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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.

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."

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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.

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.

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.

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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

shiba ennui @TomSchally the secret to work-life balance is inherited wealth

always remember:

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.

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.

This is the nerdiest thing to happen to me ever, but in the best way.

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.

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Don't follow me. I'd rather not be perceived.

This man wakes up every day asking "what ignorant bullshit can I say today to make everyone hate me, a thing that is clearly my fetish?"

WSJ: Mamdani's Pledged Rent Freeze Is Rattling Mom-and-Pop Landlords The Democratic mayoral candidate's plans involving NYC's rent-stabilized units will lead owners to sell, some small landlords say By Redmond Bernhold

I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it

PUT AWAY YOUR THROWING DARTS, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE HUNGER. AND YOU WILL WIN.

Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement Wednesday, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video. Why the two firefighters were arrested is unclear. But a spokesperson for the Incident Management Team leading the firefighting response said the team was “aware of a Border Patrol operation on the fire,” that it was not interfering with the firefighting response and referred reporters to the Border Patrol station in Port Angeles. Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday about the confrontation. It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.

Border Patrol literally intervened in a fight against an *active wildfire* to arrest and interrogate... THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE FUCKING FIRE.

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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?

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

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.

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Look, there's no one solution we can impose to most of this. Students who think the work doesn't matter will find ways around it. Students who are busy and overwhelmed will seek solutions. As with everything else we don't solve, we need to think about what drives it.

Saw some stuff this morning about how the "online discussion board has been killed by AI." I mean... good? I can count the number of times an online discussion board hasn't been bullshit busy work on my hands. Not to say they can't be good - I've seen them! done them! - but mostly? Nah.

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.

Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors - The Authors Guild Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over w...

Not sure, but I know there's supposed to be a list coming: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

I despair.

I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.

“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.”
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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."

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.

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

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."

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.

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.