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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden
FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms | TechCrunch

FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.

TechCrunch
Change? They're terrified of change, because it challenges their power. What about we, the people ... dare I ask what happened to that?

Recieved a mailer about "fighting tax fraude" and a picture of a homeless encampment on the front. So I was suspicious.

From influencewatch:
Building a Better California is "widely speculated to have formed to combat a proposed wealth tax on billionaires in California"

Nothing in the text of the proposed ballot measure is explicit. The "poison pill" is the text that any new tax must both go to the general fund and "conform with current state tax policy" - which would kill the billionair tax through some oblique conflicts (the billionair tax is earmarked for healthcare, conflicts with "current tax policy" because there is a previous ballot measure that the majority of the general fund must be used for education)

So this measure would kill not only the proposed billionaires tax, but _any_ future special purpose tax. Horrid.

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USA: Executive orders signed, days since start Presidential term, post-WWII.

deeply disturbing... and according to the local story linked here, she lost her home, car, and dog while locked up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

#AI #surveillance #FacialRecognition

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

The Guardian

RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724

How about no, we don’t “pay people in Flooz”, but instead use the vast wealth of this second gilded age to reduce poverty and create new jobs? https://rgmii.org

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Under the Trump administration, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.

In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%.

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