numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Shannon’s iPod on KUCI (88.9 fm) is playing a killer shogaze-y set this morning 🙂↔️🎵📻 110
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026hey @archive.org @waybackmachine.bsky.social: I’ve been redirected to the below error page all week—frequently when trying to save webpages, & unilaterally when attempting to check both the snapshot and screenshot of successfully archived URLs. Is there an ETA for restoration of this functionality? 121
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It would be useful if some government or private entity were to host a blue-chip commission to look at the data on the public safety tradeoffs involved in the installation and use of Flock cameras. Whatever views you have, it's an important issue, & real data & analysis is good. 53910
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comHow ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its CriticsAgency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements. 991695904
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 31/07/2026so wild to me still that there is an ENTIRE industry, underwritten by big tech and top entertainment agencies, in which its most recognizable users (i.e. creators/influencers) are roundly unfamiliar with Ana Voog and the path she singlehandedly paved that enables their current livelihood 010
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 29/07/2026I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them 10731401324
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town. 433405915
Reposted by numinosity 🎬EPIC @epic.org · 24/07/2026Yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed into law a ban on surveillance pricing for groceries, making NJ the third state to prohibit the unfair practice in certain sectors. The law also gives consumers a private right of action—the first in a surveillance pricing law.epic.orgNJ Governor Signs Grocery Surveillance Pricing Ban with Private Right of Action into LawOn Thursday, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed into law a ban on surveillance pricing for groceries. The Fair Price Protection Act makes New Jersey the third state to enact legislation… 02916
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO. 610191376864
Reposted by numinosity 🎬The Ankler @theankler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A federal judge has temporarily paused the proposed $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger after granting a temporary restraining order requested by a coalition of 12 state attorneys general. This is a developing story. 0103
Reposted by numinosity 🎬DeFlock @deflock.org · 17/07/2026Atlanta News First Investigates identified at least 19 Georgia cases in the past year involving alleged personal searches, including accusations of stalking. ANF dives into the issues plaguing Georgia law enforcement. #Flock #DeFlock #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b3V...youtube.comFlock AI audit tool flags suspicious police searches as misuse cases mount in GeorgiaYouTube video by Atlanta News First 0134
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 15/07/2026an Ai error rate of 67% at a major health institution is horrifying, patient-safety and privacy wise. Ai is NOWHERE NEAR secure enough to unroll and embed in healthcare infrastructuremprnews.orgLawsuit alleges Mayo Clinic cuts corners with AI, putting patient care and privacy at riskA former Mayo Clinic official is suing her former employer, alleging she was demoted and then fired after blowing the whistle on how the hospital’s rush to incorporate AI into their operations put pat... 000
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 15/07/2026hearing whispers of a bloodbath at the Stern Show??? 000
Reposted by numinosity 🎬alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Another cold blooded execution by ICE today in Maine, just days after the murder in Houston. The only acceptable position for politicians is eliminating the agency. Do not for one minute tolerate any politician calling for "training" or "body cameras." The demand is clear. 220066
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026By popular demand (one person who DM’d me), an obituary for Lindsey Graham, focused on a lesser-known episode from the Lindsey Lore that has long defined him for me.forever-wars.comLindsey Graham Is One Of The Reasons Guantanamo Is OpenThe late South Carolina Republican, known for his warmongering, helped preserve an extrajudicial cage that is still swallowing people 4497169
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Carol Duncan @carolduncan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Oh my heart. We've lost Sam Neill. :( 591042279
Reposted by numinosity 🎬julie, like boo-welry @julie.alady.top · 12/07/2026gf: you must live your life in a way that people don't post crab rave after you die 465980
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 11/07/2026submitting that soccer/fútbol leagues introduce “B” penalty cards for referees’ use to call plays wherein a player is being a little bitch 100
Reposted by numinosity 🎬T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/07/2026True story: there used to be a website that tracked these (PuppycideDB), and they gave up because cops were killing too many dogs for them to the website to keep pace 3530206
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I'm old enough to remember that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook started doing "privacy popups" in 2018 where they told people that they cared about their privacy and user consent. Well, lmao. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t... 12374154
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this! 676389997
