Oh, so a bribe. From a source that doesn't make revenue. This is what happens when corruption meets stupidity.
Brian McCann
@writerbrarian.bsky.social
Writer/Librarian. Legal KM, UX. Rugged Maniac. DnD game master. Spending summers with the Athena Cabin.
One of the biggest legacies of 9/11 was the rapid growth of mass surveillance. Whether it's the PATRIOT Act, Palantir, or Flock cameras, Americans don't want more erosions of our civil liberties in the name of "security."
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team 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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The thing with AI is much like when Radium☢️ was discovered in 1898. It was used in paint, glass, advertised as healthy, without care or knowledge of the actual costs it came with. Historically, capitalists jumped into trends to sell a fancy new technology thing that just happen to kill you
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 5d agothis is a *wild* thing to post
Thinking of this great piece about the valuable work of trash collecting. youtu.be/iEQhuCzvYWg?...
I Tried Garbage Collection
YouTube video by Michelle Khare
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Sony claims digital games aren't really owned by players.
Sony's Response to Class-Action Lawsuit Sparks Controversy
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Rest in piece Pierre Damas Bel, another victim of Trump and ICE's sadistic cruelty.
Another generational divide--I remember when cars had 2 keys. 1 for the door, 1 for the engine. Now it's just 1, but it's why we say car keyS (plural).
Dr. Leonard McCoy: Yes, I remember
ALT: Dr. Leonard McCoy: Yes, I remember
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Today my focus was at 0% until this beautiful piece: Danzon #2. open.spotify.com/track/7M89hB...
Danzón No. 2 - Live At Centro de Acción Social por la Música, Sala Simón Bolivar, Caracas / 2008
Arturo Márquez, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel · Discoveries · Song · 2012
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Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
“There should be protection of Jewish students, but there can't be a Palestinian exception to the First Amendment,” said attorney Bill Freivogel. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)
In Missouri schools, new law targeting antisemitism raises First Amendment concerns
Critics say a new Missouri law requiring schools and universities to define and report antisemitic behavior is too ambig
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State officials can’t spend billions in federal funding to connect remote areas to the internet until the Trump administration provides information on how to use the money.
Federal delays are holding up $21 billion for rural internet projects, as states wait for guidance
State officials can’t spend billions in federal funding to connect remote areas to the internet until the Trump administ
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This is hanging by my door. I think a lot of us need him by the door
“AI systems are made of multiple layers and never learned what a human is — they learned what humans statistically look like in millions of training images. A ‘person,’ for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics — and that is exactly its weakness.”
Critical Digital Media@digital.therourke.net · 2w agoDesigner Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras
If the only person who could out perform you was Ian McKellan, you are a treasure.
“A lot of these companies are pre-IPO, so they’re focused on three things. They’re focused on market penetration, they’re focused on product differentiation, and they’re focused on valuation. And valuation includes the data that they own,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @kcdefender.bsky.social.
While Cutting Buses for the Poor, KCATA Signed a Secret Deal to Harvest Their Faces for a Private Company's AI
A secret contract. No policy protecting riders' data. The Defender obtained the deal KCATA signed to harvest bus riders' faces for AI.
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The total public cost of a Royals deal is likely closer to $2B than the reported $1.14B — making the $1.9B stadium effectively a free gift to owner John Sherman. And it's a cost taxpayers will never recoup via new taxes from moving the Royals across town.
Royals mega-TIF could see Missouri taxpayers covering John Sherman’s entire $1.9B stadium tab
Also on Friday, the Kansas City TIF Commission issued its Downtown Stadium TIF Plan, spelling out in a bit more detail — though still far from complete detail — what public money will be going to a ne...
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Just 10 billionaires have already poured nearly $670 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's Big Money.
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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ICYMI— A Chicago ICE agent has been identified as the man who pointed his gun in a Virginia driver's face last week in videos that went viral. We found members of his team involved in a slew of violent incidents recorded across several states in the last year. They're still active in Chicago:
Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in a Virginia woman’s face on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been doc...
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ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
The city's existing plan would give $20 million toward a downtown Royals ballpark and direct the city manager to finalize agreements with the Royals, developers and incentive agencies to build the stadium.
Kansas City officials delay Royals stadium decision, while giving out little info about funding plan
A city council committee pushed back discussions on bonds and lease agreements for a downtown Royals stadium. Critics sa
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Listening to James Horner on what would have been his birthday. I can't imagine Star Trek or so many other movies without him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of compositions by James Horner - Wikipedia
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