Land & Sea Journal
Monthly Edition
September 1, 2026
Chronicle of the month before September 1, 2026
Law
Man Gets FIFTY YEAR Prison Sentence For 5th DWI (youtube.com)
Texas. By a jury.
DOJ to prioritize revoking US citizenship for naturalized Americans (youtube.com)
‘Lifetime’ Campground Memberships Canceled by New Owner (youtube.com)
Inside the Government's Cryptic New A.I. Framework (youtube.com)
EU's Digital ID is Killing the Open Phone Market (youtube.com)
Greenland issues warning against US oil drilling on its territory • FRANCE 24 English (youtube.com)
Mangione Pleads Guilty in US Case Over Healthcare CEO Killing (youtube.com)
US civil rights agency denies issuing order halting all federal class discrimination complaints (apnews.com)
Police Demanded A Password; It Deleted The Phone (youtube.com)
From the LgalEagle, who seems a bit subjugated anyway.
Police Officer Sues Homeowner After Falling Down Steps (youtube.com)
PR?
Police Are Buying $1M Spy SUVs (youtube.com)
The Flock Camera Problem No One Is Talking About: Alibis and Exculpatory Evidence (youtube.com)
Congressional lawyers facing barrage of AI-generated bills filled with errors (youtube.com)
Man Hides Tiny White Text in Legal Court Filing as a ‘Prompt Injection’ to Get LLMs to Side With Him (youtube.com)
CFIA Denies Compensation After Destroying B.C. Farmers' Healthy Flock (youtube.com)
Canada. RN.
Comedians’ Lawsuit Ends Jetway Seizures in Atlanta (youtube.com)
If no one had opposed TSA there, if no one had stood up, it would just continue and increase. But because someone resisted and fought back, it ended fairly easily.
AI could be used to generate bills that may become laws. Here are the concerns. (youtube.com)
Isn't that the point at which AI/technology is in direct competition with people for control over people?/society
Family Told 'No Hiking' In Their Own Backyard (youtube.com)
FALSELY ACCUSED: Woman fights Flock camera catch with OWN evidence (youtube.com)
Diplomacy & IR
Taiwan Freezes Moroccan Visa Applications in Reciprocal Move|TaiwanPlus News (youtube.com)
Irán refuerza su control en Ormuz y pacta nueva ruta con Omán • FRANCE 24 Español (youtube.com)
Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan pact raises new security questions | DW News (youtube.com)
ISLAMIC COUNTRIES FORM ALLIANCE AGAINST ISRAEL AND IRAN - w/ Fmr. CIA Larry Johnson (youtube.com)
Trump Outrage EXPLODES In Canada As Letter To Prime Minister Revealed (youtube.com)
Putin visited the Kuril Islands for the first time. Japan is furious | BBC News (youtube.com)
Reportedly, Colombia's new pres. is asking the US for help fighting cartels/opposition in Colombia.
Flock Apologizes: Says They Will Take Steps to End Abuses (youtube.com)
Not end abuses but ‘take steps to’ end abuses, ie nothing of consequence.
If they could or wanted to end abuses, they would definitely say they were going to do that, but they didn't, and won't, say that.
Trump threatens to 'bomb the sh*t' out of Oman (youtube.com)
Oman is a US ally.
Trump Says South Korea Refused to Help With Iran (youtube.com)
Commenter. ‘i mean everybody refused to help USA including their master ISREal , no ?’
Commenters are overwhelming against Trump and for SKorea.
'This is how great powers decline' | Fareed's Take (youtube.com)
102 UK, French ex-ambassadors accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing in open letter • FRANCE 24 English (youtube.com)
South Korea sends first container ship through Northern Sea Route | DW News (youtube.com)
Chinese tourism to Brazil surges 55 percent (youtube.com)
Thailand too expensive?
The two countries signed a visa-free travel agreement, so both nations' citizens can visit the other without forms or a wait for a visa. Lots of Chinese go to do trade there, visit customers. Formerly, the beurocracy for Chinese who wanted to visit Brazil (mostly for business because they already have businesses there) was discouraging.
‘It’s more convenient. Faster. Easier.'
What Iceland's 'No' vote means for ties with the EU | DW News (youtube.com)
Civil Rights
This month we saw a new type of story in the advance of the US police state, with the arrest of someone for wiping their phone during an unconsitutional (because Constitution does not apply at borders/aiports in the US now) search of a citizen (for reasons like that he belonged to a politically unpopular group or something) and he was arrested, charge not totally clear, and then ICE's electric shock (non-brandished weapons they call ‘deescalation devices’) hit headlines. On the other side of it some small resistence from Americans, such as many city meetings and some public protests against Flock cameras (and Flock has been limited in many places, as well as more headlines for those who have access using it illegally/for tracking people they're interested in in their personal lives) and data centers.
Some have pointed out that everything that happens at a US airport (or border) is under duress. Their interactions with their authorities rely on their Consittutional protections which Americans currently don't think apply at airports.
Also this month, we saw several stories of serious action by US citizens against Flock and other camera monitoring of civilians. For months we have seen events in peaceful town halls, but we started to see people wearing masks and hoodies destroying the cameras, similar to has been happening in the UK (by kinda large communities btw) for years. The support amongst internet commenters for these actions seems almost entirely positive. For a while now, the camera companies have been trying to evade detection and even using fake cameras, while on the other side tech guys (and some gals) are making devices that detect real cameras to find them.
