Kari Coad
@pinecone99.bsky.social
Saint Paul, MN
came here from https://twitter.com/pinecone99
also at https://mastodon.online/@pinecone
came here from https://twitter.com/pinecone99
also at https://mastodon.online/@pinecone
Reposted by Kari Coad
This is a textbook example of how infrastructure built to monitor exceptional circumstances (football games with 100,000 attendees) can easily be co-opted into becoming a tool of political surveillance.
Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.
DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games
Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is a textbook example of how infrastructure built to monitor exceptional circumstances (football games with 100,000 attendees) can easily be co-opted into becoming a tool of political surveillance.
Fucking guns. It's never an actual intruder.
"They have four children, the youngest 11 months old..." abcnews.go.com/US/cleaning-...
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Fucking guns. It's never an actual intruder.
Reposted by Kari Coad
Is this making your grocery bill lighter? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
Supreme Court allows Trump to limit passport sex markers for trans and nonbinary Americans | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to require the sex designation on US passports to align with a traveler’s biological sex, a blow to transgender and nonbinary Americans w...
www.cnn.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Is this making your grocery bill lighter? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
64A expecting a special primary in mid-December and a special election before February. Remember this was Erin Murphy's seat before her run for Governor.
So who's running in the 64A special election?
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
64A expecting a special primary in mid-December and a special election before February. Remember this was Erin Murphy's seat before her run for Governor.
Reposted by Kari Coad
Getting the shackles ready for today's ICE flight at MSP. Operated by Denver Air Connection as TYSON58 on N974DC. I counted 20 people, wearing said shackles, getting loaded today. Tracking data: adsb.lol?icao=ad92cf&...
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Getting the shackles ready for today's ICE flight at MSP. Operated by Denver Air Connection as TYSON58 on N974DC. I counted 20 people, wearing said shackles, getting loaded today. Tracking data: adsb.lol?icao=ad92cf&...
So who's running in the 64A special election?
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
So who's running in the 64A special election?
Reposted by Kari Coad
“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...
Reposted by Kari Coad
These AI features are always so half-baked.
I’m starting to wonder if the people who come up with them, (and who code and test them, etc) are letting their dumb AI tools do most of the work. Like I expect rough edges but this goes so far beyond rough edges.
lifehacker.com/health/i-tri...
I’m starting to wonder if the people who come up with them, (and who code and test them, etc) are letting their dumb AI tools do most of the work. Like I expect rough edges but this goes so far beyond rough edges.
lifehacker.com/health/i-tri...
I Tried Google’s New AI Health Coach, and It Left Me Utterly Baffled
Google's new Fitbit personal health coach can have a nice conversation with you about your fitness goals, but it fails to make workouts that are easy to follow. It also hallucinated that the Pixel Wat...
lifehacker.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
These AI features are always so half-baked.
I’m starting to wonder if the people who come up with them, (and who code and test them, etc) are letting their dumb AI tools do most of the work. Like I expect rough edges but this goes so far beyond rough edges.
lifehacker.com/health/i-tri...
I’m starting to wonder if the people who come up with them, (and who code and test them, etc) are letting their dumb AI tools do most of the work. Like I expect rough edges but this goes so far beyond rough edges.
lifehacker.com/health/i-tri...
Deer shoulder stew with mushrooms, peas, and carrots from the garden
October 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Deer shoulder stew with mushrooms, peas, and carrots from the garden
Our 2025 tomato harvest reflects this
We enjoyed a Kansas City growing season in the Twin Cities this year. 🍂
It hit 30F at MSP this morning. 1st freeze since April 8.
Our 199 day growing season looks like it will end up as the 4th longest on record.
Record is 219 days set in 2016.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
It hit 30F at MSP this morning. 1st freeze since April 8.
Our 199 day growing season looks like it will end up as the 4th longest on record.
Record is 219 days set in 2016.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
4th longest growing season in the Twin Cities finally ends
The temperatures dropped below freezing at MSP Airport for the first time this fall Friday morning.
www.mprnews.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Our 2025 tomato harvest reflects this
I've never met Saint Paul mayoral candidate Yan Chen but last night I dreamt we pulled up the car in front of the house and she (along with an unknown assistant) was digging a large hole next to our oak tree in the boulevard. I have no idea what this means but it made me angry.
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I've never met Saint Paul mayoral candidate Yan Chen but last night I dreamt we pulled up the car in front of the house and she (along with an unknown assistant) was digging a large hole next to our oak tree in the boulevard. I have no idea what this means but it made me angry.
My sister just reminded me of the time our dad made clam chowder and accidentally used powdered sugar to thicken it instead of flour. Instead of throwing it out, he ate the whole batch.
