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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

He's really good at this.

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We've seen this movie. @propublica.org once documented Facebook repeatedly saying its tracking data wasn't used commercially. Until it was. Now Meta says these terms won't change its behavior. We're supposed to trust that over the words it wrote into terms? No. 5/5 www.propublica.org/article/its-...

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It’s Complicated: Facebook’s History of Tracking You

Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 10h

Note, Meta faces publishers' lawsuits alleging it torrented pirated books from shadow libraries to train its AI. Trial date was set just yesterday for May 3, 2027. Meta looks to now be trying to write sweeping website scraping rights into its terms. Quite a coincidence. Or a wake-up call, all. 4/5

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent reporting by @niemanlab.org making ALL aware. Meta claims it's simply consolidating existing terms and this won't change its crawling. Then why is Meta demanding sweeping permissions in a binding contract? Why explicitly authorize AI training? 3/5 www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 10h

This isn't just when you post your content on Meta. These new terms reach outside its walled gardens to any websites "associated with your products." Potentially powering its AI empire, including Muse, without licensing deals. And if you keep using its services, Meta claims you consented. wth. 2/5

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 10h

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17h

A piece in the November 2023 New York Review of Books catalyzed my interest in tech extremism and led to my book. It's great to see things come full circle with Sue Halpern's very positive review of "The Nerd Reich." The Plot to Delete Democracy www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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The Plot to Delete Democracy | Sue Halpern

In The Nerd Reich Gil Durán shows how Silicon Valley billionaires have pushed a fringe ideology—what is popularly called techno-fascism but is closer in aspiration to straight-up totalitarianism—into ...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot say enough how much making a gotcha point about the president "not actually dropping a nuclear bomb" is counterproductive to the goal of him *not actually dropping a nuclear bomb.*

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 18h

It is simultaneously important that everyone else know the "MOAB" is less explosive than even the smallest nuclear warheads and also that the President remains convinced he has dropped the biggest bomb anyone has ever dropped.

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L.A. Material @lamaterial.com · 10h

JUST IN: President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, has been busted at least twice in Southern California for driving while using her phone. Read Tomo Chien and @matt-hamilton87.bsky.social’s full story: buff.ly/W0pEHYF

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New White House Press Secretary is SoCal Traffic Scofflaw

Katie Zacharia has been cited three times in L.A. and Ventura counties since 2023 — twice for driving on her phone.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

Nice lede

$IN AUGUST 2025, Katie Zacharia, who debuted this week as President Trump's new press secretary, appeared on Fox News to lambast the "brazen" and"callous" street takeover drivers of Los Angeles who have "not faced consequences for the last decade under Soros-backed" district attorneys. "They do not care about human life," Zacharia declared What Zacharia didn't say on air was that, the very same day she was denouncing reckless drivers on L.A. streets, she was due to complete traffic school for the latest of multiple distracted-driving infractions that she has racked up across Southern California.$

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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 10h

Paying for something (physical or digital) and fully owning that thing Used cars that cost what used cars should cost instead of being marginally cheaper than new cars

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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 10h

Not-on-demand TV Libraries A Limited internet No 24-hour news cycle Free time Naps The promise of a career after college Time with friends that all lived in the same town Cheap food Phones without streaming video No mass surveillance Game systems without internet connectivity

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

Goddamn they would be fucking launching an endless stream of TALAFREAKO merch out of a tee shirt cannon every day for the next three weeks if I was even within earshot of his campaign manager for ten seconds. What a gift to be given that sick-ass nickname by the worst guy alive.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 14/10/2026

Flock CEO Langley said that he wouldn't rule out scrapping a contract with a customer over abuse, but said that much of the debate has been focused on the activity of few bad cops. Bypass for ad-blockers: archive.is/Pwt9p

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Flock CEO: We haven't 'fired' any police departments as customers | TechCrunch

Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that the surveillance company has not cancelled contracts of any police department or law enforcement agency, despite reports of abuse.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 14/10/2026

NEW: Flock CEO Garrett Langley says he hasn't fired or ended contracts with any law enforcement or police departments, despite dozens of reports of police abusing its system to stalk people. An anti-Flock protest was held outside the venue. w/ @amanda.omg.lol and @rebeccabellan.bsky.social:

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Flock CEO: We haven't 'fired' any police departments as customers | TechCrunch

Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that the surveillance company has not cancelled contracts of any police department or law enforcement agency, despite reports of abuse.

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Democratic Congress member Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation in Congress to regulate digital video game ownership. "A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase. It is a rental disguised as a sale."

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Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It'

The Power To The Players Act would put an end to digital game licenses

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h

Every New Yorker deserves to seek help from their city without fear of being targeted for deportation. We will stand by our immigrant neighbors, defend our laws and protect the promise that this city belongs to all of us.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h

The federal government tried to turn our public servants into deportation agents and force New York City to carry out ICE’s cruel agenda. Today, a federal court rejected that effort and upheld our laws. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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US judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit over New York City 'sanctuary' laws

A federal judge on Thursday threw out a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to block New York City laws ‌limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, finding the government did not...