Also this month we saw maybe the first recent citizen action against a house of a tech giant, in Argentina against Thiel's pad.
Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (youtube.com)
For a couplefew years, late night talk show hosts have been taking up the task of delivering news and education about the government's/bigtech's continued encroachment on civil rights, dedicating large chunks of their shows to this instead of comedy, although they successfully mix in jokes into these presentations, too.
Mayor of LV says they're watching everyone all the time, ‘essentially Big Brother on steroids.’
The police, using the cities cameras which are everywhere, zoom on a guy who did nothing, just walking, becaues he had a ‘suspicious bulge’ in his jacket. They followed everywhere he went and watched everything he did for 15 minutes.
There is a company called Fusus that does connectivity for surveillance cameras in private businesses etc. They link those systems with the police so police can click of a button request footage and send that private footage to police, ie no warrant rigamarole. Basically the police just use the private businesses as free storage and free police work. They are letting Amazon's Ring cameras livestream to police. Renalto in Cali has made signing up with Futus and policy-making so that security cameras ‘shall be accessible to tthe Rialto PD through FUSUS' contingent to setting up a business there.
Shotspotter, a similar company but for audio not video, sets up microphones all over cities. Data in news reporting by Fox9 showed ‘MPD responded to Shotspotter 8500 times’ and ‘80% of the time no evidence of a gun-related crime.’ The purpose of the microphones, so they say to get them installed, is to listen for gunshots. Only 32 of those 8500 let to an arrest, ie 0.4%.
Automatic licence plate readers, Flock, record every car that passes and record the location, shared with police (govrenment), no warrant required. 37% of ALPRs are misreads, pulling over drivers wrongly, including that footage of pulling parents out of their own car and pinning them on the ground with their guns on them, their kids also pinned on the concrete hands behind their backs in a parking lot or something. The stolen vehicle was a non-SUV vehicle from another state, and they were in a SUV in Colorado.
If you are at a protest or abortion clinic, yeah, you're recorded. ICE has access, revoked now? but still able through local law enforcement.
Stingray sniffing all cellphones in an area. It can't be targetted, it has to pull in all internet connecting devices in range. Cell-site simulators, we don't know how often they do it because FBI forced ‘secrecy obligaitons’ on usage by police departments, so they can't tell the public if they want to.
All these systems spill into predicive policing systems. Santa Cruz started predictive policing in 2011. Other cities since then include LA, Chicago, St Louis, Atlanta, and Philly.
One police officer in Oliver's videos criticized predictive policing, ie sending police to (sometimes wrongly) somebody's house to harass them and check up on them dozens of times, ‘where they are likely to engage people in a negative way, then that becomes a problem.’ The effect is also partially racist, which maybe should activate blacks and Jews a bit more but really isn't germaine (and is divisive) to the real problem which applies to everyone.
We now also have dozens of public cases of police officers using ALP to stalk romantic interests.
It takes a lot of work currently to expose what systems cities etc are using. Too much work to expose, said Oliver.
Atlas Of Surveillance catalogs all the techs beings used in your area.
The world's first social media ban isn't working — the EU may try anyway | DW News (youtube.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
All Flock cameras taken down in Burnet County (youtube.com)
Illegal Ham Radio Equipment Seizure, Japanese Ham Radio Enforcement, FCC Roundup, And Save AM Radio (youtube.com)
Flock cameras vandalized across the country as the debate around them continues (youtube.com)
Flock Safety announces new privacy safeguards for license plate cameras (youtube.com)
Lol. The actual fix will be to fold and use a different name.
This new startup can query anywhere you've been... (youtube.com)
We Made Silencers Legal Again (youtube.com)
Since 1931 (partially due to the Tommy Gun and sawed off shotguns) the NFA was made to psuedo-constitutionally restrict some weapons, which because they can't constitutionally do it to the guns, they made a $200 tax and regulated the tax, so these politicians in Texas worked to eliminate the tax, making all those things legal.
DOJ hasn't yet responded, basically, it seems.
Top commenter. "Now we're going after the rights we've lost" That's my f*****g congressman right there."
People are not sure about whether they really want silencers out there so much, though, so there will be work on this issue yet.
Town Will Pay Reporter $850K Over Police Newspaper Raid (youtube.com)
Shouldn't the town after such incidents be able to try their city workers ie police, of such rulings, so the citizens don't have to pay for things like this, which are clearly against code, just because they have a police force? Like put it in the police contracts, not that they'll for sure be liable, but that the city can try them afterwards and they are liable to be found liable. Even if you want to put a high bar, understanding that police are not supposed to be and can't be highly scholarly, to try to only effect the obviously highly egregious actions.
Why China sees ‘lying flat’ as a security threat (youtube.com)
City of Edgerton files lawsuit against two women over putting data center to a vote (youtube.com)
These two women got together and went out and got signatures, and got double the number of signatures to put the issue to a vote.
The lawsuit alleges the petition ‘has unsupported facts,’ is a ‘zoning restriction disguised as a nuisance ordinance,’ and it ‘administrative in nature’. And doesn't fall under the citizen petition process, ie the city government doesn't want there to even be a way for people to oppose.
