angry old man extraordinaire
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
New powers were slipped into the UK Crime and Policing Bill yesterday ⚠️
The police will be given powers to extract data from seized devices and any online accounts accessed on it.
No judicial oversight, just on the say so of a senior officer 😖
Read our response ⬇️
#CrimeAndPolicingBill #police #policing #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #SafetyNotSurveillance
Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to access to your devices and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill
Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.
It is basically textbook how the police and media behave during protest movements.
Situations where Trump wants to call up the national guard:
A. When 2000 rioters attack the capital on Jan 6, threatening democracy: Let's NOT do it.
B. When 1000 protesters (some of them rioters), confront ICE in Los Angeles, 3692 km away from DC, not threatening democracy: Let's do it!
@grrlscientist (Sigh, 17 for this years performers, it appears)
@grrlscientist Then hiding for 13 years, hoping the world is a little less f'ed up when you resurface.
Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image.
In Defense of American Tradition
You probably shouldn't call and ask if they have Chicken Tacos. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Ann1944 IIRC, "good" presidents haven't generally given any rights back once they were taken. They may pause the flow for a bit, but they don't reverse it.
The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please.
After taking four people into custody at SF's immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents' faces. "I have a request to ask if you would consider blurring...
https://jwz.org/b/ykol
To the “We accepted the Statue of Liberty so Trump can take the Qatar Jet” crowd:
1. The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States of America.
2. The Qatar Jet is a luxurious bribe to Trump while he is in power.
Anyone who can’t see the difference has lost the plot.
“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!”
- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.
“Brexit Betrayed!”
The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
@TheIntercept @justice-TheIntercept politics apart, why is Israel in european song contest? 1) why do they even want to?, 2) they’re not really european, at least turkey has a little corner of their country in Europe, but the same doesn’t go for Israel
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has lost access to his (Microsoft) email and bank accounts. Prosecutions are faltering now. This all due to US sanctions. 'Microsoft did not respond to a request for comments'. Yet European governments are collectively moving their email and files to Microsoft, risking similar problems if they ever upset the US administration. https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3
Imagine you scheduled a group brainstorming session to get some important work done, and one of the attendees casually mentions that they took LSD for the first time right before the meeting.
That's how you should treat ChatGPT output.
Why NHS ended up sponsoring US extreme right wing and the ideology of healthcare being a rich persons game as opposed to a collective goal is so beyond me https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/16/nhs_hospitals_palantir
🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.
@SuneAuken
It is. Also, the fun part that Trump will hate to be reminded of is that Pope Leo has about 1.4 Billion followers. Who's got MASSIVE CROWD SIZES now?
