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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2h

Another is that human trafficking among people who have never and will never go to the USA, has a dramatic impact on US lives. It's not just a moral obligation; it's a component of a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that targets Americans.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not here to rank order evil (thank God), but there are a bunch of important takeaways.

One of them is this: Of all the industries legal and illegal that slave labor could be used for, cybercrime at least an extremely profitable one at that scale of workforce. It's not a niche crime.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah. My understanding is it's pretty big across SE Asia, topping 300,000 people enslaved to run pig butchering scams. It has gotten particularly bad in Myanmar due to the civil war - policing crimes against foreigners isn't a high priority.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

"it is your turn to study statistical mechanics" is the funniest way to say "kys" which will not get you banned

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2h

One of the interesting things about human trafficking is, while sexual slavery is the thing Americans are most familiar with, there is a huge human trafficking market in cyber scam operations - like six figures of people in Myanmar alone.

This group used forced labor pools in Cambodia.

Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 3h

The US seized today $15b from a mega cyber scam operator: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

Elliptic says it tracked these funds to the the hack of Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020: www.elliptic.co/blog/15-bill...

Things... are getting weird

Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced-Labor Scam Compounds Engaged in Cryptocurrency Fraud Schemes

25-cr-312_indictment.pdf BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Chen Zhi, also known as “Vincent,” the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prin...

www.justice.gov

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 3h

The US seized today $15b from a mega cyber scam operator: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

Elliptic says it tracked these funds to the the hack of Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020: www.elliptic.co/blog/15-bill...

Things... are getting weird

Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced-Labor Scam Compounds Engaged in Cryptocurrency Fraud Schemes

25-cr-312_indictment.pdf BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Chen Zhi, also known as “Vincent,” the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prin...

www.justice.gov

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

If you don't know who Holly Hunter was, enjoy your knees while you have them.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 4h

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and
social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing
their jobs. The Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 5h

Amazon is a 2.3 trillion-dollar company. Blue Origin competitor SpaceX is around 400 billion. WaPo only lost a hundred million in 2024. WaPo will never be worth more as a newspaper than as a hype man for Bezos's other businesses.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 5h

Here's the thing - Jeff Bezos' revenue stream for the Washington Post isn't advertiser or subscriber dollars. It's value of negotiating federal AWS and space contracts from the position of being an administration ally.

The WaPo editorial page is an at scale version of Palantir's campus Israel ads.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6h

it’s funny how Jeff bezos dedicated the Washington post to embracing “free markets” and the free market of newspaper subscribers completely rejected it

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 6h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 6h

That standard is to be able to converse “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions”.

It would mean a headline writer unable to find the expression "equivalent to a foreign language A-level" would not be allowed to work in the UK.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 6h

I don't like this policy either way in a nation with a Scotland, but The Independent - staffed with people who took A-level English - are not accurately describing this policy.

The standard would be the equivalent of a foreign language A-level in the UK (like a Spanish A-level).

The Independent @the-independent.com · 10h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 22h

It's impossible to know if the Falcons are actually a good football team. But there's no way they're good enough to justify the problems the Bills are having.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 23h

Here's me complaining about not interviewing Lorenzo Junior this year on the anniversary of HACKERS.

No, I'm still not over it.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 28d

The person I didn't get to interview who I really wanted to interview was an actor/model named Lorenzo Junior who played the Da Vinci virus.

I have so many questions about how an actor prepares to play a virus.

Is it method? Did he, like, go to a library and rip up books?

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 23h

You're missing the point. Arkansas and Rice should start a rivalry and their Little Brown Jug should be the fir coat.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 23h

I've mentioned this before, but a decade ago I did a story about the anniversary of the movie HACKERS where I didn't get my dream interview - a guy named Lorenzo Junior.

Junior was the actor who played the Da Vinci virus.

I have so many questions about how you prepare for that.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 1d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 1d

I posted all this early in the morning. If it reads like I'm saying we should use the pretext of AI to create some kind of leftist paradise, I'm not.

I'm saying if you believe AI's reaching 80% of what's in the brochure, you need to be hoarding policy analysts

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 1d

Musk talks about AI bringing about the end of many kinds of resource scarcity. Our entire society - its laws and incentive structures and the very concept of ownership - is based around scarcity.

If AI success in imminent, we need like an entire new society ready to launch.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 1d

Periodic reminder that, if you believe AI’s hype, you must also therefore believe in a massive restructuring of American capitalism, including UBI, tax policy and nationalized ownership of entire sectors of the economy.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 1d

Where do they think planes go when they crash?

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 1d

Alexander wept, for there were no more crates to take off the back of a van while a surly New York cop conducts a preliminary interview.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 1d

They ran out of mysteries.

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