It genuinely startles me that political issues are no longer debated.
Like, I really don’t get it.
There are *many* complex issues that require critical thinking/examination to understand the nuances and they barely get skimmed before people become hardened to their views.
New York Times: Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meet privately to discuss how Democrats and the Trump administration can work together.
How much more evidence do the American people need before they understand that both parties exist to serve capital and sell the people out?
There’s not one thing the US government does well for the people because its entire purpose is to serve the rich.
Recently, OpenAI shipped a plugin that lets ChatGPT read your Mac's Messages app, search it, and draft and send replies.
However, this feature essentially renders Apple's end-to-end encryption obsolete, because your messages are now sitting on OpenAI's servers in plaintext. The plugin needs Full Disk Access, Contacts and Automation. If you have Messages in iCloud switched on, that's potentially years of history, attachments and identities, plus every SMS 2FA code your iPhone forwards to your Mac.
OpenAI says it runs locally and doesn't build an index. Local execution isn't the same as local processing. The moment ChatGPT summarises a thread or drafts a reply using a hosted model, that content leaves the machine.
In 2025 a US court ordered OpenAI to preserve ChatGPT conversations for the NYT case, including ones people had deleted. Under the CLOUD Act, data in OpenAI's control is reachable by US legal process wherever it's stored, and they can be barred from telling you it happened.
Governments have spent a decade demanding a backdoor into iMessage and getting refused. This one installs itself, for free, with a toggle.
If you've enabled it, everyone who has ever texted you is in it, and none of them know.
Source @Paul__Walsh: https://t.co/eUJ6Vsvgkx
DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES
DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES
DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES
DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES
DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES
DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES
There is no amount of propaganda that will make me think that the people of China, Russia and Iran are more of a threat to me than our own ruling class.
Kiev is now openly discussing conscripting women into the military. The British media is doing its part to prepare the public for the idea—and I suspect it will ultimately be packaged in empowering feminist stories. Gender equality in being forced to die for NATO.
wild horses are among the most beautiful gifts in the world. they are families who roam together, love and protect each other. these helicopter round ups are so violent and terrifying that some horses actually break their bones trying to flee. Imagine one day you're living free on God's earth, and the next you're separated from your family, crowded onto trucks and ships, then waiting your turn in a slaughterhouse.
BREAKING:
🇮🇱 An Israeli spyware firm co-founded by Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime close friend Ehud Barak just made a catastrophic blunder.
A live screenshot of Graphite’s control panel was accidentally exposed - showing real victim phone numbers and active toggles to instantly hijack WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and take full control over anyone’s digital life.
This was the moment a company revealed exactly how its weapon spies on the world.
This tool hacks journalists, activists, human rights defenders, but above all politicians, ministers, opposition leaders, and anyone who might threaten the power or interests of those who pay.
Paragon isn’t a tech company. It’s a surveillance factory with political cover.
Bush was literally several million dead bodies worse than Trump, and the fact that liberals can sanitize his legacy like this just shows they'll rehab Trump's image someday too.
Just a little reminder to drop Dish if you haven't already. Dish and AT&T are the major installers of Flock.
It's actually a fact that most installations take place in the middle of the night, which is why its rare to see a day time installation sighting like this one.
Residents frequently report discovering new cameras on poles outside their homes upon waking, with no prior notification or visible installation activity during the day.
ICE is raping girls in concentration camps. Report confirmed girls tested positive for pregnancy, and no one is talking about this!
RAPE is internationally recognized as a method of GENOCIDE and a crime against HUMANITY.
When the USSR dissolved, Ukraine was the richest part with the world’s best fertile soil, a developed industry, army and 52 million inhabitants.
In just one generation, Ukraine threw it all away. They started to antagonize Russia and Russia stopped buying Ukrainian goods.
Even the world’s best freighter aircraft manufacturer Antonov went bankrupt.
Then Ukraine threw away the deal of free gas for transporting Russian gas to Europe.
Then they ruined the entire industry, lost 4 provinces to Russia and could no longer live on the taxes they collect. They are an eternal support case.
The 52 million inhabitants are now 25 million. Many emigrated and millions left in 2022. Half are old and will die soon. With a fertility rate under 1 per woman, Ukraine will be down to 15 million soon.
After one generation the most successful country lies in ruins.
People in Ukraine will forever ask “what possessed us?”. The answer is Europe. The EU used Ukraine to unite around a common enemy, to strengthen central command and control.
Disgusting!
A daily reminder that Medicare for All would save over a trillion dollars and 114,000 lives a year.
Last year, we spent $5.7 trillion on healthcare which is projected to jump to $9 trillion by 2034.
Medicare for All is not too expensive. Our current healthcare system is.
John and Nisha Whitehead on CounterPunch:
“History teaches that authoritarian governments do not begin with death camps and firing squads.
“They begin by normalizing powers that once would have been considered intolerable.
They begin by identifying a population that can be stripped of rights with minimal political consequences. They begin by convincing citizens that extraordinary government powers are necessary because the people being targeted are dangerous, criminal, foreign or undeserving. They begin by making government agents harder to identify and harder to hold accountable. They begin by expanding detention. They begin by expanding surveillance. They begin by lowering the threshold for the use of force.
“And they teach the public that obedience is the price of safety.
“ICE is serving as the prototype for what a much broader system of authoritarian enforcement could look like.
“Immigrants may be the government’s primary targets today. They will not necessarily be the only targets tomorrow.
“The constitutional danger has never depended on whether one sympathizes with the first people subjected to government abuse. The question is whether we allow the government to acquire powers that can eventually be turned against anyone.”
A heartbreaking investigation revealed that Trump's Bureau of Land Management is systematically rounding up thousands of America's wild horses, then quietly selling them off to buyers who are shipping them to slaughterhouses abroad.
Before, the U.S. government rarely sold wild horses. But since Trump took office, government sales have more than doubled.
Slaughterhouses pay up to $750 a wild horse, the investigation found.
The Bureau of Land Management is nominally in charge of protecting the 73,000 or so wild horses who roam America's public lands in the West. Under Trump, the Bureau is sending our wild horses to the slaughterhouse.
(Source: New York Times)