Reposted by Waxwingjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir... 593114310
Reposted by WaxwingGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 297113194106
Reposted by Waxwing404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 6213661083
Reposted by WaxwingAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯 221563597
Reposted by WaxwingJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression. 16953001518
Reposted by WaxwingKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026prepare for a dramatic ramp up in bipartisan xenophobia and a lot of hollow lip service for privacy and national securitykarlbode.comAuto Giants Want Congress To Ban Cheap Chinese Electric Cars To 'Protect Consumer Privacy'U.S. anti-China tech protectionism is a hot mess that pays empty lip service to consumer privacy and national security. 8326453
Reposted by WaxwingDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Very good piece on how the shit is about to hit the fan as the AI companies have to start paying for data centers when they come online in a big way, starting next year www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser... Hopefully, even brain-dead billionaires can see this coming.groundbrkr.comThe Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset WallTrillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when. 1112163
Reposted by WaxwingTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...bylinetimes.comThe Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason ArdayThe media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network 3127241193
Reposted by Waxwingmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Many people say because of unions, laws etc it's impossible to discipline bad cops. But many tools to discipline and punish cops exist, they are just deployed exclusively against whistleblowers and honest cops so corrupt cops can drum them off the force 141179320
Reposted by WaxwingKashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Interesting choice for the Zoom background by Flock's CEO 23863180
Reposted by WaxwingKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/08/2026I wrote about how anti-China U.S. tech protectionism is stupid, corrupt, incompetently implemented, and normalized by a shitty presskarlbode.comU.S. Anti-China Tech Protectionism Is Sloppy, Corrupt, And StupidU.S. efforts to ban Chinese tech are driven by corruption, crafted by incompetent zealots, and normalized by a shitty corporate press. 637498
Reposted by WaxwingJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it 595165427122
Reposted by WaxwingWA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Wake up, Seattle! In the last month, ICE has arrested people in Maple Leaf, Sodo, CID, West Seattle, South Lake Union, Queen Anne, Wallingford, Wedgwood and at University Village. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comAs Seattle sees surge in ICE arrests, residents, advocates on edgeAmid a reported surge of immigration arrests across Seattle, residents are starting to see detainments closer to home. 13427
Reposted by WaxwingWA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 08/08/2026July was ICE’s busiest month yet in the Puget Sound region. It’s a stealthy surge, without the helicopters or smoke grenades of Chicago and MN. But the surge is real, with real people taken every day. Each red pin is someone’s family member, neighbor, coworker, loved one. 12323266
Reposted by WaxwingDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Dumping Big Tech isn't just a matter of personal politics or even of tech sovereignty (which is a con anway) it's a matter of survival. Big Tech is the latest flag bearer for civilisation-ending extractivism and all the delusions about progress that keep us addicted to it. 517463
Waxwing @waxw.ing · 07/08/2026Chinese invested in green energy, the US invested in AI. The US is cooked. 010
Reposted by WaxwingJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The silent agreement between the parties is to avoid actual issues that have supermajority consensus among voters and instead fight over wealth class-backed, think-tank designed wedge issues while corporate media communicates a 50/50 split, a need for moderation, and paints leftists as dangerous. 632896
Reposted by WaxwingNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026..that is not their real fear. Their fear is that the left will go on to win the general election, and, like Mamdani in NYC, prove that the left can govern. They are willing to throw the general election to Republicans by smearing the left and demoralizing the Dem base to avoid that outcome. 151287239
Reposted by WaxwingRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Police in Winona Minnesota are stunned after EVERY SINGLE ONE of their Flock cameras were suddenly removed in a single night. The people don't consent to a surveillance state 1342563878
Reposted by WaxwingHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026It’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.gpb.orgAnalysis: More 'guardrails' needed to prevent police misuse of Flock camerasInappropriate use of Flock cameras by law enforcement officials have raised questions about how much surveillance is too much. 98019
Reposted by WaxwingJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...404media.co‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT." 161176570
Reposted by Waxwingshanley @shanley.com · 31/07/2026It is extremely important to remember that we could develop and maintain technology wayyyy differently than it is being done. And that we can radically change the model of how technology is built around here. We can fix this at a very fundamental level, at the very core. 24411
Reposted by WaxwingMicah @rincewind.run · 28/07/2026there remains no subject on which elite consensus is so incredibly behind the voters than views of Israel and Bibi this is I think actually worse in punditry than in Dem electeds, who are at least starting to get the message via primary signaling 12605125
