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Yet another example of how private tech companies — not the government boogeyman — is the force in society most aggressively expanding the surveillance apparatus because it serves their bottom lines and gets justified as convenience.
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show
Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features.
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Yet another example of how private tech companies — not the government boogeyman — is the force in society most aggressively expanding the surveillance apparatus because it serves their bottom lines and gets justified as convenience.
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Trump just posted a photo of himself holding up a piece of paper claiming to show tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia that are related to MS-13. The paper he’s holding up has been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”
The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”
April 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Trump just posted a photo of himself holding up a piece of paper claiming to show tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia that are related to MS-13. The paper he’s holding up has been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”
The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”
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this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from
April 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from
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maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way
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american men loved working factory jobs so much they famously demanded longer hours and fewer breaks
White dudes are just bored, that’s why we need to destroy the economy.
April 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
american men loved working factory jobs so much they famously demanded longer hours and fewer breaks
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…papers in the past 4 months alone demonstrating that over-reliance on "AI" tools diminishes critical thinking capacity & prevents students from building the kinds of foundational skills which allow them to learn more complex concepts, adapt to novel situations, & grow into experts.
This is so bad.
This is so bad.
So OpenAI is actively marketing ChatGPT to students during college finals season in the U.S.
We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…
We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…
![Screenshot of ChatpGPT page:
ChaptGPT
Promo: 2 months free for students
ChatGPT Plus is now free for college students through May
Offer valid for students in the US and Canada
[Buttons reading "Claim offer" and "learn more"
An image of a pencil scrawling a scribbly and looping line]
ChatGPT Plus is here to help you through finals](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreidh6mhffosfxhbgnxx6aybjycvgj3c2ygzto2xhzvsohdsv3g6evm@jpeg)
April 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
…papers in the past 4 months alone demonstrating that over-reliance on "AI" tools diminishes critical thinking capacity & prevents students from building the kinds of foundational skills which allow them to learn more complex concepts, adapt to novel situations, & grow into experts.
This is so bad.
This is so bad.
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didn’t azealia banks say grimes told her this too lmao
I need to know if this was real because that Elon NDA is looking flimsy as hell right now
April 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
didn’t azealia banks say grimes told her this too lmao
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Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.
NEW: DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. It's the culmination of a dramatic battle between DOGE and the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded think tank. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.
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Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
March 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
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Anyone in Berlin there that day?
March 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Anyone in Berlin there that day?
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people can smell a phony from a mile away!
And everyone, when evaluating James Carville's winning advice, please consider what Gavin Newsom's anti-trans swing has done for his numbers:
March 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
people can smell a phony from a mile away!
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com
@msnbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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pete hegseth carrying out his effort to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Marines with Skin Condition Affecting Mostly Black Men Could Now Be Booted Under New Policy
A new Marine Corps policy says troops with a genetic skin condition that can cause pain and scarring from shaving and mainly affects Black men can be separated if the health issue persists.
www.military.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
pete hegseth carrying out his effort to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Most viable career paths right now:
-Police goon
-Tech fraudster
-Health care crank
-Regime propagandist
-Dentist (unrelated to the others, it just pays well)
-Police goon
-Tech fraudster
-Health care crank
-Regime propagandist
-Dentist (unrelated to the others, it just pays well)
March 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Most viable career paths right now:
-Police goon
-Tech fraudster
-Health care crank
-Regime propagandist
-Dentist (unrelated to the others, it just pays well)
-Police goon
-Tech fraudster
-Health care crank
-Regime propagandist
-Dentist (unrelated to the others, it just pays well)
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there are still a lot of people who believe america is 'the best at everything' just because. in the meantime our government is doing everything it can to keep us too uneducated or physically and mentally ill to question that increasingly ludicrous narrative.
it's truly impossible to explain to people in other nations how propagandized our "free" country is. americans are basically indoctrinated into a nationwide cult from birth. im not making excuses for americans but pretty much every time you wonder why something is/isn't happening it's bc of the cult
I’m convinced American exceptionalism is a big part of what made us vulnerable to Trump. We’re so used to thinking of ourselves as the Special Freedom Country that a lot of people find it inconceivable we could rapidly collapse into shabby despotism even as they watch it happen.
March 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
there are still a lot of people who believe america is 'the best at everything' just because. in the meantime our government is doing everything it can to keep us too uneducated or physically and mentally ill to question that increasingly ludicrous narrative.
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Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"
March 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"
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Amazon Alexa will lose the ability to do local processing
PSA: Amazon Alexa discontinuing Do Not Send Voice Recordings
Just received an email that Amazon is discontinuing the Alexa feature “Do not send voice recordings.” - seems like now is the best time ever...
old.reddit.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Amazon Alexa will lose the ability to do local processing
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Cynthia Nixon ran against Cuomo for Governor of New York and lost because people were like haw haw Sex and the City Lady haw haw but has since been proven right about a while hell of a lot of stuff while Cuomo is considered a serious politician despite being a wrong headed loser creep
March 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Cynthia Nixon ran against Cuomo for Governor of New York and lost because people were like haw haw Sex and the City Lady haw haw but has since been proven right about a while hell of a lot of stuff while Cuomo is considered a serious politician despite being a wrong headed loser creep
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lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!"
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.
January 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!"
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.
I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.