Deep into the second series of the fabulous HBO Max medical drama, The Pitt, this line popped out from a character & I wanted to share it for its wisdom & poignancy:

'While every old person knows what it is like to be young, no young person can know what it is like to be old...'

That is not only a truism, but its a really instructive way of understanding the trouble that society often has with ensuring our older members have the best life they can....

#OldAge #politics #society

Don't stop asking good questions ... 🤔

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Tell me why?

"...No skepticism, no pushback, nothing. This is what we mean when we say the corporate #media acts as stenographers for the Trump regime. When the people who actually did the work say one thing and an anonymous #Trump administration official says another, and you just print the official’s version as fact without even noting the contradiction, you’re not reporting the #news, 👉 you’re laundering a lie for the #WhiteHouse."👈
https://www.meidasplus.com/i/203734028/more-trump-lies-exposed

#Journalism #Press #Politics #Lies #US #USA

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Text from article: So we’ve got the manufacturer, the people who actually built the thing, on the record saying this was a materials problem, and we’ve got an anonymous government official, defending a $16 million project that’s visibly falling apart on the National Mall, claiming sabotage instead. That’s a failing regime looking for someone else to blame for its own shoddy work, and lying about it, the same way it lied about paying for the granite walkway out of pocket. Meanwhile, NBC, NPR, and BBC all ran that NPS line as a clean headline, “liner cut with a sharp knife or razor,” sourced to one anonymous official, with zero mention of the manufacturer’s own statement directly contradicting it. No skepticism, no pushback, nothing. This is what we mean when we say the corporate media acts as stenographers for the Trump regime. When the people who actually did the work say one thing and an anonymous Trump administration official says another, and you just print the official’s version as fact without even noting the contradiction, you’re not reporting the news, you’re laundering a lie for the White House. This regime lies about absolutely everything, from tariffs to approval ratings to who’s paying for their pet projects, and when the press just repeats it uncritically, they’re doing the lying for them.

Trump is adding his obnoxious image to US passports. So it is absolutely the duty of every other country to make some sort of passport stamp that makes him look like a clown or more of an idiot or something. I'm sure Denmark is probably up to this task, but it'd be great if loads of countries did this. Someone spread this idea to those consulants that can make this happen.

#politics #trump #passport

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Proposed new page for US passports featuring a creepy pedophile asshole.

The #Pentagon Is Looking Into the #Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

https://www.wired.com/story/the-pentagon-is-looking-into-the-dialog-data-exposure-for-unmasking-national-security-officials/

#privacy #politics #DataBreach #Thiel

#DOJ Stopped From Requiring #Apple and #Google to Hand Over the Data of 100,000 People

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/06/26/doj-stopped-from-requiring-apple-and-google-to-hand-over-the-data-of-100-000-people/

#privacy #politics #EZLynk

Mariana Mazzucato's judgement on the Labour Govt. she once advised is withering:

'Fine, come in, say the Tories were shit, but once you’ve said it, move on!... You’ve got five years, so what’s your plan? What’s the positive narrative? It was always half baked … [now] it’s half assed'.

I've alway thought Mazzucato had the right ideas & approach, and was glad when Keir Starmer seemed to agree... but actions are more important than words...

#politics #economics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/make-people-dream-build-economy-common-good-mariana-mazzucato

Any Europeans that were in any doubt that the Tangerine Tyrant cannot be trusted in any deal-making, should now be clear.

He has said he will place 100% tariffs on imports from any country that (perfectly legally) imposes a digital services tax on any US corporations, explicitly *overriding* any existing trade deals.

Of course, the cost of this will be paid by US consumers, but will also dampen exports to the US from Europe.

Another reason to pivot away from the US market!

#politics
h/t FT

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President vs Parliament: #Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law

https://www.politico.eu/article/president-vs-parliament-roberta-metsola-overrides-meps-bid-force-child-abuse-law/

#Europe #privacy #CSAM #politics #surveillance #ChatControl

Are Your Local #Police Using #Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/are-your-local-police-using-flock-safety-alprs-scan-immigrants

#ALPR #privacy #surveillance #immigration #politics

The #KIDSAct Would Require Age Checks To Get Online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

#privacy #AgeVerification #politics #KoSA

As so often what once happened in a Philip K Dick book (in this case Minority Report) has now come to pass... here are Liberty's investigative journalist team on the worrying & expanding experience of predictive policing, and how it produces a large number of false positives when trying to predict criminality.

Once that has been compounded through police prejudice & bad culture, this looks not just unwelcome but positively dangerous!

#police #politics #AI #technology

https://www.wired.com/story/british-police-built-a-sprawling-crime-prediction-machine-some-results-couldnt-be-trusted/

#elections #israel #aipac #politics #democrats

“ A crowd at a victory party in Brooklyn erupted into loud, repeated chants of “F*CK AIPAC!”

This incident occurred at Claire Valdez's election night celebration, following her victory and that of other Democratic Socialists of America-supported candidates over pro-Israel Democrats in the New York primaries. The sentiment expressed is that Americans prioritize American interests over those of Israel.”

https://substack.com/@wajeehlion/note/c-282032919?r=17qxua&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Across the United States, communities are uniting in opposition to data centers to power generative AI.

I spoke with Saul Levin to talk about those fights and how they center on tangible issues that bring people together.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/334_data_center_opposition_is_uniting_communities_w_saul_levin

#tech #ai #generativeai #datacenters #politics #openai #anthropic

We hear a lot about carbon capture from the supporters of fossil fuel exploitation, so here's Ben Jennings (Guardian) with a suggestion many of us here would endorse....

