Tate Boone

[Chris @citehchris]

dudes will be like i needed this and it’s just their sports team winning and someone who loves em unconditionally

[Tom Powell Jr @RealTomPowellJr]

Why Showing Up Early for Work Cost Me More Than It Ever Gave Back

[Defense Analyses and Research Corporation @DefenseAnalyses]

Tom Clancy deserves to be taken seriously by defense thinkers because he saw early on how the alloying of technology, special forces, and personalization of power would produce the characteristic flavor of this century's iconic military operations. We live in the Clancyverse.

[Mackinac Center @MackinacCenter]

🚨Genesee County uses Flock cameras to capture and search vehicle data. But when Kettering University student Josh Tewolde requested records showing where the cameras are, who accessed the data and whether his vehicle was scanned, the county withheld key information.

Its excuse? The records belong to Flock, a private contractor. But the county’s own contract says it owns the data.

Josh is suing because government should not be able to hide public surveillance records behind a private company. If the government uses the cameras, the public deserves transparency.

[reli @alittleyareli]

becoming an adult is fully realizing that the modern credit card might be one of america's greatest works of carceral architecture. like this shit is so sinister lmao

[reason @reason]

Flock allegedly spotted this Colorado woman's truck around the time and location of a package theft.

What ensued was a Kafkaesque scene in which she insisted it wasn't her, while an officer who came to her door said he had indisputable proof—but refused to show her unless she admitted she stole the package.

"It is her, it is 100 percent, it is locked in, there is zero doubt," he tells her.

But police dropped the case after she provided her cellphone tracking data, camera footage from her truck, and video placing her elsewhere at the time of the theft

From wrongful arrests to officers stalking exes, license plate readers keep exposing police failures: https://t.co/FPyx05m1iZ

[TacticalBrit @TheTacticalBrit]

We were so close to getting insanely affordable handheld PCs, low end phones with good specs and general good quality market saturation of solid tech.

All of it out the window. Thanks AI.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

I just want you to remember. That we live in a world where octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry with them all their lives, cows have best friends, and bees have different "dialects" of dance depending on the region. Cats purr at a frequency that accelerates bone healing, the forest grows flowers first after a fire, and dolphins give each other names and respond to them. Penguins make proposals by giving each other the most beautiful pebble

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Right now, more than 5,000 sailors and Marines are stuck aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the ninth month of a deployment that was supposed to last seven, supporting military operations against Iran that Congress never authorized.

Their families are begging someone to listen.

Moldy showers, broken toilets, no hot water for weeks, meals that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas.

A ship’s store out of soap, deodorant, and toothpaste.

Sailors so worn down that, according to one family member, the ship’s own doctor warned they need to reach port soon or people are going to start losing their minds.

Back in April, when families first raised the alarm, Pete Hegseth dismissed the reports as fake news. These are the people we ask to serve in one of the most dangerous workplaces on Earth, the flight deck of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

They, and their families, deserve answers. https://t.co/rUAliN8294

[Grace Cathedral Park @gracecthdralprk]

For everything bad you could say about American culture (and it could fill libraries), we used to have a very Protestant aversion to ostentatious displays of wealth and a very republican aversion to veneration of living leaders. The Trump era has virtually destroyed both of those

[Sean Morrow @snmrrw]

"Wednesday at 11am is perfect! I'll be there then!"

-Nellie Bowles, Free Press writer and Bari Weiss's wife, regarding Jeffrey Epstein's apartment.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Protestor interrupts @SenSchumer while he speaks about Trump's corruption: "It's amazing that you can show your genocidal face in public!"

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

If they're turning engineers into activists they have been doing unfathomable evil behind the scenes

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Krystal Ball on Haley Stevens: It all feels very desperate, very astroturfed. I saw someone post that she printed signs that say, “Stick it to them.”

And Abdul has signs that say, “Medicare for All,” “Get money out of politics.” They highlight his specific platform planks. To me, it demonstrates the perfect distillation of the difference between their campaigns because he’s got substance, specific plans backed up by a worldview and an ideology that are consistent and well thought out.

And she’s got platitudes about how she’s going to fight hard and she’s going to stick it to them because that’s the Michigan way. It’s meaningless.

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Trump has basically forced the Republican party into supporting data centers with no restrictions, which has handed Democrats the easiest slam dunk policy position that wins a plethora of crossover voters. And the only ones I've seen take it seriously are progressives.

[Big Dez Energy @dezisdope]

Bruh. This grown ass woman, who wants to be a lawyer & has enough money to get access to tutors & therapists if she needs it, said she relies on a robot that regurgitates what u give it back to you to fill those roles. My brain hurts. This country has too many popular dummies.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Troy Jackson: “I’m not fighting for billionaires. I’m not fighting for Elon Musk. I don’t believe in tax cuts for wealthy people. I don’t believe ICE should come to Maine or any other state and create the chaos and hate and discontent and murder people. These are huge differences between me and Senator Collins. That’s why I think people are gonna vote for me because they want somebody that has their back instead of the wealthy elite”

[Sean @demsocsean]

“This campaign is all about Michigan not those cool kid coastal elites from other states” she says as she campaigns with Democratic Party royalty from South Carolina.