A few points:

• no, I don’t think it’s paranoid to strongly suspect that the fix is in for the fascists. It is, after all, a rather fundamental part of their plan. And the regime’s first spin in office demonstrated that they are absolutely willing to (at least attempt to) use extralegal and/or stochastic means to force change outside of (small d) democratic electoral mechanisms.
• none of that means you should give up on voting.
• i am honestly not sure what will actually happen on the day of the midterms. But I am planning on getting some freelance press photography credentials, taking the day off, and bopping around to see if I can catch any ICEatzgruppen (or Proud Boys or 3%ers or NSC131 fuckheads or whatever other paramilitary group) acting up and disseminating that content. I’m not convinced that it’s going to be that much of a shit show, but I am definitely extremely suspicious that one or more of the aforementioned groups may try to pull something, and if they do (while I have no illusions whatsoever about my personal ability to physically stop or prevent them from doing anything), I will do my best to make sure they’re unable to hide while they’re doing it, and that it becomes a matter of public record.

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

“Reconstructed”? What does that mean here? Give me a repo link.

The USN has literal fleets of underway replenishment ships. It’s a concept they pioneered and essentially perfected, and it’s been done for decades. Logistics is hard, but the pentagon used to be world-beatingly good at it. Turns out that when you have absolute fuckwits running the show, they can ruin the whole logistical pipeline pretty fucking quick, though.

Nope - it absolutely correlated with the update they pushed last Monday. My 5G (and to a lesser extent WiFi) started dropping to <no data>/SOS all the fucking time. Super frustrating. I think an intern must have fucked the netstack in some interesting way. Or vibe coded it.

Hopefully it will also fix the extremely irritating connectivity bugs that came with 26.6 too

Burn it down.

Eat the rich.

That is so unbelievably pants-on-head fucking stupid that it’s difficult to even comprehend.

Tbh I’m honestly kind of impressed at this point

The prosecution also has a non-contiguous chain of custody on the core pieces of physical evidence. And the video, to my eyes, and without hyperbole, does not show the individual they claim it does.

My hypothesis on the origin of this development is that the defense knew the DoJ is refusing to play by the rules, and that this was the least bad alternative in a legal tactical sense.

Honestly, they should not ban them, and then just low-key encourage enterprising attendees to pwn the devices and any attached accounts. That would be delightful.

That’s genuinely fantastic news.

The skeptic, pessimistic part of me now wants to know how BlackRock et al will get around this with creative corporate and financial shell games, because I’m absolutely sure they will try to do just that.