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Throwback Thursday of Wonders
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, Bluesky, bogus studies, crypto-moralism, drivers, drugs, politicians, propaganda, scams, Send In the Clowns, Twitter on October 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #847
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Canada, cops, drugs, Florida, Iraq, Pennsylvania, politicians, psychology, racism, Texas, video on September 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I had a few. – “Officer” Dustin Christina
This video, called to my attention by Mike Siegel, speaks for itself. The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Kevin Wilson, Nun Ya, Jessica Pishko, IncarcerNation, Ryan Marino, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- R.I.P. Peter Max.
- Paging Dr. Dolittle.
- Some things never change.
- Cop murders student for getting lost.
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Some studies just prove what everyone already knew.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
From the Archives
- The predictable result of giving aggressive men power over young women.
- What would you call a gang who conspired to rob a demented old woman?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- This “monkey see, monkey do” parade is now parading around the world.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- The less often I have to mooch like a public TV station, the happier I am.
- In the 21st century, censorship & surveillance are tightly bound together.
- Cops let one of their gang rape a baby for 2 years after he was reported.
- “Sexual misconduct targeting vulnerable women” is used to mean “rape”.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- Censorship is very popular in dark ages, which is why they’re dark ages.
- Cops excuse any right violation with magic words like “crime” or “gang”.
- The naive can’t grasp why so many women are reluctant to report rape.
- Tech cultists want to let a defective algorithm act as its own gatekeeper.
- It took prosecutors 13 years to get this from accusation to plea bargain.
- Stupid authoritarian diktats should always result in political humiliation.
- Who would waste good money to see a program parroting a dead man?
- Texas’ ice-pick self-lobotomization is becoming increasingly spasmodic.
- Predictable effects of prohibition appear; prohibitionists claim surprise.
- When “sex trafficking” is used to mean ordinary “Fly Me To You” deals.
- Politicians viewing kinky porn is less an issue than being psychopaths.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria rests on pseudoscience, woo, and nonsense.
- Cops, metaphors, pumpkin people, David McCallum, and much more.
- What’s worse than chatbot “therapy”? Chatbot marriage “counseling”.
- Too bad cops don’t spend all their time fantasy role-playing together.
- Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
- Irish “gypsy whores” tales were quaint even before they were passé.
- Some politicians are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid Alabama if at all possible.
- US institutions and norms used to curb politicians’ worst impulses.
- It’s impossible to know how many of these were actually murders.
- Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
- Expect nothing but hypocrisy from any part of any government.
- A new censorship regime has been imposed on British subjects.
- If hope y’all realize these ads will be “personalized” by spying.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, rubber chickens, and much more.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- The entire Utah rescue industry appears to be collapsing.
- What happens when puritans are not ignored as lunatics.
- Read this if you wish, but pay attention to the slant.
- Cops, library bats, Maggie Smith, and much more.
- Hypocritical trash behaving like hypocritical trash.
- Welcome to the “safe” future you keep voting for.
- In which Louie really makes a pig out of himself.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- My three previous columns for Mabon.
- The Revenge of Throwback Thursday.
- A rapist cop’s evil begets more evil.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”.
- Dark Throwback Thursday.
- A good year for tomatoes.
- Throwback Thursday, MD.
- This is called pomace.
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In the News (#1672)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged activism, advertising, Alabama, artificial stupidity, Backpage, California, censorship, cops, Dangerous Speech, domestic violence, drugs, Eavesdropping, fascism, Illinois, internet, Panopticon, Pyrrhic Victory, scams, surveillance, The Cop Myth, The More the Better, violence vs. sex workers, weaponry, Welcome to the Future, Wisconsin on September 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Surveillance makes all of us less safe. – Evan Greer
Anything that helps demystify sex work is a good thing:
It shouldn’t be surprising that sex workers around the country are boning up on firearms education. There’s a long tradition of both armed self-defense and general firearms enthusiasm…within communities that have historically been targeted for violence and oppression. Organizations like the Socialist Rifle Association, the Sylvia Rivera Gun Club, Yellow Peril Tactical, the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, the Pink Pistols, and Black Girls Shoot! take the activist maxim “we protect us” seriously, and offer their communities tools to do so in a world that doesn’t expect them to fight back…the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) Chicago…announced their first Intro to Concealed Carry course specifically for sex workers. All 40 spots filled up immediately…
Now that the damage is irreversible, the government can afford to grant him an appeal:
…the Ninth Circuit announced that it will hear oral arguments on Nov. 16 in Phoenix concerning one of the most significant First Amendment cases in recent memory — the vindictive prosecution of award-winning journalist Michael Lacey…Federal and state authorities hounded Lacey, the former executive editor of Village Voice Media, and his business partner, the late Jim Larkin, for more than a decade over their First Amendment-protected publication of speech in Backpage.com, the classified advertising website they co-owned…
“Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen:
LG smart TVs are almost constantly logging and uploading data about owners and their homes, even when offline or on standby mode…The…TV sets scan Wi-Fi networks for nearby devices, record audio logs through their microphones, and use audio and video sampling to recognize exactly what you’re watching from [connected devices like DVD players]…and feeding the information back to LG Ad Solutions…the TVs…[even] record…microphone audio when in standby; this continue[s] even after the TV [i]s disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection [i]s restored…Automatic Content Recognition…is used by almost every [“]smart[“] TV manufacturer to figure out what you watch…In July…LG monitors [started] automatically installing an app that…ran pop-up ads for LG’s other apps and even McAfee antivirus…[but] public pressure…led to LG disabling the pop-up ads…
Cops hate it when people turn the tables on them:
…US [cops] are increasingly concerned about the potential for [perve]rt glasses to be used against them…to secretly record [cops]…in the [act] of [committing] crimes and acts of [violence and] terrorism…[cop]s in the US typically [steal or break] any and all devices that would be capable of recording video footage…[but] some [perve]rt glasses have gone unnoticed…[cops, spooks, and goons] want…the exclusive right to use surveillance technology and cameras to monitor the public without those cameras being turned back on them. “These agencies surveil the public incessantly, but the moment we can watch them back, it’s deemed a security threat,” [said Ryan] Shapiro [of Property of the People]…
The dystopian future of Minority Report has arrived:
Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans’ financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull [innocent] people over…[using bogus excuses in order to attempt to pin manufactured “]crime[s” on them]…The units…are called Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT). In one case, a PITT analyzed the financial activity of a man who was driving across Montana, and [dispatched] local [pigs, who then] stopped him under the pretense of an obstructed license plate and charged him with a DUI…Border Patrol…us[es]…ALPRs…as part of the…program…“genuine probable cause cannot be synthetically generated,” [said] Jake Laperruque…of the…Center For Democracy & Technology…”Border Patrol [is]…using parallel construction to cloak the reason behind its car stops”…
Domestic violence is never a cop’s sole offense:
A Huntsville [Alabama cop named]…John Holliday was…arrested…[on August 17 for slamming] his wife [to] the ground and [repeatedly] kick[ing] her…[then stealing] her…cellphone wh[en] she tried to dial 911…[the cop shop put him on desk duty and that did not change even]…after h[e was] arrest[ed again] on Sept. 3 for DUI…[but after] he was…arrest[ed a third time for waving a gun around while drunk]…he was [reward]ed with…a p[aid vacati]on…[A spokespig described this as] “tak[ing] allegations of misconduct involving its employees seriously”…
Some aspects of the modern dystopia are too odious even for authoritarians:
…the City of Sheboygan…[Wisconsin will]…terminate [its] contract with…Flock S[urveillance after it]…offered to sell the Sheboygan Department of Public Works…five years of data [collected by] the…15 cameras already deployed in the city…in violation of the [contract, which pretends]…the company does not own the data…and [will supposedly] only…retain [it] for 30 days. Since…their [announcement]…other cities have been following suit….[in] both…Fond du Lac County…and…Winnebago County…
But simply cancelling the contract won’t stop Flock:
Flock S[urveillance blamed a computer for illegally ordering]…the reinstallation of license plate cameras that Grass Valley [California] police had already removed after canceling the city’s contract with the company. Residents alerted police…after spotting a utility crew replacing [the] cameras at several locations…Flock [claims] its automated maintenance system interpreted the…[removals] as equipment failures and generated replacement work orders…The [cancellat]ion followed months of pressure from residents and privacy advocates…
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Links #844
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, artificial stupidity, Australia, California, Canada, China, Colorado, cops, drugs, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Mad Libs, Rome, sex toys, Shame Shame, Spain, video, Washington DC on September 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
You’re not the future anymore! – Mark Zuckerberg, sort of
Though Tim Curry died only the day after Dolly Parton, I wasn’t going to cheat him of a proper sendoff. The links above the video were provided by Ryan Marino; Radley Balko; Scott Greenfield and Dan Savage; The Onion; Ryan Marino again; Amy Alkon; and Nun Ya, in that order.
- Sic transit gloria mundi.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- R.I.P. Tim Curry and Gloria Steinem.
- Simultaneously funny and horrifying.
- More great moments in artificial stupidity.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
- Why did anybody think something called a “cloud” was permanent?
From the Archives
- Civil rights violations claimed as “solutions” to politician-created problems.
- How long will America ignore the cost of its sick worship of state violence?
- Americans’ sick lust for torture turns imprisonment into a death sentence.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- Don’t label your product “My X” unless you’re marketing it to 1st-graders.
- I’m not sorry for women who happily threw other women to the leopards.
- The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
- It’s rare a court rules an action so stupid even a cop should know better.
- Seattle is notorious for cloaking its police-statery in bogus “liberal” cant.
- Two forced-birth states are moving to legally reduce women to serfdom.
- Governments are growing increasingly bold in their internet censorship.
- The Japanese are the only people who can still tell fantasy from reality.
- Red/blue fools pretend anti-sex authoritarians “do not agree on much”.
- Prohibition can never actually succeed in eradicating the banned thing.
- Unusually, they didn’t pitch this as the rapist doing his victims a favor.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- I’m really pleased with how well Durabak works on wooden surfaces.
- Some censors believe KOSA won’t destroy the internet fully enough.
- The resources flushed down the “culture war” toilet are incalculable.
- Government thugs continue their crusade against Christian charity.
- It’s far too late to cram this djinni back into its bottle, God help us.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Elon Musk’s “DOGE” didn’t “fail”; it worked exactly as he intended.
- It only starts with political pariahs like sex workers or gun owners.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Government internet censorship attempts grow increasingly bold.
- Ex-politicians’ changes of heart are cynical attempts to fool God.
- Cops, animals, artificial stupidity, Helen Fisher, and much more.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- A powerful look at men playing D&D on Texas’ death row.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- The worship of Santa Muerte has expanded worldwide.
- Cops, Roger Corman, Jimmy Buffett, and much more.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even for other cops.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- Chatbot usage actively harms brain functions.
- Cops, language, ice cream, and much more.
- This childish puritanism is so exhausting.
- Thoughts on the Bonnie Blue gang bang.
- Don’t let computers call them, either.
- Another “security” system that isn’t.
- Presentation isn’t my strong point.
- Laura Agustín on her new project.
- The Throwback Thursday Squad.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Cop is a cop is a cop is a cop.
- Sunset is a place for friends.
- Throwback Meets Thursday.
- It’s about goddamned time.
- Much more of this, please.
- Cicero loves apple season.
- Greenback Thursday.
- The Beat Goes On.
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In the News (#1663)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, advertising, artificial stupidity, Australia, California, cops, Creepy Coppers, disease, domestic violence, drugs, Enshittification, Facebook, fascism, illegal aliens, Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, porn, prisons, propaganda, Shame Shame, surveillance, Texas, The Cop Myth, The Prudish Giant, The Vultures Descend, Torture Chamber, Welcome to the Future, yellow journalism on August 15, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Body-worn cameras are…used…to present the police to the public in the most favorable way possible. – Christopher Schneider
I’ve been skeptical of the notion of body cameras as a police “reform” for well over a decade:
…ICE [goons] will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month…but…the [boss goon will] restrict the public release of footage unless “it is in the best interests of the agency”…[It should be obvious that] none of the [footage] in…[cases where goons murder a citizen will be released]…taxpayers who put up more than $30m for the cameras [will] still be kept in the dark about [murders and other atrocities while]…releas[ing] recordings that reflect well on the agency’s image…
A woman who sleeps with a cop endangers her entire family:
A Texas [cop named Chad Eberle was] arrested in Mexico [for murder]ing three people and critically injuring the mother of his child…[when the victims tried to stop him from abducting] his three-year-old son. Two women and one man were killed…and…the child’s…mother was…shot in the head and remain[s] in critical condition…Eberle was [caught] while attempting to cross from Mexico into Texas…The three-year-old was unharmed…
Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past:
USA Today Co. has made a de[vil’s bargain] with [fascist surveillance] company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior...CEO Mike Reed [barfed buzzwords like “]activate audience data[“]…and… “actionable intelligence” [at investors to dazzle them with bullshit]…USA Today Co. owns more than 200 local newspapers…along with its national daily USA Today. The [surveillance collusion] with Palantir comes as search traffic continues to fall [due to corporations like Palantir selling chatbots to the very stupid]…Axel Springer — which owns Business Insider, Politico, Bild, and The Telegraph — and Fox News [are] also [collaborating] with Palantir…to…[spy on their readers, and] Thomson Reuters…supplies [them] data…
Facebook is the most antisocial corporation other than those who run prisons:
Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg…has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit [computer]-generated child [porn] and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements…some [of the] ads linked out to so-called nudify or undressing apps…the ads [have] run…across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and…Threads…[and represent] the second time in recent weeks that paid [child porn] ads…have been found on [Zuckerberg]’s platforms…this isn’t content posted by third parties…[but rather] ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run…[until they were caught, but] have now been removed [according to standard Facebook] policies on [getting caught red-handed by journalists]…
Lest you think Zuckerberg is merely looking the other way rather than intentionally spreading poison:
A[n Australian] white nationalist…neo-Nazi…is being paid by Facebook…to produce content…Hugo Lennon…has been receiving revenue through Facebook’s “Content Monetization” program since September 2025…[by making propaganda] videos…referencing white supremacist concepts like replacement theory and remigration. The Noticer, a[n]…Australian…website that regularly promotes white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideologies, has been making money through the same Facebook revenue program since November 2025…[even though it] is currently suspended from [Twitter]…because it [is so violently]…hateful…Monica Smit, the founder of the anti-vaccine…group Reignite Democracy Australia, joined Facebook’s content monetisation program in September 2025…[but has] been earning advertising revenue through Facebook from as far back as 2017…[by selling] “radiation protection” bracelets…
The inevitable result of sexual predators being given power over women:
An…Oregon woman has filed a $300,000 lawsuit [because] two [cops] used a body-worn camera to surreptitiously record her as she urinated…[after they demanded] she…provide a urine sample in response to fabricated [DUI and drug possession]
charges…six weeks later, the…District Attorney’s Office dropped the charges without explanation, [making the victim, Tami] Nuxall[, suspicious]…the city of Enterprise and its entire three-member police force…Shannon Stillman…Jacob Curtis and…Kevin McQuead…have…a [long history of harassing]…Nuxall, [who]…lives less than half a mile from the police station…[it started in] 2023, when she was ticketed
for failing to carry proof of insurance…and…Curtis…pulled a gun on her and her children…[boss hog McQuead’s idiotic defense was that] Curtis was…[only threatening her life “]for a short time[“. Naturally]…she told city council members that police were “out of control” and…in the [next] 15 months…she was stopped and ticketed…more than any other time in her life…six times in [all, and] half of those cases were dismissed…
Your “leaders” call this “correction”:
Inside LA County’s only jail for women, brown or foul-smelling liquid flows from the taps where the women [are supposed to] get their drinking water. They shower under rusty pipes and on floors covered in mold. Gnats, worms, and maggots regularly crawl out of sink drains and…[broken] toilets…run day and night…The Sybil Brand Commission of Institutional Inspections…called the situation “an ongoing and unresolved public health crisis”…[more than] half of the [victims of this atrocity]…are [legally innocent]…
This was always the endgame, regardless of claims to the contrary:
A teenage girl has been arrested in North Carolina for “assault with a deadly weapon” after allegedly taking abortion pills 31 weeks into her pregnancy, which prompted her to go into labor. The teen’s boyfriend has also been arrested, and charged with negligent child abuse…the “deadly weapon” appears to refer to…abortion pills…[which cops claim] signaled her “intent to kill”…Instead of being allowed to rest and receive medical care just days after going into labor, the 18-year old was arrested and jailed…then forced to show up for a court hearing…There is no crime here. Yet, by attacking [a frightened girl] with this mishmash of charges, cops are trying to make self-managed abortion a crime…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Going Viral
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Words, tagged advertising, artificial stupidity, disease, drugs, language, scams, STEM, vaccines on August 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Ignorant people are panicking over a BBC article from August 6th:
Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory…The resulting 16 novel viruses were created to infect bacteria and pose no threat to people…The technology works similarly to large language models…which predict sequences of text…[but] Evo1 and Evo2…were trained on genetic codes from viruses, bacteria, plants and people…then refined to produce a type of virus, known as a bacteriophage, which infect only specific species of bacteria…Stanford researchers picked the most promising 302 [computer] designs and synthesised them in the lab. Of these, 16 proved effective at killing E. coli bacteria…Developing new phage could lead to new ways of treating infections that have become resistant to antibiotics…
If technologists and reporters don’t want the ignorant majority to freak out when machine learning systems are used to do something they are actually good for, they need to stop using the same marketing term to describe them as con men use to describe chatbots. It’s true that the system described in this article is far closer to being “AI” than deluxe autocomplete is, but that ship sailed several years ago; if you insist on still using the word “gay” to mean “happy”, you have only yourself to blame if people think you mean “homosexual”.
In the News (#1662)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Arkansas, artificial stupidity, California, censorship, cops, disease, drugs, Enshittification, Florida, Google, I Saw My Brain, If Men Were Angels, Illinois, Iowa, law, libraries, Micromanagement, New York, Panopticon, politicians, propaganda, rape, scams, surveillance, Thought Control, To Molest and Rape, Under Duress, Utah, Welcome to the Future on August 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The freedom to read is fundamental to a free society. – John Adams*
When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators?