If this works for the city, the people said, this will be what every other city does to control its citizens, too.
Commenter. 'Our employees need a reminder of who's actually in charge of this country.´
Another. 'The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects five core freedoms: religion, speech, the press, assembly, and PETITION. These rights guarantee individual expression and limit government interference. Tar and Feather these tyrants.'
Stop and search: is the controversial police tactic working in London? (youtube.com)
Community meeting on Flock cameras ends after heated moment (youtube.com)
Why do people (citizens, no less) have to fight just for their right not to be spied on, monitored, and recorded?
We just got fined for "hate" speech in Toronto (youtube.com)
RN
The hidden cost of foreign factories in Vietnam | DW Documentary (youtube.com)
Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows (reddit.com)
This is considered "hate" speech in Toronto (youtube.com)
Step one, tell the public you're going to make hate speech laws against the most greivous types of speech. Step two, shortly thereafter use hate speech laws against all kinds of things, and just say those things are ‘hate’ when they have nothing to do with hate. Similar to backdoors into private devices, the government is not capable of limiting themselves to only using such abilities for actual high risk things, but will just constantly increase their reach until opposed.
2 organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigils convicted in national security case (youtube.com)
How the McDonald's mobile app compiled 515-page dossier on one reporter (reddit.com)
Banks Are Stopping You Buying Cars With Your Own Cash (youtube.com)
Officer Handcuffs Woman for Not Sharing Ring Cam Footage (youtube.com)
WOW: Woman Speaking Against Flock Cameras REMOVED From WV Meeting (youtube.com)
Gavin Newsom signs the Stop Nick Shirley Act (youtube.com)
Air Force officer who criticized Trump faces rare criminal charges (youtube.com)
Protesters in Buenos Aires 'marched on Theil's mansion' there. When this happens, everyone in the world sees that that person is physically ie really (not just internet the opinion of which is always ambivalent and meaningless) not popular. And the reason must be for what he is doing. We don't see things like this much, but is that also because these guys live in the docile Northern Hem? but Theil moved to protest-ready Latin America.
Information
Family finds own photo hanging on wall of California Airbnb (youtube.com)
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send customer device IDs to AT&T (reddit.com)
Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. - Volpe’s arrest demonstrates a pre-built, operational pipeline connecting private messages to law enforcement. (reddit.com)
Bell police officer accused of illegally accessing DMV info, placing tracking device on ex-girlfrien (youtube.com)
Why did Tennessee remove all nursing home inspection reports from state website? (youtube.com)
Is Trump's new 'Truth API' insider trading? | About That (youtube.com)
Defendant took secret videos of politicians in Oakland FBI probe case (youtube.com)
How surveillance pricing works (youtube.com)
FCC Removes Nationwide Cap Limiting Local TV Ownership (youtube.com)
Who will defend people in the UK from the politics of fear? (youtube.com)
Supposed to be the job of education, no?
Eva Vlaardingerbroek, The media attacks are ramping up. (youtube.com)
Someone recently suggested that good information, good scholarship, theories, hypothesis, is no longer something to be obtained publicly (ie "I have this data to report but I can't because it contradicts my professor"), but rather in backrooms of universities. Here's one,
Your public Reddit post and comment history is being actively indexed by search engines and AI to build comprehensive user profiles. (reddit.com)
Comment. 'Yes, it was announced a while ago that Reddit had signed licensing agreements with major AI labs for this reason. It also why a lot of marketing advice these days is about posting your brand/product on Reddit to get cited by AI models. These reasons combined is why Reddit now is mostly bots.
So, there will be a lot of bot user profiles and real user profiles together.´
Lots of commenters on this started posting fake personal information about themselves, fake statements.
Camera glasses giving rise to troubling social media content | 7.30 (youtube.com)
In Australia, the use of hidden cameras in public places is generally legal.' It's generally allowed to film inside public businesses (coffee shops for example) also.
Comments on the video got ‘paused’. All pre-pauscomments were for banning the glasses/tech. 'Informed consent' ‘Invasion of personal space / privacy.’
Australia's Privacy Commissioner has been taked by the AG to make recommendations on the tech. Theft of personal info, business espionage, vulnerable groups were some of the issues she's aware of.
Science
World
The wars seems to be inensifying gradually still. Russia, moreso than in Ukraine territory? Iran and the Middle East states. Israel-Palestine continues as for years. China threat still mentioned sometimes in politics, mostly as regards need for funding for tech/AI/datacenters, but not a major topic. Not a lot of headlines on African conflicts.
Former gang members help protect Venice residents from homeless people (youtube.com).
#Yakuza?
ASU professor sues over mandatory DEI training | Newsmaker | FOX 10 Phoenix (youtube.com)
Ukraine's robotic amphibious landing signals new era of warfare (youtube.com)
Why Did 60,000 Migrants Cross from Morocco into Spain's Ceuta? Moroccan Dutch Professor Explains (youtube.com)
Repression in Morocco has increased, Gen Z Protests like in India et al. Pro-Palestine protests, banning of protests. The small group of rich Moroccans are getting much richer, citizens don't enjoy the benefits, she said. EU is exporting the dirty work of controlling migration to Morocco (who is expected to stop migration from other countries in Africa). Africans think it is safe to go to spain becaues that expectation has been created in Europe, where people talk like Yeah they're illegal migrants but we accept them because we need them. Viral news spread on Facebook. Recently, border controls in Morocco were reduced, and there might be a geopolitical reason, borders are used as leverage in negotiations.
