James Gleick

Warning, travelers! A certain rogue nation, openly contemptuous of international law, has begun randomly snatching up visitors with legitimate passports and visas and confining them incommunicado in detention camps. No legal process applies.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

No, New York Times, Zelensky's "style" is not hurting Ukraine. Trump is hurting Ukraine, shaking it down like a mob boss and selling it out to his master, Putin.

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The Washington Post backed out of a $115,000 ad buy from Common Cause and the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund when they saw the message: "Who's running this country: Donald Trump of Elon Musk?"

Here are the ads that Jeff Bezos's newspaper refused to run.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is no more.

It was created by Congress, not the executive. It is funded by the Fed, not the Treasury. By law, the president cannot shut it down. But Elon Musk has shut it down.

It protected consumers from lawless predation by the finance industry. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113974644448981130

If Hegseth wasn't such a gross abuser of women and alcohol, maybe there would be room to focus on his utter lack of qualifications to lead a large government department.

There are good things and bad things about the new generation of AI, but one of the most terrible is the ability to impersonate humans. Let's not do this.

Counterfeit people are more dangerous than counterfeit money. They are tools for disinformation and manipulation. They destroy trust.

Let's not allow them. https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-planning-ai-powered-users

Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.

It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfect—it's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

#wikipedia

Amazing fact: It's illegal in the United States for anyone to donate more than $3,300 to a candidate in any federal election. That's the absolute limit. No kidding. There's a vast apparatus meant to enforce it.

Just one exception: if you're very rich, you can do whatever you want. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/113617945518251067

Democrats on #Twitter are shocked—shocked!—to discover that a mysterious cloak of invisibility has descended over their messages.

https://wapo.st/4fmNIvF