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Polymarket taps Palantir AI to police sports betting before it's too late | Fortune The move is a reversal of the company’s previous stance that the platform could self-police.

A real Voltron of shit.

(S)hit list.

In the Twenty-first Century, Space is the New Railroad for Billionaire Ambitions Billionaires are playing a game of orbital Monopoly, writes Janet Vertesi.

Railway and utility monopolies of the Gilded Age required decades of regulatory correction, with lasting economic damage in between. Space infrastructure is consolidating now. Janet Vertesi says we need to think outside existing competition regulation to avoid undemocratic concentrations of power.

Silurians. And also Sea Devils...

"You go to sleep, the agent does the science and when you wake up, you have the results."

That's not how any of this works. You're not "doing research with help" you have sth. generated that looks like a research report. Without the research happening.

DHS wants to build a system to surveil Americans’ travel records Previously unreported documents show the agency has asked companies for input. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.

CDT’s Tom Bowman: “Travel records reveal an enormous amount of info abt private lives—where someone travels, how often they travel, and who they travel with—& expose [] personal info, incl. medical care, family relationships, political activity, or religious practice.”

Motorola's Project Maxwell Pendant Is Just the Start of Its Experimental Wearables Journey Of all the big tech companies playing with AI wearables, Motorola might just be the boldest.

It’s incredibly dystopian how pretty much every consumer tech company is going all in on the idea that we all should wear a body cam stuffed with a chatbot.

I know.

Yes, it's predictable, and the anti-HSR crowd are generally ignorant, regressive and selfish... however the proposed Alto routes are really badly thought-out, in many cases proposing stations miles from the cities they are supposed to serve and ignoring existing road and rail corridors.

No! We should rejoin the *European Union*. Just trying to join the "business" bits of the EU won't restore European citizenship and voting rights to the British people, or help shape the future of the EU in social, environmental, defence and many other areas.

Black rain: the health and environmental risks from Tehran’s oil fires - CEOBS Attacks on Tehran's oil facilities have exposed millions to harm, we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental risks.

Israeli attacks on four oil facilities in #Tehran this weekend have exposed millions of Iranians to harm.

In this post we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental consequences: ceobs.org/black-rain-t... 1/3 #IranIsreal #Iran #IntLaw

The economic liberals at The Economist reminding us that forcing free markets open via the commission of #warcrimes remains the preferred strategy of economic liberalism, a pattern consistent over three centuries now...

Why is China set to approve a new law promoting 'ethnic unity'? A law that could threaten the rights of minority groups is a sign of the direction Xi is taking China.

#China’s new “ethnic unity” law, to be passed this week, will accelerate the attempted forced assimilation of the country’s ethnic minorities into the dominant Han culture, according to academics and human rights groups. A piece by me:
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WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

"Zeteo just bought rights to the Palestine documentary the BBC first commissioned, then refused to air due to pressure from paedo zio-nazi worms
UK viewers should be able to watch it on Channel 4 for free
Non-UK viewers can subscribe with Zeteo and watch it there"
zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...
via BDS

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

'Flock Flocked up'

How a license plate camera misread unraveled one man's life.

Horrifying story of Flock misreading plates.

The driver was then mauled by a police dog while officers comment he is acting like a petulant child.

The license plates weren't stolen, and he was the registered owner

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Choice between liberty and mass surveillance comes before Colorado lawmakers Think of how many crimes could be solved if the police could investigate without limit. Imagine how much easier law enforcement would be if police could search anyone’s property for any reason and sei...

"What if every time you leave your home the police affix a tracking device to your car that allows them to record and store information about every trip you make to the homes of friends, the store, your house of worship, your work and everywhere else you go"

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

Watching a documentary on José "Pepé" Mujica, the former President of Uruguay, revolutionary & one of the kindest, wisest leaders of recent times... I couldn't think of anyone less like him than Trump. There isn't one iota of empathy, decency or wisdom in this violent, greedy, narcissistic fraud.

#Trump admits a #warcrime, and even says it was "fun." #Iran #USA

This Gen Z-created tool helps fight digital surveillance Gen Z For Change launches its "Eyes on AI" campaign against surveillance capitalism.

More of this please 👇👇
Gen Z For Change launches its "Eyes on AI" campaign against surveillance capitalism.
mashable.com/article/ai-s...

Read this, spread this... #Iran #Internet

International law is not dead The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.

Manifesto for a Free Internet Manifesto for a Free InternetIranian Women’s Coalition for Internet Freedom Today, people inside Iran are living through a near-total Internet and communications blackout imposed by the Islamic Repub...

This is "our" Manifesto for a Free Internet. We are Iranian Women's Coalition for Internet Freedom. Happy International Women's Day!
initiated by @azadehakbari.bsky.social @farzdusa.bsky.social @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social @royapak.bsky.social & Afsaneh Rigot

The explanation for most terrible things in the world: destroying people and planet is lucrative for a small number of people. And funnily enough, this oil executive isn't *really* even amongst those people, she's just a very well-paid intermediary who manages the revenue streams that flow to them.

Railways in Canada This is not a surveillance post. Or an Open Access Post. Or even a Science Fiction post. But regular readers will know that I am also very concerned with the climate crisis and, in common with most…

This is all very familiar! I've had similar trips, but it was thinking about just how "normally" bad Canadian rail is that inspired me to explain Via here (before the new High Speed plans were announced): ubisurv.net/2024/10/02/r...

Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters.

Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including:

6,668 civilian structures
5,535 homes
14 hospitals
65 schools

Well, congratulations to the US: after changing Taliban with Taliban, and Maduro with his VP, now they have changed Khamenei with Khamenei. Next time maybe improve your cover story for destruction of countries and killing people.

But I know that the start-up city / network state people seem to like it a lot.