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Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

Our grandchildren are going to ask what we did to stop this.

Welsh repair cafés save over one million kilograms of carbon emissions Amelia Jones Repair cafés across Wales have helped prevent more than one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions by encouraging people to fix household items rather than replace them. The figure...

I think fixing stuff rather than burying human and cow shit is a better climate solution.

The US Government is a publisher of child porn.

Partial government shutdown to continue until at least Tuesday - live updates | CNN Politics The federal government likely won’t reopen until at least Tuesday, when the House is expected to hold critical votes on a funding package. Follow for the latest updates

The US government really only does one thing consistently these days: violence.

Pretty sure the government shutdown didn't stop the violence of the government. Funny how that works.

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Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them

Federal agents tear-gassed families and children today in Portland.

There are two approaches to counterinsurgency strategy: either you try to win the hearts and minds of the general population, or you set out to intimidate or exterminate them.

This administration has clearly chosen the latter.

Portland City Council member

In scathing ruling, federal judge orders release of Liam Ramos from detention Judge Fred Biery said federal agents were “traumatizing children.”

The judge wrote of ICE actions: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.”

particularly not if they just shot someone dead in the street

Is ICE rolling back operations in Minnesota? It’s hard to tell. Federal agents are still on the streets of the Twin Cities a day after the Trump administration announced a change in immigration enforcement in Minnesota.

Star Tribune does a better job of being on the ground and talking to ICE watchers and doesn’t see any sign of a Tuesday slowdown: www.startribune.com/ice-minnesot...

"some workers asked additional questions about the capabilities of Palantir’s products and services and whether ICE could use them beyond the scope of the company’s contracts."

Lol they work for a company that's named after an evil wizard's peeping tom magic ball and NOW they figure it out

Children of Men (2006) is set in 2027, in the UK

US storm drives global natural gas prices higher The Trump administration has prioritized the export of LNG, with Europe particularly dependent on US supplies after slashing its reliance on Russia.

US storm drives global natural gas prices higher

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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.

They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

we have Bellingcat doing video analysis of executions in America. Got here pretty quick guys

Here’s the thing that happened and here’s the lie that the regime told about the event seems like a perfectly legitimate way to report the news.

America last.

You gotta respect Children of Men for perfectly predicting when it would become a documentary.

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

ICE has detained four children from Minnesota school district, officials say U.S. immigration authorities detained at least four children including a 5-year-old from a Minneapolis-area school district this month as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, school...

A five-year-old. Wearing a Spiderman backpack.

Children should never be pawns in a violent political game.

This is why NEA’s members are mobilizing to demand: ICE must leave our schools and communities immediately.

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

America's own goal: Americans pay almost entirely for Trump’s tariffs Contrary to US government rhetoric, the cost of US import tariffs are not borne by foreign exporters. Instead, they hit the American economy itself. Importers and consumers in the US bear 96 percent o...

Knockoff Mussolini's regime has raised $200bn using the new tax, unilaterally imposed, through tariffs.

96% of this tax burden has been paid by US consumers. This is how we fund extreme corruption and global violence.

www.kielinstitut.de/publications...

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

The AI tool used by ICE was tasked with looking for potential applicants with law enforcement experience to be placed into the agency’s “LEO program” — short for law enforcement officer — for new recruits who are already law enforcement officers. It requires four weeks of online training. Applicants without law enforcement backgrounds are required to take an eight-week in-person course at ICE’s academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, which includes courses in immigration law and handling a gun, as well as physical fitness tests. “They were using AI to scan résumés and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren’t LEOs,” one of the officials said. The officials said the AI tool sent people with the word “officer” on their résumés to the shorter four-week online training — for example, a “compliance officer” or people who said they aspired to be ICE officers. The majority of the new applicants were flagged as law enforcement officers, the officials said, but many had no experience in any local police or federal law enforcement force.

You can't make this shit up. ICE recruitment used AI tools to sort applicants based on experience with law enforcement but fucked it up by including everyone who used the word "officer" in their application as "law enforcement officers"... who didn't require training.

What could go wrong?

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas.

ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

The federal government is abusing its powers in order to keep extremely expensive, cost-inefficient coal plants operating-- plants that aren't operating now and need repairs, in this case.

And this is happening at a generation and transmission electric co-op.

www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-col...

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Working towards energy affordability in rural America Today, we face widespread crises of unaffordability and the constant prioritization of private profits over public well-being.

If you're in the #rural US, when you pay your bills, you're likely paying a #coop.

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