are something like 7,000,000 Muslim Americans. If they were all "prone to terrorism," they'd probably, you know, do some terrorism. White supremacists, on the other hand, ARE prone to terrorism - and responsible for the majority of politically motivated violence in the US.
how do they not have a tape ready to roll when they know exactly what these shitheads are going to say
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h agoThis is so over the top it looks like a Michael Bay movie
doesn't name the judge, court, or cite the ruling. quality journalism right there.
Scripps News@scrippsnews.bsky.social · 1h agoA federal judge has officially ended Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, bringing a legal challenge over the program to a close.
I want to believe that society has evolved to make billionaires unfuckable, and the fact that Musk is no longer photographed with famously beautiful women is undeniable, but the simpler (and therefore more plausible) explanation here might just be botched surgery theory
Playboy@playboy.com · 23h agoAs they amass more money and power, the public views billionaires as sweaty psychos Scrooge McDucking their way into evil amounts of cash. The collective ick emerging raises a question that wealthy men might prioritize over ethical perceptions: Have billionaires become categorically unfuckable?
If you are heading to DEF CON this weekend don't forget to update your Rayhunter device to 0.12.0! Signal strength is now included in captures. Recordings are compressed. Some identity request events have had their severity lowered to reduce the number of false positives. github.com/EFForg/rayh...
Release Rayhunter v0.12.0 · EFForg/rayhunter
What's Changed remove another instance of outdated docs by @bmw in #1060 fix(installer): improve error message when port 4000 is already in use by @DevenDucommun in #1062 fix(daemon): drain UI...
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El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."
Dude just walked onto Trump’s golf course lol
Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 4h agoDHS is spending billions on domestic surveillance and data tools capable of targeting anyone, with little oversight or transparency. Congress must investigate how these powerful technologies are bought and used. bit.ly/4wx8EZO
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
folks yapping about this with the exact language Boomers use about leasing cars
Putting everyone involved in this in prison is my electoral purity test
WhiteRoseAFA@whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 5h agoOur Burmese neighbor kids no longer play in their front yard or street with the other kids, due to the parents fear of shit like this.
If you missed my livestream of yesterday's inaugural SpaceX quarterly earnings call, you can catch the VOD here. Thanks again to @montanaskeptic.bsky.social and @peark.es for joining! youtu.be/oJGwzxsQ_3s
Elon Take The Wheel Livestream SpaceX Q2 2026 Earnings
YouTube video by Edward Niedermeyer
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You can’t “ban” AI, folks. You *can* ban stock market manipulation and banking/investment fraud. You can also do software/product liability. You can also reform/modernize IP law. You can also tax billionaires.
“Musk told investors on an earnings call that the group planned to increase its computing capacity from 2 gigawatts at the end of this year to “closer to 10GW [than 5GW]” by the end of 2027”
Lebbie Says 'Sure, Jon'
ALT: Lebbie Says 'Sure, Jon'
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Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 6h agoIf there’s a “Florida Man” this guy is “Ohio Man”
Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 6h agoWhile federal, state and local Republican leaders are concerned about the allegations against Ohio Congressman Max Miller, losing a key U.S. House seat is also top of mind. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/05/r...
For @prospect.org today, I wrote about the big report Sen. Wyden dropped about how bankers gave Epstein a pass bc he was generating a ton of money for them. The report names a lot of names of specific bank execs and also calls out CBS, Sen. Blackburn and Scott Bessent.
Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes - The American Prospect
The report shows how employees at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan helped to hide Epstein’s activities because he was a load-bearing part of their ‘wall of cash.’
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Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h agoFood, 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.
Looks like those McMorrow dead-enders are gonna cost *someone* an election tonight
nope, it was csam!
Apple temporarily removes Telegram from the App Store over child sexual abuse material
Apple temporarily removed Telegram from its App Store due to child abuse content by one user. The app is already restored, but Telegram criticized the move as excessive, questioning if Apple would app...
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daniel sieradski@self.agency · yesterdayso russia — war criminal, internationally sanctioned russia — accused telegram of facilitating terrorism and issued an international warrant for its ceo's arrest and apple took telegram out of the app store because...it believes russia and complies with the russian government's demands??
names you can hear david letterman saying with mild incredulity
Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 16h agoBonita Gooch is the next representative for Kansas House District 84, unseating incumbent Ford Carr by a 70-30 margin
Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Home in Jackson, But Details Are Sparse
Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a home in Mississippi's capital city.
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Scoop: "60 Minutes" is facing more brain drain. I'm told Madeleine Carlisle—a well-regarded associate producer at the newsmagazine, who also happens to be the daughter of Stephen Colbert—resigned from the program in recent days. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4wLyA4i
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