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 11h

Here's what I know — 100% of the time when Donald Trump needs Susan Collins for a vote, he gets it.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

Inside Rubio's State Department —He's "basically…moved into the White House" —He's very close w/ Stephen Miller. Ultimately this has Rubio doing whatever Miller tells him to (Miller has joked privately on how he's subjugated Rubio) —Internal dissent channels are defunct; staff too scared to use them

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‘Secretary of Cuck’: How Marco Rubio Learned to Love Waging Trump’s War on the World

Rubio was once a supposedly reasonable Republican, even the GOP’s ‘savior.’ Now he’s Donald Trump’s ‘Narco Rubio’ and overseeing a level of violence his staffers are terrified to question internally.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Did ya know Marco Rubio's brother-in-law had a $75M drug ring? And now— "Rubio is helping carry the torch for a now decades-old U.S. foreign policy: claiming to fight drug trafficking while in fact tolerating, protecting, or even cooperating with…the criminality Rubio purports to be concerned with."

And as the nation’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio has in some respects served as a friend and accomplice of drug trafficking or criminal enterprises, earning him the moniker “Narco Rubio” from critics. The complaints extend well beyond noting Rubio’s cocaine-trafficking brother-in-law. Rather, it’s that Rubio is helping carry the torch for a now decades-old U.S. foreign policy: claiming to fight drug trafficking while in fact tolerating, protecting, or even cooperating with criminal enterprises that advance U.S. establishment political and intelligence aims.

In his role as secretary of state, Rubio has protected, praised, and propped up a murderer’s row of Latin American leaders who each have ties to the criminality Rubio purports to be concerned with.

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For years, Rubio has praised former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, and defended him against allegations of bribery and fraud. The Pentagon has identified Uribe as a Colombian politician “dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin cartel at high government levels,” as being “linked to a business involved in narcotics activities in the U.S.” and being a “close personal friend” of Pablo Escobar. On the other hand, Rubio perhaps appreciates Uribe’s efforts to stamp out communist insurgencies in Colombia – to the point of committing war crimes.

Rubio said last year that Ecudoran President Daniel Noboa “has done more just in the last couple years to take the fight to these narco-terrorists… than any previous administration.” Five months before that, Noboa’s family fruit business was revealed to have trafficked 700 kilos of cocaine to Europe. (Notably, this summer, an anti-corruption activist who was investigating ties between Noboa’s family and cocaine trafficking was found dead in her home with a noose around her neck; and days later, a prosecutor who had been investigating the drone attacks on Ecuadorian fishing boats carried out by the Trump administration was shot dead in the streets).

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 10h

Russian satellite targeting aid has helped Iran wreck how many hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military infrastructure, or even billions? Yet the president attempts to lift sanctions on Moscow — while denying satellite intelligence to the Ukrainians who could get our licks back.

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How Iran's precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure

Iran has hit Gulf infrastructure dozens of times in precision strikes, blunting the US war effort. Gulf governments have often hidden the extent of the damage.

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Paizo @paizo.com · 12h

Curious about how to play 13 Omens? With the campaign LIVE NOW on Kickstarter, get a taste of our new rules-lite horror TTRPG in our actual play with staff and friends at Gen Con, hosted by Erik Mona! Watch 13 Omens: bit.ly/4yboSIu

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

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Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network @anticappodnetwork.bsky.social · 13h

Unless you’re trans, disabled, palestinian…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

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How ‘Woke 1’ Radicalized the GOP

On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14h

this basically amounts to giving corporations more rights and power... we cover this very argument in this 2024 paper firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally | First Monday

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

Helluva comparison.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

“I view AI personhood as similar to corporate personhood, where we grant rights in exchange for obligations, as a way of encouraging prosocial corporate behavior.”

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Treat AI Like a New Species, Harvard Scientist Says | Harvard Magazine

Joshua Joseph discusses how society can manage and coexist alongside self-governing AI agents.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 14h

Granting rights to an AI is ludicrous. Among other things, accountability and responsibility have no meaning to any such entity.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Yup same exact play. After Obergefell public perception on LGBT people shifted and conservatives were suddenly too weak to attack them as a full group. So what's the play when that happens? Divide and conquer. Split the group and attack the smaller/weaker half bsky.app/profile/gray...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

100%. On the flip side this is what drove the same group of elites so crazy during the post-Covid "no one wants to work anymore" tight labor market bsky.app/profile/them...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Like that's not some speculative conspiracy theory, it's very easy to find our society's elites praising how much they love Dubai and Abu Dhabi and Riyadh and then link that praise to their plans — plans they've written down for everyone to see! — like "network states" to reproduce those here

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Yes. As I said in another thread, the gulf monarchies are an explicit model for them: Royals at the top, a group of citizens below who get limited rights contingent on regime support, and a vast underclass of rights-less guest workers or slaves who do the actual labor bsky.app/profile/pmmi...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

The anitdote is similarly obvious: solidarity. Fight together and keep our freedom or fight alone and be enslaved. It's frustrating how many people in power seem to not understand this and say we can just sacrifice part of our coalition in order to save the rest of us. It doesn't work like that!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

It's the oldest ruling class play in human history — divide and conquer. Take a look at the group you want to subjugate, split them into two, conquer the weaker half with the help of the stronger half, then split again and again until there's no one left strong enough to fight you

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

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