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Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance A picture of her grandmother posted on social media sent the author to the archives of Albania’s former security services — and raised difficult questions about who watches us today

“Bizarrely, what once stood out as one of the most dehumanising aspects of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, namely their tendency to spy on their citizens, … is fully normalised, even celebrated, in societies that have made data-gathering a core aspect … of how their economies work.”

In Key West, ICE Has Merch

#Florida woman in Key West shop "sells MAGA bumper stickers directly adjacent to LGBTQIA rainbows because, as she explains, money is the bottom line." oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/in-ke... via @oxfordamerican.bsky.social

These chatbots should be pulled off the market, at least until the companies can prove they’re safe. We used to regulate the ads kids would see; now companies can push products that manipulate and exploit them and it’s all fair game.

@nitasha.bsky.social is doing fantastic work on this topic!

‘Campus, not prison’: FAU students protest ICE collaboration on campus Dozens of community members marched through the Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton campus’ Breezeway on Sept. 5 in protest of the university’s partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

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‘Campus, not prison’: FAU students protest ICE collaboration on campus

is there no self-hosted option

DeSantis seeks to blame Legislature for street-art crackdown. Lawmakers tell different story. As Florida’s campaign against colorful crosswalks has gone beyond LGBTQ+ rainbow crosswalks to encompass a wide range of roadway art, Gov. Ron DeSantis has been getting pushback — and seeking to sh…

9. DeSantis this weekend attempted to deflect responsibility, blaming the legislature: “There’s laws that are on the books that I enforce that I may not fully agree with, but I took an oath to do it and so that’s the way the cookie crumbles, and so but there was a change in law."

YouTube video by WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando 3 arrested at latest protest outside of crosswalk near Pulse

8. Suarez’s attorney was on-site for the arrests and delivered a blistering critique to reporters. “I would like you all to look behind me and ask what damage actually occurred. It rained while they were being arrested and there is no longer any chalk on the sidewalk.”

black toyota RAV4 rear saying "The Kant Car" with a message about being nice to LLMs because of Kant

The Kant Car

I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*

A matter of principle is worth more than money | Editorial The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board commends the people of Delray Beach and surrounding communities for insisting that the city defend its right to have a painted crosswalk recognizing the LGBTQ commu…

Opinion from our Editorial Board: Delray officials are fighting a state order to remove its rainbow intersection by demanding a hearing before the Florida Department of Transportation. No one has any doubt the city will lose. The state is judge, jury and executioner and there is no due process.

Ex-Miami NOAA scientist warns of seafood, storm risks from federal cuts | Opinion NOAA science protects seafood and safety. Cutting it is reckless | Opinion

"Today, among my four part-time and consulting jobs, I sell frozen chocolate bananas on the beach in Jacksonville Beach. That cannot be the best return on taxpayer investment." — fired #NOAA scientist Holden Earl Harris, whose doctorate was funded partly by NSF. 🎁 www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e...

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

Parents complained about 'offensive' book, so the principal read it to the entire school Apparently learning about the Civil Rights movement is "inappropriate."

Apparently learning about the Civil Rights movement is "inappropriate."

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He lived an immigrant's nightmare. One problem: He's a citizen, got his arrest on video Caught on video: Federal ICE officials detained Kenny Laynez for hours after stopping landscaping crew, pulling them from van and tasing one of them.

#Florida man's cellphone camera captured every undocumented immigrant’s nightmare on video when ICE and the Florida Highway Patrol detained his landscaping crew, dragged them from their van & pushing their faces to the pavement. One problem: He's a U.S. citizen. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...

Here's how millions of people could lose health insurance if Trump's tax bill becomes law Roughly 11.8 million adults and kids will be at risk for losing health insurance if Republicans’ domestic policy package becomes a law.

Aight so what is this going to mean for Floridians who depends so heavily on ALFs for eldercare?

right and THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING @npr.org
having to scroll through a bunch of insane advertisements, and rage bait as a pre-req for MAYBE getting up-to-date news on a life-or-death hazard is NOT GOOD.

Really straightforward but worth repeating. Good journalism illuminates reality. Bad journalism obscures reality. False equivalency obscures reality, so naturally it’s bad journalism.

i only find out about shit when it's time to boycott it, apparently churromania's pretty good but they sent a food truck to the everglades detention camp so now i won't have it

if the Big Beautiful Bill passes, it's going to be "interesting" for those old people as drs and elder care facilities close due to lack of medicaid / medicare

Condo/HOA fee costs are skyrocketing after being kept artificially low, a lot of Florida owners are trying to dump them because their retirements can't keep pace. Basically the party has been over in South Florida real estate for a year or two.

cuz it costs money to build to code, the only way it makes sense is for it to be expensive.

Good day as any to delete Facebook, Instagram, and/or Threads if you have not already

The fact that Meta will not rule out using private photos on your camera roll to train AI is abominable, full stop

futurism.com/meta-sketchy...

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

Florida environmental groups seek to block "Alligator Alcatraz" State officials say the facility will open July 1.

"Cruelty aside, it defies common sense to put a mass of people, vehicles & development in one of the most significant wetlands in the world." -- #Florida enviro groups suing to stop construction of Gov. Ron DeSastrous' "Alligator Alcatraz" in Everglades. www.axios.com/local/miami/... via @axios.com

My "I'm not trying to buy the election" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt.

It’s amazing how many people in the replies are openly going ‘I can’t tell if this is AI.’ Facebook ruined boomer faculties.

Labour are wrongly appropriating the term antisemitism to cover up for past wrongs, while perpetuating the genuinely antisemitic trope that all Jews are linked to the IDF.

The trope being - all Jews are Zionists in league with Israel.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social. Wake up. You're harming us.

they ask politicians like Mamdani if they are communists but they never ask anyone if they are a fascist and that's all you really need to know

I feel trapped between people who are terrified to use LLMs, and people who are terrified not to. Can we please bring back boredom and indifference when it comes to overhyped new tech?