An Illinois [cop named]…Douglas Lee…was stripped of his [magic] powers and [arrested for]…drugging a woman while she was out with friends, taking her to a hotel…[rap]ing her…[then dump]ing her in her car [and leaving her in a parking lot] overnight…Lee…frequently visited the bar where [his victim] worked as a bartender [so she foolishly believed she knew him and drank]…a shot [he gave her]…the [next] thing she remembered…was [waking]…up in her car around 10:45 AM the next day [with]…her pants…inside out, her bra…on the passenger seat and her shirt…tucked into the pocket of her jacket…One [of her] friend[s told her] she had seen [her]…dancing [with Lee]…video footage…showed Lee [taking] the woman [out of] the bar [and when confronted he said she wanted it]…
I’d really like to be wrong once in a while:
For more than a decade, New York City has been amassing…DNA samples…without…consent or any court involvement as a routine matter, specifically for inclusion in its “Suspect Index,” a rogue database not authorized by law…includ[ing] samples from people who…have been expressly excluded as suspects in a crime, [people] who have never been charged with a crime…and exonerated or acquitted individuals. The Suspect Index currently contains 34,872 profiles…routinely collect[ed]…in an orchestrated, surreptitious manner through ruses involving straws, bottles, or even cigarettes, without…a court order…….from those who are merely brought in for questioning and even from children it tricks…
Psychopath Grady Judd never misses an opportunity for self-aggrandizement:
A [Florida] preacher…had sex with at least one underage boy and an adult man without telling them he was HIV-positive…Timothy Chaneyfield…[met] the…14-year-old boy…on a dating app before…[taking] their chats to Instagram, which [reported him] to [NCMEC]…Sheriff Grady Judd[, in his typical fashion, made the incident all about himself, using the opportunity to call someone far less dangerous than he is]…“a menace to society”…[and pretending] he [did not understand why]…authorities in Baltimore[, where Chaneyfield was when the arrest warrant was issued, did not want to play stupid cop games instead of simply letting Judd arrest him when he got back to Florida]…
A Trumpist stooge declares that the First Amendment does not apply to Arkansas:
Arkansas Act 372 amends state laws by including librarians and booksellers among those who can be criminally charged [if any authoritarian Froot Loop anywhere in the world points at any book in their stock while barfing the magic words]…“harmful to minors”…Librarians and booksellers could face up to a year in prison if they’re [declared] to have “distributed” [magically abjured] material to those under the age of 18…[which] includes simply having the book sitting on a shelf…The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas…[permanently enjoined the law] in January 2025, [but wannabe censors appealed to the]…Eighth Circuit [and Trumpist henchman] L. Steven Grasz…[singlehandedly] overturn[ed] that court’s decision…[thus forcing] librarians and booksellers [to censor their entire collections or risk state violence]…
*Not the Founding Father, but an Arkansas attorney.
Giant fascist corporation makes it even easier for cops to lie:
Axon…has cornered the body cam market and is now…pitching products…that use [chatbots] to automate [cop] report writing…Draft One has been pitched as a time-saver…[that can] “potentially free up 25% of an officer’s time.” Considering a lot of [cops] spend most of their time engaged in pretextual stops, this…just means [cops] will be able to violate rights more frequently with no perceivable benefit to public safety. Then there’s the problem…[of chatbot] hallucinations…[such as the chatbot-generated] report…[that] claimed a Heber City [Utah cop] had shape-shifted into a frog…The other problem..is that [chatbot-generated reports also] generat[e] a new layer of plausible deniability. If errors are found, cops can blame it on the algorithm…[and] if cops aren’t writing their own reports, they can’t [honest]ly claim these statements are their own under oath…
There are good reasons warrantless surveillance is unconstitutional:
…in Wapello County, Iowa, the…usage policy…tells police…“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY”…It is not just local police in small communities who are creating policies designed to obfuscate Flock usage…police in multiple states [are] told to “be as vague as permissible” about…Flock because their searches c[an] be obtained using public records requests…The [illegal] guidance…is reminiscent…[of] tha[t] on some other secretive police technologies. For years, police tried to hide the existence of cell site simulators (popularly known as Stingrays), going as far as to drop criminal cases where it was likely that a judge would expose information about them…
The cop euphemism for lying in reports and courts about use of illegal surveillance is “parallel construction“.
Scenes from the early days of a dark age:
In January, [the mad emperor] posted two clips from a popular YouTube account [falsely claim]ing…[that] Walmart was closing hundreds of California stores…Gavin Newsom’s communications team [debunked] the posts on [Twitter, but]…the YouTube channel…[Trump parroted i]s mostly populated by sensational [computer]-generated videos that purport…to show various companies leaving California, grocery stores running out of food, and school teachers quitting en masse. The…videos…look decent enough t[o fool chatbot-addled idiots, who don’t]…realize or care that they [are slop]…Newsom’s office…worked with YouTube to identify more than 700 accounts since January that were subsequently removed for violating the company’s terms of service through its…new support system for public figures, creators, and journalists that flags when someone’s face is used without their permission in deepfakes…
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In the News (#1658)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged cops, domestic violence, drugs, Eavesdropping, fascism, Georgia, If Men Were Angels, internet, masturbation, Out of Control, Panopticon, politicians, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, Secret Squirrel, semen, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, teachers, The Cop Myth, Washington (state), West Virginia on July 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »
This is about trying…to make a dollar on people who only have a dollar. – Jamieson Webster
Spooge-based sexual assaults are growing worse:
…masturbating in front of [or even onto] female customers at branches of Dollar Tree [is]…a disturbing new form of sexual assault that [incels a]re documenting and bragging about in dark corners of the internet…surreptitiously ejaculating on random women [is called] “tagging” or “sharking”…[and] online forums praise…perpetrators for being “low inhibition” or “low inhib”…Dollar Tree crop[s] up again and again as a favored location for such attacks, a[pparently because of]…the same problems that…have led, over the years, to…millions of dollars in fines: inadequate safety and security, understaffing on the premises, and disorganized aisles filled with unopened boxes that offer…criminals ample opportunity to skulk…
“Smart” devices aren’t, part umpty-eleven:
The term gaslighting [has] become overused in social and political contexts, but its physical deployment in the home is evolving with [so-called “]smart[“] technology…From…a different neighbourhood, city or even country, settings on household tech can be changed to unsettle and disturb the person living there. Timings on the clock are altered so school pick-ups and appointments are missed, making that person appear unreliable…Electricity controls can be tweaked so household appliances and lights turn off. The television can be switched on at full blast to disrupt sleep…the…heating [can be turned up or off to make] the space…unlivable even. An[d of course there’s]…eavesdropping…Emma Pickering…of…the domestic abuse charity [Refuge] said referrals to her team in the year to March 2026 rose by 78 per cent compared with the previous year…
Teacher and politician should have been a red flag:
[West Virginia politician] Elliott Pritt…[sexually abused] a [15-year-old] girl [after grooming her] through Roblox and Snapchat. Pritt…is [also] a public school teacher…and [tried to entice his victim by telling her]…that he loved her…he…sent [her dick pics] and [begged for her to] send nude photos of herself through Snapchat…he [then molested her] in his classroom…at least five to ten times…
Every weapon eventually begets a defense:
As facial recognition technology [metastasizes] across [the world], a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend. Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems…the effectiveness of the patterns depends on the surveillance system and the conditions in which it is used…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
[A] Seattle [cop named] Marlon Williams-Booth was arrested in late May for…[attack]ing his wife…[After she escaped]…he…called [one of his cronies] at the [cop shop] and [lied] that his wife pulled a gun on him…[when] Thurston County deputies [arrived they found him] hostile…drunk…and [only marginally coherent, so they] left and took a statement from [his] wife at a hotel…[she explained]…that she was leaving him. At [his] insistence, she always carried her firearm when she left the house…when he…blocked [her] exit…he asked…if she was carrying, and she patted [her] holster…he [then] lunged at her…pinned her…against the wall…[took] the gun from the holster, grabbed her by the hair…[threw] her to the ground…[and put] the gun…[to] her [head]…she double-kicked him in the chest and escaped out the window…[all] the evidence was consistent with [the] wife’s account…On the way to jail, he…continued ranting, claiming to be “one of the elite heroes of downtown Seattle”…[and bragging about] how many people [he had murdered; in reality]…SPD records [showed] Williams-Booth has never fired his weapon on duty or been fired upon…
[Cop shop]s around the country [are routinely using] Flock cameras…to search for specific people, not cars, using searches [as vague] as “heavy-set male”…“person on skateboard”…[or] “backpack”…while most people associate Flock cameras with…tracking vehicles, some of the cameras are also capable of following the movements of particular people…These are called “FreeForm” searches, and allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine…“giant oceans of video data can now be searched the same way big text files can be, including for…t-shirts, tattoos, and bumper stickers. Even without face recognition, that’s a significant increase in surveillance capability,” [said] Jay Stanley…[of] ACLU…The searches sometimes stretch across dozens or even nearly a hundred networks of Flock cameras at once…[and routinely] pull up images of innocent or unrelated people…
Stalkers in Blue (Nosey Parkers) 
With warrantless surveillance, no woman is safe from cops:
A [Georgia cop named]…Kabiru Salawu was [fired and criminally] charged [after being caught]…misus[ing the Flock] license plate [reader network to stalk women]…He’s currently in jail, being held without bond. His arrest is the latest in a [long but predictable] string of incidents in which Georgia [cops] have been [caught] misusing this technology…CBS Atlanta [reports] at least 10 other[s]….
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In the News (#1653)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Aladdin’s Satellite, artificial stupidity, Bluesky, cell phones, consensual crime, cops, drugs, Enshittification, ethics, fascism, Florida, Google, I Spy, internet, law, Panopticon, propaganda, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, robots, sporting events, surveillance, Texas, The Last Shall Be First, The Vultures Descend, transgender, universal criminality, Unsafe for Human Consumption, Walled Garden on July 8, 2026| Leave a Comment »
My supervisor…[saw a chatbot] as a digital priest whose primary purpose was to confirm that he was right and everyone else was mistaken.
The Last Shall Be First (#1523)
SCOTUS legalizes sexual assault of minor-age female athletes:
The Supreme Court…uph[e]ld…West Virginia’s and Idaho’s laws that [demand female] athletes [submit to unwanted physical examinations without parental consent]…[to] compet[e] in girls’ sports…[if someone accuses them of being transgender]. This decision has implications for 25 other states with similar laws…
As is typical in our sick society, most coverage of the story focuses on the supposed intent of the laws rather than the actual consequences to female athletes.
