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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.

The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.

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New York settles decades-long land dispute with Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the state reached a settlement agreement with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, restoring land rights back to the tribe for 9,800 acres of land in Franklin County...

New York State settles a decades-long land dispute with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, restoring nearly 15,000 acres of land to the tribal nation.
www.mynbc5.com/article/new-...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.

Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Yes, it's said in Project 2025 (long before tbh) & now it's happening. We get it. What do you intend to do about it??

Yes, maybe this could have been prevented one way or the other before now & I'm sure there's blame to go around. Regardless, we are where we are. What are you going to DO about it?

Reminder that the Zionist entity trains US cops in their brutaility especially towards POC,the same tactics that killed George Floyd.

If you choose ear-plugging in the midst of these atrocities don't be flabbergasted when the boomerang swings back towards your jaw.
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I’m so glad to see so many folks calling, but while I am seeing a lot of pressure on Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal, don’t forget Stripe.

The Itch team labeled them as enemy number one in this fight. Call Stripe. Wear them out!
#itchio #indiegames #stripe

I am going to be attending a wedding in October and need to find something really nice to wear. #NativeSky what are some of your favorite Native run stores/boutiques? J. Okuma, B. Yellowtail, etc

Activists call attention to Line 5 concerns as Michiganders head north for the holiday weekend • Michigan Advance As residents throughout the state made their annual pilgrimages north in celebration of Independence Day weekend, a group of activists posted their first billboard along the Interstate 75 corridor int...

A group of activists posted their first billboard along the Interstate 75 corridor into northern Michigan, raising concerns about the 72-year-old pipeline’s continued operations in the Great Lakes.

Story by @kdavidsonjrn.bsky.social

michiganadvance.com/2025/07/07/a...

Endlessly frustrating! Shortened comment period and ridiculous permits.
#NoLine5Tunnel

Unearthed bones, land swap, expedited review: Enbridge Line 5 tunnel review leaves tribes behind - ICT News An investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel finds gaps in tribal consultation in the Enbridge Line 5 project.

Unearthed bones, land swap, expedited review: Enbridge #Line5 tunnel review leaves tribes behind. ictnews.org/news/unearth...

Concerned citizens launch a billboard campaign to combat misinformation by Canadian oil giant Enbridge — Communities United by Water FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from: Watershed Aware, LLC Thursday July 3, 2025 Contact: Matthew Borke, 313-402-0024, borkester@gmail.com   Concerned citizens launch a billboard campaign along the...

communitiesunitedbywater.org/blog/concern...

#NoLine5Tunnel #ShutdownLine5

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart.

It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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Pay particular attention to the points about who gets to tell what.

This is just one of the very important reasons we insist that some stories are not outsiders' to tell.

A screenshot of a Wired article by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, published May 14, 2025, with the headline: "CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers."

A screenshot of a Wired article by Lily Hay Newman, published June 16, 2025, with the headline: "Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses."

One month apart.

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED.

Words matter here.

He was MURDERED.

it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.

Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

These humans are desperate for our help, and they keep getting called scammers and frauds all while trying to survive a genocide.

If they have a gofundme, that shit is verified. Just help them, interact with them, let them know they’re not alone, and that we do care.

ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs? One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

If this isn't a cautionary warning for academics then I don't know what is.

You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.

Oryana Presents: Troubled Water Join us in Traverse City as Oryana Presents: Troubled Water, the adventure documentary to protect the Great Lakes.

Live in Traverse City? Don't have plans tonight? Good news - Troubled Water, a documentary adventure-conservation feature about Line 5 is showing this evening!

RSVP: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/oryana_prese...

“you have to make a movement popular for normies to join” 👍🫡

It is more important than ever to know your rights when engaging with ICE. Know your rights.

Metadata like timestamps, author names, device details, and version history can quietly reveal your identity. Screenshots may expose screen resolution, open apps, or UI elements unique to your setup. Some files even include invisible tracking pixels or custom fonts as digital fingerprints.

As someone who spent the trump years in the DC courts and doing court support for protesters I want to offer some opinions about protests going forward because things have changed and we need to adapt.
1. Don't commit symbolic crimes. It doesn't work the message is lost on most people and placing

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.