Joe Audino

If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.

Ring's Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help | TechCrunch The facial recognition question is where things get more tangled.

He can do a perpetual damage control tour for the next 30 years, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s trying to build the panopticon.

Worth also noting that some of these gig platforms also disrupted heavily unionized industries—taxis, etc.,—so not only do we now have a new 21st century servant class, we’ve had to start at square one in terms of organizing those workers (thinking of the Uber “independent contractor” fight)

hey internet, do your thing. i'm looking to chat with a PNW based bird expert who knows things about crows. i have a crow connundrum and i need advice.

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including:

6,668 civilian structures
5,535 homes
14 hospitals
65 schools

(1/24) 🧵 Many people asked me for more information after my thread yesterday on the Tijuana River Valley health crisis. So here goes — what our @airborne.ucsd.edu team has found, and why no one should be forced to breathe this toxic air for another day.

Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran

- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact

- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures

- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

Across the country, various right-wing nonprofits and tech bros (especially Elon Musk) are rewriting the laws in every state to make them MORE punitive, not less, thus guaranteeing that such grave injustices are more common.
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I think Lycos and AltaVista were my most used pre-Google. I switched to DuckDuckGo a few years ago, but I try one of the upstarts occasionally too.

Tweet from Paula Scanlan that reads, "the number of people I still see wearing face masks in the year 2026 is genuinely concerning" Tweet from Jerome Adams that reads, "Why do you care? Honestly asking. I thought the original mantra was “to each their own.” It sounds like you’re wanting to impose your priorities/belief systems on others while saying they shouldn’t impose theirs on you? What am I missing? Also, beyond Covid – many people have found wearing a mask, has lowered their allergy symptoms- and pollen counts are rising this time of year. And Asian cultures have worn masks for years – are you bothered by Asians? Again honestly asking. 🤷🏽‍♂️"

Appreciate former Sugreon General Jerome Adams pushing back on anti-mask sentiment on Twitter/X

Wow. @timnitgebru.bsky.social

Abolish ICE is the moderate position.

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

Explain ethics. Explain what it is to know. The more interesting question is, what is the moral justification for making a few people richer on a technology that’s largely used to bomb people better and to exploit people’s data to sell us more shit?

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

There's a bat rescue on here!: @azbatrescue.bsky.social

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works

It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers.

Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:

@NYCSamKay Steve Daines: "The flood of Mexican meth...20 years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown." (Video still cc: “meth was homemade, it was homegrown,”)

There is nothing more unserious than US drug policy

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

Uhhh, SHIELD. Have you never seen a Marvel movie? They even did a whole show about the agents.

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

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Trump's tax breaks for big corporations The tax and spending law, passed last summer, expands on President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, making it easier for big corporations to pay less in federal income taxes.

Just how much have Trump's tax cuts benefited huge corporations?

Our Senior Fellow Matt Gardner says it's entirely possible that for 2025, S&P 500 corporations "will overall be paying something less than 10% of their income in corporate taxes."
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this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal