John Stoner

I've had this thought. Like maybe signed by the device? And authenticated through the manufacturer? Could be tricky to design.

Yikes

The Story of San Diego’s Vigilante-In-Chief: Ralph Van Deman and His Dangerous Legacy From the first Red Scare to the present, our basic democratic rights have never been something we can take for granted

@iwriteok.bsky.social saw this and thought this guy might be a Bastard to look into thejumpingoffplace.substack.com/p/the-story-...

Same. I just hope my Belfast cousins would be proud.

Is this a "HELLHOLE"???

Courting 'moderate Republcans' went so well for Kamala.

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Solving the Mystery of Life’s Origin For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.

kind of a big deal
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A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

holy shit a guy who was born in Uganda listed himself as African American on an old college application this is certainly bigger news than the concentration camp in Florida

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

injuries and deaths from reported shootings and traffic crashes in Chicago from January to May 2025

Car crashes have killed or seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year, but only one of these things is treated as a public safety crisis.

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

kinda cool

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When Lyft or Uber asks you to contact elected officials to "keep rideshare affordable" remember that they profit from undermining public transit and increasing congestion. Use them where necessary, but don't let them use you.

Battle of Cable Street - Wikipedia

closer to what happened to the fascists in Britain. They had them too, people just stood up to them.

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YouTube video by The Market Exit The truth about mass migration

a bit of a misleading title (Hilarious). I'm reminded of my own family: my mom's Irish parents came here a century ago, had four kids, three of whom started successful businesses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoFL...

which, let's remember, is millenial. He has a long career of fuckery ahead of him.

I call him the Roy Cohn of his generation

The Ghost Knife of Callisto recognized you?

@edzitron.com thoughts?

so... is current generative AI the opposite of the Singularity? As in, producing middle-of-the-road, conventional content instead of revolutionary world changing stuff? Maximizing predictability instead of destroying it?

Idiocracy with more performative cruelty. Idiocracy combined with the Hunger Games. Infuriating

New Reality Show That Sees Immigrants Compete for Citizenship Being Developed by Trump Admin Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is developing a reality TV series where immigrants will compete for a chance to earn U.S. citizenship.

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
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I think it's mostly just knowing and asserting your rights and standing up for yourself. Asking to see a warrant signed by a judge. Not an administrative warrant. Not opening a door. That kind of thing. It's like an index card.

That's what it looks like from my perspective anyway.

We do vet folks we organize with, people who are solid, trustworthy, discreet, but we have a pretty good community of folks who know each other. So it's not that hard.

The biggest one is having know your rights training. Having printed cards to hand out in all the languages, having events where people can come to learn, just getting that knowledge out there.

Also, it's your neighbors, not some people from elsewhere. It's the community working together

I'm so proud of the people here in Chicago responding the migra bullshit. They're organized, they're smart, and they're effective. I love it

We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution Wave of crypto kidnappings hits Europe.

the headline of 2025 has been written

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Yeah, see how they enjoy a winter in Oslo with no heat or electricity. That's the kind of stupid that does hurt.