Someone needs to invent a flirt-detector, because I couldn’t figure out if someone was flirting with me if my life depended on it.
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Someone needs to invent a flirt-detector, because I couldn’t figure out if someone was flirting with me if my life depended on it.
“A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters” www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
5 shaheds in a truck, from Wikipedia
Shaheds can be dealt with, but apparently not by the US military and their broken procurement...
Shahed have been a known threat since 2019 (although that was a earlier model), and they are a remarkably low-end threat:
Performance wise they can only barely outrace a piper cub: ~120 mph.
Just overheard a bro at my gym saying “so I have this AI that I use to make podcasts…”
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Letter writing campaign to oppose war on Iran. Very simple, just takes a couple minutes. You can edit the default text if you like.
actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...
Lmao
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians.
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
Just received an AI gibberish response from Crowdstrike support to a ticket we sent in. Not sure if that’s an automated system, or an individual support engineer, but either way it’s disheartening.
AI really is going to ruin every human interface.
Note, NYT assumes that DHS told the truth about what happened, which would be crazy because they literally Never Have when they shot someone, especially an American.
Is it national gym day and no one told me? My normally half-empty gym is so packed I can’t find open equipment.
Mapping The Anti-Rights Movement From The US To The UK with Chiara Capraro, Amnesty International UK. Bellingcat Stage Talk, Thursday 12/2, 5pm CET/11am EST discord.com/invite/bellingcat
From trans healthcare to abortion politics - the same actors keep appearing. On Thursday 5pm CET/11am EST we'll be live with @amnestyuk.bsky.social 's Chiara Capraro in Discord talking on their research tracing the political alliances shaping today’s anti-rights movement. discord.gg/bellingcat?e...
It's hilarious to me how much white Dems are like "Yes ICE is terrible. Yes cops do exactly the same things as ICE, at 10x to 100x the scale, but they target Black people, so that's OK! We have to be careful what arguments we make about ICE, or we will immediately have to reckon with the police."
Wrote about some of the history of the Wyden Siren from @wyden.senate.gov and why we should take it VERY seriously when he sends a cryptic letter like he did yesterday.
This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry must be destroyed.
Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
An exchange from the series Firefly between one of the protagonists and a mercenary bounty hunter has lived rent free in my head for 20+ years, and has sadly been on my mind a lot recently--
River: You like to hurt folk.
Jubal Early: It's part of the job.
River: It's why you took the job.
The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
They’re trying to deport witnesses to a murder by ICE guards
Since a lot of us will never vote for Gavin Newsom, every minute you clowns spend defending the transphobic governor makes it more likely we'll end up with President Vance in 2029.
Participation trophies have made American men into weak, feminized soy boys. Here’s why I’m glad that Maria Machado gave her peace prize to Donald Trump
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
Nailed it.
Stephen Miller found an immigrant he likes.
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.