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Bloomberg reporting that "US forces have intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela
US forces have intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that marks a serious escalation of tensions between the t...
www.bloomberg.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of 737 jets for deportations www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of 737 jets for deportations
The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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“She is clean, thin, ritualistic, and has nothing but time for herself — a Patrick Bateman for people with Pinterest manifestation boards.” www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/c...
CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. News in batteries and electrification has been coming fast and furious lately. Recently, Su Yi, the head of CATL’s marine div...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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AI slop is going to take over everything that isn’t verified/curated. Verification and curation requires time and resources, which is the opposite of our current setup that privileges frictionless/free content creation and consumption in exchange for data. www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
www.wired.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Great stuff here from @miasato.Baku.social Verge: Luigi Mangione trial is all about narrative control www.theverge.com/policy/83905...
One week at the Luigi Mangione media circus
Frog costumes, Luigi hats, and the press frenzy at the viral murder trial.
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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North Cascades National Park (July 2024)

#blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #naturephotography #nature #bnw #hiking #monochrome
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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It's all just so hateful, bigoted, and stupid. NPR: "Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait." tinyurl.com/4sdturpv
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
tinyurl.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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AI agents and the 90% problem tinyurl.com/5n77wyjd
AI agents and the 90% problem
Useful AI agents are still limited by their reliability on real-world tasks. But Chinese AI agents are pushing the limit.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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"Africa" gets 3 paragraphs in the new National Security Strategy document. Can be summed up as: trade not aid, access to critical minerals & energy, end wars, and remain wary of resurgent Islamist terrorist activity in parts of Africa while avoiding any long-term American presence or commitments."
E. Africa For far too long, American policy in Africa has focused on providing, and later on spreading, liberal ideology. The United States should instead look to partner with select countries to ameliorate conflict, foster mutually beneficial trade relationships, and transition from a foreign aid paradigm to an investment and growth paradigm capable of harnessing Africa’s abundant natural resources and latent economic potential. Opportunities for engagement could include negotiating settlements to ongoing conflicts (e.g., DRC-Rwanda, Sudan), and preventing new ones (e.g., EthiopiaEritrea-Somalia), as well as action to amend our approach to aid and investment (e.g., the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act). And we must remain wary of resurgent Islamist terrorist activity in parts of Africa while avoiding any long-term American presence or commitments. The United States should transition from an aid-focused relationship with Africa to a trade- and investment-focused relationship, favoring partnerships with capable, reliable states committed to opening their markets to U.S. goods and services. An immediate area for U.S. investment in Africa, with prospects for a good return on investment, include the energy sector and critical mineral development. Development of U.S.-backed nuclear energy, liquid petroleum gas, and liquified natural gas technologies can generate profits for U.S. businesses and help us in the competition for critical minerals and other resources.
December 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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“The time has come to declare war on AI,” by @drewmagary.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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How The Feds Used Propaganda To Frame Their ‘War’ On Chicago: ‘They’re Lying Constantly’ blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/04/h...
How The Feds Used Propaganda To Frame Their ‘War’ On Chicago: 'They're Lying Constantly'
Homeland Security has sought to reshape violent encounters into triumphant narratives — even as judges, journalists and experts said the agency has repeatedly distorted facts, misled the public and at...
blockclubchicago.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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"Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing over 250 people. Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology looks surprisingly flimsy." www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Big Sur, California (March 2021).

#classicmono #monochrome #bw #blackandwhitephotography #naturephotography #nature #bnw
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The president of the United States, calling for ethnic cleansing straight from the Oval Office.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7d
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Livestock market. Agadez, Niger (November 2022).

#bw #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #classicmono #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #monochrome
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Great deep dive here from @ddayen.bsky.social on surveillance pricing. prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...
Prices in the Machine - The American Prospect
AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.
prospect.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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“The goal here is not the creation of anything beautiful or even coherent so much as it is the making of constant, obliterating noise.”

Perfectly stated by @davidjroth.bsky.social
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Another match in which none of the midfield three want to be on the ball. Even Bergvall is tentative to show for it in our own half with his back to goal. This is why Xavi Simons *must* play. #COYS
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Logan Square Restaurant Raising Money For Family Of Employee Taken By ICE blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/l...
Logan Square Restaurant Raising Money For Family Of Employee Taken By ICE
Duri, a 19-year-old Crab Pad employee, and her father have spent weeks in overcrowded ICE facilities. Diana, Duri's mom, is struggling to pay the bills while supporting her loved ones.
blockclubchicago.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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W Trek, Patagonia. Chile (November 2024).

#landscapephotography #bw #blackandwhite #patagonia #hiking #naturephotography #photogrophersofbluesky #mountainmonday #classicmono #photography
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order
A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign.
www.newyorker.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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The UAE’s AI strategy winds through Silicon Valley restofworld.org/2025/what-th...
The UAE’s AI strategy winds through Silicon Valley
The California research lab is part of Abu Dhabi’s multipronged AI strategy that includes G42 and the MBZ University of AI.
restofworld.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Also, agents are using ChatGPT to create their "use of force" reports for them. We should just go ahead and make that illegal.
The judge also revealed for the first time that one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based on a brief sentence about an encounter and several images.” “To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage,” Ellis wrote. Street arrests and a ChatGPT report An Oct. 3 video clip captures an agent typing something into ChatGPT on his phone while riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle. The footage shows the time on his phone, 8:48 a.m., and one of the messages he sends to the AI Chatbot: “Long format like yesterday’s.” ChatGPT’s response reads: “Got it. Here’s the long-format narrative written in line with your Operation At Large / Midway Blitz go-by, incorporating all the identifiers from the documents you provided:” The AI bot’s response notes the hour, 0840, and says the agent “with over six years of experience and having conducted thousands of interviews and apprehensions of illegal aliens, was operating in the area of 2803 S Cicero Ave, Cicero, IL, 60804. I was wearing full … uniform with visible identifiers … an unmarked government vehicle.”
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM