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Reminds me of the cops who suddenly realize, upon retirement, how destructive and pointless is the war on drugs. Anyway welcome back, habibi.

Image of Barack Obama literally breaking bread with Edward Said. Said is gesticulating and Obama appears to be listening intently.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Miller favorably compared what Trump insiders privately call his “war on terror” against the US left to COINTELPRO, the FBI’s notorious campaign of surveillance and dirty tricks targeting Black civil rights and other civil society leaders

Privately, according to two people familiar with the matter, Miller has (favorably) compared the Trump administration’s actions on this to COINTELPRO, the notorious Cold War-era FBI surveillance programs that routinely violated fundamental constitutional protections. But it’s a little more than a year of his iteration of MAGA COINTELPRO, and Miller wants more – a lot more. The sources add he’s berated other senior government officials about why more left-wingers haven’t been arrested or criminally charged, and why it is taking so long to dismantle certain liberal nonprofits; Miller has told colleagues that it would be an “existential threat” to the Republican Party if the Trump era were to end without the obliteration of the political network connected to liberal billionaire George Soros.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

All of this is true. AND it shocks me that anyone—let alone a tech reporter—would download an app on their phone that gives Elon Musk personal permission to track their location 24/7/365.

Screenshot of X app privacy language on the Apple Store. It explicitly says location data is used to track you.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In what world is a nine point spread “divided” @reuters.com? If Trump won an election by this much the media would call it a landslide.

Flock faces growing scrutiny from regulators, lawmakers, and privacy advocates, despite drawing strong investor interest among venture capitalists. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Americans are divided on whether Flock cameras are a good idea. Some 38% of the country supports the use of Flock cameras in their community, compared to 47% who oppose their use.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw and eastern garter snake this morning while walking the dogs. It did not love to see the dogs but the puppy was apeshit over the snake.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is it really possible that a full 27 percent of Massachusetts voters work for the alcohol industry? Shocking.

But the two final questions on the ballot are bucking that trend. Sixty-one percent of likely voters said they would vote no on Question 8, which if approved would end legal sales of recreational marijuana and create civil penalties for possessing more than a small amount of recreational cannabis. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said they would vote yes.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting new quotes from people who refuse to learn anything ever dropped in the NYT today.

“You used to think that you could count on the republicans to be able to help out with the economy, and that they would be the ones to fix it,” one participant said.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Upon confronting the Greenfield lesbian bar clown show, the Philadelphia delegation hereby submits “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal” www.inquirer.com/education/ha...

A Philadelphia teacher is being called the “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal” after being caught lying about her background — a deception that has stirred strong emotions in education and racial justice organizing circles.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

nymag.com/intelligence...

“Part of your work is actually convincing your bosses that we might be objective about a lot of things, but democracy cannot be one of them,” she recently told a group of young reporters during a workshop sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists. “When the Washington Post says ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ it is taking a side and saying our job as journalists is the protection of democracy. So instead of framing these stories as about partisan politics and about racial politics, we have to frame them about democracy.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

She’s done it again, folks. Read this in two days. Gobbled it right up.

The cover of Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, Exit Party

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Siri what’s a “limited hangout”?

According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further". While used by the CIA and other intelligence organizations, the tactic has become popularized in the corporate and political spheres.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Killing another 100 fishermen in the Caribbean and arresting some more drug dealers should take care of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

Cychlorphine is one of an array of new, deadly drugs upending the illicit drug market and confounding cities that are only now beginning to get a handle on fentanyl. These novel drugs can be made by amateur chemists anywhere, and they are harder to trace, their effects on the human body harder to reverse.

Experts say cychlorphine is 10 times as potent as fentanyl. Test strips can detect fentanyl but not cychlorphine, and it can take numerous doses of Narcan to reverse the new drug’s effects, though most people carry only one or two doses at a time. It has shown up in Europe and the East Coast over the past couple of years, its presence spreading like tentacles.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

May we all find as much peace and warmth in this life as this little dog has found in the sun

Little black dog lying on a bright red deck in the sun

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Think Natalie will print this one out for Mr. Shit for Brains?

