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When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

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usually, tech companies want voice information for training data but Ring (now owned by Amazon) has a history of sharing video data with police in a somewhat generous fashion and Alexa users should maybe think about whether Bezos's political inclination might affect where recordings might end up

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The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available. Now everything will be sent to Amazon cloud server and it may become part of LLM training. Only Amazon knows what they are going to do with all that data.

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Annual reminder: it’s not St. Patty’s Day, it’s St. Paddy’s Day, and it’s not St. Paddy’s Day or St. Patrick’s Day, it’s Evacuation Day.

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when media execs start making loud noises about piracy again, they brought it on themselves if you can’t trust anything to stay available, and they’re trying to phase out physical media… guess what’s left

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no peace for schumer no rest for schumer no tolerance for what schumer is enabling

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lol

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wait, there are people running corporations WELL?

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No. Fuck him and fuck you. archive.is/VzNSy

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I swear that cargo pants are just made up of all the stolen pockets from women's clothing.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

having been in many rooms where protests are initially orchestrated, i can say sights like this are a highly desired outcome. protests are inherently theatrical & part of that is triggering state actors to unwittingly adopt the role they were born to play.

submitted 10 days ago • 127 comments

***Taps the sign again.

submitted 10 days ago • 102 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

submitted 13 days ago • 901 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 13 days ago • 1268 comments

Behave accordingly

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Wildlife tracking tips. Thank you Patrons! www.patreon.com/c/birdandmoon

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

🧵

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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 15 days ago • 337 comments

It’s never too late to start masking. It doesn’t matter how many covid infections you’ve had, any infection delayed or prevented is a good thing. You’re also helping protect others when you mask up. You’re breaking chains of transmission. You’re saving lives.

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

What's not mentioned in this excerpt is that this was sponsored by Third Way, a think tank that is singlemindedly devoted to convincing Democrats to cut the left out of the party. God knows the DNC has its problems, but it's misleading to frame this as a mainstream Democratic conference.

submitted 16 days ago • 120 comments

If there’s no flu vaccine next year, or it’s harder to get, there is a very simple technology you can put on your face to take grassroots steps against spreading more death. It even works against spreading several other illnesses that are killing and hurting huge numbers of people.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Journalists at mainstream US publications are absolutely allowed to engage in activism as long as it is aimed at reinforcing existing hierarchies and undermining progressive change. NYT news reporters recently engaged in a startlingly effective campaign against trans rights, for example.

submitted 18 days ago • 22 comments

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

submitted 19 days ago • 300 comments

It's interesting to me that porn is often held to be a categorically different thing than literature or art (which, of course, it heavily intersects with!) such that the existence of bad porn supposedly delegitimizes pornography in a way that bad books don't do with literary expression

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

when i used to play Call Of Cthulhu when i was a kid, i never truly grasped how characters had a 'sanity' stat that gradually decreased over time as you were exposed to various eldritch horrors; eventually you'd fail a san check and go insane anyway, no reason, that just occurred to me today

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 27 days ago • 88 comments

This moment still goes so incredibly hard

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Is it a coincidence that the techbro fascist moment comes when they’ve have nothing left to offer that anyone really wants?

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

@dreharrison.bsky.social Red Bull funny-money sponsor hacked to the tune of $1.4 billion.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

submitted 26 days ago • 92 comments

Cribbed from LinkedIn.

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