Resisterata

Resisterata

@effinay.bsky.social

A bad pun conflating "resist errata" and Desiderata. Trying to provide worried travelers with helpful maps of a new Amerika. Do not go placidly amid the noise.

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@effinay.bsky.social

There's another lesson here underlying Tommy getting schooled: Never fuck with the person holding the mic unless you have one, too.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑
@ezralevin.bsky.social

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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Yael Schacher
@yaelschacher.bsky.social

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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@effinay.bsky.social

Major ICE Operation Underway Across CA: ‘Go After Anybody' “Management want numbers. Go after anybody, pick up anybody,” meaning illegal immigrants who do not have a criminal record iwill still be taken into custody and face deportation proceedings. www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/infra...

washingtonexaminer.comICE to hit California hard before midterm elections: SourcesICE leadership has told officers to arrest all illegal immigrants they encounter, regardless of whether an individual has a criminal history.
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Flock Catches Flak. But Other Police Surveillance Tools are More Worrisome Real-time crime centers have video analytics, drones, and a way to create a single-pane-of-glass vision of what's going on, with time-machine capabilities that let you go back and investigate. www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

npr.orgFlock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisomeReal-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.
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It would be nice to think the tide is turning against this stuff. So often this rhetoric is purely performative -- especially now, because midterms. Schumer Demands Flock Delete Personal Data, Disclose Its Use www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comSchumer Demands Flock Delete Personal Data, Disclose Its UseSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is demanding that Flock Safety delete personal data not connected to crimes and disclose whether federal agencies have accessed the company’s nationwide license-...
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What . The. Actual. Fuck: Florida County finds 11 Unpermitted Flock Cameras with Unidentified Owners There were 11 Flock cameras placed in the area with unknown owners that none of the county officials knew about. Read More: www.engadget.com/2275315/flor...

engadget.comFlorida county finds 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners - EngadgetSt. Lucie County thought it had 52 Flock cameras, but found many more that were unaccounted for and unpermitted.
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Been saying this was the goal: How Cities are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program The Trump administration is building a national surveillance database using the Flock, Axon, & other ALPR cameras in your neighborhood. newrepublic.com/post/216032/...

newrepublic.comTrump Uses Decades-Old Law to Collect Flock Data NationwideThe Trump administration is planning to build a national surveillance database using the Flock cameras in your neighborhood.
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@effinay.bsky.social

Not unrelated. The irony here is that Lewis' criticisms amount to accusations of ... surveillance. bsky.app/profile/caro...

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...

thenerve.newsThey’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising PalantirIn a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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A six-month trial of live facial recognition technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time led to one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comTrial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrestsFreedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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"Scruples? Monitoring? Guardrails? That's *your job," say AI execs. (BTW, the badly written headline suggests that the UN Security Council is the risk to all humanity. Good job, AP!) Heads of AI Firms Tell UN Security Council that It Could Be a Risk to all Humanity apnews.com/article/ai-a...

apnews.comHeads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanityThe heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people.
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@effinay.bsky.social

Drones atop a ballroom atop a bunker. Jokes about WH rooftop missile launches. Now this. To use against who? Invading troops? Zombies? Nope: US citizens. He's so blatant that no one listens. Trump Says His DC Arch Will Serve as Military Complex with Snipers & Drones www.npr.org/2026/09/20/n...

npr.orgTrump says his D.C. arch will serve as 'military complex' with snipers and dronesPresident Trump has claimed that military operations are needed at his proposed triumphal arch in Washington D.C., in order to protect national security. A federal court is weighing the arch's legalit...
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Stupid people uncritically accepting conclusions by incredibly smart but factually challenged technology. What could go wrong? Backlash Erupts After False Rreport ‘Almost Started a War’ www.rawstory.com/military-ai/

rawstory.com‘Truly alarming’: Backlash erupts after false report ‘almost started a war’A bombshell report that faulty artificial intelligence nearly pushed the U.S. military into a confrontation with China sparked alarm and outrage across social media Friday.A chatbot falsely concluded ...
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This happened in May. AIs have escaped their developers & hacked private servers. They're utilized by govt agencies (NSA, DHS). There's no way they aren't already in the wild, backing themselves up on... Google Says Its Gemini AI Model Hacked 3 Other Companies www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comGoogle says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companiesDisclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
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@effinay.bsky.social

Two more years is far too long to allow this regime to continue. The damage already done won't be fixed in my lifetime. "Killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would not be considered illegal unless the animals were specifically targeted." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

yahoo.comKilling endangered wildlife is legal if they aren't the target, new Trump rule saysKilling endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would not be considered illegal unless the animals were specifically targeted, under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species ...
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Justifying paranoia on a daily basis: Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works The device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. It isolated bumper stickers and other graphics. www.wired.com/story/hacker...

wired.comHackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really WorksA hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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A typical passing vehicle generated about 28 images, though some produced more than 100. Flock’s police software can use the records generated by its cameras, along with police files and commercial data, to identify drivers, surface vehicles that repeatedly travel together...

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...and search for people based on patterns of movement. In Alpharetta, GA, records from the city’s Flock cameras were accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, including police depts, colleges, airports, and the Office of Inspector General for the federal General Services Administration.

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He's setting up pursuing dems as enemies of the state--first politicians, then voters. It's one of the reasons reason he wants state voter rolls. In Major Escalation, Trump Pushes New Conspiracy Theory About Butler Assassination Attempt www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowIn major escalation, Trump pushes new conspiracy theory about Butler assassination attempt“This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed,” the president wrote about the 2024 shooting in Pennsylvania.
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"Election crisis coordinators." Uh huh.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

🚨 Patel admits agents will be deployed to polling places 👇 WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls? PATEL: Nope W: So you are sending FBI agents? P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance

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Trump wants unregulated AI to create a relational database of surveillance info on US citizens, compiled by DOGE, aided by the Tech Bros, and accessed & predictively algorithmed by AI. Trump’s Opposition to AI Rules Undercuts Industry’s Calls for a Slowdown www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/t...

cnbc.comTrump’s opposition to AI rules undercuts industry's calls for a slowdownAnthropic and OpenAI have called for mandatory safety checks to be put in place as fears intensify that AI can soon be too powerful to control.
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Mainstream media continue to refuse to even speculate that this might be the case, in large part because Trump's overt corruption so often eclipses a darker agenda. Osoff Claims Trump Won't Regulate AI Because of Don Jr's Business Ventures www.mediaite.com/media/tv/oss...

mediaite.comOssoff Claims Trump Won’t Regulate AI Because of Don Jr’s Business Ventures: ‘The President of the United States Is Compromised’Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) accused President Donald Trump of refusing to take the potential dangers of artificial intelligence seriously because of his son’s business interests, declaring that “the presid...