bet ya 15€ that the reason the news reporting did that sharp close take that allows you enough time to read the note is that someone in the reporting team was a sympathiser

this might be the most universally acclaimed direct action since Luigi. forget reddit, I don't see a single negative comment in the youtube threads. especially the residents commenting on local news are all of the opinion that the surveillance cameras shouldn't be there in the first place and taking the risk to taking them down yourself is commendable.

> Across the nation, people are dismantling and destroying Flock cameras that conduct warrantless vehicle surveillance, and whose data is shared with ICE.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

cute date idea! fun for the whole family. introduce your friends to direct action! everyone is doing it. it's all the rage with the kids. even car drivers are on your side! taking over the country with rave reviews!

https://deflock.org/

for reference, this is what Flock cameras typically look like, and this is what Flock cameras can look like with your 🫵 contribution:

PSA for anyone who missed this that Persona, the age verification system used by Discord, Linkedin, Roblox, ChatGPT, and (in the UK) Reddit, is a USA-hosted service backed financially by Peter Thiel.

> "As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said. “And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office."

- why is engineer working before contracted time
- if engineer can do everything by cellphone why does engineer have to commute in the first place
- if Claude can do everything anyway why do you still have engineers at all
- if "no engineer has written a line of code since December", when are your lowering your subscription prices Spotify
- why is hypothetical engineer a "he"
- do you often merge Claude code to production without even a review, Spotify
- in unrelated news, Anna's Archive has socialised Spotify metadata and 6TB of music, Gods bless them https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/
- though I won't do anything with that as I assume everything from Spotify is "AI" "music" anyway and I listen to my bands either from bandcamp, soulseek, or just downloaded from youtube videos uploaded over 10 years ago.

> Toward the end of the performance, he shouted “God Bless America” before naming every country in North, South, and Latin America. Bad Bunny became the first solo Latin [AMERICAN] artist to headline a Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.

we will never let this go, if the USA people nuke the entire rest of America the last standing Latin American will never let the USA steal the name of the continent or the adjective "American"

Because it's 2026 and I'm still seeing this:

You're not an "expat". There's no such thing as "expat". You're an immigrant. That you came from a rich country doesn't make you any less of an immigrant than us.

like I feel like most people I know are afraid of going to prison because they fear being beaten up or raped while in there. I'm afraid of going to prison because what is going to happen to the bills and the apartment and the contracts etc. for my children if I don't have a job

I'm not afraid of violence on the streets but I'm afraid of bureaucracy. I feel able to deal with crises and extreme emotions just fine, but dealing with boredom intimidates the hell out of me

it's weird living in Europe or Japan because if your basis of comparison is Brazil or, gods forbid, the USA, it briefly feels like you got rid of carbrained cities and everything is so much better. but after a while you realise, nope, the place is still ruined by car-centric urbanism. it's just less car-centric than some of the absolute most dystopic urban hells in the world, but that doesn't mean it's good. the entire system still bends over backwards for cars and the cars still ruin everything

good morning! here's a tiny rattlesnake sitting in a bottlecap

I appreciate that this is available as an URL and not simply an option because it makes it easier to use it on no-history privacy browsers, devices I don't want to log onto, other people's computers etc.

DuckDuckGo adds a no-AI version

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

it disables slop generation and claims to remove slop images from the results, too. (I bet the second task is hard but at least they're trying?)