Mastodawn

Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom

Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come

The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage

The Guardian

There Is No Spoon☕May 3

Molly Jong-Fast May 3

He grabbed us

RE: https://www.threads.com/@readingswiftly13/post/DX2cGNHmuWC

ReadingSwiftly13 📚 (@readingswiftly13) on Threads

Another day of the United States in the year 2026

Threads

There Is No Spoon☕Apr 17

Alice McPhotos Apr 17

This is a terrible photo, but I loved how all of the colors in the windows kind of made it look like a video game so I'm going to make all of you look at it too.

#FensterFreitag

There Is No Spoon☕Apr 14

Fedi.Video Apr 14

Pile of Stuff / Kenteh makes videos about electronics, repairs, gadget teardowns and craft beer. You can follow their account at:

➡️ @kenteh

They've already posted 80 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/kenteh/videos

#FeaturedPeerTube #Electronics #Repairs #Gadgets #Teardowns #Technology #PeerTube

Pile Of Stuff

Come take a look over my shoulder while I have some fun in my shop. It's going to be mostly hobby things I'm messing around with. Could be some electronics project. Maybe an Arduino thing. Occasion...

MakerTube

There Is No Spoon☕Apr 14

Jim P.Apr 14

TWSBI Root Beer?

Quark: Take a sip of this
Garak: What is it?
Q: A human drink. It's called root beer
G: Uh, I don't know
Q: Come on, aren't you just a little bit curious?
[G sighs, sips, & gags]
Q: What do you think?
G: It's *vile*!
Q: I know. It's so bubbly, and cloying, and *happy*
G: Just like the Federation
Q: But you know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to *like* it
G: It's insidious!
Q: *Just* like the Federation

Count me in.

#FountainPens #DS9 #StarTrek

There Is No Spoon☕Apr 13

James Gleick Apr 13

Agents of the US government arrested this woman and this girl, Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar and her daughter, Milena.

Their crimes? None.

Dr. Bolivar, born in Venezuela, in an emergency-care physician in McAllen, Texas, an impoverished place desperate for doctors. She has lived in the US legally for 10 years. She has a valid work permit, good until 2030. She is applying for permanent residency.

Milena, age 5, is a US citizen.

The cruelty. The stupidity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/us/second-venezuelan-doctor-detained-in-south-texas-by-immigration-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aVA.ISnh.Nt1Lr7Y_lA4P&smid=url-share

Second Venezuelan Doctor Detained in South Texas by Immigration Agents

An E.R. doctor was detained Saturday, just days after a family physician had been detained. Both were traveling when immigration agents took them into custody.

The New York Times

There Is No Spoon☕Mar 31

stux⚡️Mar 31

Cindy Cohn - Fighting for Digital Human Rights in “Privacy’s Defender”

Via @eff

#DailyShow #EFF #Privacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1aK7jfLo

Cindy Cohn - Fighting for Digital Human Rights in “Privacy’s Defender” | The Daily Show

YouTube

There Is No Spoon☕Mar 31

Max Leibman Mar 31

Good morning, Mx. Mastodonian.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the best toots on the timeline and boost them.

As always, should you or any of your mutuals be blocked or defederated, John Mastodon will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

This toot will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.

#MastodonImpossible

There Is No Spoon☕Mar 25

Ars Technica Mar 25

Google bumps up Q Day estimate to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/google-bumps-up-q-day-estimate-to-2029-far-sooner-than-previously-thought/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

There Is No Spoon☕Feb 5

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Feb 4

The SAVE act targets people who've changed their name *for any reason*. Ya know who's done that?

- Married women
- Trans & nonbinary folx
- Immigrants

You know which US citizens that leaves?

Mostly white men.

The SAVE act isn't trying to save anything other than patriarchy and fascism.

@amydiehl https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116008903793655443

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@[email protected])

SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters. https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/

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