The Government Must Not Force Companies to Participate in AI-powered Surveillance The rapidly escalating conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon, which started when the company refused to let the government use its technology to spy on Americans, has now gone to court. The Depa...

EFF has joined a brief in the Anthropic-DOD case explaining why forcing companies to alter their technology to facilitate surveillance violates the First Amendment.

Anything you allow the government to do to others, they will do to you.

I don’t think English has a word such an eclectic mix of stupidity and absurdity.

Riddle me this:

If Trump's military hasn't issued any illegal orders, why has Pete Hegseth been unable to come up with *any* legal justification for killing those fishermen in boats in the Caribbean?🤔

Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.

Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Don't photograph anyone else at a protest either.

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

F8 is obviously a sign. :)

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

GitHub - bsdtrhodes/Itunes-backup-data-extractor: Java application to extract heaps of data from encrypted/unencrypted backups. Java application to extract heaps of data from encrypted/unencrypted backups. - bsdtrhodes/Itunes-backup-data-extractor

In case anyone wants to try (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD tested) and give me feedback (good/bad) feel free: github.com/bsdtrhodes/I...

Im working on a Java based tool for this, it doesn’t do bookmarks, but it will yank images/videos, message history, voicemails and call history from encrypted backups. Is that what you need?

Part of all those forms you read and sign will cover issued property that is government property, not your property, and you sign forms about it. They’re very lucky.

@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.

we love this article from our pals at @51st.news celebrating the power of a community to resist 51st.news/dc-residents...

Check out this Amazon review of Laserblasted A very well written story based on a very poorly made movie

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So, this is what they look like on the inside? I’m not sure I understand the hype tbh.

Companion Animals: Facts, Not Folklore. Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

Cats don’t see in pitch black. Dogs don’t see only in black & white. Small myths add up to a culture of misinformation.

Mice Show Empathy, Science Shows None 🐁 Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

95% of lab animals are mice — not because they’re the best models, but because they’re cheap & disposable to the system 🐭

😔🙏🏽✍🏽email: SpeakerAdams@council.nyc.gov Please use your power as head of the NYC Council to end horse abuse by advancing & passing Ryder’s Law (Intro 967) to ban deadly, unsafe horse carriage rides. You can also help via: nyclass.org/stophorseabu...

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

an important part of this story a media with integrity will make salient is Microsoft is CURRENTLY complicit in the mass surveillance of people being targeted for assassination by an oppressive government aftermath.site/microsoft-bd...

The Trump administration is hell-bent on eliminating animal protection measures like Prop 12.

The Supreme Court has already rejected previous attempts to overturn this anti-cruelty act. Still, Big Ag has deep pockets and continues to fight for their undeserved welfare state. #AnimalRights

Magneto was always right.

Not at all surprised. CBP has surveillance drones above most protests too, and with the military on the ground they are deploying even more surveillance.

Presume all protests are being monitored, as is everything you say online.