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We should be unfuckingup the ones we already have. Or is this an homage to the technocrats that want to build their own city?

"Trying to prove that they are not 'gay' seems to be the whole purpose of life for white American men."

- A Korean woman from the online.

ICE launches multimillion-dollar plan to warehouse immigrants

The Trump administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars putting into motion its plan to buy unused commercial warehouses for use as detention centers for those deemed unfit to live in the U…

The Mercury News
If you want to visualize what coastal areas (or coastally-connected areas, like the interior of SF Bay and the Bay Delta) may be inundated by various water heights (including this weekend's KT + storm + SLR event), you can use this NOAA visualization tool:
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/2.5/-13621182.096332407/4552693.007645565/10.000/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/noAccretion/NOS_Minor
If she backpedals hard enough, maybe we’ll end up in 2004.
https://mastodon.social/@axios/115731177653523640

Pete Hegseth is urging members of the military to embrace GenAI.mil, a "secure generative AI platform for every member of the Department of War." I'm sure this will be fine.

"I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. AI should be in your battle rhythm every single day. It should be your teammate. By mastering this tool, we will outpace our adversaries. The power is now in your hands."

I wonder who came up with their logo, which looks like a worm invading the Pentagon.

A man took two sex workers to an Oakland motel, only to be robbed by five people

He just wanted to have some snacks, he told police Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... OAKLAND — Four women and a man allegedly robbed and …

The Mercury News - Nate Gartrell

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

H/T to SNL
https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115583920470397853

The Conversation U.S. (@[email protected])

#OTD 50 ago, Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco died. Spaniards are still healing from the scars of his regime, and dealing with the intergenerational trauma caused by an authoritarian regime reaching into the most intimate parts of life. https://theconversation.com/50-years-after-francos-death-giving-a-voice-to-spanish-dictators-imprisoned-mothers-249931 #history @[email protected]

Newsie

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥

"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through Climate Central (https://www.climatecentral.org/)! And more development of this tool soon!

➡️ Explore our new interactive website at https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-services/billion-dollar-disasters, which is now updated through the first half of 2025 and totaling over $101 billion from 14 individual events.