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Architecture enthusiast and America’s #1 swell guy.

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Amazon denies that ICE can access Ring camera footage via opt-in ‘Community Requests’ feature “Ring has no partnership with ICE, does not give ICE videos, feeds, or back-end access” – but alarm bells ring over who can access opt-in ‘Community Requests’

Lying is the bedrock of any surveillance state. There’s no way ice isn’t all over these camera networks, and Bezos has no accountability to anyone on privacy issues.

Ring doorbells hurt democracies. It even hurts non-democratic states like the US.

www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/secu...

25.01.2026 23:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.

24.01.2026 20:49 👍 6405 🔁 991 💬 133 📌 22

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

08.01.2026 21:36 👍 3079 🔁 1069 💬 14 📌 12

Same company that did the tile work at the oyster bar at grand central did the city hall subway station ceiling. It’s lovely.

30.12.2025 05:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The airport has a top-notch space frame. I feel like buck rogers in there.

30.12.2025 05:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You realize you are manifesting the USS Lynyrd Skynyrd

30.12.2025 05:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bjork brought me a coffee once. It was very cold and early in the morning and it was lovely of her to do.

30.12.2025 05:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Makes me think about Winogrand saying “the photograph has to be more dramatic than the subject”. I don’t think that’s quite right - not everything has to be presented as “drama” I don’t think. Brohm seems interested in something else - “interest” maybe? Too vague probably.

12.12.2025 13:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same. This series in particular, since I really know the place, helped me understand what it means to clearly see a place and how that translates into a good photograph.

06.12.2025 00:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ohio 1983-1984

In 1983 German photographer Jaochim Brohm, on a Fulbright at OSU, did a photo series of Columbus, Ohio and environs. He nailed the assignment.

www.joachimbrohm.com/projects/ohio/

05.12.2025 21:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

don't mind me I'm just asking my graphing calculator if I'm pretty

21.11.2025 02:03 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True!

20.11.2025 14:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My whole life I’ve watched as Silicon Valley foisted on the world things nobody asked for and nobody wanted. Now it’s gone full serial killer. There is no line to cross it seems.

20.11.2025 14:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bros being bros

20.11.2025 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Melancholia” has you covered

20.11.2025 14:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ChatGPT Kіlled Again - Four more Dеad
ChatGPT Kіlled Again - Four more Dеad YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad

Caelan Conrad on ChatGPT’s nasty habit of killing human beings:

youtu.be/hNBoULJkxoU?...

19.11.2025 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NVIDIA Says We're "Fake News" | Gaslighting, GPU Bans, & Export Controls Update
NVIDIA Says We're "Fake News" | Gaslighting, GPU Bans, & Export Controls Update YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

Gaming hardware review channel Gamer’s Nexus on the black market for Nvidia’s AI products

youtu.be/dCGRXuINFz0?...

19.11.2025 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras
Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Electronic musician Benn Jordan on the security nightmare of mass surveillance:

youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ?...

19.11.2025 01:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Strong Journalism from Strange Places

As the corporate stranglehold on American media pinches the flow of truth to a trickle, the desire to tell and to hear truthful stories remains unabated. To that end, unlikely journalists have stepped into the breach.

19.11.2025 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

18.11.2025 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras
Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras YouTube video by Benn Jordan

that weird serveillance tower in the grocery store parking lot? yeah its doing what you think it’s doing.

youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ?...

27.08.2025 15:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Activist Grace Lee Boggs said the exact same thing after Obama was elected. Right after the results were announced she said (and I’m paraphrasing a little but this is close) “leftists need to stop looking for saviors. It’s very dangerous. We are the saviors”. She was a smart cookie like you.

01.02.2025 23:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess we all get front row seats to what’s slouching towards Bethlehem. Great.

19.01.2025 17:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

But what will this mean for the evil table dancing scene?

20.12.2024 13:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was in the backseat of the car, my two best friend brothers in the front whipping along a gravel road at an alarming speed. The elder drove as the younger blasted master of puppets from the boom box between them. Then without warning the elder brother tore out the tape, throwing it into the road.

18.12.2024 12:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My ten year old was downstairs listening to le Tigre and basically I think the kids can raise themselves at this point.

04.11.2023 01:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The edge is real

31.10.2023 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Halloween Column: Hexes for Your Exes Love makes creatures of us all

did i work inordinately hard on this post? is there a hex for rapists? did i delve into primary sources on slavic mythology for it? yes to all these things theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/halloween-...

31.10.2023 16:05 👍 122 🔁 31 💬 7 📌 5

Have I got a supplement for you!

30.10.2023 00:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Read this post, read this thread, and then read the newsletter, and understand that all but a vanishingly few of us are One Very Bad Day away from complete ruin - and that's the system working as designed.

29.10.2023 19:33 👍 58 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0