End of the world

Fuck data centers

Fuck AI

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 YOSEMITE

A Nevada developer wants a quarter-mile strip of the park to build a private road. Their 83 acres are nearly worthless without it.

Send a letter to Congress right now. Kill the road and you kill the deal.

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[End of the world @SenseCommonUn]

Nobody needs to remove women from any equation because you don't agree with some of them having an opinion that isn't the same as yours. And nobody thinks it's okay to kill children and get away with it.

[Mike Kelley @KelleyToons]

Also - be careful. This is a VERY bad day for women. Let's ALL hope this is just a very small percentage of women who support her but it's telling that so many were outside the courtroom and so many donated. I want to see national polls over those who do because this could be the end of women's rights going forward as we need to remove women from the equation if even a small majority of them support this. No nation can survive when half the population wants to kill the children.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

A QUARTER MILE OF YOSEMITE IS ABOUT TO BECOME A DONOR'S PRIVATE DRIVEWAY

For over a year Doug Burgum's own staff at Interior have been leaned on, pushed, pressured to hand over a slice of Yosemite National Park to a private real estate firm called Kingsbarn Realty Capital

Not sold. Not leased through some normal public process. Handed over. The first time in American history the federal government would give national park land to a private developer

The Park Service said no to this exact request for more than twenty years straight. Federal courts rejected the underlying road claim twice. Twice. And Trump's people are still trying to force it through anyway

Ask yourself why

Kingsbarn's CEO Jeff Pori had zero history of national political donations before October 2024. Zero. Then suddenly he's writing checks every single month to Trump's campaign, to the RNC, to the PACs orbiting Trump like moths

Pori publicly thanked Newmark Group, the firm Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used to chair. He thanked Hankey Capital, the same outfit that underwrote Trump's $175 million bond in his own fraud judgment appeal

That is not a coincidence, that is a closed loop with Trump's fingerprints all over the outside of it

Meanwhile career staff inside Burgum's office are being forced to file constant status updates and getting berated when the land grab doesn't move fast enough for the donor class

This is Yosemite. A quarter mile of it. Carved out like a slice of cake for a guy who discovered Trump's campaign existed thirteen months before he started stripping national park land loose for him

You lose a piece of public land that belongs to every American who will ever live. Pori gets a road. Trump gets another donor fed

This is the entire administration in one square mile

They are not going to stop until every inch of this country has a price tag and a friend of Trump's name on the deed

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

There's a stretch of land in Montana biologists call "the place where grizzlies go to die." This is why the two largest remaining grizzly populations still can't reach each other, after 50 YEARS of trying.

Think about that for a second. Fifty years. These bears live in two separate pockets now, one around Glacier, one around Yellowstone, now as close as 47 miles apart. The corridors that should connect them run straight through Missoula, Butte, Helena, Bozeman, some of Montana's fastest growing cities.

So instead of reaching each other, bears trying to make that crossing get hit on highways, shot near cattle, or just never make it. In 2021, one did wander east from Glacier's population. It was caught and killed near cattle before it ever got close to Yellowstone's bears.

Fifty years of research, and not one single confirmed case of a bear making that crossing and breeding with the other population. Not one. Wildlife biologist Trevor Bloom put it plainly in a PBS Nature documentary: "The argument for keeping them on the list is that we're not seeing any gene flow between the distinct populations... Recovery, in many people's opinion, would be defined by when those two populations can interbreed."

This isn't hypothetical. In 2017, the last time Yellowstone grizzlies were briefly delisted, Wyoming issued 22 hunting tags almost immediately. Idaho issued one. The hunt never happened, a federal judge blocked it days before the season opened, and protections were reinstated in court. But it came within days of going through.

Think about what that could mean. A mother grizzly's territory spans hundreds of square miles, far beyond any park boundary. She doesn't know where the invisible line is. If she wanders out looking for food and gets shot legally because she stepped outside it, her cubs are left orphaned. Most orphaned cubs either die on their own in the wild, get sent to a zoo where they can never be released back into nature, or are euthanized outright because there's nowhere else for them to go.

It's already happening. Grizzly 964, one of Grizzly 399's own cubs, was killed in Montana this June, reportedly over a single cow. There are 86 million cattle in this country. There were roughly 2,300 grizzly bears left in the entire lower 48. Her two cubs, Scout and Ranger, 399's own grandchildren, were sent to a Colorado zoo. They'll never see the wild again.

This makes me furious. The entire point of the Endangered Species Act is recovery, THEN delisting. These bears haven't recovered. They're stuck. They're bottlenecked.

