Jerry Beilinson

Thanks for this. I read The Prophets by the Heschel recently because I heard that MLK liked it. (It's a slog.) I'd really under-appreciated how their main gig was railing against the gov't and others in power for cruelty, injustice, and hypocrisy. I found it very helpful.

“Then they came for the economists”

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

It's incredibly easy to manipulate Google's AI search results, by the excellent @thomasgermain.bsky.social

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Mikaela Shiffrin's very similar. She seems to really love the skiing (and camaraderie with her peers) but to kinda wish the medals, records, cameras, would go away.

"“The attack on empathy would have gained very little traction in the church if Donald Trump weren’t president."

Uh...it's exactly the opposite, isn't it? Evangelicals love Trump because of his anti-empathy worldview. Not in spite of it.

Otherwise, they could have elected Jeb Bush.

A statistic with considerable explanatory power:

"Data from the Federal Reserve shows that only the richest 1% of households have grown their share of overall U.S. wealth since 1990. Their share hit a record 32% in the third quarter of 2025, equivalent to $54.8 trillion." (/v @revkin.bsky.social )

How to Use the Signal App for Secure Messaging - Consumer Reports The free Signal app, which provides private, end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls, helps keep your communications secure.

The free Signal app, which provides private, end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls, helps keep your communications secure.

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

Ring Search Party not just for dogs? What a shock.

www.404media.co/leaked-email...

Maybe. But even if you're wrong, this is evil enough. American slavery never extended to non-Black people. It was evil. The Shoah targeted mainly Jews. It was evil. Only Japanese people were rounded up in WWII. (I get your argument, but I wish it wasn't necessary to make it.)

There's no point in trying to sidestep Republican attacks, because those attacks are always against straw men. The Dems who succeed don't obsess over avoiding Republican trip wires. Instead they dominate the mic by talking loudly and simply about things they care about. (Cue the Mamdani clips.)

ChatGPT thinks your state is dumb. Or lazy. Or ugly. See for yourself. Making ChatGPT’s bias visible — and personal — is powerful.

geoffreyfowler.substack.com/p/chatgpt-bias

Let’s ban the sale of our phone location data Sign petition to stop cell phone tracking

The best way to regulate big tech is to just make bad practices illegal. It's not that complicated. So, let's just make it illegal to sell phone location data. Sign here:

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Demand the tracking and reporting of extreme weather events Demand the tracking and reporting of extreme weather events

We can't leave the job of predicting and tracking extreme weather disasters to profit-driven private companies. Help us urge Congress and the administration to fund and staff essential national weather and climate tracking services.

Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.

(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

Let’s ban the sale of our phone location data Sign petition to stop cell phone tracking

Many mobile apps collect and sell your precise location information without your knowledge. Urge your state leaders to ban the sale of our phone location data. Sign our petition today:

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Can Federal Law Enforcement Access Your Ring Doorbell Videos? Here Are the Details, and Your Options. - Consumer Reports The facts on Ring doorbells and police: Know your privacy options, how to limit video sharing, and which security cameras have local storage and E2E encryption.

Oh, and look, my own writer's Ring story (from @consumerreports.org) is shown in the ad around :26.

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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Wyze on Instagram: "Ring's Superbowl commercial, but the honest version. It's definitely only for dogs! 🤣" 3,284 likes, 154 comments - wyze on February 11, 2026: "Ring's Superbowl commercial, but the honest version. It's definitely only for dogs! 🤣".

Wowza, what an awesome ad for Wyze, responding to Ring's Super Bowl spot on Search Party.

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There’s gotta be a German word for the cursed experience of reading the Fulton County affidavit after reporting on the 2020 election in extreme detail. Even redacted, every niche witness jumps out—many conspiracy theorists with no real expertise. The US government treating them as credible is nuts.

Notes on winter When the world turns whimsical

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:

"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Also, of course, they can say that because of science done by the same people who say we are in a crisis.

Like, “your work on modeling ancient climate change was awesome; you know nothing about modeling climate change.”

It’s just racism. There’s no immigration problem

Yes, they'll do this, but I doubt it's the core danger. It's very effective to remove likely Dem voters from the rolls ahead of time (see Florida 2000). Republicans have also been moving loyalists into position to reject ballots after they are cast.

Not according to polling. Democrats want to abolish ICE or, at the least severely cut the funding down to a sane, pre-Republican level. Body cameras are for surveilling protesters, not holding cops or agents to account. Dems want prosecutions for law-breaking by ICE agents.

From the technology community on Reddit: Hi! We're 404 Media's Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox. AMA (us) about the tech ICE is using, Flock and the state of surveillance in the US on Feb. 4, 12 pm ET Explore this post and more from the technology community

404Media is running an AMA right now on surveillance technologies and their excellent reporting on Palantir, ICE, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/technology...

They are really going down the list, checking these boxes.