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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12h

ICE isn't doing anything effective or important and they are shooting people and killing people.

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 12h

New York City Mayor Mamdani posted about a New Yorker who was shot by an ICE agent today in the City. The NYC said: Abolish ICE.

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 15h

weird how long it’s been and they still haven’t found any. wonder why that could be

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Preston Austin @gl33p.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

“people are unsatisfied with the economy even when, by conventional criteria, it is “doing well.” I suspect one reason is that the 21st century U.S. economy is just a difficult system” “when we think about what people want out of life, the “picture book city” is a good place to start. The […]

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20h

also I reviewed The Love of Your Life, one of the few non documentary films (maybe the only one?) I've seen in the last six years that acknowledges that people have died from Covid. for that and other reasons it's worth seeing. www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

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The Love of Your Life Admits That Covid Happened

It’s a painful but necessary movie. || Noah Berlatsky

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

The video shows the cop was using Flock on his laptop while driving 60mph before even pulling her over

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

excerpts of the video here. full videos in the article. shout out to a 404 Media reader who went to the courthouse to get this for us www.404media.co/watch-footag...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

New: We got body camera footage of the Flock search and traffic stop a judge ruled unconstitutional and "indiscriminate mass surveillance" www.404media.co/watch-footag...

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Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional

"I saw her go by, and I just started running her info on Flock."

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21h

🔥 from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. I would add: billionaires are a renewable resource, sadly. Five years ago there was no OpenAI or Anthropic. We mint billionaires here in California with some regularity. The movement of capital moves both ways. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

Some, perhaps, have legitimate fears that any wealth tax will just cause the rich to flee to other states. Prop 40 has been designed to make it hard to wriggle out of, but this fear is a perpetual one. Cities hear this when they pass local taxes; States hear it when they pass state taxes; nations hear it when they pass national taxes. It is true that the mobility of capital and the relative lack of mobility of labor is an inherent problem that makes the class war more difficult. It is also true that this is the sort of perpetual objection that is crafted to ensure that nobody anywhere ever does anything about a big problem. A global wealth tax would be ideal. In the meantime, every single locality and state and nation should be doing everything they can to capture as much of billionaire’s wealth as possible and funnel it back to the public. California, home of the tech industry, is the most sensible state in which to pass a billionaire tax. If the billionaires want to make it their life’s work to run around the world fleeing taxes, let them flee. What a sad life that would be for a group of people who could be doing anything.

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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

If LLMs make us stupid because you can just pay them to do stuff without thinking, does that mean rich people have always been stupid

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Preston Austin @gl33p.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

“She's not really talking about riding in a Mercedes, is she?”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The restaurant is not closed - we just don’t serve food anymore

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Preston Austin @gl33p.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

It's interesting that most social or political sets are not yet "allowed" to believe Him as @nberlat.bsky.social rightly suggests. We're intellectually allowed, not collectively consequentially allowed His words reliably predict acts, yet it remains extreme to recognize that fact Things may […]

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

like, this isn't rocket science. He takes steps to kill Democrats. He says he wants to kill Democrats. You're allowed to believe him.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Preston Austin @gl33p.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I don't know all that much about Singapore, or about The Woke Salaryman for that matter, but I know a fairly great deal about car centricity This is a nicely illustrated Pretty Good Take on car headedness. One that's largely applicable to how cars ruin cities everywhere, even cities that have a […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

A cat can never make a management decision because a cat can never be held accountable. (too cute)

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Preston Austin @gl33p.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

😒 queasily uneasily watching academic white men I charitably regard, whose uneasy charitable regard The Atlantic likely won't lose, watching Chris Rufo slowly equivocally lose some of the charity of those at The Atlantic who themselves demand significantly more charity than the publication as a […]

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's ugly, it's real, you need to be tough to face these truths, etc. etc.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think a lot of colonial art doesn't come out and say, "colonialism is good" so much as it focuses on how colonialism makes colonizers morally serious by presenting them with moral ambiguity. "shooting and crying"

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It gives "we have more money than GOD" Kind of creepy tbh.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

They didn't just have the ads on rotation. They bought the whole station for peak commute time slots. It's just a very money move. In a way the expensiveness of the ad buy is the biggest statement.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Why is the muse mascot a sanitized labubu? Video ads at grand central are very expensive. They are putting a lot into this launch. I’m mad they advertised hard enough to get to me. Ima go live on a boat.