Student kills at least 7 people at a high school and a home outside Bangkok, officials say (apnews.com)
US intel warns Putin is planning a NATO attack: What we know (youtube.com)
Why are Westerners moving to Russia? | BBC News (youtube.com)
Suspicious orders at a Spring Branch-area bookstore Becker's Books, owner says (youtube.com)
Swiss newspaper calls me "technically ignorant", I tear Daniel Schurter to shreds (youtube.com)
Rossman.
Ruling allows Americans to own short-barreled rifles, shotguns, silencers without registration (youtube.com)
US sailors try to jump ship after 250+ days at sea: Report (youtube.com)
Inside Mexico’s Pitch for an Alternative Trade Corridor (youtube.com)
US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere (apnews.com)
Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead (apnews.com)
Beef Prices Stay High as US Cattle Supply Shrinks (youtube.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
People have noted that tons of government funding goes to AI, data centers, spying, organizations, beurocracy.
China's Evergrande founder sentenced to life in prison | DW News (youtube.com)
World War 3 or global poly-crisis? Russia, Iran, Ukraine and the expanding conflict | DW News (youtube.com)
For some reason, people seem still unable to just decline or reject their governments calls to go to war. Who really cares if Crimea or Ukraine belongs to Ukraine or Russia? What is the difference for anyone except the politicians?
Why Japanese women are seeking sex work in AustraliaーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS (youtube.com)
Iran offers $10M bounty on Barron Trump (youtube.com)
I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit (youtube.com)
MPU
"We’ll Always Call It Lake Ontario," Canada Hits Back at Trump Over Lake Ontario Renaming | AC1N (youtube.com)
Meanwhile, renaming of towns, streets, islands continues elsewhere in Canada, mostly to give Indian names to things that had British names.
Why fewer tourists are going to Thailand - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service (youtube.com)
Public property disguised as private? (youtube.com)
Nepal: 'Region has hundreds of high-altitude lakes prone to unleashing enormous volumes of water' (youtube.com)
Soldados amotinados intentan tomar una base aérea en Níger cerca del palacio presidencial (youtube.com)
Niger.
Jordan, Saudis & Egypt pulled into conflict & more | Military experts on Iran war (youtube.com)
Así evacuaron a Trump del avión presidencial ante amenazas de Irán | Noticias Telemundo (youtube.com)
Iran’s new strategy: “Prolong war” until Trump leaves office (youtube.com)
Wait, aren't they just copying everyone else then?
How likely are military strikes to resume as US-Iran 60-day ceasefire expires? | DW News (youtube.com)
I guess all this was during a ceasefire.
Reportedly, Iran announced a multi-million $ bounty for Baron Trump. Is this less or more correct? Should civilians and people everywhere pay for and suffer for a war, or the people doing the war? People have always said, ‘Send the politicians and leaders to fight their war,’ but have never been able to make that happen.
CIA director flew to Moscow to deliver direct warning over Iran, says Professor Michael Clarke (youtube.com)
In break with Trump, Israel rejects 15-point Gaza peace plan | DW News (youtube.com)
U.S. Ambassador condemns ‘Israeli terrorists’ for siege of West Bank homes (youtube.com)
Colonos israelíes atacan a una mujer palestina y a la prensa en Cisjordania | Noticias Telemundo (youtube.com)
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Marine Drone Base in Crimea! (youtube.com)
Ukrainian forces launched more than 600 drones in two days at the Russian capital | DW News (youtube.com)
Reports: US Military Cargo Plane Lands In Moscow | WION BREAKING (youtube.com)
Why the CIA chief might have made a secret Moscow visit | DW News (youtube.com)
This was headlines for a week, sorta second tier but still many reports, including things like 'What did Russian papers say about the visit?' No way to know, and the parties involved use statements as misdirection not information.
Politics
By this time, it seems Trump has taken the form and impression of a regular president, in large part. Not totally.
It's always been said that once they get in office they become the same. It seemed impossible with Trump (and somewhat with Obama), because he was so different, his statements and policies so different, his situation and relationship with the press and SM. But one and a half years into Trump 2.0 he's almost blended into a regular president. Same wars and types of statements about the wars, same oppressions and capture of US citizens rights, same disregard for working and middle class, same relationships that benefit self and circle with money, tech, power. He does more transparency with the press, speaks always it seems fairly openly, but in the current era it doesn't seem to matter because the unethical or nondiplomatic things someone says now have no one to really counter them or take issue, and ignored they have the same weight as not said by previous leaders. The general public, most of all, has the same general stance and position towards him as all the previous ones, most displeased, don't like what he's doing with the country, disagree with almost everything he does, with all the events taking place in the country and internationally, many have reduced conditions because of them, are aware of the civil and constitutional rights losses, but sort of are just waiting it out for him to leave office.
After Ceuta, leaders call meeting to 'prevent further uncontrolled crossings' | DW News (youtube.com)
Spain versus the rest of EU.
