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I am, I stay away because I just know I can’t compete!

“Piracy. It’s a Crime.” PSA From Wikipedia: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa...

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.

BYU student's visa reinstated after unexpected revocation A Japanese doctorate student at BYU will now be able to stay in the U.S. after his visa was revoked earlier this month.

Another story of

1. Admin sends fascist order

2. Media reports on it

3. People are outraged, say no

4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake”

Lesson is defy fascist orders

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it:

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“US police depts near the US-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of $ for an unproven & secretive tech that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with & collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, & suspected drug & human traffickers”

A post from Secular Talk (@KyleKulinski ) on X shares a Yahoo News article from The Wrap. The headline reads: "Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’." The article is written by Stephanie Kaloi, published on Fri, February 21, 2025, at 11:05 PM EST, with a 5-minute read time and 7.4K shares. The Yahoo News interface shows a search bar, a "Shop Social Media Faves" button, and an Amazon ad.

Least shocking story of the day.

ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’ The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

“The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.“
Palantir will be used to identify domestic Trump critics soon enough.

Cool, cool

Ha! I’ve been popping in from time to time but this shone to me like a beacon, I couldn’t resist 😂

Even the French aren’t as petty as the French-Canadians 😂

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Elon Musk and the Billionaire Baby Boom

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social on the recent billionaire pronatalism boom. Super-interesting!!

Not biting…

How rude!!!

Couple on a mountain smiling

Mountains and blue sky

Beer

Mountains and snow and a blue sky

Zwei für die Zugspitze bitte…

There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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KEY JOB ALERT: The New York Attorney General's Office is looking for a "Special Counsel for LGBTQIA Rights."

The office is looking for an "experienced litigator" to "analyze federal policy and lead responses to federal actions that threaten LGBTQIA people."

More info: ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

Chaos erupts at Idaho legislative town hall, woman pulled from seat and dragged out The woman refused to leave the meeting after speaking out against the possible repeal of Medicaid expansion and other bills working their way through the Idaho Legislature.

The SHERIFF of this town got three unidentified men to violently assault a woman in public because he didn't like what she was saying - and no one stopped them. www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...

I don't think anyone is demanding that every person needs stacks of film, VHS, DVDs and Blurays but the fact is, owning physical media is the only way to guarantee access to what you wish to see in the future. We are seeing streaming getting yanked on a whim and it's only going to get worse.

Hey totally unrelated but does anyone here know what redlining was and why it was racist and bad?

The NSA's "Big Delete" Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...

3. The memo acknowledges that the list includes many terms that are used by the NSA in contexts that have nothing to do with DEI.

For example, the term "privilege" is used by the NSA in the context of "privilege escalation," which is a counterintelligence technique

“The price tag is also equivalent to a year’s rent for a one-bedroom apartment for 1,177 people, which would constitute roughly 80% of New Orleans’ unhoused population.”

Sorry but how the fuck do you fish on Stardew Valley

The " think of the children" arguement is often used to slip through legislation that can be massively problematic later

This remains the most accurate thing ever posted on Twitter, and it only gets more accurate as time goes on.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...

Box by box, the Nicaraguans who work across Wisconsin are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations. In the contents of the boxes is a portrait of a community under pressure. www.propublica.org/article/immi...