The top promoted streaming app on the App Store is a disinfo channel specializing in hate speech against PoC.

But DeICER app, which helps PoC inform one another about potential kidnapping/assault by illegal gangs, gets blocked because ICE = a protected class. 🙃 […]

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I am inordinately tickled by this Old Navy model with high shiksappeal sporting Happy Hanukkah pajamas.

Someone’s at it again, signing me up for right wing email spam. The latest is from something called GunsAmerica Discover and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

Farewell to a titan. Thank you Zabar's for my earliest, most joyous olfactory memories.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/dining/saul-zabar-dead.html

I just watched Robocop for the first time and uh

Wow, I got a settlement from the class action suit against ParkMobile, amounting to $1… which I can only use in $0.25 increments. Definitely worth exposing my personal data to thieves forever.

@timbray I come to Mastodon for Octobass content especially this month

This is one of the oldest, most universal concepts in the human lexicon. In Hindu literature, for instance, it's called "Nada Brahma."

But sure, scientists also just "discovered" it.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2409699-human-cells-have-a-resonant-frequency-and-its-just-barely-audible/

This is so clearly immoral that it *feels* like it should be illegal. But current IP laws (state-level rights of publicity) aren't up to the task & ratcheting them up would risk impinging on artistic freedom.

What we need instead is an anti-deepfake law, which Congress has tried and failed to […]

I watched "All The President's Men" last night w @duniabest.bsky.social, our 15-yo, & a friend who's an editor at the NYT.

Every day now, Trump does worse than Nixon on his worst day, and the gatekeepers of US democracy turn away.

How far we've fallen, how hard we're going to hit rock bottom.

@zakalwe one of the greats

Maybe we should try being good to one another for a while and see how that works out

Most American Jews I know are horrified by Netanyahu's war crimes, sickened that it's been done in our name, appalled by Nazi-MAGA's fascist policies undertaken in the name of combating anti-Semitism, and terrified by the anti-Jewish backlash from our friends on the left.

We talk about it a lot […]

When you're done listening to the hot new album from the defining Genius of her generation, check out some good music by good musicians who aren't billionaires for #bandcampfriday

https://duniaandaram.bandcamp.com/track/know-i-m-gonna-win
#soul #indiemusic #feelgood #music #womeninmusic

File under "could have been an email."

Really smart analysis by music industry veteran and @AU_MTD doctoral candidate @nwperry:

The Manufactured Panic Over Tilly Norwood

https://medium.com/@neilperry/the-manufactured-panic-over-tilly-norwood-bf2b2cb5e3ae #ai #cinema #labor #ip

We're all complicit
We're all victims
We all deserve renewal
#yomkippur

Even MOAR good news: Today, I and my fellow Marylanders actually have some statutory #dataprivacy protection as the new #modpa law takes effect. It’s not federal, and it doesn’t include private right of action, but it’s a helluva lot better than nothing […]

Your good news of the day, via the AAUP:

A federal court yesterday ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment in carrying out a policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons […]

Everything is just a metaphor now
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/fbi-kash-patel-new-zealand-illegal-printed-guns-gift-rcna234624

I tested the recent stories about Google censoring US-based searches about Trump’s dementia, and it seems to pan out, especially with search suggestions.

Compare the results with VPN in US vs results with VPN in Germany […]

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I think it might be time to reread some David Lodge

@InkySchwartz Interesting idea, thanks!