Reposted by WaxwingScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elonthetimes.comSpoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glassesThe activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording 121534638
Reposted by WaxwingPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026“This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a ‘duress’ password built into a phone’s software”techcrunch.comUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunchA U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit... 651021395
Reposted by Waxwing404 Media @404media.co · 23/07/2026It is rare for the public to see such a large list of ICE’s technology capabilities in a single document. 404 Media has published the whole document, called “ICE Wide Analytical Tools," here: www.404media.co/leaked-docum... @josephcox.bsky.social reports: 6380211
Reposted by Waxwingshanley @shanley.com · 21/07/2026If you are wondering about what is going on with the Network State and Kazakhstan, vcinfodocs has your back. We've been tracking activity there for a long time, and the Network State and tech fascism already have a stronghold there. www.vcinfodocs.com/status-of-th... 22211
Reposted by WaxwingBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026Does anyone else not like conversing with people becauase you know that you're going to sound like a conspiracy nut by stating demonstrably true things about how society is moving? 701505237
Reposted by WaxwingThe Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What connects the State Dept Cuba report, Trump’s “election interference” speech, the NSPM-7 domestic terrorism expansion, and the recent “Ministerial Summit on Political Violence” to the Iran War? In a word — fascism. “Be alarmed” isn’t enough. Get prepared. 1/11 www.state.gov/wp-content/u... 613053
Reposted by WaxwingSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Rubio’s State Department just published a 100-page report identifying Cuba as the locus of Communist infiltration in the US since the 1960s. Absolutely bonkers shit. www.state.gov/wp-content/u... 1432442687
Reposted by WaxwingPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The thing that is ignored is how much the Democratic Party benefitted from the free labor of young Black activists and organizers during that election cycle. When some of us pointed out how disaffected those organizers were in 24, we were called wreckers and yelled at, lol. 7768142
Reposted by WaxwingDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026South Korea built solar panels over highway medians and turned the space underneath into protected bike lanes. Clean energy + safe cycling, using infrastructure that already exists. 36890072616
Reposted by Waxwingmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.granta.comViolence in Blue‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’ 2831481385
Reposted by WaxwingAdam P Knave @adampknave.com · 13/07/2026Every time this tech comes around, we make it so no one wants to wear them outside, and that is good and correct and we must keep it up until it fades away yet again. And then th enext time? We do it all over again. 61361414
Waxwing @waxw.ing · 13/07/2026Listening to Seattle Nice podcast and once again amazed by @ericacbarnett.bsky.social's restraint in not punching David and Sandeep in the face 010
Reposted by WaxwingKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 12/07/2026i'm halfway through season 1 of she-ra and i think i understand the show 331322161
Reposted by WaxwingBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/07/2026Mamdani should declare a random Sunday Sacco and Vanzetti day just because. 331257159
Reposted by WaxwingAlex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves! 552761575
Reposted by WaxwingWA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you? 14937042425
Reposted by WaxwingXan López @xanlopez.net · 08/07/2026In my mind, this is one of the most important paragraphs of the last ~25 years. A lot of what's going on can be traced back to this rupture, and in this article, an assistant to G. W. Bush just... says it out loud. We are still living in their world. 24117
Reposted by WaxwingMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.com'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's GroupsFacebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough 2424231031
Reposted by WaxwingAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization 13457091204
Reposted by WaxwingJiggety Jatters. The worst name. @jessefuchs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026seriously, a very good piece, and one that dovetails pretty well with my standing favorite read on the subjectcontinuousvariation.comA Short Note On Large Language Modelsthis post is about poetics considered geometrically, but does not have any actual math 0282
Reposted by WaxwingJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot. 2479831791
Reposted by WaxwingAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026people need to go to jail over this, its the only thing the democratic party should be saying right now. all of them, in unison, no matter the question or topic, needs to be saying “insider trading is against the law” 573332959
Reposted by WaxwingPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Centrist Democrats: "Nothing can be done except for more tax cuts. Also we love the police, the military and some wars. Also we will say 'kitchen table issues' twice a day. Vote for us." 352002359
Reposted by WaxwingJack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 04/07/2026USA, land of massacres. www.zinnedproject.org/collection/m...zinnedproject.orgMassacres in the United StatesHere is a list of some of the countless massacres in the history of the United States. 0103
Reposted by WaxwingCascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 04/07/2026There has been a massive uptick in ICE kidnappings in Washington State. We know why. Researchers at The University of Washington have been tracking these illegal kidnappings and the data that is helping ICE surveil and stalk people. This data is being shared with the feds. Mostly by local cops. 20337072305