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so my friend asked me to help him get to the Halloween parade
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
the green was classier
In addition, other travelers are in a hurry and pissed off at the delay I cause. there's an attitude that we often see in criminal justice, "if you have nothing to hide, just comply." we are sleepwalking into total surveillance, no privacy or anonymity not freedom of movement. I hate it so much.
It's getting very hard to opt out of biometrics. Delta funnels you through a terrifying cattle chute of cameras. I refused on the way out of the country & the agent was visibly annoyed. Coming back I asked in advance, and 3 minutes later was "randomly" selected for additional security screening.
I refused to have my photo taken at JFK Customs yesterday. the agent was flummoxed. she had my passport but said that, without a photo I would not need an additional form of ID. I said I didn't have one, that I understood I could decline biometrics, and a passport is valid ID.
end of the 4th Amendment.
perfect fall morning to vote.
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Me when I feel the desire to present a take
Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms!
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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
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You know shit's getting serious once they start using words you usually only hear over a boiling cauldron.
Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland
great photo! looks like a painting
why do the “serious” journalists have to throw in an obligatory “he was no angel”? it’s that bogus balance, the “but some people say.” Bari Weiss thinks 60 Minutes is some bastion of woke? the story here is DOJ is lying to disappear people, on twitter, in court. But you gotta punch left, every time
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We just live in a john carpenter movie now.
February 15 2003 begs to disagree
rewatching the walking dead terminus episodes. a parable of israel, seems to me now
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"The solicitation of and voraciousness for images is increasing at an excessive rate."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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this is a very strange era. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. every day
journalist on substack did a deep dive; probably AI. we're actually at the point where AI can feed us content confirming our priors; everyone in a solipsistic bubble. I'm interested in genetic genealogy. YouTube is serving me videos of completely fictional "solved" cold cases generated by AI.
I'm seeing video of a disturbing event in Chicago where ICE deliberately sideswipes a woman's car, drives off, return, drag her out of the car, swarming her, kneeling on her, handcuffing her. She's supposedly a citizen on her way to work. But I can't find any news stories, which is terrifying to me.
I had posted that there was no news coverage on this awful ICE detention. This journalist did a deep dive. Provenance is murky, there's no independent verification; it may be an AI fundraising scam. Strangely, the journalist's last name is eerily similar to the scammer's.