@etinclle1.bsky.social
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"Calling it a license plate reader is sort of a misnomer at this point because it collects so much other information," EFF’s @lisafemia.bsky.social told Southwest Florida’s WINK News.
How advanced license plate readers build a '3D fingerprint' of Southwest Florida drivers
If you’ve driven anywhere in Southwest Florida over the last few years, chances are an automated camera logged your license plate, your vehicle’s color, and the exact time you passed
www.winknews.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"Calling it a license plate reader is sort of a misnomer at this point because it collects so much other information," EFF’s @lisafemia.bsky.social told Southwest Florida’s WINK News.
ESA launches satellite that maps invisible health signals from plants...
Right. Europe at it again. Expect lot's of end-of-the-world messages coming up (can't help but wonder how their biomass 'green energy' efforts will show up).
Right. Europe at it again. Expect lot's of end-of-the-world messages coming up (can't help but wonder how their biomass 'green energy' efforts will show up).
September 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
ESA launches satellite that maps invisible health signals from plants...
Right. Europe at it again. Expect lot's of end-of-the-world messages coming up (can't help but wonder how their biomass 'green energy' efforts will show up).
Right. Europe at it again. Expect lot's of end-of-the-world messages coming up (can't help but wonder how their biomass 'green energy' efforts will show up).
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“It’s like crashing a car into the wall, and then you back up the car. It’s not the same car any more,” he says. “We can’t just simply take out CO2. There are consequences, and some of these consequences are long-lasting."
The world’s biggest carbon sink may start emitting CO2 after net zero | New Scientist
If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, prolonging global warming
www.newscientist.com
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 AM
“It’s like crashing a car into the wall, and then you back up the car. It’s not the same car any more,” he says. “We can’t just simply take out CO2. There are consequences, and some of these consequences are long-lasting."
"A car drifting off a highway and into a barrier is not an outlier in Tesla’s driver-assist reports" "Tesla telling owners to trust the car, it hides the records that would show how the system behaves when things go wrong" "Everything that would explain how, Tesla sealed"
electrek.co/2026/09/10/t...
electrek.co/2026/09/10/t...
Tesla Autopilot was on in I-35 crash that killed its driver
A 2024 Tesla Model Y left Interstate 35 in Missouri and killed its driver. Tesla's own filing says its driver-assist was engaged, and redacted.
electrek.co
September 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
"A car drifting off a highway and into a barrier is not an outlier in Tesla’s driver-assist reports" "Tesla telling owners to trust the car, it hides the records that would show how the system behaves when things go wrong" "Everything that would explain how, Tesla sealed"
electrek.co/2026/09/10/t...
electrek.co/2026/09/10/t...
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"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence."
I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
prospect.org
September 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence."
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Finished reading ‘The Nerd Reich’ by @gilduran.com over the weekend. It’s a truly shocking exposé of just how far the fascist tech billionaires (yes, they all are) have advanced in their efforts to destroy democracy & create a new Tech Feudalism, with 99.9% of us serving as their serfs.
September 7, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Finished reading ‘The Nerd Reich’ by @gilduran.com over the weekend. It’s a truly shocking exposé of just how far the fascist tech billionaires (yes, they all are) have advanced in their efforts to destroy democracy & create a new Tech Feudalism, with 99.9% of us serving as their serfs.
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Tesla's defective self-driving software will still illegally blow past a stopped school bus and run down a child crossing the road!
We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite.
Why is this product allowed on public roads?
We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite.
Why is this product allowed on public roads?
September 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Tesla's defective self-driving software will still illegally blow past a stopped school bus and run down a child crossing the road!
We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite.
Why is this product allowed on public roads?
We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite.
Why is this product allowed on public roads?
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Chinese shipper COSCO collects intel for Beijing with concealed equipment, US officials say
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese shipper COSCO collects intel for Beijing with concealed equipment, US officials say
China's state-owned shipping giant COSCO uses concealed equipment on board its ships to spy on military communications near the coastlines of target nations including the U.S., two senior Trump admin...
www.reuters.com
September 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Chinese shipper COSCO collects intel for Beijing with concealed equipment, US officials say
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them.
Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them.
Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...
Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them.
Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...
August 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them.
Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them.
Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...
Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them.
Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...
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"An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans."
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. (Gift Article)
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2026 at 10:11 AM
"An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans."
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No. We will destroy your police state.
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/f...
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/f...
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
techcrunch.com
August 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
No. We will destroy your police state.
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/f...
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/f...
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The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
August 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
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Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
(Published May 2025)
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
(Published May 2025)
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
(Published May 2025)
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
(Published May 2025)
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TLDR: Google be like “things that are actually harming people right now aren’t harms. The only harms that exist are the ones that might occasionally happen and look really bad so we need the protection of a regulator who we can blame for sleeping at the wheel when those things happen, too.”
Google's policy plan offers lawmakers a map of AI harm, writes Gregory Gondwe, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama and a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. It puts frontier threats at the center,and more familiar structural harms at the edges.
Google's AI Governance Plan Draws the Boundaries of What Counts as Harm
Google seeks to shape regulation by deciding which harms deserve special attention and which appear familiar, writes Gregory Gondwe.
www.techpolicy.press
August 4, 2026 at 11:20 AM
TLDR: Google be like “things that are actually harming people right now aren’t harms. The only harms that exist are the ones that might occasionally happen and look really bad so we need the protection of a regulator who we can blame for sleeping at the wheel when those things happen, too.”
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~5 years late, but NHTSA finally said it:
[AV's] inability to detect and appropriately respond to such [first responder] situations represents a functional insufficiency. Emergency scenes are not rare or extreme "edge cases."
Meetings & reprioritizing won't fix this.
Over trust and don't verify.
[AV's] inability to detect and appropriately respond to such [first responder] situations represents a functional insufficiency. Emergency scenes are not rare or extreme "edge cases."
Meetings & reprioritizing won't fix this.
Over trust and don't verify.
July 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM
~5 years late, but NHTSA finally said it:
[AV's] inability to detect and appropriately respond to such [first responder] situations represents a functional insufficiency. Emergency scenes are not rare or extreme "edge cases."
Meetings & reprioritizing won't fix this.
Over trust and don't verify.
[AV's] inability to detect and appropriately respond to such [first responder] situations represents a functional insufficiency. Emergency scenes are not rare or extreme "edge cases."
Meetings & reprioritizing won't fix this.
Over trust and don't verify.
Alarmists in despair, it's not CO2... ☀️☀️☀️
"In particular, the reduction of sulfate emissions over Europe starting from 1980 is associated with changes in the atmospheric circulation and an additional warming over Europe."
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"In particular, the reduction of sulfate emissions over Europe starting from 1980 is associated with changes in the atmospheric circulation and an additional warming over Europe."
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Accelerated European Summer Warming Driven by Atmospheric Circulation Changes in Response to Aerosol Forcing
Recent acceleration of European summer warming compared to extratropical Northern Hemisphere is linked to a reduction of aerosol emissions The increase in summer temperatures and Quasi-stationary...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 25, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Alarmists in despair, it's not CO2... ☀️☀️☀️
"In particular, the reduction of sulfate emissions over Europe starting from 1980 is associated with changes in the atmospheric circulation and an additional warming over Europe."
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"In particular, the reduction of sulfate emissions over Europe starting from 1980 is associated with changes in the atmospheric circulation and an additional warming over Europe."
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Stuff you won't easily find on bsky.
'Climate-alarmist Danish paper finally admits the obvious: a power system full of wind turbines is worth nothing when the wind stops blowing.
Neither Norway nor Sweden wants to pay sky-high electricity prices to subsidize Denmark’s bad...'
x.com/BjornLomborg...
'Climate-alarmist Danish paper finally admits the obvious: a power system full of wind turbines is worth nothing when the wind stops blowing.
