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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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?!?!?"
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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."
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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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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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Brain-dead mother. Brain-damaged fetus. No hope for either. So torture their family by keeping both alive until the at-least horribly disabled baby can be delivered and then suffer for months or years with their brain damage. This is what "pro-life" means...
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Abortion Law Forces Doctors to Keep Pregnant Brain Dead Woman Alive
"This decision should've been left to us," said the mother of a woman who is pregnant and has been brain dead for over 90 consecutive days.Nick Mordowanec (Newsweek)
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Coinbase was hacked and lost 1000s of customers' name, address, phone, email, driver’s license, and passport info.
This is where the Orwellian "Know Your Customer" bullshit gets us. 1000s of companies store vast amounts of private data they aren't qualified to protect!
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Coinbase was hacked and lost 1000s of customers' name, address, phone, email, driver’s license, and passport info.
This is where the Orwellian "Know Your Customer" bullshit gets us. 1000s of companies store vast amounts of private data they aren't qualified to protect!
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"Mike Lee visualizes why porn makes him so self-conscious that he wants to ban it for everybody, completely."
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GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook
Mike Lee wants to deliver a death knell to PornHub.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
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Modern machines use a lot of programming. But the thing is, they aren't just programs! You can't just be a programmer when you are making real machines, you have to think like an engineer, too.
Every decision, error-handling choice, and command sequence *MUST* consider the real-world effects, primary, secondary, and tertiary, of that logic. Otherwise, you end up with cars that can't drive when the trunk is jammed, robots that try to decapitate humans when they lose communications with their controller, plants that can't run production when their internet connection is down, and doors that won't let bystanders rescue unconscious occupants while your car is on fire!
"when they arrived at the field, the frunk wouldn’t open. Ernest states that the Cybertruck detected an issue with the frunk and went into “Limp Mode.” This is where the truck limits the top speed to 15 miles per hour"
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A Tesla Cybertruck Owner Says Kids at his Son’s Baseball Practice Laughed at his Cybertruck After it was Towed – Adds, “28 kids Went From Thinking the Cybertruck Was Cool to Pointing & Laughing”
A Cybertruck owner says that the 10-year-old kids at his son’s baseball practice initially thought the Cybertruck was the coolest vehicle.Tinsae Aregay (Torque News)
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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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