Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.
Please take down your Ring camera peeps.
Screenshot of posts from four different people talking about a ring commercial that I completely missed. (God bless the “popular with friends” feed) Brandon Friedman • @brandonfried... • 31m The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life Adam Gurri © @adamgurri.liberalcur... • 33m So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh Tressie McMillan Cottom • @tressi... • 34m I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people's empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog. Joshua Erlich •@joshuaerlich.bsky.... • 34m fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs
We’re onto you, Ring
That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”
National Lampoon cover with the text if you don't buy ring we'll kill the dog
That Ring ad
He is not wrong.
Not really. It's kinda weird. But so are the times so I don't know.
Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes
On this day in 1956, in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s home was bombed while his wife Coretta, seven-week-old daughter, and a neighbor were inside.
Goodness yes. I'll keep saying that yes it's an ICE/Trump problem but also it's way deeper than that and tons of folks are complicit including tons of judges for empowering police to act like this, qualified immunity, etc.
Jack White plays sports also?
Thank you. All of this blaming training really misses the core issues and broader institutional failures in play and simply blames Trump and ICE which, while not wrong, is way too narrow of a criticism.
This is it. Any debating these bullshit made up justifications just feeds them.
In December, I traveled to Montgomery to visit the Legacy Museum, which traces the story of Black America from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. I wanted to understand how the museum & its affiliated sites were operating in a moment where so much of the history they present is under attack.
Today is the day to take down your government surveillance device. It's the smallest thing you can do to fight ICE.
98% to lose in the first quarter at home is wild. Especially to the Hornets.
Oh yeah and qualified immunity is the clearest failure of the law here. Protect police sure but holding them completely unaccountable no way.
This is a tragedy but we've ignored this shit for decades and it's part of how we got here. It's ignored until it's ICE shooting a white lady on a phone cam. If we dig out of this shitty timeline we need to endorse checks on police power and stop throwing up our hands in fealty to this shit.
As a public defender, police shooting people and claiming they were under imminent threat is not new or unique to ICE/Trump. It's been going on for decades. And judges, prosecutors and the general public don't provide any check on this process.
Somewhere, a federal public defender realizes she's on call to do the President of Venezuela's initial appearance on Monday.
Page/Plant
Bo Diddley
Stevie Wonder
Paul Simon
Elbow
You literally can't make this shit up
Boy ain't this true.
I think you mean "a seal pushed me yesterday."
Like why didn't it?
Couldn't have happened to a more likable team?
Next question: "should the speaker of the house know what is going on in the country?"
