Well, I guess we know why ICE called for a full-on military invasion of Los Angeles...
" 'What they didn’t think was going to happen was that the people would resist.' Over eight hours on Saturday, he said, after a battle with Border Patrol—'and it was a battle, because there were people throwing back tear gas, people throwing anything that they could to defend themselves and to defend the workers that were being surrounded'—the Border Patrol retreated."
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It's almost like the only way to prevent your entire life from being used against you is for someone to pass a law...
404media.co/airlines-dont-want…
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
The current regime is an embarrassment to this country. You might think that the Russians mocking our "leaders" is just a stunt, but this shit affects their attitude on the world stage!
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Are there really still people who don't believe that working for Donald Trump will end badly for them?
We always knew President Trump and Elon Musk would break up at some point, but we didn't expect it to be this messy. pcmag.com/news/musk-trump-brea…Musk, Trump Relationship Implodes Over Budget Bill, President Threatens EV Credits, SpaceX Contracts
Trump hits back at Musk's criticism of his Big Beautiful Bill, arguing that the Tesla CEO is mad about him canceling the 'EV mandate.' Musk denies it, and uses X to unload on the president.Emily Forlini (PCMag)
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I love this Onion headline!
Wait a minute...
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Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention
Counter-terror chief was pulling up weeds just five years ago.Tom Latchem (The Daily Beast)
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So today, I asked an AI to design a scientific study. The prompt was 5 paragraphs long.
It's been 27 minutes since I pushed that button, and it just started writing!
Privacy advocates are worried about mobile driver’s licenses
Dozens of privacy advocates, along with top digital rights groups, have signed onto a campaign to remove the surveillance capabilities native to mobile driver’s license technology.Colin Wood (StateScoop)
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Rich guys get rich, and stay rich, by getting the public to pay for whatever they need...
thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/cuomo-l…
Inside Cuomo’s State-Funded Legal War Against the Women Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment
A review by THE CITY of thousands of pages of court documents paints the most complete picture of how intensely he is battling the women who stepped forward.Rosalind Adams (THE CITY - NYC News)
Won't it be a surprise when it turns out that the party of bad losers, who've been trying to convince everyone that they could only have been beaten with election fraud for years, turns out to be the primary source of election fraud?
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Government, brought to you by the people who paid people to take their tests in college....
"Nobody has ever accused RFK Jr. of academic rigor,” said Marion Nestle, a professor emerita of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. "The speed (of the MAHA report) suggests that it could not have been vetted carefully and must have been whisked through standard clearance procedures. The citation problem suggests a reliance on AI."
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Microsoft put their half-assed AI assistant into fucking Notepad?!?!?
On second thought, that's probably just it's speed...
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I do not use any server based AI at all. If the LLM does not run locally on my machine on ComfyUI, LLama.cpp or Ollama then I do not need it.
note: I do not use the term cloud as that is a marketing term not an IT term and I am a developer not a marketer.
Feds: Just change your State's whole way of doing things and make your ID's "Real ID". That way we can be sure they aren't fake.
Also Feds: This "Real ID" looks fake, we're deporting you!
Whatever is left of our constitutional rights and liberties exists mostly in the gaps between what the government knows about us. This is the beginning of the end. Soon, when conservatives are in charge, they'll make us follow their stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not, and when liberals are in charge, well, they'll make us follow their stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not.
Data brokerage should be seen as organized crime, and there should be a constitutional amendment specifically guaranteeing the right to privacy.
theintercept.com/2025/05/22/in…
U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
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I'm not advocating psychopathy, but hear me out. Aren't psychopaths happier than everyone else? They feel no empathy, so they don't feel guilty or remorseful for anything they've ever done. They feel superior to those around them. What they want, at this moment, is basically all they will ever care about.
Seems like a fairly placid internal life, to me...
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I have had similar thoughts. The underlying issue is that it is not a choice. It is how the brain is wired. I could no more choose to be a psychopath than a psychopath could choose not to be one. I have found my peace in a compromise that I no longer value that which is impermanent and I live now, not in my past or future. Of course this is the 100 mile view of my ideologies and it gets a bit more complicated the closer to ground zero that I get. 😀 😉
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Finally, all those pennies I collected as a child will be worth something!
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Treasury Department set to phase out the penny
The Treasury Department said it placed its final order for penny blanks this month as the U.S. moves to end production of the 1-cent coin.Aimee Picchi (CBS News)
Just because someone was born into a rich family , that doesn't mean they aren't trash...
For 40 years, Democrats have used the bludgeon of 'gubmint money' to extort states into falling in line with any number of "federal mandates" that the federal government had no power to mandate.
Aren't you authoritarian assholes glad the MAGA idiots now have that power and precedent to work with?
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Trump’s Deportations to South Sudan Are More Twisted Than They Seem
So now, not only are we sending people to concentration camps, we're sending them to *SECRET* concentration camps...
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Trump’s Deportations to South Sudan Are More Twisted Than They Seem
Immigrants’ attorneys say they were told they were being deported to South Sudan. But Trump’s lawyers won’t say where the plane is—claiming everything is classified.The New Republic
Trump DOJ targets Andrew Cuomo
I can't believe it, but the Trump regime is actually using its abusive legal practices to do the right thing, for once!
irishstar.com/news/us-news/bre…
Trump DOJ launches criminal probe into Andrew Cuomo over 'COVID cover-up'
The Trump DOJ has launched a criminal probe into former New York governor and NYC mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo over allegations he lied to Congress about decisions made during the COVID-19 pandemicIrish Star
"We really do need to be honest"
" 'We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job,' Vance told reporters" - While lying freely about whether the *current* president is capable of doing the job, of course!
J.D. Vance asking for honesty is like a man with no arms asking for a backrub. It will surely benefit him, but it's guaranteed he'll never respond in kind, whether he wants to or not...
newsweek.com/jd-vance-joe-bide…
JD Vance Questions Joe Biden's Health as President
Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.Shane Croucher (Newsweek)
File this under "Duh". In the subcategory of "What the fuck else would you expect, you fucking dipshits?!?!?"
upriseri.com/us-tourism-indust…
US Tourism Industry Faces Historic Collapse as ICE Detentions Deter Foreign Visitors - Uprise RI
As ICE agents detain foreign travelers at airports nationwide, America's $2.6 trillion tourism industry faces collapse. International visitors are canceling trips, airlines are slashing routes, and border states are hemorrhaging billions.Uprise RI Staff (Uprise RI)
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Is anyone out there running a site/channel/service that takes currently hot clips from politicians and government employees saying loopy/false/stupid things and adding a soundtrack to illustrate?
If not, can there please be such a site/channel/service now? I would pay literal money for that...
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At least everyone listened to me about how 23andMe's bankruptcy was a massive privacy/safety problem for their customers... They *did* listen, right? Right??
"23andMe sold the genetic data of 15 million people for $256 million to pharmaceutical company Regeneron."
404media.co/23andme-sale-shows…
23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17
23andMe sold the genetic data of 15 million people for $256 million to a pharmaceutical company called Regeneron.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Why, Microsoft? Why would you take the ability to pin a shortcut to the taskbar out of Windows 11 ?!?!?
It is impossible to believe that you can squeeze profit out of this dumbfuckery, so you are either the most incompetent nest of shitheads the world has ever known, or just evil. It's a tossup...
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in reply to Blaise • •He was always known for his short term position appointments in the past.