Reposted by numinosity 🎬More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.tomshardware.comMeta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges. 27897537
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world. 7043332446
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 30/06/2026on occasion—and increasingly, these days—I find myself melancholic over the loss of writers whose voices were regionally definitional. jonathan gold. alan hanson. writers who knew our areas intimately, who captured the ephemeral energy, character, & culture of a place at a specific moment in time, 100
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Information is not “stolen” if you and your developers fail to configure your own website to secure the aforementioned information. This is a failure of Dialog’s infosec, not a criminal breach. Get real. If anyone is responsible for this it’s Thiel et. al. for negligence, lmao 000
Reposted by numinosity 🎬ACLU @aclu.org · 25/06/2026Flock Safety does anything but keep us safe. Their network of over 80,000 automatic license plate readers across the country puts our privacy at major risk. Join the growing number of communities nationwide that are pushing back.aclu.orgGet The Flock OutAutomatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant. But we're not powerless. More and more communities are rejecting these creepy cameras — and yours can be one of them! 8348134
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026"Logan Mitchell, a climate scientist and analyst with Utah Clean Energy, calculated that a 9-GW gas power plant would produce about 35 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year and could raise Utah’s emissions by about 64%." 053
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026In the spirit of @anthonymoser.com , "The cops who improv-group-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence" 1135
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Chronicles of Illiteracy Encountered in the Wild, a thread: 100
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 08/06/2026If you hate Ai *and* you have money invested in a 401k, mutual fund, or index fund, now is the perfect opportunity to give those greedy moronic tech billionaires pushing Ai the finger 🖕 Make a point to speak with your financial advisor this week to divest from any & all funds investing in Ai today! 030
Reposted by numinosity 🎬More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Monterey Park in LA County is now the first city in the country where voters have banned data centers. At the ballot box residents overwhelmingly chose to ban data center construction, voting 86%-14% in favor of the indefinite moratorium. 452910713
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 31/05/2026to "profile" Tilly Norwood is to take a mistaken perspective on what Tilly Norwood is and where the software's function lies. the article succeeds in realizing the folly, but ends up missing the real issue here: it's a tech demo built to demonstrate market value in duping humans with fake images. 46311
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 25/05/2026imploring Catholics to start asserting their religious obligation to eschew Ai in the workplace. take it the full 9! 061
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026BREAKING: Abrego Garcia Prevails on Vindictive Prosecution Claim talkingpointsmemo.com/news/breakin...talkingpointsmemo.comBREAKING: Abrego Garcia Prevails on Vindictive Prosecution ClaimA federal judge in Nashville has dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar... 111039174
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I have a sense of people who cover "AI" constantly haven't sensed how much the Overton Window has shifted without them noticing. Yeah, I'm against the ecosystem-polluting, internet-killing, deepfake-making, psychosis-inducing tech. This isn't an extremist position. 37711
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. 726250339965
Reposted by numinosity 🎬MuckRock @muckrock.com · 21/05/2026FBI procurement records reveal the agency wants to buy nationwide access to automated license plate readers including Flock, an ALPR provider with at least 80,000 cameras connected to its tool, reports @josephcox.bsky.social for @404media.co.buff.lyThe FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate ReadersOnly a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola. 056
numinosity 🎬 @numinosity.bsky.social · 20/05/2026shouting this from the rooftops since circa Y2K protect privacy and regulate data collection 000
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/05/2026the only safe data is the kind that's not collected 13610
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/05/2026on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or notkarlbode.comAI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not. 541243373
Reposted by numinosity 🎬Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 20/05/2026I think it is wild to hear tech people go on and on about personal sovereignty, libertarian sea steading bullshit, freedom, etc… but if you get in the way of them building a data center they're going to sue your town into non-existence. It's a reminder libertarian ideals are at the cost of others. 0101
Reposted by numinosity 🎬404 Media @404media.co · 20/05/2026NEW: After months outrage from residents, Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with Flock. Then, a dissenting councilmember crashed out saying would be introducing measures to ban cell phones, the internet, cameras, and nearly all technology in the town of roughly 900 people.404media.coAfter Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone BanA Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits 42811239
Reposted by numinosity 🎬derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info 204100602761