Sam Biddle
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Sam Biddle
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· Oct 24
As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
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SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza.
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The goat Christmas movie
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The goat Christmas movie
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
Just got brutally owned by my nephew
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Just got brutally owned by my nephew
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THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Mark Zuckerberg et al had better hope the rest of the world doesn't ever develop a "red line" like this for U.S. social media companies, because they constantly engage in extraterritorial censorship of non-Americans
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mark Zuckerberg et al had better hope the rest of the world doesn't ever develop a "red line" like this for U.S. social media companies, because they constantly engage in extraterritorial censorship of non-Americans
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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This company will now receive monetary bonuses based on how many immigrants it hunts down for ICE theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This company will now receive monetary bonuses based on how many immigrants it hunts down for ICE theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
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NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
theintercept.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
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This isn’t actually true. It’s clearly not the same photo. There’s also no such implication; the imagery in the dump is heavily redacted to the point where the faces on nude paintings get black boxes.
The Epstein material is confusing enough without this breathy true crime investigator nonsense.
The Epstein material is confusing enough without this breathy true crime investigator nonsense.
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This isn’t actually true. It’s clearly not the same photo. There’s also no such implication; the imagery in the dump is heavily redacted to the point where the faces on nude paintings get black boxes.
The Epstein material is confusing enough without this breathy true crime investigator nonsense.
The Epstein material is confusing enough without this breathy true crime investigator nonsense.
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Someday, someone will do a story about why the Pulitzer jurors never nominated, and the Pulitzer board never awarded, a prize to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the @miamiherald.com reporter who broke the bulk of the Epstein story.
www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...
www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...
Perversion of Justice: Jeffrey Epstein
In her year-long investigation of Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown tracked down more than 60 women who said they were victims of abuse and revealed the fu...
www.miamiherald.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Someday, someone will do a story about why the Pulitzer jurors never nominated, and the Pulitzer board never awarded, a prize to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the @miamiherald.com reporter who broke the bulk of the Epstein story.
www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...
www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...
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US defense firm Anduril has announced a joint venture w/ a state-run Emirati weapons conglomerate whose arms have been repeatedly linked to atrocities in Sudan, including the RSF’s genocidal campaign in Darfur, The Intercept reports.
The partnership will focus on autonomous weapons systems...
The partnership will focus on autonomous weapons systems...
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
US defense firm Anduril has announced a joint venture w/ a state-run Emirati weapons conglomerate whose arms have been repeatedly linked to atrocities in Sudan, including the RSF’s genocidal campaign in Darfur, The Intercept reports.
The partnership will focus on autonomous weapons systems...
The partnership will focus on autonomous weapons systems...
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stumbled across a steam group that rates games' wokeness, and the first game on their "NOT RECOMMENDED / TOO WOKE" list is Bloons
December 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
stumbled across a steam group that rates games' wokeness, and the first game on their "NOT RECOMMENDED / TOO WOKE" list is Bloons
This company will now receive monetary bonuses based on how many immigrants it hunts down for ICE theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This company will now receive monetary bonuses based on how many immigrants it hunts down for ICE theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
theintercept.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...
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This is, of course, always where this was headed. Things will only get worse as facial recognition becomes normalized unless lawmakers ban it outright. Next up: precautionary facial surveillance of everyone, all the time, just in case (with guardrails that will also eventually be rolled back).
Dallas PD to expand use of Clearview “to Class B misdemeanors and above, which means it could use facial recognition for crimes like theft and trespassing.”
Dallas Police to expand controversial facial recognition tech to less serious crimes
The use of the tech is currently reserved for serious felonies like murder, kidnapping and rape. Now it could be used for porch pirates.
www.wfaa.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is, of course, always where this was headed. Things will only get worse as facial recognition becomes normalized unless lawmakers ban it outright. Next up: precautionary facial surveillance of everyone, all the time, just in case (with guardrails that will also eventually be rolled back).
"retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data" in the name of safeguarding American privacy. Sinophobia is a hell of a drug
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data" in the name of safeguarding American privacy. Sinophobia is a hell of a drug
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Again. It would be cold comfort had TikTok been sold to Someone-Awesome rather than Ellison, Kushner, and Abu Dhabi. The doctrinal damage -- which we will tie up First Amendment challenges to bad speech laws for far longer than this thing called TikTok will be around -- was already done.
As I've said before, the TikTok ban fight was never just about TikTok. It was about under what conditions the government can avoid precision-demanding constitutional scrutiny when it seeks to control editorial policies and speech. SCOTUS said a potentially pretextual other goal was OK. Our big loss.
December 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Again. It would be cold comfort had TikTok been sold to Someone-Awesome rather than Ellison, Kushner, and Abu Dhabi. The doctrinal damage -- which we will tie up First Amendment challenges to bad speech laws for far longer than this thing called TikTok will be around -- was already done.
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'Anduril Partners With UAE Bomb Maker Accused of Arming Sudan’s Genocide. Anduril calls itself an “arsenal of democracy.” So why is it partnering with an authoritarian monarchy to build drones?' @sambiddle.com @theintercept.com
Anduril Partners With UAE Bomb Maker Accused of Arming Sudan’s Genocide
Anduril calls itself an “arsenal of democracy.” So why is it partnering with the United Arab Emirates, an authoritarian monarchy to build drones?
theintercept.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
'Anduril Partners With UAE Bomb Maker Accused of Arming Sudan’s Genocide. Anduril calls itself an “arsenal of democracy.” So why is it partnering with an authoritarian monarchy to build drones?' @sambiddle.com @theintercept.com
“I’d like to thank my wife and the great team at A24. W’s in the chat let’s fucking goooooo!!!!!”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, departing the film awards' longtime home of ABC.
December 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“I’d like to thank my wife and the great team at A24. W’s in the chat let’s fucking goooooo!!!!!”
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AIPAC’s board president hosted a fundraiser in LA yesterday for Illinois congressional candidate Laura Fine, who has said she isn’t seeking their endorsement - while still taking money from AIPAC donors. They turned @jonahmv.bsky.social away at the door: theintercept.com/2025/12/16/l...
AIPAC Head Hosts Fundraiser for House Candidate Who Swears AIPAC Isn’t Backing Her
Laura Fine has distanced herself from the Israel lobby, but AIPAC donors are pouring funding into her Illinois congressional campaign.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
AIPAC’s board president hosted a fundraiser in LA yesterday for Illinois congressional candidate Laura Fine, who has said she isn’t seeking their endorsement - while still taking money from AIPAC donors. They turned @jonahmv.bsky.social away at the door: theintercept.com/2025/12/16/l...
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Also could be the absolute classic; the FBI convinced a bunch of losers to do a terror attack, including informants pushing them to make plans, telling them where to buy weapons and making "connections" with "arms dealers," and helping pick the target list.
I’m finding it increasingly hard to report anything delivered by “official sources” in the US. Could be true, could be a coverup, could be completely made up for nefarious ends.
It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.
It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.
December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also could be the absolute classic; the FBI convinced a bunch of losers to do a terror attack, including informants pushing them to make plans, telling them where to buy weapons and making "connections" with "arms dealers," and helping pick the target list.