Chart showing 49 percent of voters lean or ID as dem, compared to 39 percent leaning or IDing as Republicans

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cool www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As part of the appeals process, a member of a three-judge panel had cast the ballroom as illustrative of the Administration’s “move fast and break things” approach. “If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty,” the judge asked, “nothing can be done?”

“I think that’s right, yes,” a lawyer for the Administration responded.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m not saying the mayor’s team should do this, but was there any real press outrage around the practice when team Trump was using signal to plan BOMBING RAIDS?

WaPo headline from a year ago: Why government workers and military planners all love Signal now.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this is my favorite part of the story. because of course Maggie Haberman's access to Donald Trump does nothing for the New York Times or its success with advertisers.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes, and viewers watch longer.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i absolutely love my people

r/boston reddit post. it's a photo of the external window of seth moulton's campaign office. there are trans rights flags stickers on the window (clearly vandalism) and someone taped a spirit halloween sign to the window.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oof www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...

Mr. Yiannopoulos himself had reveled in Mr. Trump’s mass deportations, calling for ICE checkpoints at supermarkets and gas stations and “total legal immunity for ICE agents when they’re on duty.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The left is blinded by ideology, they say. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/u...

Michael Sussman, the lawyer for Dr. Kalkstein, said his client is a conservative Republican who believes the military needs to be taught the true causes of climate change when it comes to national security. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Dr. Kalkstein said understanding the causes of global warming was important not for social justice reasons but for things like competing with the Russians in the Arctic and knowing why sea ice was melting.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meta’s stock price hasn’t budged. Says a lot about this settlement.

Graph showing meta stock has gone up over the past five days, and wasn’t harmed by today’s announcement of a settlement with state AGs.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So much failure went into this

Rear of a cybertruck close up. MA plate. Bumper sticker says “I May ‘Not’ [sic] Be Driving.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This man is 30 years old, which means he was in his 20s last year. Being a bad person really ages you.

POS Nazi Republican house candidate looks way older than his 30 years

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I know you’re frustrated because your community no longer has safe drinking water and you can’t breathe the air without getting poisoned. But have you considered the upside? It’s way easier for people to scam you now. And your boss might replace you with a chatbot.

A senior OpenAI policy chief said the company needs to work harder to pitch data center construction to communities, POLITICO’s Tyler Katzenberger reports.

“If you think about the amazing work we're trying to do with AI … it's all incredible and it's inspiring,” OpenAI Vice President for Global Policy Ann O’Leary said during POLITICO's The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit Tuesday. “But when you have a data center in your backyard, it’s not inspiring you. And so I think we have real work to do.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Let’s see how Waymo’s doing www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/t...

With crowds milling around, Waymo’s driverless cars blocked intersections and choked traffic. Some drivers were stuck behind the electric robo-taxis for more than three hours. Several Waymos had to be towed after their batteries died in the gridlock. At least two drove over exploding fireworks, with one catching fire.

Jonathan Morrison, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, also wrote in a July 8 letter that the agency had identified “a clear pattern” of autonomous vehicles interfering with police, firefighters and paramedics. “Emergency scenes are not rare or extreme ‘edge cases,’” he wrote.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My gaydar bleeps at the sight of Mike Johnson, but it’s failed me before. This however confirms it for me. Keep telling yourself that, Mike.

Johnson: “Homosexual behavior is something you do, it’s not something that you are.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Is it too much to ask that the “we will eradicate crime” company understand criminal law? I guess it is.

Flock showed The New York Times how its technology works. After logging into the system, users must acknowledge they cannot search for license plates related to “reproductive care” offenses in 17 states and Washington, D.C. (Those places have expressly prohibited those searches, though a Flock spokeswoman said officers could do searches related to abortions in states only where abortion is illegal.) There is a similar warning about nine states that prohibit searching their cameras for “immigration enforcement.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well this is terrifying. Good for him for fighting back…again.

Since then, Berulis has laid low. He filed a police report, included in the suit and viewed by WIRED, and had the car seen by a mechanic who, according to the report, found “that the driver-side front impact/airbag sensor had also been removed but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together, completing the circuit in a manner that prevented the vehicle from detecting or logging the missing component, while also preventing the vehicle from activating its safety protocols, alerting the driver, or engaging limp mode.” The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There’s now a Flock camera at the South Bay Home Depot, Boston. You can decline to shop there if you don’t like that.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not Flock once again turning on cameras a community intentionally shut off! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/06/b...

