verbalprimate.bsky.social
@verbalprimate.com
Tech wage slave for a long time. Blog @ verbalprimate.com. Amateur at many things including backpackingv, guitar, and social media. Anti techlordlings, surveillance, and soggy toast. Pro fun stuff, freedom, and democracy.
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At 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: www.reddit.com/r/technology...
From the technology community on Reddit: Hi! We're 404 Media's Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox. AMA (us) about the tech ICE is using, Flock and the state of surveillance in the US on Feb. 4, 12 pm ET
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February 4, 2026 at 1:42 PM
At 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: www.reddit.com/r/technology...
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"Never Despair", 1963
Accra Bus Terminal, Ghana 🇬🇭
Photography by Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976.
#street #photography #oldtimes
#streetphotography #dailylife
Accra Bus Terminal, Ghana 🇬🇭
Photography by Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976.
#street #photography #oldtimes
#streetphotography #dailylife
February 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM
"Never Despair", 1963
Accra Bus Terminal, Ghana 🇬🇭
Photography by Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976.
#street #photography #oldtimes
#streetphotography #dailylife
Accra Bus Terminal, Ghana 🇬🇭
Photography by Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976.
#street #photography #oldtimes
#streetphotography #dailylife
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A Dawn — Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, ca. 1915
February 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A Dawn — Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, ca. 1915
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The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
February 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
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Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
February 4, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
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Stop saying underage women.
They are children.
They are children.
February 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Stop saying underage women.
They are children.
They are children.
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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
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I think about this all time, for every part of the movement to enshrine him god-emperor of America
this guy? really? this fucking guy?
this guy? really? this fucking guy?
Sometimes you just want to ask John Roberts, you destroyed the United States for ****Donald Trump*****
February 4, 2026 at 4:03 AM
I think about this all time, for every part of the movement to enshrine him god-emperor of America
this guy? really? this fucking guy?
this guy? really? this fucking guy?
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“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”
@newrepublic.com
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February 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”
@newrepublic.com
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@newrepublic.com
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lol there it is!
The feds respond.They say they're concerned about the release of evidence in the Broadview conspiracy case because "given the current climate, it will be very difficult to pick an unbiased jury."
(Defendants say they've already agreed not to release info that would identify agents.)
(Defendants say they've already agreed not to release info that would identify agents.)
February 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
lol there it is!
Look the sheriff’s shirt is black. Must be Antifa. Guess it is LEO professional courtesy to try to intimidate him rather than arresting him as a terrorist. The Sheriff sounds like a stand up leader.
ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards
ICE demanded Maine sheriff’s employment records following his criticism of arrest
The subpoena came a day after Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce blasted immigration agents for arresting one of his guards.
www.bangordailynews.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Look the sheriff’s shirt is black. Must be Antifa. Guess it is LEO professional courtesy to try to intimidate him rather than arresting him as a terrorist. The Sheriff sounds like a stand up leader.
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ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards
ICE demanded Maine sheriff’s employment records following his criticism of arrest
The subpoena came a day after Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce blasted immigration agents for arresting one of his guards.
www.bangordailynews.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards
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Real Estate: The Beginning Of The End
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Real Estate: The Beginning Of The End
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They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
Senate must establish an investigative committee and take their oversight responsibilities seriously. DOJ has no credibility these days,
The DOJ opened a federal civil rights investigation into Alex Pretti's killing by Border Patrol agents. Deputy AG Todd Blanche said the FBI is leading the review with DOJ civil-rights lawyers involved, without explaining why the FBI was taking over the case from Homeland Security Investigations.
The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights probe into the killing of Alex Pretti
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officer...
apnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Senate must establish an investigative committee and take their oversight responsibilities seriously. DOJ has no credibility these days,
No. LLMs string tokens together using probability. LLMs don’t think, talk, laugh, love, scheme. Or bake cookies.
I wonder if LLMs have superstitions
February 4, 2026 at 10:20 AM
No. LLMs string tokens together using probability. LLMs don’t think, talk, laugh, love, scheme. Or bake cookies.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Things you learn reading district court rulings about US immigration policies.
![Alexander Moritz Frey was the first to use “shithole” as a descriptor of a “wretched place,”
doing so in his seminal antiwar novel, The Cross Bearers (1930). See Shithole, Oxford English
Dictionary, https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=shithole.
Frey’s life story confirms the role democracies can play in welcoming, as George
Washington did, “the oppressed and persecuted.” Frey, a prolific author and pacifist, served as a
medic in the trenches of World War I alongside Adolf Hitler. Hitler later tried to convert him to
Nazism, but Frey staunchly refused. He fled Germany in 1933, as Nazis burned his books,
raided his apartment, and issued a warrant for his arrest. He lived his remaining years in exile,
first in Austria and then in Switzerland. See Von David Gordon Smith, Eye-Witness Account of
Hitler’s WWI Years Found, Spiegel International (April 30, 2007), https://www.spiegel.de/
international/zeitgeist/ rediscovering-alexander-moritz-frey-eye-witness-account-of-hitler-s-wwiyears-found-a-478359.html [https://perma.cc/RU49-2Y4U].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/bafkreia5bereotohoiq4vd5ghkrzdfijx7dkmrlgvzkdbg5omlgirlt4ke@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Things you learn reading district court rulings about US immigration policies.
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“People have a First Amendment right to observe, document, and communicate information about law enforcement activity,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TheVerge.com. “There is nothing about using Signal that changes that.” www.theverge.com/tech/872493...
A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats
Key privacy settings and best practices.
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“People have a First Amendment right to observe, document, and communicate information about law enforcement activity,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TheVerge.com. “There is nothing about using Signal that changes that.” www.theverge.com/tech/872493...
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EFF is fighting for your rights to:
Speak and learn online, without government censorship 🗣️
Move through the world without being surveilled 📸
Use your device without it tracking your every click and IRL movement 🤳
Help us Take Back CTRL—Join EFF today! supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
Speak and learn online, without government censorship 🗣️
Move through the world without being surveilled 📸
Use your device without it tracking your every click and IRL movement 🤳
Help us Take Back CTRL—Join EFF today! supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
Defend Privacy and Free Speech
Don’t let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back.
supporters.eff.org
February 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
EFF is fighting for your rights to:
Speak and learn online, without government censorship 🗣️
Move through the world without being surveilled 📸
Use your device without it tracking your every click and IRL movement 🤳
Help us Take Back CTRL—Join EFF today! supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
Speak and learn online, without government censorship 🗣️
Move through the world without being surveilled 📸
Use your device without it tracking your every click and IRL movement 🤳
Help us Take Back CTRL—Join EFF today! supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
Another 'whistling in the dark' letter to Dave McCormick, hedge fund cent-millionaire Senator from Pennsylvania. Always feel I am wasting my time writing, but do feel better afterward.
www.verbalprimate.com/citizens-cal...
www.verbalprimate.com/citizens-cal...
Citizens get angry when government agents kill, mistreat, and threaten people. Losers call protesters terrorists.
Dear Dave -
Thanks for your February 1 letter. Agree, name calling is counter productive. Your response is out of step with reality and facts. It insults the intelligence of citizens.
Your statistic...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Another 'whistling in the dark' letter to Dave McCormick, hedge fund cent-millionaire Senator from Pennsylvania. Always feel I am wasting my time writing, but do feel better afterward.
www.verbalprimate.com/citizens-cal...
www.verbalprimate.com/citizens-cal...
Maybe he failed physical for cbp and went all vigilante in his abject disappointment. Sorry not a laughing matter. Am giving myself a time out.
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
www.nrtoday.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Maybe he failed physical for cbp and went all vigilante in his abject disappointment. Sorry not a laughing matter. Am giving myself a time out.