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Newly obtained documents confirm what law enforcement and Flock Safety tried to deny: A Texas sheriff’s office used license plate readers while investigating a woman’s self-managed abortion, not to find a “missing person." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.

“It depends on whether your awareness is the recording or the thing that you’re doing. You’re in multiple times at once. You’re probably in all times, since there is no time.”
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Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

“The idea that law enforcement would be masked and and therefore unaccountable to the people they are serving is really anathema to American values,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @TechnologyReview.com. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/...

This is pretty much the encapsulation of her wealthy elite background. Fundamental rights don't matter as long as she can get a tax cut. The only solidarity she has is to her oligarch class.

How a California Clean Energy Program Became a Boon for Big Dairies Central Valley residents say the state’s program for cutting methane emissions incentivizes factory farms and leaves local communities gasping.

“I try to stay inside because the outside air is very polluted. I get headaches. I can’t breathe well,” says Maria Arevalo, a former farm worker.

A Government of trolls.

In the Autumn of America’s Empire | NationofChange

“It was impossible to save the Great Republic. It was rotten to the heart.” Twain suggested that empire abroad would, sooner or later, bring autocracy at home- an insight Trump confirms with his every tweet, every speech, every executive order. www.nationofchange.org/2025/10/06/i...

A monkey individual with their wrists bound and their arms tied behind their back and a rope around their neck.

All violence, all injustice, all oppression is interlinked. How we treat nonhuman animals sets the lower boundary for how we treat each other. The more cruelly we treat non-humans, the more terrible a weapon dehumanization is.

How can salmonella, e. coli, and other foodborne illnesses be avoided? | Farm Forward

Preventing foodborne illness requires more than better handwashing or improved kitchen hygiene—it demands a fundamental transformation in how animals are raised for food. www.farmforward.com/issues/foodb...

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

With "AI" the tech bros have finally realized their dream of profiting off the full work of others. Instead of piece by piece- napster with music, facebook with journalism, google with literature- they can now vacuum up the entire breath of human labor to exploit at little to no cost.

Bari Weiss is at CBS for 2 reasons only:

1) Work at the pleasure of thin skinned, racist billionaires who demand the world worship their alleged brilliance.

2) Crush any attempt to humanize Palestinians and write honest stories about Israel's genocide and occupation.

A photo of workers bent over working in the field with the text overlay: BREAKING: Farm Workers Condemn $2.46 Billion in Trump Wage Cuts

The Trump wage cut is a catastrophe for American workers. With the H2A visa having no cap, the Trump wage cuts opens the gates to potentially unlimited American job losses in agriculture.

Read our full statement:
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The Trump administration announced regulatory changes that would drastically reduce the wages of all farm workers. The proposal will cut income for farm workers by at least 1/3. In total, farm workers will lose $2.46 billion annually in wages & $17.29 billion over ten years. @ufw.bsky.social

They are outnumbered and they know it.

George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.

Just throw that Ring into the trash.

Seems like a statement this government is making to a whole lot of the country right now.

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli , 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto , 1d ago) to @drmistercody states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

History has many painful lessons.

What California school counselors are hearing from kids shaken by immigration raids Kindergartners repeat worries heard at home. Older kids text to check on parents during class. Therapists say mental health is at risk now and in the long term.

ICE - Homegrown American Terrorism calmatters.org/health/menta...

Why is this person facing more than five years in prison for rescuing animals? — Species Unite Zoe Rosenberg faces up to five and a half years in prison after allegedly entering a California slaughterhouse and rescuing animals, a case that has drawn national attention to the treatment of farmed...

⚖️ Chair of 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 analyzes the crazy criminal trial of #DXE activist Zoe Rosenberg, who faces 5 years in jail for rescuing 4 hens. www.speciesunite.com/news-stories...

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

If trillion dollar corporations with large legal teams cannot stand up to a mob boss how can the little guy? Well, maybe they should actually learn from the only people standing up to the dictators. If they aren’t going to lead GTF out of the way.

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:

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ICE’s surveillance capabilities expand under Trump Immigration and Customs Enforcement is rapidly expanding its high-tech surveillance capabilities under President Donald Trump.

The government has obtained tools that permit “indiscriminate and warrantless data collection” that “can absolutely assist ICE in turning law-abiding citizens and protestors into targets of the federal government,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @san.com.
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Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store - 9to5Mac ICEBLOCK has been removed from the App Store at the request of the US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Here are the details.

“Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move. Apple has claimed they received information from law enforcement that ICEBlock served to harm law enforcement officers. This is patently false.“ Tim Cook continues to suck up to Trump. 9to5mac.com/2025/10/02/f...

It’s a tool ripe for abuse from Silicon Valley, something arguably working as designed by the #destruction not #disruption business model. “class warfare through enshittification” is more poetic.

What Hatch Act? I mean really, our government is being run by a bunch of clowns and trolls. Not a single adult in the room to make decisions nor alter the course of a senile old fascist fool.

Rumours fly as Affinity pauses its website Is a major change coming to one of our favourite software options?

My switch from Adobe may not last as long as I hoped. www.creativebloq.com/design/logos... "I knew the Canva acquisition would be bad and again, until they say something I'll keep my fingers crossed, but I have the awful feeling I'll have to abandon yet another software and company I loved…”

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What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...