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Yet another example of how private tech companies — not the government boogeyman — is the force in society most aggressively expanding the surveillance apparatus because it serves their bottom lines and gets justified as convenience.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Trump just posted a photo of himself holding up a piece of paper claiming to show tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia that are related to MS-13. The paper he’s holding up has been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13. The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”

submitted 43 days ago • 289 comments

this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way

submitted 57 days ago • 17 comments

american men loved working factory jobs so much they famously demanded longer hours and fewer breaks

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

didn’t azealia banks say grimes told her this too lmao

submitted 61 days ago • 8 comments

Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.

submitted 61 days ago • 132 comments

Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

submitted 70 days ago • 199 comments

submitted 71 days ago • 161 comments

Anyone in Berlin there that day?

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

people can smell a phony from a mile away!

submitted 75 days ago • 151 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 75 days ago • 1680 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 75 days ago • 188 comments

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

submitted 75 days ago • 53 comments

pete hegseth carrying out his effort to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 76 days ago • 525 comments

Most viable career paths right now: -Police goon -Tech fraudster -Health care crank -Regime propagandist -Dentist (unrelated to the others, it just pays well)

submitted 77 days ago • 119 comments

there are still a lot of people who believe america is 'the best at everything' just because. in the meantime our government is doing everything it can to keep us too uneducated or physically and mentally ill to question that increasingly ludicrous narrative.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

submitted 79 days ago • 396 comments

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

Amazon Alexa will lose the ability to do local processing

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Cynthia Nixon ran against Cuomo for Governor of New York and lost because people were like haw haw Sex and the City Lady haw haw but has since been proven right about a while hell of a lot of stuff while Cuomo is considered a serious politician despite being a wrong headed loser creep

submitted 79 days ago • 33 comments

lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!" I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.

submitted 131 days ago • 28 comments

affluent authoritarian policies are extremely unpopular and require a vast network of lies and propaganda to support them they'll keep dismantling academia, journalism, and public educational reaources until we grow a collective backbone and kick them squarely in the teeth

submitted 130 days ago • 11 comments

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

submitted 131 days ago • 246 comments

i said a few times here and there before the election that we’ll see what the mass deportation plan looks like when it’s ICE agents dragging grandmothers out of churches and, well, here we are

submitted 130 days ago • 599 comments

watched fincher's THE GAME for the first time today and, uh, this is the craziest hollywood movie i've seen in a long time? at no point did i have any idea where it was going.

submitted 188 days ago • 564 comments

One thing that’s super slept on with libraries (at least here) is museum passes. Every library in any city I’ve lived has had them and they provide free, or significantly discounted, admission to local (or even regional) museums.

submitted 187 days ago • 2 comments

The data center problem is increasingly going mainstream. We all pay the price for Silicon Valley’s self-serving obsessions.

submitted 189 days ago • 3 comments

Oh I fucking haaaaaaate her holy shit

submitted 191 days ago • 5 comments

H. Res. 1449 adopts the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which includes this. This is to pave the way for Schumer’s bill, which looks to codify criticism of Israel as antisemitism

submitted 192 days ago • 4 comments

ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli genociders finally

submitted 192 days ago • 22 comments

And to think, Biden has been privately fuming at Netanyahu all this time! Working behind the scenes for peace!

submitted 193 days ago • 10 comments

obsessed with this because putting on a bald cap instead of shaving your head is less like solidarity and more like “this is what you look like to me”

submitted 194 days ago • 164 comments

imagine not knowing that low earth orbit satellite lacks the capacity to tackle the digital divide at scale AND being confused about why the left doesn't like an egomaniacal fascist billionaire who slings racist memes 24/7

submitted 196 days ago • 25 comments

Before the fight everyone was going "this fight is going to make me intensely miserable" and then they all watched it and that's exactly what happened

submitted 197 days ago • 22 comments

There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

submitted 197 days ago • 295 comments

(giving bad people good ideas voice) watching straight people have gay sex i keep watching straight people have gay sex i keep watching straight people have gay sex i keep watching straight people have gay sex

submitted 198 days ago • 5 comments

Perhaps it was a mistake to let the head of the UAE’s state-owned oil company run the UN’s climate conference

submitted 545 days ago • 85 comments