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My sister just reminded me of the time our dad made clam chowder and accidentally used powdered sugar to thicken it instead of flour. Instead of throwing it out, he ate the whole batch.
They want you to know there is no cuddling happening here. Large cat is extremely territorial. Small cat doesn't give a shit
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
They want you to know there is no cuddling happening here. Large cat is extremely territorial. Small cat doesn't give a shit
Terrifying
October 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Terrifying
Update: Indeed, I saw a porcupine! Expected it to be up in a tree but instead got to watch one amble across the forest floor for about a minute
Hoping this is the weekend I see a porcupine in the wild🤞
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Update: Indeed, I saw a porcupine! Expected it to be up in a tree but instead got to watch one amble across the forest floor for about a minute
I've spent approximately 40% of the last 10 days in the woods. Need to find a way to make this a regular thing during at least 5 months of the year.
October 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I've spent approximately 40% of the last 10 days in the woods. Need to find a way to make this a regular thing during at least 5 months of the year.
Hoping this is the weekend I see a porcupine in the wild🤞
October 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Hoping this is the weekend I see a porcupine in the wild🤞
Reposted by Kari Coad
Come for the stories of cybertruck owners being flipped off, stay for the causal reference to the fact that their exterior cameras “record everything 24/7”
Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck
“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.
www.wired.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Come for the stories of cybertruck owners being flipped off, stay for the causal reference to the fact that their exterior cameras “record everything 24/7”
Feel free to include my favorite fall camping recipe. In a cast-iron dutch oven, brown some sausage meat and aromatics (onion/carrot/celery/garlic, etc.). I do this over the camp stove. Then transfer to the campfire and add lentils (French green are nice), water, woody herbs (bay/thyme) 1/
We have a huge announcement. We are proud to announce The Lentil Book. It will be a while before it’s available, but it will be the definitive book on lentils. From Norton.
October 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Feel free to include my favorite fall camping recipe. In a cast-iron dutch oven, brown some sausage meat and aromatics (onion/carrot/celery/garlic, etc.). I do this over the camp stove. Then transfer to the campfire and add lentils (French green are nice), water, woody herbs (bay/thyme) 1/
I was camping at Jay Cooke over the weekend. Never have I seen the park so busy with day visitors. Parking lot full, cars all along 210. Yet we saw virtually no one on our longer hikes. The leaf peepers rarely stray far from pavement.
Fall colors are peaking in parts of Minnesota 🍁 Use the @mnstateparks.bsky.social fall color map to plan your trip and 511mn.org to check traffic and construction before you head north on I-35!
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I was camping at Jay Cooke over the weekend. Never have I seen the park so busy with day visitors. Parking lot full, cars all along 210. Yet we saw virtually no one on our longer hikes. The leaf peepers rarely stray far from pavement.
Well this sucks. Open to WI residents only
I love this, definitely going to think on it and submit an entry.
“Typically, only 40% of the fish is used, and that’s the fillet. Finding ways to use the remaining 60% will help us reduce waste and create new economic opportunities in Wisconsin.”
“Typically, only 40% of the fish is used, and that’s the fillet. Finding ways to use the remaining 60% will help us reduce waste and create new economic opportunities in Wisconsin.”
Could this whitefish be a hat? A drink? The elixir of life? 🧪
Submit your ideas on how to use the whole fish to the 100% Wisconsin Fish contest for a chance to win a #GreatLakes prize pack!
www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/submit-...
Submit your ideas on how to use the whole fish to the 100% Wisconsin Fish contest for a chance to win a #GreatLakes prize pack!
www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/submit-...
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Well this sucks. Open to WI residents only
Reposted by Kari Coad
In 2019 when I was interviewing for the job of anti-surveillance activist at EFF I was asked what is biggest civil liberties threat that no is talking about yet---and my answer at the time was Ring. Given the general climate and its capabilities, it's even worse now.
Get. Rid. Of. Your. Ring.
Get. Rid. Of. Your. Ring.
Ring's Facial Recognition Sparks Privacy Backlash Among Customers - Phandroid
Amazon's new Ring feature uses facial recognition to identify visitors, prompting customers to cancel subscriptions over privacy concerns.
phandroid.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In 2019 when I was interviewing for the job of anti-surveillance activist at EFF I was asked what is biggest civil liberties threat that no is talking about yet---and my answer at the time was Ring. Given the general climate and its capabilities, it's even worse now.
Get. Rid. Of. Your. Ring.
Get. Rid. Of. Your. Ring.
Journalists: with all the ICE recruitment that's happening, is anyone tracking police department resignation rates?
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Journalists: with all the ICE recruitment that's happening, is anyone tracking police department resignation rates?
Out with the #greyhound celebrating #nationalblackdogday
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Out with the #greyhound celebrating #nationalblackdogday