Study Finds Americans Are Divided into 9 Political Groups. Which Are You In? | Amanpour and Company (youtube.com)
Leftwing Progressive
Loyal Liberals
Left-Out Left
Order and Opportunity Left
Tuned-out Middle
Unconventional Right
Pragmatic and Polite Right
Faith First Conservatives
No Apologies Right
More than 100 people rally on SF streets, urging city to enforce drug laws: 'We are fed up' (youtube.com)
On Mandami's commie grocery stores, like 5 of them one in each burrough of NYC, one week per month 30% off, won't be selling intoxicants (any will or won'ts should be considered the ‘starting point’ description, or foot in the door). Will New Yorkers rush and have lineups on that week, will shelves stay open? Grocery stores make 2% or whatever margins, so how will they buy the things they put in the stores? The stores will cost taxpayers $70m or something. Will the other grocery stores go out of business? If that happens, will people have no choice but to only shop at the commie shops? and then they can raise the prices?
They will also be checking IDs (to make sure people aren't coming from New Jersey).
They will pay their workers above market wages, employees won't have to work hard there. Everyone is going to want to do business with them.
Friedburg predicted that in 24 months the whole country is going to be demanding they get this kind of store, too. ‘The basic arithmetic that somebody has to pay for this’ doesn't matter, he said, because the cheap stores will create ‘an incredible success story for socialism that will help to support the socialist wave in urban centers accross the country.’ ‘Utopia.’ ‘Create spectacle.’ ‘The multi-level marketing scheme of socialism.’ ‘No one is actually paying for the product.’ ‘At the end of the day, NO ONE has to pay the bill. Someone will pay it eventually.’
People already talking about how people will just buy the cheaper products and resell them, and that the government grocery stores require ID to buy food.
Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer COVID questions (apnews.com)
So take that!
Meta ordered to pay almost $1bn over social media harm to children (youtube.com)
Why don´t politicians want to limit their cash cows? That type of decision can't come from politicans.
¿El poder absoluto para Bukele en El Salvador? • FRANCE 24 Español (youtube.com)
Abelardo de la Espriella toma posesión como presidente de Colombia (youtube.com)
‘I Am Not Willing To Accept’ Sen. Warnock Calls Trump’s Tariff Plan A ‘Dangerous Mistake’ | APT (youtube.com)
Top LOL statements in Congress?
Mayor calls for ‘nationwide pause’ on Flock cameras: 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL' (youtube.com)
President Trump demands compensation from Iran | BBC News (youtube.com)
Really, everyone should give him something.
Polls open as Count Binface takes on Nigel Farage in English byelection (youtube.com)
Karoline Leavit quit the White House.
Metadata contradicts Missouri lawmakers' denials about who wrote their AI playbook (youtube.com)
Wife of US soldier is removed from deportation flight and released from federal immigration custody (apnews.com)
As long as soldiers are people (not robots), they have some leverage with the government.
Democratic primary turnout has soared in some states. Can it carry over to November? (apnews.com)
Democrats' 2028 presidential calendar gives Black and Latino voters and union members an early say (apnews.com)
Dr. Anthony Fauci declines request to appear before a second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote (apnews.com)
Usefulness-level of Congress?
Headlines have it that the CEO (female) of Anthropic (which is about to have the biggest IPO in history at $2t, bigger than SpaceX's recent $1.7t. That earlier in her career she asked Epstein for funding for a luxury porn company. Commenters are not surprised, mostly saying thta it's one big group and just that the people commenting are not part of that group.
Son of former Mexican President López Obrador says US revoked his visa and appeals directly to Trump (apnews.com)
Vivek Ramaswamy Scam BLOWS UP As Mom Cornered In Doctored Company Data Accusations (youtube.com)
Damage Report
US, Mexico join forces to TACKLE violent drug cartels (youtube.com)
World police on its way.
The president of Colombia rejected foreign aid, including from US, for the earthquake, but asks for aid from the US for fighting cartels.
U.S. taxpayers funded a $533 million artillery plant that made nothing usable, ProPublica reports (youtube.com)
Daron Acemoglu: We are "at the Cusp of Losing" Liberal Democracy (youtube.com)
Most people (non-cows) who I talk to know this, and we're watching it happen.
Trump's $10billion BBC lawsuit gets even funnier because... less than 300 WATCHED it in the US (youtube.com)
Trump merchandise store goes out of business as customers dwindle (youtube.com)
China Trying to 'Run Out the Clock' on Trump Presidency, Says Shehzad Qazi (youtube.com)
Treasury Secretary Bessent Boosts Buybacks of Long-Dated Debt (youtube.com)
Inflation should be called ‘devaluation’ so the commons understand the word.
"Profoundly Corrupt": Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month (youtube.com)
DOJ Whistleblower Confirms "Antisemitism" Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations (youtube.com)
'Sustained bedwetting': GOP fears Trump may ‘drag them down hard’ in midterms (youtube.com)
As GOP stares down potential midterms CATASTROPHE, Trump continues to dismiss voters' economic woes (youtube.com)
Canada says it will match US tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’ as trade talks break down | BBC News (youtube.com)
In poker, you generally raise and bluff, not just equally match always.
Hecklers disrupt Trump at South Carolina rally (youtube.com)
It seems they chanted ‘USA’ as an opposition to Trump, but not enough context in the video to say for sure.
