Information Seeker

🔞, 28, what is within.
“...you can decide on the colors that you like,
*as long as you stay in the lines*..." -anima!

-The Hangman Poem, 1964.

[Revolutionary Blackout Network @RevBlackNetwork]

“They got money for war but can’t feed the poor”

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

"If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about." 🙄

➡️ 71% of Flock's alerts were false.

➡️ One driver was stopped 6 times after Flock's algorithms mistook a 9 for an 8.

Constant surveillance. Constant suspicion.
We are all now guilty until proven innocent.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

The brilliant @MattOBranain was arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for using a microphone.

He doesn’t say anything in support of any proscribed organisation. He just simply speaks into a microphone for a few seconds.

This is the @metpoliceuk under @ShabanaMahmood’s rule.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Remember this in November…

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

The use of a microphone could lead to an arrest under the terrorism laws!!

The UK police have become an absolute joke.

[Noah Karl🌏🌌🚀 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @NoahKarl1]

The difference between

"There used to be hot summers too."

and
climate crisis.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

61% of Americans say they are cutting back on groceries because they can’t afford rising costs of food.

Meanwhile:

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Is it only “energy terror” when Russia does it?

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing thier gov has been illegally taxing them for over a year and billionaires are getting the refund instead of the customers

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

So the USDA is going to spend $9 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to destroy 420,000 fruit-bearing trees and massive surplus of peaches to "maintain fruit prices" they won't donate the peaches to food banks, churches or feed the hungry, alright.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

Umm no, we should thank unions.

Without unions there would be no weekends, no vacations, no sick pay, no overtime, no 8h work day, no ban on child labour.

You would work 24/7 from the age of 7.

Leisure time only exists because workers united and fought, sometimes to the DEATH!

[jezz @JezziiB]

Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.

[Ayzaa @Ayzacoder]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

The SCREEN Act, which will go for a full committee markup next Wednesday, on its own would force every single adult in the US to do ID/age verification. With that would come mass censorship & surveillance over the last bit of freedom and information we have - the internet.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

A California city just rolled out drive‑by AI scanners that auto‑flag:

-Parking on dirt
-Overgrown lawns
-Unpermitted signs
-Cracked driveways
-Vehicle "violations"
-Commercial equipment
-Peeling paint, broken fences, damaged roofs

Automated obedience checks.
Not for crime... just for “noncompliance."

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

This is assault. Under NY law, a class D violent felony. Maximum 7 years in prison. Minimum 2. Add the fact that there’s more than one agent, gang assault. A class C violent felony. Max 15 years. Minimum 3.5.

[Li Jingjing 李菁菁 @Jingjing_Li]

BUT AT WHAT COST?!

[Mug of Glop @Mug_of_Glop]

Police: “Police are overall good; it’s just a few bad apples causing the problems.”

Police when someone tries to expose those few bad apples:

[Video Nasties🇵🇲 @53gaDr3amca5t]

"here's an AI generated slopaganda picture of a US soldier about to be slimed the fuck out by a Jihadist alien samurai, give us one point five trillion dollars"

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

They can't stop crime with cameras.
They can't keep drugs out of prisons.
They can’t create order with more laws.

Yet the solution is always:

More cameras.
More laws.
More enforcement.
More control.

It's almost as if surveillance, authoritarianism and coercion was never the cure for social dysfunction.