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Mike (1 of many)
@chicagomike.bsky.social
· Oct 10
@404media.co , @jasonkoebler.bsky.social do great work tracking public surveillance systems used to track Americans. If you have not seen their reporting, I highly recommend it. I've noticed more and more automated license plate readers every week. So, I wanted to 🔎.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Shout out to whichever news station has given us neurotics this little treat! 🎄
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Shout out to whichever news station has given us neurotics this little treat! 🎄
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Like it's just so profoundly petty.
We could be the most ethically and economically comfortable polity in the history of time and it literally wouldn't even be hard.
We just keep failing all the time because roughly half the country is by some means scared of growth and change.
We could be the most ethically and economically comfortable polity in the history of time and it literally wouldn't even be hard.
We just keep failing all the time because roughly half the country is by some means scared of growth and change.
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Like it's just so profoundly petty.
We could be the most ethically and economically comfortable polity in the history of time and it literally wouldn't even be hard.
We just keep failing all the time because roughly half the country is by some means scared of growth and change.
We could be the most ethically and economically comfortable polity in the history of time and it literally wouldn't even be hard.
We just keep failing all the time because roughly half the country is by some means scared of growth and change.
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⚡️ Philanthropist Howard Buffett travels to Kupiansk suburb in Kharkiv Oblast to help evacuate civilians.
Buffett received a state award from President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2024, naming him a "National Legend of Ukraine."
Buffett received a state award from President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2024, naming him a "National Legend of Ukraine."
Philanthropist Howard Buffett travels to Kupiansk suburb in Kharkiv Oblast to help evacuate civilians
Buffett received a state award from President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2024, naming him a "National Legend of Ukraine."
kyivindependent.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
⚡️ Philanthropist Howard Buffett travels to Kupiansk suburb in Kharkiv Oblast to help evacuate civilians.
Buffett received a state award from President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2024, naming him a "National Legend of Ukraine."
Buffett received a state award from President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2024, naming him a "National Legend of Ukraine."
Some tankers and 2 Typhoons near eastern Syria. Germany, Italy, and UK forces.
December 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Some tankers and 2 Typhoons near eastern Syria. Germany, Italy, and UK forces.
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Dear Media,
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Dear Media,
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
banana leaf rice - veg korma, pumpkin, spinach, beet with papadam
Restoran Sri Seenu, Kuala Lumpur
Restoran Sri Seenu, Kuala Lumpur
December 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
banana leaf rice - veg korma, pumpkin, spinach, beet with papadam
Restoran Sri Seenu, Kuala Lumpur
Restoran Sri Seenu, Kuala Lumpur
AI-generated contracts for xAI and SpaceX are starting to look favorable for investors huh
The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
AI-generated contracts for xAI and SpaceX are starting to look favorable for investors huh
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Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry has begun evacuating diplomats’ families from Venezuela, according to a European intelligence official. -AP
December 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has begun evacuating diplomats’ families from Venezuela, according to a European intelligence official. -AP
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
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I appreciate folks following the breadcrumb trail and not trying to jump to conclusions, but I’m not bound by those rules and I think “a media toady nuking a story about American concentration camps” is pretty self-explanatory
December 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I appreciate folks following the breadcrumb trail and not trying to jump to conclusions, but I’m not bound by those rules and I think “a media toady nuking a story about American concentration camps” is pretty self-explanatory
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
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the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now
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However, if you believe, like me, that there are foundational limitations/quirks to LLMs intrinsic in the technology, then early adoption is valuable if only so you can build an intuition on where they will fail or get weird.
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
However, if you believe, like me, that there are foundational limitations/quirks to LLMs intrinsic in the technology, then early adoption is valuable if only so you can build an intuition on where they will fail or get weird.
Regarding ai when it's asked/forced to be applied to everyone's daily life.
Maybe me but I'm seeing 2 discussions getting mashed together a bit. (1) everyone being told to use ai when they don't need it and (2) usability should be easier so everyone can use it. The best example I've seen mentioned is Google search. Yes, it's easy and everyone can use it, but not...
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Regarding ai when it's asked/forced to be applied to everyone's daily life.
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US blockade on Venezuelan oil tankers is accelerating Cuba’s economic collapse.
Cuba, already in deep crisis with blackouts, hunger, and mass emigration, relies heavily on subsidized Venezuelan oil (now down to ~30k barrels/day).
Cuba, already in deep crisis with blackouts, hunger, and mass emigration, relies heavily on subsidized Venezuelan oil (now down to ~30k barrels/day).
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
US blockade on Venezuelan oil tankers is accelerating Cuba’s economic collapse.
Cuba, already in deep crisis with blackouts, hunger, and mass emigration, relies heavily on subsidized Venezuelan oil (now down to ~30k barrels/day).
Cuba, already in deep crisis with blackouts, hunger, and mass emigration, relies heavily on subsidized Venezuelan oil (now down to ~30k barrels/day).
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Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women?
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them.
Welker: So those women with Trump were victims?
Blanche:
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2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
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Most US media are oblivious to Melania's role in the Epstein world and do no reporting on it. But Melania was introduced to Trump by Epstein while she was working for a modeling agency which Epstein controlled. This has appeared in UK media, but Melania struggling to keep it unpublished in the US.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Most US media are oblivious to Melania's role in the Epstein world and do no reporting on it. But Melania was introduced to Trump by Epstein while she was working for a modeling agency which Epstein controlled. This has appeared in UK media, but Melania struggling to keep it unpublished in the US.