Southern Poverty Law Center indicted over alleged use of paid informants in extremist groups | CNN Politics The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday over a discontinued program that used paid confidential informants to penetrate white supremacist and other organizations, Acting Attorney General ...

This is entirely politically motivated to eliminate an organization that has historically fought neo nazis and the KKK. What an absolute disgrace.

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The only 3 music genres in 2026 are psyop, vhs mail fraud, and surrealist teletubby mathrock.

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr

1. barely works
2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate)
3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

‪"The image of luxury towers constructed above mass graves, with tens of thousands presumably buried under the earthworks, embodies the logic of 21st-century genocide."

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

#anginedepoitrine #boardsofcanada

Say what you will about nerds, but back when only nerds made websites, they worked. You'd fire up your computer, go to a website, and it was actually there

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Should Canada consider joining the European Union? A majority of Canadians believe Canada should consider joining the European Union (EU).

“The vast majority of Canadians (83%) agree that Canada should consider joining the European Union.” 🇨🇦🇪🇺

i do not want to make content. i want to make music and i want to write. i do not want to make content

the people writing these op-eds for the Bulwark or NYT have seemingly never gone to a protest that wasn't a No Kings protest, and at said No Kings protest somehow strategically avoided eye contact with any of the young people from JVP or PYM or Sunrise or etc etc etc. they've BEEN PROTESTING!

indie rock fans shocked by existence of "marketing"

Who Americans sympathize more with: 2022: Israelis +28 Now: Palestinians +11

Opinion | Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump?

Weird to have an article about the absence of youth protests on campuses and conclude it’s all teenaged AI brainrot — without mentioning that every US university educator, admin and student is terrified of attracting the attention of the US Government over exercising their freedom of speech rights

23 Major News Sites Have Blocked the Wayback Machine – Digital History In Danger Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine, threatening your ability to verify claims and track editorial changes in digital journalism.

The @archive.org 's Wayback Machine, a digital time machine that has preserved over a trillion web pages over the past 3 decades, is facing systematic blocks from major media outlets.
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people who only buy vinyl and at the same time complain about surface noise are weird. you're buying the surface noise format

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

The end game is not reasonable regulatory measures. The end game is regulatory capture. The end game is total corporate control of government. And they are doing a very, very good job of making this vision a reality.

Publishers’ AI battle hits Internet Archive SF organization losing access to some news content

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine

When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth.

The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors.
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Looks awesome (both cat & glasswork)!!

I always tell ambient musicians the same thing: get a drum machine. It will make your ambient music a lot more pumped up and attention-grabbing.

heatmaps from the report showing tracking

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning.

And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep.

Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones.

No warrant required.

Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1
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They Cut Down ‘Grandpapa’ | The Tyee The mysterious vanishing of one of Vancouver’s most loved cherries posed a deeper question. What do we owe to our big, old trees?

“This is the story of one much-loved tree in Vancouver — important to me and, it turns out, a lot of other people. It’s a story about how we lose big trees, not only here but around the world, and what’s lost when we do.”

J.B. MacKinnon writes. 🌳🌸

How far-right groups brought the culture war to Alberta schools | Xtra Magazine Many of the most vocal groups in developing Alberta’s school policies have no affiliation to kids or the education system

The Alberta government is now considering some level of book restrictions in public libraries, not just schools. And once again they are taking aim at LGBTQ2S+ books.

Don't forget where this focus came from.

It was never actually about "concerned parents."

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However you feel about porn, the history of any general porn censorship is pretty much this.

Because “porn” here is a euphemism for “transgressive”, and what counts as transgressive is its distance from “the norm” and “the norm” has tended to mean male gaze cisgender white heterosexuality.

Sun Ra Arkestra Marshall Allen and Danny Davis at the Michigan Union July 1977.