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Charlotte Shane

@charoshane.bsky.social
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404 Media @404media.co · 12h
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Highly resonant piece from @charoshane.bsky.social, particularly in the wake of Cornell's nonpunishment for rape:
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This Season on Epstein Island
While predators run the world, all we can do is gawk.
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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been following Students for Life's Kristan Hawkins around the country for months, watching her put on makeup in an airport bathroom, door-knock for candidates in a gerrymandered neighborhood, and debate survivors of rape. It's been a wilder ride than I could have imagined. Read and watch:
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one of the great risks of reading is that someday you'll come across a book so incredible, you have to write 5000 words about how it simultaneously realizes and concludes the entire project of literature meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/pages-one-...
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Pages One Cannot Turn Over
"There are pages one cannot turn over."
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
Citizens showed up to the city council meeting with plans to let city leaders know how they felt about the city’s use of Flock. But Springfield mayor Jeff Schrag moved to prevent public comment on Flock. Then, arrests happened, @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the way these hackers can get it (anything they want, from me personally)
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:
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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New: Axon says cops are asking it to change its license plate readers to make them look less like Flock cameras. This is because people keep vandalizing Flock ones. Axon said it is looking to change the design. CEO said this in a now deleted webinar, but we got a copy www.404media.co/cops-are-ask...
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Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them
“Is there any talk to redesign the Outpost to not look exactly like the Flock camera — I think it will help agencies with the optics while we batten down the hatches,” one apparent cop asked during a ...
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For @readlux.bsky.social, I wrote about Epstein as meme, joke, and posthumous career-maker (for some men) lux-magazine.com/article/epst...
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I appreciated this a lot since it focuses on experience and not just causes/explanations. A different type of relief comes from that, and knowing that the specific frustrations and unhappiness are shared yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/why-does-e...
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Why does everything feel like a scam?
When you don’t know what anything should cost, everything feels like a con
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm grateful for this follow up since I saw many people insist the books being destroyed for AI were all Colleen Hoover and vanity garbage. I understand wanting the gen public to be more informed about the fates of physical books but (very obviously?) they were doing it/will do it to rare books too.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Special link for anyone who'd like a copy of @harronwawker.bsky.social sublime Veronica Place AND a free uncorrected galley of 2024's An Honest Woman. (What else am I going to do with them? They're just sitting around!) www.tigerbeepress.com/store/p23/Ve...
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Veronica Place with free An Honest Woman galley
TigerBee Press is an independent, Brooklyn-based publisher specializing in chapbooks and similarly potent limited run projects.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
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ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If I really put my mind to it, I suppose I could conceive of a person who wouldn't like this book...but what a sad and tragic figure they would be
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