A white fuzzy uncanny doll mascot waves at commuters on the four train.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Really tired of the "I worked at the kitten crushing factory for years, made a fuckton of money and now I found my conscience and get to tour the stages of the world telling people how to be ethical" grift.

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Preston Austin @gl33p.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

“the state loudly reclaimed killing from the zone of the extrajudicial, seeking to progress past the ghastly accessories of the rope and the tree, introducing instead a chemical cocktail and a needle, introducing protocol, making the whole thing look medicalized—humane” […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have been saved by cooler heads from all the many dangers that attend “going too far” when it comes to honesty about and consequence for abusers in a society that encourages and celebrates abuse and rewards and protects abusers. Whew! Close one. Good catch, cooler heads.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin, but there really is not a Wisconsin Republican Party any longer. When three people are paying for 90% of a gubernatorial campaign and 80% of legislative campaigns, you have a club, not a political party, owned and funded by billionaires.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The same billionaires bankrolled Scott Walker and are still providing more than 80% of funding for state legislative GOP campaigns. They are certainly ideological, but they also would prefer to pay zero taxes. urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you are remotely familiar with Wisconsin politics, you know exactly which three billionaires (Uihleins & Hendricks) they are talking about and what they want in return. Their purchase of Ron Johnson generated a giant federal tax cut targeted towards them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-best-d...

It is important to provide context here: Johnson had just been re-elected after polling so dismally for much of the 2016 campaign that the GOP establishment had given up on him.

Hendricks and the Uihelins did not lose faith in Johnson, spending $20 million on his seemingly doomed campaign. Their faith was amply rewarded. They benefited disproportionately from the very particular tax cut that Johnson had held out for.

In 2018 alone, the tax break Johnson engineered was worth an astonishing $215 million to his three billionaire supporters, almost one-quarter of the $1 billion benefit the tax cut provided to 82 mega-rich households. Over the course of its 8-year life, the tax cut could deliver half a billion for them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The GOP has put $2 million to this campaign, and the billionaires have put $23 million in. Their contribution is 92% of the money Tiffany raised.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Milwaukee one hundred years ago today at 1pm and and Milwaukee today at 1pm Water & Wisconsin — Milwaukee’s first & oldest intersection

Black and white aerial view a crowd of people crossing the street at water and Wisconsin in 1926

Aerial black and white view of the intersection at water and Wisconsin

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

A surprisingly enthusiastic response to the candidate who was just like "fuck it ban cars" #TOpoli

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flock's whole thing is that they argue their system does not need a warrant and they claim this is a settled issue. Very hard to overstate the importance that a federal judge has said this is not the case. Flock's CEO just said it was "pretty cut and dry"

The new decision also immediately invalidates the core argument that Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley has made saying that Flock was not a constitutional issue. “You and I don’t get to pick what’s a constitutional violation and what’s not. We have judges, we have elected officials, there’s a process for that. We follow the law, we follow the Constitution. So far, in our belief and what will be for a long time, the courts have deemed this is not a warrantless search; this is a valid product as it relates to the Fourth Amendment. So I don’t see any change there,” Langley told The Drive in July, adding the issue was “pretty cut and dry.”

Notably, Hill suggested that other courts that have ruled Flock searches do not constitute a Fourth Amendment search were likely wrong to do so, and that they have not considered the widespread and automated context of the AI-powered surveillance system.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology

“The Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz’s search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle’s whereabouts across the country for an entire month,” Hill wrote. “The Court finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California.”

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

okay, I think the eminem lyrics are fake? I was bitter, but glad to hear it's not necessarily that dreadful (or at least we don't know that it is yet.)

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Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I have a #lemmy account now. There seems to be a decent amount of activity for tech- and nerd related stuff. Much less so for local #Wisconsin or #MadisonWI content. I.e. kinda the same as with Mastodon.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"things divide us" what things, motherfucker?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What can you do? Leave a public comment on these Census changes. You have until Nov 2. You can write as little or as much as you want. The govt has to review and acknowledge these comments, which become part of the record they have to engage with before changes. www.regulations.gov/docket/USBC-...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In terms of consequences, the changes would have two effects. First, they would eliminate existing demographic data that we use for things like estimating racial inequality. That is by design, of course. Second, it would make the Census less accurate by discouraging non-citizens from participating.

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Preston Austin @gl33p.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I'm a whole lot more concerned with "state terrorism" which there is no special case argument for that I recognize than "political violence" which includes, for example, a lot of potentially necessary effective resistance to state terror, but yeah, its not good how far down this drain we have […]

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