Uh oh. “Five of the biggest US tech giants are carrying $1.65 trillion in debt that does not show up on their balance sheets, more than the debt that does…is bankrolling the AI data-centre boom…perfectly legal…uses the same accounting trick that brought down Enron.” thenextweb.com/news/tech-gi...

👀 In the IoT there is no security, just degrees of insecurity. AI dramatically increases the attack surfaces and zero day vulnerabilities and exploitation edges, made worse by the N-squared challenge involving APIs. openai.com/index/huggin...

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

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Mob-adjacent rule and lawlessness is not compatible with a We the People-centric democracy, let alone a Constitutional Republic. US is getting sold off and sold out to the highest bidders and grifters for self-interest gain as corruption is now endemic. Must ask the hard question.

One name at a time: How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi Party members www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/one-...

One name at a time: How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi Party members

"The story that a German newspaper used AI to create a 'Nazi search engine' is just too good to ignore."

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In The Before Times, the East Germany Stasi had a name for it — Zersetzung (decomposition or disruption) or the pathological fragmentation of being with a person stripped of any self-identity and also called anomie. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The “Merge” With AI Has Already Begun

As AI insinuates itself into every corner of our lives, many of us are growing inured to the push to digitize the whole world—including humanity itself.

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Wow, this message from the Maine Democrats account on X. It sounds like Graham Platner is trying to stay actively involved in the process to replace him…and maybe even play kingmaker. And apparently Maine Dems are NOT having it.

My latest. eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/on-what-it-t...

What It Truly Means to Be an American and a New Declaration Against the Abuses of Government after 250 Years

by Thomas Drake On 4 July 2026, the United States turned 250 years old as it celebrated its Semiquincentennial anniversary and the birth of a new nation. But the question that hangs over every firewo...

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On this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, what does it mean to be an American? What is happening to the ‘from here’ and ‘from there’ that makes the US American? And what makes America truly American? And what future Do We the People need to keep?

We need a word for remedial morality. Like developmentally disabled, but for understanding and caring about people who are suffering.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · last mo.

The overwhelming majority of voters couldn't find Gaza on a map or explain anything about it in any way that would hold water for five seconds if their lives depended on it. Half of the people in this country can't name the three branches of government, FFS.

Watch this case. When a whistleblower has no effs left to give when facing truly extreme socio-pathological dystopian censorship. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her

Former employee files complaint accusing company of ‘coercive surveillance’ and first amendment violation

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We made systems of justice to get away from mob violence and shunning. It's not perfect but we should work on that, not go back to pick a person to be guilty, form a mob, and hurt them as much as possible. Reparative justice first requires you to sit with the humanity and rights of all people.

When AI turns into a religion. 👀 open.substack.com/pub/luizasne...

When AI Becomes a Religion

AI might be the biggest religious experiment in human history | Edition #298

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Tragic irony that @60minutes.bsky.social fired #ScottPelley for speaking truth to talentless #BariWeiss. Honored he intrvwd me, @thomasdrake.bsky.social & @reazlepuff.bsky.social. #WhistleblowerChampion www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’

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I wrote a story about AI agents that has aged... not at all. It's dark and sad, but also shows the dangers that we are courting. Would love to hear your thoughts. medium.com/message/agen...

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This all started because of two things, I am an engineer, and I wasn’t coping well with my father’s death. He had died about seven years before, but his death kept intruding on my life. I had so …

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Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

That’s not all. Current law also lets the Feds buy all sorts of sensitive data on you from shady data brokers, with just a credit card. The Feds can feed that data into powerful AI systems to spy on you. Kash Patel recently confirmed to me he’s buying your location data.

5Calls👇🏽 ‼️ The House had to delay today's vote to reauthorize FISA because members on *both* sides of the aisle want to amend Section 702 to include warrant requirements and stop the government's ability to spy on Americans as they please. KEEP CALLING! This is not a simple party line battle. 🔥📞🔥

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702.

Reform Section 702

There are no excuses for any Member of Congress to support a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop. Section 702 of the Foreign...

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Congress is set to vote this week on the law @wyden.senate.gov has been warning about, Section 702 of FISA. Use our action center to tell your lawmaker not to renew Section 702 without major reform to protect Americans' privacy rights: freedom.press/action/refor...

Say NO to mass warrantless surveillance. Reform Section 702 now!

Section 702 of the FISA allows intelligence agencies to collect emails, calls, and messages from foreigners abroad, but in practice, it also sweeps in Americans’ communications when they interact…

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Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

404 Media@404media.co · 4mo ago

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

My fellow journalists, I need you to stop talking about the Turing Test; it was never a good metric. Turing was a computer scientist, not a psychologist. Eliza passed it, and also was a decent Person-centered therapy bot. Some people actually used it that way, even knowing it was a bot. A) […]

The Banality of Personal Malevolence “What Trump has either missed or ignored is how Xi’s ruthlessness has served to make China weaker… illustrates, especially now, what happens when an autocrat’s personal interests run counter to his country’s needs.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Autocrat’s Dilemma

Xi Jinping’s ruthless reign in China offers important lessons for aspiring authoritarians.

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Fleecing the people from the beginning — grift, gain and gross profit taking on the backs of everyday soldiers and countrymen — conning a new Nation starting in the early days. open.substack.com/pub/commonse...

(1773 - 1794) THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE

PART 1: THE ALCHEMY OF EXHAUSTION

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Cui bono? "War Is a Racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope.“ …

“The special counsel’s office found that Donald Trump held on to documents so secret that only six people could legally review them — and the team believed his reason for doing so was financial gain.” www.ms.now/news/trump-c...

Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds

The special counsel’s office found that Donald Trump held on to documents so secret that only six people could legally review them — and the team believed his reason for doing so was financial gain.

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Canada's growing digital panopticon. Bill C-22 (C-2 Lite) “insists it isn't surveilling ordinary Canadians; it's just requiring every company to store their location data, device information, and daily movements for a year, just in case.” @canada reclaimthenet.org/canada-bill-...

Canada's Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians

The government insists it isn't surveilling ordinary Canadians; it's just requiring every company to store their location data, device information, and daily movements for a year, just in case.

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The DOD preliminary inquiry shows exactly what the half dozen independent studies have all concluded: the double strike on the girls' school in Minab that killed about 180, mostly school girls, was by US launched Tomahawks. Now the struggle begins to explain why this was an "innocent mistake."

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

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Great article by @jesselynradack.bsky.social about the recent whistleblower allegation regarding Jared Kushner and Iran, and Tulsi Gabbard's conflict of interest. It's far past time for Congress to reform the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act: www.salon.com/2026/03/05/t...

Tulsi Gabbard's conflict of interest — and hypocrisy

The director of national intelligence has mismanaged a whistleblower complaint involving Jared Kushner and Iran

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Proud to endorse this law protecting #whistleblowers & #journalists from Espionage Act abuses. Named for my dear friend & champion, the late Daniel Ellsberg. tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-...

Tlaib Introduces Bill to Protect Whistleblowers and Journalists

DETROIT – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act to reform the Espionage Act to prevent its use and abuse against whis...

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If #Hegseth would look in the mirror rather than at photos, he might glimpse the raging insecurity, marinated in fury and served up with hate & raw power. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

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