Neither Norway nor Sweden wants to pay sky-high electricity prices to subsidize Denmark’s bad...'
x.com/BjornLomborg...
Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) on X
Climate-alarmist Danish paper finally admits the obvious:
A power system full of wind turbines is worth nothing when the wind stops blowing.
Neither Norway nor Sweden wants to pay sky-high electrici...
x.com
July 24, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Stuff you won't easily find on bsky.
'Climate-alarmist Danish paper finally admits the obvious: a power system full of wind turbines is worth nothing when the wind stops blowing.
Neither Norway nor Sweden wants to pay sky-high electricity prices to subsidize Denmark’s bad...'
x.com/BjornLomborg...
'Climate-alarmist Danish paper finally admits the obvious: a power system full of wind turbines is worth nothing when the wind stops blowing.
Neither Norway nor Sweden wants to pay sky-high electricity prices to subsidize Denmark’s bad...'
x.com/BjornLomborg...
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Vibrant Wings: A Hummingbird’s Pink Moment
#Art #SynthArt #AnnaBArt
#Hummingbird #NatureInFocus #WildlifeInMotion #ColorOfNature
#Art #SynthArt #AnnaBArt
#Hummingbird #NatureInFocus #WildlifeInMotion #ColorOfNature
July 21, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Vibrant Wings: A Hummingbird’s Pink Moment
#Art #SynthArt #AnnaBArt
#Hummingbird #NatureInFocus #WildlifeInMotion #ColorOfNature
#Art #SynthArt #AnnaBArt
#Hummingbird #NatureInFocus #WildlifeInMotion #ColorOfNature
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🌱 I love this sherberty four-o-clock that seeded itself in front of my house. It's a riot of color.
July 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM
🌱 I love this sherberty four-o-clock that seeded itself in front of my house. It's a riot of color.
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I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
techcrunch.com
July 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.
Solar energy episode #87654830.
Overcapacity-Shortage. Daytime too much electricity so 'giving it away' (usually still pay taxes) while in the eve the prices can skyrocket due to shortage
Private solar owners who deliver to grid, frequently have to pay fines for doing so during the day.Just great!
Overcapacity-Shortage. Daytime too much electricity so 'giving it away' (usually still pay taxes) while in the eve the prices can skyrocket due to shortage
Private solar owners who deliver to grid, frequently have to pay fines for doing so during the day.Just great!
July 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Solar energy episode #87654830.
Overcapacity-Shortage. Daytime too much electricity so 'giving it away' (usually still pay taxes) while in the eve the prices can skyrocket due to shortage
Private solar owners who deliver to grid, frequently have to pay fines for doing so during the day.Just great!
Overcapacity-Shortage. Daytime too much electricity so 'giving it away' (usually still pay taxes) while in the eve the prices can skyrocket due to shortage
Private solar owners who deliver to grid, frequently have to pay fines for doing so during the day.Just great!
Here you go Mary @ emgeekay. bsky. social
Btw isn't it a bit sad you've disabled quotes and comments? So we go like this for your post...tinyurl.com/2sjwukdd
And some info to learn about...
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Btw isn't it a bit sad you've disabled quotes and comments? So we go like this for your post...tinyurl.com/2sjwukdd
And some info to learn about...
oceaninfo.com/ocean/conser...
How Offshore Wind Farms Affect Marine Life - Ocean Info
Offshore wind farms impact marine life through noise pollution, habitat disruption, and ecosystem changes. Learn how this affects marine life.
oceaninfo.com
July 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Here you go Mary @ emgeekay. bsky. social
Btw isn't it a bit sad you've disabled quotes and comments? So we go like this for your post...tinyurl.com/2sjwukdd
And some info to learn about...
oceaninfo.com/ocean/conser...
Btw isn't it a bit sad you've disabled quotes and comments? So we go like this for your post...tinyurl.com/2sjwukdd
And some info to learn about...
oceaninfo.com/ocean/conser...
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Sunrise on the Columbia River on the summer solstice.
July 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Sunrise on the Columbia River on the summer solstice.