The Trump [regime]’s new [mass surveillance] strategy [uses]…the [psychotic “]war[“] on [the important clinical medicine] fentanyl…[to justify] a national surveillance system [unconstitutionally] built from…[routinely-abused] prescription…[monitoring databases], toxicology results, wastewater, electronic health records, license plate scans, and [whatever other private information can be illegally gathered by cops, spooks, and goons]…the 2026 National Drug Control Strategy [threatens]…to “fully resource and empower” [Father]land Security Task Forces, “le[t chatbots kill people],” and “[violate the Privacy Act of 1974]” [in order]…to…[de facto abolish] HIPAA…[and make] patient privacy [a dead letter]. No[thing]…would prevent [the] system…from being used to monitor abortion, pregnancy, gender transition, methadone treatment, protest activity, or any other behavior a future [regime] decides to target…
The open internet is becoming a thing of the past:
Texas users of…Bluesky were [prevented from signing in without using an algorithm]…to verify their ages…[by] putting in the last four digits of their Social Security Number, inputting a credit card number or having their driver’s license scanned…the “App Store Accountability Act,” [which] requires companies that run app marketplaces like Google and Apple to verify all users’ ages…was [recently un]blocked by…[the deeply-authoritarian 5th circuit, but it does not require social media age surveillance]. Bluesky told some users who asked [tha]t the age verification [demand] was a “known bug”…
Thanks to fascism, this decision was stillborn:
The U.S. Supreme Court has…ruled…that “geofence warrants” count as a “search” under the Constitution and therefore trigger the Fourth Amendment’s safeguards against unreasonable searches and seizures. The geofence warrant at issue in…Chatrie v. United States…was issued to Google…[and] led to the arrest of Okello Chatrie…[whose] lawyers argued that this police tactic amounted to…the very sort of sweeping assault on civil liberties that the Fourth Amendment was originally enshrined to protect…
Unfortunately, surveillance software from a company called Penlink, which is already owned by hundreds of cop shops and goon squads, allows pigs and goons to do this at will without having to go to court for a warrant or deal with Google. So this is only a “win” on paper.
Everything I read about modern work makes me happier I became a whore:
…numerous employees…spoke to Futurism about their experience with [chatbot]-obsessed bosses, relaying feelings of frustration and anger as managers and executives use the tech to barrage staff with nonsensical directives, unnecessary work, and perpetual pivoting…it’s a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era. Slate found more evidence for the phenomenon earlier this year; one worker told the publication that managers “are getting cavities in their brains” due to the tech. In some cases, employees…felt as though their employers had started living in a completely different reality. The workplace had become a constant battle between [actual] reality versus [chatbot-driven delusion]s — and their boss…always chose the latter…
These companies need to be sued until they’re completely annihilated:
[A] coalition of [almost 400] local newspaper publishers [has] filed a federal lawsuit…against OpenAI and Microsoft…[because] the…companies systematically [plagiariz]ed copyrighted reporting…to train and develop [chatbots], including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, without permission or compensation…violating the Copyright Act and threatening the future of local journalism…OpenAI knowingly stripped copyright management information from publishers’ work — including author bylines, copyright notices, and terms of use information — in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act…OpenAI founder Sam Altman…a[dmitt]ed during testimony before the British House of Lords that it would be “impossible to train [chatbots] without using copyrighted materials”…Although major national news organizations and prominent authors have previously sued OpenAI and Microsoft over similar [violation]s, the new case marks the largest coordinated legal effort by local and regional newspapers [to shut down these plagiarism machines]…
Government thugs don’t care how many lives are destroyed by their evil:
…Florida [cops] arrested a man and held him in jail for nearly three months based on a bad facial recognition result…In April 2025, a man in Jacksonville…purchased a car from someone he met in a grocery store parking lot. When he learned the car was stolen, he reported the crime…[lazy pigs] ran [surveillance footage] through facial recognition software, which flagged Jalil Richardson…[despite the fact that he] lived in Charlotte, North Carolina—400 miles away…[and] time cards showed Richardson was at work when the suspect was selling a stolen car in Jacksonville. But [cops didn’t care, so] Richardson was arrested in North Carolina and held for 33 days…[then] extradited to Jacksonville and held for another 53 days. Prosecutors finally dropped the charges and released him[, but not before] he had…[l]ost…his job, his house, and custody of two of his children…
Jacksonville cops are just as psychopathically-unconcerned with the innocence of people they target as those in Detroit are.
