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I wrote to Amazon demanding answers and a pause on Ring’s facial recognition rollout—and now I’m releasing Amazon’s response. The takeaway? Consent isn’t their problem and widespread surveillance is here to stay.

Unacceptable.
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
when will someone open Analog Home, a non-twee, well-stocked store where I can buy a mechanical bathroom scale, a non-digital thermostat & nice basic sturdy things of that ilk. the store will have no facial recognition cameras, no self-checkout. this store will reveal a voracious market.
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I became aware of Sabrina Carpenter only about a month ago when I was in another country watching cable tv & an actually shocking music video came on of this doll-like singer in various situations. Next thing I know she's antifa hard-core going toe to toe with the DHS propaganda machine.
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Multiple mainstream news outlets have confirmed this video, and this event, are real. Here name is Dayanne Figueroa. This really happened. I had looked for media confirmation at the time and was concerned I was being pandered to by algorithm serving AI content, but I continued to search over time.
I had posted that there was no news coverage on this awful ICE detention. This journalist did a deep dive. Provenance is murky, there's no independent verification; it may be an AI fundraising scam. Strangely, the journalist's last name is eerily similar to the scammer's.
NEW ARTICLE FROM ME — How a viral video that shocked us all turned out to be a possible GoFundMe scam intended to exploit justifiable outrage over ICE kidnappings.

humanistreport.substack.com/p/we-shouldn...
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The wise witch never takes more than her share. There are only so many bottles of tincture and syrup she can store. She learns to swerve greed, to leave an unexpected bounty for birds and sprites. Sometimes the best harvest is a memory of beauty. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I'm a bit fed up with media marveling that ICE isn't grabbing "the worst of the worst" as promised. the big picture is that maga influencers and their predecessors have lied for years about immigrant crime. their whole mission is based on these lies, but they can't find millions of phantom criminals
December 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
this is horrific.
and anti-surveillance people continually fall into the trap of pointing to racial disparities. the problem with facial recognition is not that it needs to be equally orwellian, it’s that it’s invasive & inherently fascistic.
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
can't wait til the ai facial recognition drones can pull up my address, voting history, financials, recent shopping, phone location history, social media posts and likes, and what I watched on netflix last night.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
bombers are a breed apart. the Mormon rare books forger who targeted people who discovered it. that guy in Austin a few years ago who we know almost nothing about. that guy in Nashville who rigged his RV with explosives & told everyone to leave. now this DC pipe bomber. I think they just love bombs.
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
the president sounding like a comedy sketch mad king. off with their heads energy. but a stale comedy sketch, a character trapped in time, tedious & repetitive
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"Looper" (2012)
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
ProPublica is knocking it out of the park
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Revs
Cost

And the Kiev.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
they would have arrested & deported that lovely ukranian refugee who was killed in Charlotte
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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This clip from the documentary Art of the Surge gives some insight into how Trump's tweets are made.

Trump can be seen dictating to his aide Natalie Harp. We also see the entire room brainstorming, with Matt Gaetz and Stephen Miller contributing ideas.

gizmodo.com/does-preside...
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
omigod I walk by this restaurant a lot but never noticed it. this is a very public, non-dodgy place to be shot at ???
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
turns out QAnon was, as Steve Bannon says, “directionally correct.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
this is kind of weird but I was in a car recently where someone had a classic rock playlist & I kept hoping for Gordon Lightfoot. I felt sad everyone forgot him. Next day, another car, Gordon Lightfoot was on the driver's phone. Since then I see or hear Gordon Lightfoot somewhere every day. <33
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Nov 10
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
my internal clock is fucked. I've been going to bed at 7 & waking up at 1. tonight I made it till 8 & believed I woke up at 1:48. made coffee. turned out I misread the clock & it was 11:48. I am going in the wrong direction.
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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🚨UR has released 73 videos captured by 45 Minneapolis Police body-worn cameras from the mass arrest of over 646 people on Nov. 4, 2020. Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers represented in this release have killed community members while on duty.

Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I found OJ: Made in America on netflix, something I've wanted to watch for a long time. and I've searched it. you'd think with all the investment in algorithms and "you'll love this" they'd leverage your searches. anyhow, watching it now.
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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We’re still waiting for the judge to figure out the jury instructions. Definitions can take time! Thankfully, he need not rule on the distinction among hoagie, sub and grinder.
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
it is so dark
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM