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The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more. “Retail theft has dominated headlines, earnings calls, and political rhetoric for the last few years. Television news shows loop seemingly endless clips of …
Executive Order Restoring Truth and Sanity to American Histor. March 27, 2025. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite …
Via Lawfare – Benjamin Wittes has categorized the authoritarian moves by Trump so far, and they fall into similar themes as the above “autocratic legal playbook”: attack on the government’s own power to spend money; internal retributions and restructurings within government itself—most importantly, in the power agencies: DoD, FBI, and DOJ; the overt creation of …
SciElo in Perspective By Jan Velterop – “Recently, the government of the United States of America (USA) has frightened the scientific community—not just in the country but globally—by censoring terms used in scientific communications and funding proposals. as well as forbidding researchers to communicate with one another, particularly with foreign scientists. A partial list of …
McSweeneys – “Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has …
Follow up to ‘Boggles the mind’: Trump aide central to war plan debacle left Venmo friends list public and The High Cost of Team Trump’s Sloppy OPSE, The Atlantic’s Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris respond with the transcript of the Signal group chat [unpaywalled] after Trump and participants on the national security …
Open Culture: “Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was …
Cyber Insider: “A Mozilla-led campaign is calling on major tech platforms to block surveillance firm ShadowDragon from scraping user data from over 200 websites — including Reddit, Tinder, Duolingo, and Etsy — to support U.S. government surveillance programs, especially those run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The controversy centers on ShadowDragon’s flagship tool, SocialNet, …
Wired: ‘We conducted a survey of 730 software engineers and developers to explore how they utilize AI chatbots in their daily work, unveiling some surprising insights. The results indicate a fractured landscape; while some programmers embrace AI as an integral part of their workflow, others remain steadfastly opposed. This divergence raises an important question: is …
Follow up to The High Cost of Team Trump’s Sloppy OPSEC via Raw Story: “A new analysis suggests the widely condemned error triggered by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who included a journalist in a group chat discussing top-secret war plans, may not be an isolated incident, leaving him open to potential national security risks. That’s …
Washington Post via MSN – The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and overreliance on software such as ChatGPT is making the job market increasingly surreal. “The speedy embrace of AI tools meant to make job hunting and hiring more efficient is causing headaches and sowing distrust in these processes, people on both sides of the …
Above the Law – One of the first things you need to know in a fight is who you can and can’t rely on. Thankfully, time and resources were saved by knowing that Paul Weiss is a lost cause. But the search is still on for compatriots willing to speak out against the current administration’s …