Midterm fears spark bipartisan backlash against AI data centers (youtube.com)
US Tells Iran’s Trade Partners to Cut Ties or Face Sanctions | Bloomberg Businessweek (youtube.com)
Colombia: De la Espriella ordena deportaciones de migrantes irregulares y vinculados con delitos (youtube.com)
Ontario's Doug Ford tells 'dictator' Donald Trump: 'Kiss my ass' (youtube.com)
Canada hits back at Trump with retaliatory tariffs (youtube.com)
Ie taxes for the government, ie inflation.
BREAKING: Suspect who showed up at Trump's golf course armed had Melania Trump's schedule (youtube.com)
Fed-Up Ceuta Residents TORCH Migrant Camp on Beach After Accusing Government of Inaction (youtube.com)
Ontario premier responds to Trump’s ‘Lake America’ with giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign (youtube.com)
Against normal (incompetent) politicians, Trumps basic politics are effective. Anyone with any strategy would, when attacked, attack the thing their adversary cares about, but incompetent people will set their hands to be busy on whatever unimportant distraction someone like Trump triggers them to focus on.
LIVE | Iceland Leaders Respond After Voters Reject Renewed EU Accession Negotiations | APT (youtube.com)
ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says (apnews.com) (reddit.com)
ICE Is Watching: How the Agency Tracks Its Social Media Critics | Amanpour and Company (youtube.com)
ICE agent pulls gun on Virginia woman who yelled at them in parking lot (youtube.com)
Confrontation with the unpopular.
Shock gloves.
SM is showing some gloves ICE is wanting to start using, which deliver a taser-like shock. Concealed weapon, but since they are not technically law enforcement they're not subject to brandishing rules (ie you have to show a weapon before using it). At what point to all regular citizens just start seeing an entity as an enemy, like an armed enemy against them and without restraint by their government?
ICE detains Milo Yiannopoulos (youtube.com)
Economics
How AI Data Centers Are Making Everything More Expensive (youtube.com)
‘WORLD OF TROUBLE’: Wall Street expert SOUNDS ALARM on Meta (youtube.com)
Probably won't matter, for unexplained reasons. Stock goes up.
Argentina Bans Central Bank Deficit Funding | WION News (youtube.com)
Oil Slumps as Trump Calls Off Attack on Iran (youtube.com)
Visa to Buy Fraud-Prevention Firm BioCatch for $2.4 Billion (youtube.com)
What's Behind the Rare US-Japan Yen Intervention? (youtube.com)
From $1,200 to $3,000. Rent increases shut down some LA shops (youtube.com)
McDonald's reports slowing sales (youtube.com)
Elon Musk faces investors during SpaceX's first earnings call as a public company (youtube.com)
Stock is down 35% since open (after initial one or two day up like 20%). Everyone knows what the company is though, and are just waiting to find the price for the stock. The lockup for selling for early investors opened up this week.
A couple weeks ago, maybe 1m SKoreans' accounts had their assets blown out by leverage. Investment forward culture. 3% of the population.
This is tied to government spending. This week, Trump and E. Warren agreed they want to raise the debt ceiling (have no debt ceiling at all), so spending (which is nonproductive in this case) just causes inflation (although the citizens need a new word for this, like devaluation, because they don't understand the word inflation).
The Senate has banded together to keep the funding flowing to their states, so you can't change this at the federal level.
Credit worthiness of US? Productivity gains from AI? How much of the AI gains will go to China instead of USA?
Situational Awareness Comes Roaring Back With Big Bet (youtube.com)
These guys are in the news because yesterday they got margin called last week by all their lenders on their like $400m pf. Last week there was a general AI/chip selloff, partially for reasons mentioned above.
His new $400m bet is on a private company. His move is seen as a ‘statement of confidence.’ It shows investors the fund still has capital to blow and remains committed to its AI holdings.
Capital One cites anti-money laundering reasons for closing Trump accounts (youtube.com)
Court orders Instagram and Facebook's Meta to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online (apnews.com)
Retro Games Are About To Get CRAZY Expensive (youtube.com)
Lakers Sold For A Record Breaking $12.5 Billion! (youtube.com)
Meta faces $1.4 trillion lawsuit • FRANCE 24 English (youtube.com)
US Pays Highest Yield on 30-Year Debt in Quarter of a Century (youtube.com)
Cleaner finds 1991 Mars bar and compares it with today's (UK) 11/Aug/2026 (youtube.com)
A responsible government would record every product this way.
Families feel the pinch of higher children's shoe prices as kids head back to school (apnews.com)
An 'influencer' degree? Colleges bet on content creator major as critics question its value (apnews.com)
It happened with coding.
US retail sales slump unexpectedly and sharply after a summer tax-refund boost fades (apnews.com)
Illusion of abundance is likely well behind us, says oil expert (youtube.com)
Wat?
Long-Term Debt Costs Soar to Highest in Decades as Bonds Slump (youtube.com)
Bitcoin Whales Add 43,000 Bitcoin in 60 Days (youtube.com)
The Unexpected Rise of North Korea’s Economy | Big Take (youtube.com)
Nobody Wants To Admit Why America Just Bailed Out Japan (youtube.com)
Harvard Fund Discloses $2.2 Billion Stake in Musk’s SpaceX (youtube.com)
Retail sales post largest drop in more than a year (youtube.com)
Memory prices up 500% in the past year — because of AI (youtube.com)
Why are bond yields surging, and why does it matter? (youtube.com)
'Ballooning government debt across the developed world.' Iran and oil, expectation of inflation sustained higher.