Let's do some real carbon capture....

#CarbonCapture #environment #politics #humour #inequality

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Cartoon: Carbon Capture Ideas... shows reinforced wire fence with airplanes clustered behind it and a sign that reads: 'Private Jet, Impound Lot'

Gizmodo: Danish Privacy Activist Arrested for Posting Prime Minister’s Phone Number. “Danish right-wing privacy activist Lars Kragh Andersen posted a video Friday of his arrest by police in Denmark—a video that has now racked up over 8 million views on X. Andersen says he was arrested for posting his two favorite numbers, the social security number of Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette […]

The #Trump Administration’s New #Census Data Rules Are a Policy Disaster

https://www.404media.co/census-data-privacy-trump-policy-change-noise-infusion/

#privacy #politics

#WhiteHouse app auto-downloads to government phones, can’t be uninstalled

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/white-house-app-auto-downloads-to-government-phones-cant-be-uninstalled/

#cybersecurity #surveillance #privacy #politics

Where every major LLM stands politically

https://trakkr.ai/bias

#HackerNews #LLM #politics #AI #bias #tech #trends

White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/executive-order-bumps-up-deadline-to-move-off-quantum-vulnerable-crypto/

#cryptography #politics #cybersecurity #pqe

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics

Andy Burnham has appointed James Purnell as his chief of staff (in line with his expected coronation as head of the Labour Party, and by extension PM).

For those who suspect that Burnham will be a (modified?) Blairite, this will confirm their suspicions; for those who worry that he might do something 'radica'l, this will reassure them... Purnell is comfortable with the Blue Labour cabal.

For many on the Left it will confirm the Green Party of England & Wales as the best Left bet.

#politics

#Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

https://www.wired.com/story/dialog-hack-website-misconfiguration/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #politics #Thiel

So let's put the suggestion that the UK is a highly taxed country to rest.... those who argue the UK's tax burden is too much and needs to be reduced to promote economic revival, need to reckon with all the countries in the OECD who are taxing more that the UK's share of GDP but have yet to have seemingly descended into economic decline....

Rather we might want to argue that a better funded public sector might actually aid the escape from the UK's economic doldrums.

#politics #taxation

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Chart: Tax Revenues as a share of GDP - OECD countries Shows Denmark at top with 45.2% UK almost exactly the OECD average at 34.4% for full lists see: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-tax-revenue-as-a-share-of-gdp-by-country/

The New York Times is basically “Fox News for the Democrat Party,” and every bit as reliable as Fox News (as in they are reliably, constantly lying to you.)

I wonder if you count how many articles they have published that try to make Iranians look like barbaric womanizers, who are perhaps somehow worse than your average “kill any woman who gets an abortion” Republican voter, and subtract that number by how many articles they have which have of any of the barbaric things that Itmar Ben Gvir has said in the past 3 years as a direct quote in one of their headlines, what would the difference be? That should tell you the nature of the bais we see from the New York Times.

The fact that Mamdani got elected shows just how badly detached from the realities of the average New Yorker that the New York Times reporting really is.

And by the way, that first article title should read: “Israel violates Trump ceasefire, Iran moves to close Hormuz.” That would be a far less biased way of reporting the facts of the situation.

#USPol #politics #NewYorkTimes #MediaBias #Islamophobia #Racism

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A bot account called "World News Feeds" sharing two New York Times articles in a row: 1. "Iran makes moves to assert control over Straight of Hormuz." and 2. "Iranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab."

The United States sanctioned Chilean officials who were assessing a proposal to build an undersea cable between Chile and Hong Kong.

It wants to ensure South America data flows through cables owned by US companies, giving it the ability to surveil that data.

https://restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-america-google-cable/

#tech #politics #google #chile #china

I’ve been reading Žižek and Heidegger lately. Žižek labels himself a Communist (politics), Lacanian (method), and Heideggerian (ontology), so I asked Claude and ChatGPT how I fared.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/who-am-i?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=masto

#politics #philosphy #ontology #method #zizek #blog #video #podcast #substack #introspection #extrospection #Wittgenstein #pluralism #perspective #biography #rovelli #being #relata #relationships #philosopher

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Probably it is better that Christians stay out of #politics. All the governments of this world serve God's adversary. Their mark of the beast is ready.

When #Jesus was in Jerusalem, the Jews wanted to make him the king of their corrupt government. But he already is the King of all creation. He came to give his life as a ransom for all mankind, so they may enter his kingdom.

"I don’t care what the intention was..."
It looks like you suffer from a lack of empathy.

They put "trillionaire" in seventy-point type and left the dead out of the caption.

Most of it is paper — tethered to a rocket company that went public on a Friday. Here is the part the obituaries of his reputation must carry: his DOGE outfit took a wrecking ball to USAID -- The estimated dead so far: 263,000 adults and 518,000 children.

#Musk #USAID #Trillionaire #Inequality #FarRight #ReplacementTheory #Accountability #Politics #Billionaires #NewsAnalysis #Resist
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A federal judge just blocked the Trump regime from creating a database of millions of Americans’ private information — including Social Security numbers and citizenship status — saying the Trump regime has fed knowingly inaccurate data to states that are now “actively” and “haphazardly” purging purported non-citizens from voter rolls
#AureFreePress #News #Politics #uspol #breakingnews

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