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rhetorician studying terrible things, but probably not the ones you're thinking of. designer. writer. etc.
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New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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Trump's line about the murdered Jamal Khashoggi—"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about....Things happen."—is truly heinous. It's evil.
The president of the United States said that. In the nauseatingly gilded Oval Office. Next to the dictator who ordered the killing.
The president of the United States said that. In the nauseatingly gilded Oval Office. Next to the dictator who ordered the killing.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Trump's line about the murdered Jamal Khashoggi—"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about....Things happen."—is truly heinous. It's evil.
The president of the United States said that. In the nauseatingly gilded Oval Office. Next to the dictator who ordered the killing.
The president of the United States said that. In the nauseatingly gilded Oval Office. Next to the dictator who ordered the killing.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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According to more than a dozen college and uni students, “the Canvas outage threw off their schedules, preventing them from not just submitting and viewing assignments but also from participating in-class activities, contacting professors, and accessing the textbooks and other materials…”
The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students
The outage impacted online learning platform Canvas, which is used by half of college students across the US, leaving many unable to access course materials or contact professors.
www.wired.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
According to more than a dozen college and uni students, “the Canvas outage threw off their schedules, preventing them from not just submitting and viewing assignments but also from participating in-class activities, contacting professors, and accessing the textbooks and other materials…”
Peanuts considering what has been built on the back of these works. Good… but peanuts all the same.
I’m seeing reports that they have settled at $3,000 per work, and if so, I need to see the settlement amount
Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
September 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Peanuts considering what has been built on the back of these works. Good… but peanuts all the same.
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Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.
Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
September 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.
Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Don't follow me. I'd rather not be perceived.
August 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Don't follow me. I'd rather not be perceived.
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I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it
August 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it
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PUT AWAY YOUR THROWING DARTS, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE HUNGER. AND YOU WILL WIN.
August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PUT AWAY YOUR THROWING DARTS, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE HUNGER. AND YOU WILL WIN.
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Border Patrol literally intervened in a fight against an *active wildfire* to arrest and interrogate... THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE FUCKING FIRE.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
August 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Border Patrol literally intervened in a fight against an *active wildfire* to arrest and interrogate... THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE FUCKING FIRE.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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This is so important. We can't just allow frankly evil technologies to dominate us unchecked. The party should be over for Silicon Valley but which countries have the guts to actually pull the plug or regulate them into the insignificance they should be?
Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession.
On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.
On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.
World leaders must stop appeasing Donald Trump
Conceding to Trump’s demands only guarantees new threats. It’s time to reject the US and its tech companies.
www.disconnect.blog
August 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is so important. We can't just allow frankly evil technologies to dominate us unchecked. The party should be over for Silicon Valley but which countries have the guts to actually pull the plug or regulate them into the insignificance they should be?
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This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
It really feels to me that a strong approach to the AI panic in education really is just... smaller classes, not treating education like an assembly line, and making lessons matter.
August 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It really feels to me that a strong approach to the AI panic in education really is just... smaller classes, not treating education like an assembly line, and making lessons matter.
I despair.
I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.
I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.
August 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I despair.
I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.
I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.
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It isn’t just AI code. I’m responsible for strategy at my company and just last week the CTO booked a 1:1 with me to ensure I know how to use and am using the deep research capabilities in our partners firm’s latest LLM. It is a full-on professional expectation.
I get the impression AI code is going to be to programming what concrete is to industry. Absolutely indispensable, dependent on trained specialist workers unless you enjoy risking your future, & only the beginning of the story except in certain applications/styles, which can be very divisive
August 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It isn’t just AI code. I’m responsible for strategy at my company and just last week the CTO booked a 1:1 with me to ensure I know how to use and am using the deep research capabilities in our partners firm’s latest LLM. It is a full-on professional expectation.
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“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.”
Gov JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
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Gov JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
bsky.app/profile/govp...
bsky.app/profile/govp...
Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
February 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.”
Gov JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
bsky.app/profile/govp...
bsky.app/profile/govp...
Gov JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
bsky.app/profile/govp...
bsky.app/profile/govp...
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
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I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.
August 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.
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It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
August 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
day 2* of continuing to not give a single shit about polling for a 2028 election that may not happen if can't stop performing the dumbassery that got us here!
*it's really day infinity
*it's really day infinity
August 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
day 2* of continuing to not give a single shit about polling for a 2028 election that may not happen if can't stop performing the dumbassery that got us here!
*it's really day infinity
*it's really day infinity
I can't really think of much I care about less than another article about who should run for president in 2028, if I'm honest.
If I made a list of 50 critical issues for right now, I still wouldn't get to "presidential race 2028."
If I made a list of 50 critical issues for right now, I still wouldn't get to "presidential race 2028."
August 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I can't really think of much I care about less than another article about who should run for president in 2028, if I'm honest.
If I made a list of 50 critical issues for right now, I still wouldn't get to "presidential race 2028."
If I made a list of 50 critical issues for right now, I still wouldn't get to "presidential race 2028."
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Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
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Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave.
They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.
They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.
August 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave.
They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.
They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.