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In the News (#1651)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged abortion, artificial stupidity, censorship, Censorship Ascendant, cops, dehumanization, drugs, fascism, internet, law, Louisiana, Mad Libs, Monsters, New York, Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs, politicians, porn, prisons, Pyrrhic Victory, Russia, Size Matters, sporting events, surveillance, The Last Shall Be First, The Vultures Descend, transgender, Utah, Walled Garden, You Were Warned on July 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If there are no punishments for violating someone’s rights, they’re not really rights at all. – Hemant Mehta
The only religion which it’s actually free to practice in the US is Christianity:
The Supreme Court has made it official: Religious freedom only applies if you’re a conservative Christian…[by] rul[ing] 6-3…that a Rastafarian man whose hair was cut off against his will—violating his religious beliefs—had no legal remedies available to him…Damon Landor…hadn’t cut his hair in decades because he follows the Nazarite vow—which includes a reference to Numbers 6:5: “… No razor may be used on their head… they must let their hair grow long.” He continued that vow even after entering two Louisiana jails in 2020, for a five-month sentence…[but] when he was transferred to a third [dungeon]…Landor worried they might try to cut his hair to fit in with [victim subjugation] policies, so he showed [screws] paperwork [of]…The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000…[which] says prisons that receive federal funding can’t violate someone’s religious beliefs unless there’s a really good reason for it…They threw his paperwork in the trash, handcuffed him to a chair, and shaved off his hair. He later sued…both the prison and the individual [screw]s for violating his rights…[but] writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said [because the screws didn’t want to follow the law]…they couldn’t be held accountable…
Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized [its] use of facial recognition…in…a document…accessible to [anyon]e in…the company…MSG[‘s owner] Jim Dolan[, who also owns Radio City Music Hall]…has…a reputation for being pernicious against his perceived enemies, [and] is…keeping track of specific people who take issue with [his creepy surveillance]…The…list…[includes] three people who have criticized MSG’s use of facial recognition: Evan Greer…of…Fight for the Future; Albert Fox Cahn…of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project…and…[Adam] Schwartz…of [EFF, and]…includes background information…social media handles and…screenshots of [criticism]…“The fact that MSG is creating dossiers on activists who say things they don’t like shows exactly why private companies should not be allowed to use dangerous surveillance technologies like facial recognition,” [said] Greer…“Given their recent treatment of a trans woman trying to use the bathroom…I’m also not surprised they misgendered me”…
Goons are now being dispatched to intimidate people for wrongthink:
Two…[ICE goons threaten]ed…a Syracuse [New York] woman…[in an attempt] to [censor her] social media account[, claiming she was mean to them]…PaigeLynne Gonyea said she believes they [we]re referring to a January post where she named the [goon] who [murdered] protester Renee Good. Gonyea was working as a poll worker…at the Central Library…when [the goons showed up]. She…invited them in[side because]…she did not want to meet them outside alone…The [goons] handed [her] a form letter [full of Trumpist] threats…[of] prosecution…“They tried to scare me into signing it”…she said…she does not intend to delete her post…[but instead contacted] the attorney general’s office…[her US representative, the] Mayor [of Syracuse] and the New York Civil Liberties Union…
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (#1532)
Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn:
Anastasia Ovsyannikova…has been detained [in Russia for being] on [OnlyFans]…She gained fame through her collaborations with Diana Shurygina, wh[o]…was [also] arrested in Moscow earlier this month [when cops staged a theatrical raid] on her apartment and [stole] cameras and [other] filming equipment…the…p[er]secution is part of a growing wave of cases targeting women over online adult content. In a separate case, a woman named Anastasia F. was detained in Yekaterinburg on similar charges [for] posting explicit content on OnlyFans…The Kremlin has for several years sought to position the country as more [puritanical]…But this stance hardened a[s part of its propaganda campaign to draw attention away from its disastrous] invasion of Ukraine in February 2022…
Western nations are competing to out-China China:
[Politicians have]…unveil[ed] a [uniparty collaboration] on [the massive internet surveillance and censorship bill named]…KOSA…[which] now…includes age verification for [any website that any politician points at while belching “]sexually explicit[“, plus provisians allowing the government to control the design of] video game[s] and…social media…platforms…[plus threats to attack]…platforms [which refuse] to silence users [enough for politicians’ tastes]…
This was always the endgame, regardless of claims to the contrary:
In its quest to outlaw abortion across the country, the [forced birth] movement has [long courted the wishy-washy by claiming they want]…women who get the procedure…spared punishment, while doctors and others who make it available should be p[ersecuted]…But a growing number of [forced-birth fanatics] are starting to [drop the mask,] argu[ing] that the only way to stop women from ending their pregnancies [is] to arrest them. The [unmasking] is coming as [forced-birth fanatics] express frustration that the number of abortions happening now is higher than [before] Roe v. Wade was overturned, largely because [women don’t want fanatical strangers controlling their bodies]…
Reason needs to be far more skeptical of the outlandish claims of chatbot pushers:
…Utah has passed several laws and initiatives to [funnel]…healthcare [money into the hands of chatbot purveyors], including a[n ill-considered scheme] launched earlier this year to allow…chatbots to fill prescriptions…[via a fascist collaboration named] Doctronic…[so far] the project [only allows algorithmic refills of ongoing]…prescriptions and medication for asthma, diabetes, and other c[hronic] health conditions. Patients still need to visit a[n actual] doctor for new prescriptions…but…[as AMA executive John Whyte points out] “It’s really a concern about a slippery slope. Do we start here with prescriptions, then all of a sudden, is it going to lead to diagnostic tests?”…Doctronic [claims] its platform is guided by the opinions of board-certified physicians[, but the exact same statement is made by insurance companies about the medical washouts whom they employ to deny claims]…
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