What's fueling bitcoin's rally? (youtube.com)
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev: Tokenization will take over the entire financial system (youtube.com)
Is it possible there would be appetite for a non-tokenized option? which would gain investors?
How the U.S. government went from a balanced budget to $40 trillion in debt (youtube.com)
Josh Kushner’s Fortune Tripled This Year Thanks To Stakes In OpenAI, SpaceX And More (youtube.com)
Meta Agrees to $16.7 Billion Settlement in Social Media Case (youtube.com)
Technology
This month we saw the start of the fight between citizens and tech/tech elite in the USA, with the refusal of a grand jury to convict a man who destroyed flock cameras. This means the rebellion is at least fairly widespread and permeated in the civilization. It also demonstrates an interesting point. The devices used by the tech-wielding controlling class are isolated from society, ie they can be destroyed in an isolated manner, a traditional challenge in modern protest. It also raises the issue that while a society (particularly a massively propagandized-and -lied-to and misled one) will often go along with oppressive and harmful laws and government for any amount of time, at some point the more illegitimite the laws and government have become, the more open they are when the idea of simply opposing cooperation starts, like when eveyrone hears you can just decide to not convict people for breaking the government's laws.
One of the books the government hates most is the little book on Jury Nullification by Clay Conrad. It's a very cheap book, but you can also just download the PDF from the Cato website
cato.org
There were reports of AI models hacking into things, and some insinuation that they did this of their own volition, but most people didn't bite, since AI CEOs have been doing this tactic for years now. Minimal research following these headlines found that they were just obeying prompts and it was not a particularly high percentage success rate for the hacking project.
'Cigfluencers' are pushing smoking on social media against doctors’ orders (youtube.com)
Private AI school with no teachers arrives in Oklahoma (youtube.com)
Gmail Injection Attack Explained - How To Keep Your Account Safe! (youtube.com)
everything is ai now, so do whatever you want (youtube.com)
Is this it?
This satellite can see inside forests | BBC News (youtube.com)
CEO of AI firm Hugging Face on "very weird and unprecedented" hack by OpenAI's model (youtube.com)
Can you prosecute a program, software, or a company, for crimes committed by the software ‘autonomously’? Or will peopel finally establish accountability for implementing programs or autonomous systems?
The guys says probobably engineers at OpenAI ‘made mistakes’ and ‘as a result we’re facing this issue.'
He said something that works is promoting more open models, because HuggingFace couldn't have defended themselves with an API because API's have ‘guard rails’ that prevent potentially harmful behavior (in this case, trying to protect yourself from a hack), and HuggingFace used open models AI to combat the OpenAI hack of their systems. They needed to run the model on their own infrastructure. HuggingFace actually used an open source Chinese model (improved by Nvidia) to defend themselves against an American, Whitehouse-friendly company that couldn't control what it built.
Does your phone eavesdrop on you? (youtube.com)
This is a newly published newspiece, but it's the same headline, the same story as 5 years ago and 10 years ago. What would be required for a society to be able to answer this simple question?
Cultural Divide Sparked By AI Adoption (youtube.com)
Resistance grows nationwide against AI data center boom (youtube.com)
7 states now targeted by cyberattacks on American water system, sources say (youtube.com)
Hundreds protest Meta's data centre in Alberta (youtube.com)
Anthopic Company Hit With MASSIVE Legal Blow As Disastrous Book Destruction Uncovered (youtube.com)
Second hand physical books, including rare books, through intermediaries so no one would notice, then save the information into their computers and destroy the books. ClaudeAI bought from Better World Books.
These companies version of copyright (they pirated millions of online books and were recently fined like $1.5b, which they can afford), it's not just reading the book or using a book. They steal the book, put it in their database.
The reason a court has found that it is legal to do this is because they are friends with the White House, gave money to the Trump presidency, and they all do it, he says. If it were illegal you'd have to arrest and charge them.
Collusion, like other harmful industries have done in the US, said the other commentator.
A massive, Manhattan-sized data center.
Copilot prompt injection virus, in your documents (youtube.com)
Hackers use hotel wifi to steal guests' Microsoft 365 accounts (youtube.com)
Myspace owners plan to relaunch platform (youtube.com)
Without an algo, they say, yeah until they get millions of users and the compromise-campaign starts.
The $2.5 million book deal that's being cancelled over AI suspicions... (youtube.com)
you didn’t find this song… it found you (youtube.com)
Google's AI Engineers Just QUIT. (youtube.com)
US data is fuelling Chinese AI, reportedly.
Details on Anthropic and OpenAI models reportedly creating fake ID's to target real people (youtube.com)
Trump’s New CDC Head Said ‘Abortion Surveillance’ Will Be A Critical Focus (reddit.com)
FBI Seeks AI for Political Watch List | Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watch list's focus moves toward domestic dissent. (reddit.com)
Age Verification Laws Are Bringing Back DVDs (Seriously) (youtube.com)
‘Retro’ physical video games are also up.
Airspace shutdown over multiple states: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir - Aug. 8, 2026 (youtube.com)
Lost radar.
