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Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in
www.eff.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
America is having a collective “take the keys away from grandpa” debate, except it’s the nuclear codes.
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
America is having a collective “take the keys away from grandpa” debate, except it’s the nuclear codes.
Acknowledging the Multnomah, Chinook, Kalapuya, and other tribes whose land we occupy where I live in Portland OR.
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Acknowledging the Multnomah, Chinook, Kalapuya, and other tribes whose land we occupy where I live in Portland OR.
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I wouldn't find it myself until a few years later, but this is probably the most important media debut for me personally in my lifetime. I wouldn't be the same person without it. At all. It's an epoch-defining show.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I wouldn't find it myself until a few years later, but this is probably the most important media debut for me personally in my lifetime. I wouldn't be the same person without it. At all. It's an epoch-defining show.
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
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“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
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AI and robotics will transform our world.
Will these revolutionary technologies make life better for working people, or will they simply make the richest people on Earth even richer and more powerful?
That is the great question of our time.
Will these revolutionary technologies make life better for working people, or will they simply make the richest people on Earth even richer and more powerful?
That is the great question of our time.
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
AI and robotics will transform our world.
Will these revolutionary technologies make life better for working people, or will they simply make the richest people on Earth even richer and more powerful?
That is the great question of our time.
Will these revolutionary technologies make life better for working people, or will they simply make the richest people on Earth even richer and more powerful?
That is the great question of our time.
Can we skip to the healing and rebuilding part?
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Can we skip to the healing and rebuilding part?
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October 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
You attended No Kings? Take Action Today:
To Protect Our Democracy
Join Your local Indivisible Group
Make Calls with 5 Calls APP
Write Letters to voters with Vote Forward
Listen to weekly strategy calls
Stay Informed & Subscribe:
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There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store
System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later
Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1
License: GPLv3
Level: Beginner
Time required: 15-20 minutes
Other reading:
https://signal.org/
https://support.signal.org/
https://signal.org/blog/
Table of Contents
Download and Install Signal
Register and Verify...
ssd.eff.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
NYU’s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year - Washington Square News
“This conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It’s sad, but it’s true,” migration scholar and keynote speaker Allison Mountz told an audience of close to 200 people on Wednesday, who stood along the back wall and spilled out the conference room’s double doors. The radical act in question was...
nyunews.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
I was just thinking this morning about this dichotomy in different terms this morning, so to look at it historically is really helpful.
There's always been a fight over the true story of America. I believe deeply in the story that says we’re all created equal, and that if we can treat each other with decency and respect, all of us will be better off.
I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:
I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:
My Conversation with Marc Maron | WTF Podcast
YouTube video by Barack Obama
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October 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was just thinking this morning about this dichotomy in different terms this morning, so to look at it historically is really helpful.
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(Sound up) 🐸🎸🎶
A Message from the Frog Resistance
from #WarRavagedPortland
in #WarTornPDX
youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso
A Message from the Frog Resistance
from #WarRavagedPortland
in #WarTornPDX
youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso
A Message From The Frog Resistance
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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October 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
(Sound up) 🐸🎸🎶
A Message from the Frog Resistance
from #WarRavagedPortland
in #WarTornPDX
youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso
A Message from the Frog Resistance
from #WarRavagedPortland
in #WarTornPDX
youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso
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In the latest installment of Bad Letters, let's learn from EFF's @maassive.bsky.social about the surveillance tech that could soon be roaming the skies in your city. Learn more at www.eff.org/DFR.
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In the latest installment of Bad Letters, let's learn from EFF's @maassive.bsky.social about the surveillance tech that could soon be roaming the skies in your city. Learn more at www.eff.org/DFR.
Congrats Google, you’re officially evil. Will be deleting my gmail account I’ve had since 2005.
www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...
www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...
YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension
YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.
www.npr.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Congrats Google, you’re officially evil. Will be deleting my gmail account I’ve had since 2005.
www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...
www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If you’re using Sora, why?
October 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
If you’re using Sora, why?
Just finished watching the docuseries 1971 on Apple TV+. Dang. The thing that struck me most: the SIZE of the protests and events! Solidarity. I pray it doesn’t get that violent again. But it might have to.
September 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Just finished watching the docuseries 1971 on Apple TV+. Dang. The thing that struck me most: the SIZE of the protests and events! Solidarity. I pray it doesn’t get that violent again. But it might have to.
What I’m grappling with is how the assholes and liars and fraudsters seem to have taken over, when this is the America I believe in
In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
September 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
What I’m grappling with is how the assholes and liars and fraudsters seem to have taken over, when this is the America I believe in
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Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.
September 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.
The closest I ever want to get to online gambling is checking into my flight on Southwest and seeing what boarding group I’m in.
September 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The closest I ever want to get to online gambling is checking into my flight on Southwest and seeing what boarding group I’m in.
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It’s disappointing that Ring has chosen this moment, when police and the government are infringing civil liberties left and right, to revive its tech’s most invasive feature: helping police get videos captured by home security cameras.
www.consumerreports.org/electronics...
www.consumerreports.org/electronics...
Ring Is Again Letting Police Request User Videos Through Its Neighbors App via @ConsumerReports
Ring has resumed letting police request security camera footage through the Neighbors app. Here's how to participate in Community Requests or opt out.
www.consumerreports.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It’s disappointing that Ring has chosen this moment, when police and the government are infringing civil liberties left and right, to revive its tech’s most invasive feature: helping police get videos captured by home security cameras.
www.consumerreports.org/electronics...
www.consumerreports.org/electronics...