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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

“This is essentially despotism as a service.”

Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you.

A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Is this how we destroy the capitalist class? 🤣

apparently people on tumblr are doing a "hogwarts legacy pride week" (where they're sharing LGBTQ-themed hogwarts legacy content) how about you not do that let's stop trying to pretend like it is possible to make pro-LGBTQ content out of that franchise

"Shit where I eat? Don't mind if I do."

A screenshot of a retweet reading CrimethInc. ‏ @crimethinc @crimethinc CrimethInc. retweeting Bill Melugin "We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but ten 1000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us." -LAPD Chief Michel Moore Decentralization was the key to the success of this summer's protests. Don't let anyone tell you our movements need centralized leadership. CrimethInc. Bill Melugin @BillFOXLA NEW: LAPD sources sent me a letter Chief Moore sent out to officers Saturday night re: @LAPPL police union survey highly critical of him, their largest survey ever. Survey says 86% of officers feel Chief doesn’t support them. 90% said they would retire… 10:14 - 10 lis [November] 2020

"We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but ten 1000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us."

-LAPD Chief Michel Moore in response to the 2020 uprising

Decentralization is key.

Elon Musk personally banned our Twitter account in 2022, but this post remains good advice today.

TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

Trans women operate in a special nexus of hatred from right wingers because you're a faggot that's also a woman. Double whammy

In Gaza, where Israel has imposed a total blockade on food and other aid for over 10 weeks, "rations are getting low, and the poorest and most vulnerable are beginning to starve and die," says Alex de Waal from @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social.

99% of highway designers quit before adding enough lanes to completely clear up traffic

baring my teeth at the mirror so one of us can assert dominance

yep! they had a million chances to define afd as extremist and do something meaningful ... and Olaf is again admonishing to nichts überstürzen!

can't wait until Verbotsverfahren does jack shit

Der Nur-nichts-übers-Knie-brechen-Kanzler tritt bald ab. Wie entschlossen handeln die, die nach ihm kommen?

Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive.

#StandWithUkraine

“The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk A federal judge has ordered Rümeysa Öztürk to be transferred to Vermont as she seeks to challenge what her lawyers call her “unconstitutional detention” in an ICE detention center in Louisiana....

"The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline": Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk

Keir Starmer's trans rights U-turn shows he stands for nothing — how did he fool you? Are you really surprised the Prime Minister turned on trans women at the first opportunity?

This is a measure of how far to the right Labour has moved under Starmer.

Even the Evening Standard is urging people not to vote Labour in the upcoming elections because of its horrific transphobia, racism, xenophobia and ableism.

Labour has *become* Reform.

I know lmao, I was like girl do you think that's a lot? you know how long making a short movie takes? you spent only a week on a full length movie, that should tell you something

It would be a mistake to view the Chinese people's skyrocketing quality of life as miraculous or extraordinary. Beijing made some very clever decisions over the years, but ultimately it's just doing the *normal* thing: spending the nation's wealth on the public instead of on war.

so it seems storytelling is not her strongest suit and isn't really into the details of filmmaking - then why bother?

what really tops it off is that the final product isn't even good, according to the reviews. The author also says most of the film was just filler

The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.

The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state.

my latest for @thenation.com

Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m Dropping at select colleges today. [Embedded image of a billboard ad:] A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why. We did. We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate. Join us. [signed by the Palantir founder]

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.

But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.