Cantankerous Diogenes
@cynicaldiogenes.bsky.social
Looking for one honest person in the agora and decrying the tyranny of the majority.
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Columbia Protester Mahmoud Khalil Arrested by ICE, Moved to Louisiana Detention Facility
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March 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Columbia Protester Mahmoud Khalil Arrested by ICE, Moved to Louisiana Detention Facility
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Report: DOGE staffers energized by potential invasion of Canada because so many of their girlfriends live there.
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Report: DOGE staffers energized by potential invasion of Canada because so many of their girlfriends live there.
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NEW: A USAID official told employees to come into the HQ today to clear out a safe with classified documents — by shredding or burning them. We got an email in which she says use burn bags if shredder "needs a break." An employee union is worried. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records
A union representing career diplomats demanded that the aid agency follow the Federal Records Act. Some documents could be relevant in court cases.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
NEW: A USAID official told employees to come into the HQ today to clear out a safe with classified documents — by shredding or burning them. We got an email in which she says use burn bags if shredder "needs a break." An employee union is worried. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
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Tesla stocks just hit a new low for the year. Here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden.
March 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Tesla stocks just hit a new low for the year. Here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden.
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Opinion | Trump has imprisoned me in Guantánamo Bay. Here’s why I’m still glad I voted for him.
March 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Opinion | Trump has imprisoned me in Guantánamo Bay. Here’s why I’m still glad I voted for him.
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This is just the start
The disappeared Columbia student is the start of a surveillance nightmare
Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident. That didn’t stop ICE.
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is just the start
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The move is an escalation in Trump's effort to increase deportations from the U.S. and strip protections from those who violate the new administration's priorities.
Arrest of Palestinian protester shows escalation in Trump deportation efforts
The move is an escalation in Trump's effort to increase deportations from the U.S. and strip protections from those who violate the new administration's priorities.
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March 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The move is an escalation in Trump's effort to increase deportations from the U.S. and strip protections from those who violate the new administration's priorities.
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What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?
March 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?
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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your…
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March 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
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I don’t like it. But I respect it.
The heists occurred in several California counties, where the alleged thief would load his shopping cart with the expensive building toys and disappear into the parking lot in a matter of minutes.
California man charged after Lego larceny worth $25,000
The heists occurred in several California counties, where the alleged thief would load his shopping cart with the expensive building toys and disappear into the parking lot in a matter of minutes.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I don’t like it. But I respect it.
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Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.
March 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.
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Will Eisner art from the 1977 Spirit portfolio.
March 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Will Eisner art from the 1977 Spirit portfolio.
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Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.
March 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.
Literally advancing the Kremlin’s agenda at every turn. Just another day in Putin’s America.
March 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Literally advancing the Kremlin’s agenda at every turn. Just another day in Putin’s America.
Here’s a hot take: Via a bloodless paperwork coup engineered by parasitic fascist lawyers and implemented by an unelected billionaire, the United States has been effectively reduced to a Soviet satellite. Welcome, comrades 🇷🇺
March 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Here’s a hot take: Via a bloodless paperwork coup engineered by parasitic fascist lawyers and implemented by an unelected billionaire, the United States has been effectively reduced to a Soviet satellite. Welcome, comrades 🇷🇺
Here we fucking go.
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Social Security Workers Aren't Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
wrd.cm
March 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Here we fucking go.
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My 401K is in the toilet, my nanny was just deported, my kids have the measles, and I just narrowly survived a plane crash. But at least Trump is sticking it to the woke DEI snowflakes.
March 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My 401K is in the toilet, my nanny was just deported, my kids have the measles, and I just narrowly survived a plane crash. But at least Trump is sticking it to the woke DEI snowflakes.
And within a year or two, the same AI tools will be weaponized against any expression of dissent on social media 🤷🏻♂️
March 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And within a year or two, the same AI tools will be weaponized against any expression of dissent on social media 🤷🏻♂️
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The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
Sesame Workshop will 'downsize significantly' with layoffs, CEO says
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
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March 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
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I cover health and biotech at WIRED, and I'm looking to speak with employees at federal labs whose work is being affected by the credit card freeze. You can reach me securely on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.
March 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I cover health and biotech at WIRED, and I'm looking to speak with employees at federal labs whose work is being affected by the credit card freeze. You can reach me securely on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.
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A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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March 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.