Congress already tried to delist Yellowstone's grizzlies by law, with a provision blocking anyone from suing to stop it, something courts have used twice before to reverse premature delisting. It passed committee last year. It's been sitting there since.

Who's pushing hardest for this? Ranchers and hunting groups. And once states take over, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho have already said they'd allow hunting. Even a beloved bear wouldn't be safe from that shi$.

Grizzly 399 was the most famous bear in the world. Decades of survival, dozens of cubs raised, millions of people who loved her. In the end, none of that saved her from a highway. If roads can take a bear that famous, what chance do the rest have, unless we actually carve out a way through.

That's the real question. Not whether these bears deserve protection. Whether we're willing to carve out the one thing that would actually save them: a way to reach each other.

#DemsUnited

[End of the world @SenseCommonUn]

@defjaes_ Nah definitely Saracen

[End of the world @SenseCommonUn]

@OliviaDelguy Agreed, he was really good in Midnight Mass

[End of the world @SenseCommonUn]

Everybody should watch this episode

[Matt @Mahcus_Smaht]

Since plenty people are talking about Friday Night Lights and appreciating the acting

Zach Gilford in this episode is one of the best performances you will see on TV, and yes Kyle Chandler is also spectacular

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park and give it to a private developer.

The shocking directive reportedly comes directly from Trump officials.

https://t.co/Zm31cpias9

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 The Navy is charging a Lincoln sailor with absence without leave after he JUMPED OVERBOARD

-Documents reviewed by MS NOW show accusations of malingering and being absent without leave, with a possible loss of half his pay

-His wife describes the incident as a suicide attempt:
"I think they're insane for doing this to people who need mental help"

-A Navy official said the service is committed to the wellbeing of every sailor and that asking for help is a sign of strength

The Navy told reporters this month it had not identified any increase in reported ideation or attempts aboard the Lincoln.

You keep a man at sea past 250 days with no port call, no fresh food, months without a phone call home, and when he finally breaks you take half his paycheck and call it absence without leave.

There was nowhere for him to be absent to...

Source: MS NOW / Writer: Daniel

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Greg Abbott has approved a $26 million contract for Flock to operate in Texas.

[Leah Rain ✝️🇺🇸🎸🏝️ @LeahRain77]

He starts out by saying "this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I want more flock cameras!"
And then he proceeds to set the meeting on fire.
He wants flock cameras in every commissioner's office, every sheriff's office, in front of their homes, monitoring their cell phone activity, and on and on and on.
It's wonderful!

[Sue Knows Best @sues86453]

You have to watch this. This man was issued a ticket by an AI Red light Camera and he wasn’t even in the state that issued him the ticket.

Now you would think this would be a simple matter to resolve; however, it’s anything but because the company that owns this equipment is a private company owned by a global corporation that isn’t even in the US!

So we now have foreign actors accessing American Citizens personal and private information. How in the hell is this allowed!

[Volunteer_Anon @AnonJourna96897]

🚨Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs noticed a deliberate exploitation with the county Flock contracts!

Knox County just held its long-awaited Flock workshop on 8/24. The Flock CEO was supposed to show up and answer questions. He didn’t.

Their people called it a “miscommunication.”

Commissioners spent over two hours going through the details with the sheriff’s office and Flock reps. One detail came out clear: the sheriff’s office has been buying these cameras for years in batches priced at $24,990 — just $10 under the threshold that would have required mayoral review. They kept it under the radar that way.

Mayor Glenn Jacobs isn’t playing along.

He sent Flock a letter on August 12 saying he doesn’t even believe their contract with the county is valid. According to him, the total spent under that original 2020 deal blew past the limits that should have gone through full Commission approval. He’s treating it like there’s no real agreement in place. There’s already about 140 of these cameras under the sheriff’s office.

The big expansion of 270 more is still paused. Next real move is August 31. Commissioner Larsen Jay is amending an emergency ordinance that could order every one of them taken down within 30 days.

One reading. One vote. Needs eight yeses to pass.

August 31st is when we find out if the Commission is ready to shut it down. NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW UP AND BE VOCAL.