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I get that the icons are cool but this is bad, actually.

The District Attorneys are not in the system at all. Eight years after the Legislature ordered every agency linked, the offices that decide who enters the system have never been connected, and the state board that oversees the law reports "no plan or schedule" to add them, because connecting the prosecutors depends on upgrades to DAMION.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Uber is a bad company www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...

The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes and other sources for sensitive details, including other sexual assaults, childhood abuse and domestic violence. They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.

In one case, Uber petitioned a judge to force a woman to turn over details about sexual abuse she experienced as a child by a family member and family friend. In another, Uber compelled a woman to undergo a psychiatric exam to investigate other sexual assaults she had reported. And in another, a lawyer for Uber asked a woman whether she had been wearing underwear on the night in question and if she had become “extra sexually active” after the Uber incident.

At trial, the company has put a spotlight on the women, their choices and their credibility. Uber’s lawyers have argued that the women’s past traumas or use of drugs or alcohol made them unreliable narrators. They have suggested that the women consented to the encounters, or that they never happened. And they have asserted that even if an assault occurred, something else was the true cause of her pain.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

I am not joking: this is AOL era software. It's got clip art. IDK how it even works on modern computers

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’ve seen this story before!

Boston globe headline: Boston mayors have had an open-door policy with real estate developers. Not Michelle Wu.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

when smart people are dumb as shit

Polymarket x post:

JUST IN: Anthropic CEO reportedly increasingly concerned that new hires are working there for a paycheck, as opposed to the company's mission.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So interesting that the head of Flock says their mission is to end crime, but when confronted with evidence that police use his technology to stalk people, he waxes philosophical about the nature of man.

Langley says, of police using his system to stalk women, “We’re not going to change humans, and humans make bad decisions.”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

In Wisconsin, a police officer allegedly used Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic, according to a police affidavit for a case set for trial this month.
In Kansas, a police chief who tracked his ex through Flock sneaked up on her while she was intimate with another man, a state police certification body alleged, leading to his firing.
In Florida, a deputy speeding to stop a young actress he’d added to a watch list for a license-plate tool called Guardian nearly caused a head-on crash, according to a police report and video from his dashboard camera. The deputy was arrested in March, and his attorney declined to comment.
And in California, prosecutors said a former deputy, Alexander Vanny, used Flock as part of a months-long campaign of “stalking” and “humiliating” his former fiancée that also involved following her around town and installing a hidden camera in her roommate’s bathroom, according to a sentencing brief.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve seen people calling this AI slop. That’s incorrect. It’s an AI masterpiece.

NEWS: Woman gorilla glued husband’s butt cheeks together and gave him laxatives after finding out he cheated

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Flock is hiring a software developer to build "high-performance integration pipelines connecting Nightshift to Flock's massive data platform, and build the agentic framework that allows Nightshift to 'act' on behalf of investigators." @josephcox.bsky.social

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to drive the architectural evolution of Nightshift, a conversational agent that helps investigators surface critical evidence and close cases faster. You’ll lead the effort to build reliable backend systems that connect a conversational interface to a large, complex data platform.

You will design the orchestration backend that manages complex LLM interactions, develop high-performance integration pipelines connecting Nightshift to Flock's massive data platform, and build the agentic framework that allows Nightshift to "act" on behalf of investigators. This is a ground-floor opportunity to solve the reliability and scaling challenges of real-time investigative workflows. You’ll partner with ML engineers on agentic workflows and platform teams to design robust APIs that keep the system accurate and performant as we process billions of data points daily.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

this is very funny, to me

Scott Pelley, looking distinguished and serious. Straight from central casting, you might say.

ross douchehat, looking frumpy and schlubby as usual

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Solitary confinement is torture. And no person, not even someone as disgusting as Andrew Tate, deserves to be tortured.

Andrew Tate somehow posting from solitary, saying stuff implying other people deserve to be tortured but not him. Asshole

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