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

I believe Cities need to be SUED in mass not
FLOCK . These Terms of Service show they’re knowingly
Accepting ZERO PROTECTIONS 🚨and voluntarily authorizing EXPLOITATION of US 🇺🇸citizens

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For instance SECTION 11.3 EVERY PROMISE MADE TO YOUR CITY COUNCIL IS LEGALLY VOID

That means that Every verbal assurance a Flock salesperson gave a city council "we don't track people," "data auto-deletes," "no backdoors" has zero legal force the moment this contract is signed. 👀👀🚨

Only the written contract binds. Now you know WHY Flock representatives have made statements to councils that turned out to be FALSE. Because this clause is the mechanism that they use that make those statements costless. Say anything to win the MUNICIPAL; the paper erases it afterward. 🤦‍♂️
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SECTION 1.12 FLOCK OWNS EVERYTHING DERIVED FROM YOUR DATA

Cities have no “no rights are granted to download, extract, export, or otherwise create or retain copies of such derivative works."🚨👀

So the city can't even keep copies of analytical outputs generated from its own data.
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SECTION 9 THE LIABILITY CAP IS ABSURD FOR THIS PRODUCT

Total liability capped at 12 months of fees paid, with explicit exclusion of punitive damages, consequential damages, and this is the one that should make every mayor spit out their coffee "LOSS OF DATA."⚠️🚨👀
A surveillance company whose entire product is sensitive location data on millions of citizens wrote a contract where the most foreseeable catastrophic harm loss, breach, or misuse of that data is contractually non-compensable 🤦‍♂️ .

If Flock suffers a breach exposing the movement history of a protected domestic violence victim who gets found and killed, the city's maximum contractual recovery is whatever it paid Flock that year. Probably a few hundred thousand dollars.
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SECTION 8.5 NO WARRANTY OF ACCURACY, EVER

"Flock does not warrant that the Flock Services will be uninterrupted or error free nor does it make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of the Flock Services." 👀🚨🚨

Flock contractually disclaims any responsibility for whether its identifications are correct. Wrongful stop? Misread plate? False match? Per the contract, not Flock's problem. The company profits from being treated as an authoritative evidentiary source while contractually refusing to stand behind its own accuracy. 😳
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SECTION 2.3(c) + 10.1 YOU PAY FOR HARDWARE YOU ARE FORBIDDEN FROM INSPECTING🚨👀

the city pays for a surveillance network mounted on its own poles, watching its own residents, and is contractually forbidden from independently examining, testing, or auditing it. There is no customer audit right anywhere in this document. 🚨👀
independent researchers just found hardcoded credentials, plaintext storage, and a dead operating system on this exact hardware, the prohibition on customer inspection 😮
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SECTION 1.18 "PERMITTED PURPOSE" INCLUDES BUSINESS PURPOSES

"A legitimate public safety and/or business purpose, including... prevention of commercial harm."

This section GIVES people OUTSIDE law enforcement to SEARCH a police plate database for business 👀👀🚨🚨

They’re legalizing non-police use of a police surveillance tool … a business owner with connections getting location data on a competitor's deliveries, an employer tracking a former employee's car, a repo company using police infrastructure as a free lookup service. Each of those searches now has a contractual hook to hang its justification on.

why would a surveillance company quietly write "business purpose" into the permitted-use definition of a police product? 👀👀🚨🚨

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[Bethany O’Leary 🇺🇸 🦅 @BethanyForTruth]

🚨The Flock CEO Garrett Langley just went on Fox and said Americans need to “compromise” on their privacy.

WHAT!?!

His exact words were: “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise.”

This is the same company putting license plate cameras all over the country that can track where you go.

“Compromises”…right…I’m pretty sure NONE of us consent to this kind of police state… where do we draw the line?!?

[Vinny Martorano @VinnyMartorano]

UPDATE: Councilman Johnathan Coffman told me a resident’s open records request found nearly 460 agencies were tapped into the city’s Flock system.

He said only 80 agencies had city approval to do so.

@cbsaustin

[End of the world @SenseCommonUn]

Useless moron

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Jewish billionaire Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, CBS, CNN, and now TikTok, wants centralized data and total surveillance:

"Citizens will behave at their best because we're constantly watching and recording everything that happens."

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Coincidence, probably.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

🚨 BREAKING: News is coming out that Trump’s “massive shipments of beef flooding into the US” is very likely highly contaminated Argentinian beef that even China turned down. Get ready for mass sickness if true, driven by the loser-in-chief dumping shit beef into the market.

[Humane World for Animals @humaneworldorg]

Year after year, we have lobbied and litigated to end the horse slaughter trade, and year after year, we have made sure that congressional appropriations language is in place to prevent the BLM from selling horses in a manner that leads to their slaughter. It is impossible to make horse slaughter humane.

It’s up to all of us to ensure that the administration hears our calls to action—it’s up to all of us to ensure that Congress makes this the last time America’s wild horses undergo the immense terror of suffering of transport and slaughter.

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