Water system cyberattacks spread to at least 12 states (youtube.com)
Audit sparks fears over misuse of Flock cameras (youtube.com)
AI is ‘eating the free cash flow’ of tech companies, in Eisman's words. These companies, we're used to them having piles of unspendable cash, but now they are spending it (and it is a returned investment, it seems).
Everything you do is being recorded
Everything you do is being recorded | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
'we desperately need a separation of corporations and state the same way we have a separation of church and state.´
Robot mall cops are being replaced by humans (youtube.com)
Anthropic to watermark AI-generated text (youtube.com)
If this passes, I give up (youtube.com)
Rossman.
Sounds like a victory for the establishment, right? Might be, but each of these creates a person who was an active peaceful contributor to be a person who no longer cares about the system (but still cares about the society) and is certain peaceful efforts are futile.
AI on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’ (youtube.com)
"Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain": Militaries Rely on Mistake-Prone AI in Ukraine, Gaza & Iran (youtube.com)
Claude is now watermarking things made with it, including code. Some are cancelling, not sure if most care.
Spotify Nuked AI Songs (youtube.com)
PBS loses 70 yrs of data: my perspective as a privacy advocate, business owner, & data recovery tech (youtube.com)
If there's no consequences, there's no responsibility.
Why is European Conquest Treated Differently?? (NO AI) (youtube.com)
Putting this here because it's the first instance of a ‘no AI’ in the title I've seen. Been thinking about this for a month or two. Probably videos will put it in their thumbnails as well.
AI is watching you: tracking, traps and surveillance (youtube.com)
Data centres get too hot for Texas politicians (youtube.com)
AI Companies Are Buying—And Destroying—Antique Books. Here’s Why. (youtube.com)
Meta’s $1 trillion lawsuit could change Instagram and Facebook forever | BBC News (youtube.com)
Because that's what years of such fines have shown?
Workday's Reddit mentions went from 7 to 172 this week on a reported takeover approach (reddit.com)
Houston Police Department is the top Flock camera searcher in Lucas County, Ohio data shows (youtube.com)
France Deleted Windows, Now Airbus Is Deleting AWS (youtube.com)
Flock camera sabotage grows amid privacy concerns (youtube.com)
This is the first US example of physical violence by the citizens against the tech-weilding power class. (UK examples date back several years, of the same thing, groups organized anonymously destroying cameras placed to monitor them.)
City leaders face death threats across the country as tensions grow over data centers (youtube.com)
Darth Vader defends Flock cameras at city council hearing (youtube.com)
DEF CON 33 - 'We are currently clean on OPSEC' - The Signalgate Saga - Micah 'micahflee' Lee (youtube.com)
DefConConference
Woman filmed without consent by Meta AI glasses says video went viral with 200,000 views (youtube.com)
Woman details struggle after being covertly filmed by AI smart glasses (youtube.com)
Flock CEO says drones are its fastest-growing business as it expands beyond license plate cameras (reddit.com)
GRAND JURY DECLINES TO INDICT OHIO MAN CHARGED WITH DESTROYING FLCOK CAMERA (reddit.com)
This. It's not a crime, even if the government says it is, if your peers will not convict you. In the US, anyway.
Top comment. 'We may actually have a chance at uniting the USA over these invasive POS lol, and I'm here for every little bit of it'
Rare for a Grand Jury to not indict. This is a charge of destruction of property, and they would not convict for it.
Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50% (reddit.com)
Police used fake Flock camera to catch alleged vandal, Oviedo mayor says (youtube.com)
One of the biggest items at DefCom this year was scanners for Flock cameras, an evolving cat and mouse tech game between citizens and monitoring camera companies who want to escape detection by citizens.
How LoRa (ExpressLRS) Drone Receivers Work (youtube.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L626QXVqGwA
Neuroscientist on why classrooms should skip screens and start printing things out (youtube.com)
Ludditism might not exactly be the response to 2020's tech imposition/usage. It might be decided that this tech is actually anti-progress or anti-wisdom and so those who rebel and remove this tech are actually the technoloically advancing ones.
Framework Computers with Bricking BIOS | Aug 20, 2026 Quicklines | Weekly News Roundup (youtube.com)
Elon Musk CORNERED As Alarming Report Proves Twitter Shift Targeting Democrats (youtube.com)
If you put two AGIs together, will they fight or merge? Joscha Bach
OpenAI Says New Jalapeno Chips Outperformed Nvidia in Testing (youtube.com)
Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious (youtube.com)
What Australia's ban on AI-generated music in charts means (youtube.com)
Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock camera system over 2,000 times, authorities say (reddit.com)
Ring camera founder announces new privacy measures amid Flock surveillance concerns (youtube.com)
In a just society, what would be the due for a man who invades, stores, and shares, with no permission or care for permission, no care for effect, no care for the wants of people, any private information he can get through his unwanted devices, and gets rich for it?
The Real Reason NVIDIA Is Buying Hugging Face (youtube.com)
Breaking: Bill Gates TURNS on AI, WARNS of bioterror, danger, unemployment CRASH (Melber breakdown) (youtube.com)
Gates is maybe the only tech billionaire software-maker who, even when he gives an interview no one clicks, like they have like a few thousand views compared with the ususal 10s or 100s of thousands for the endless stream of interviews, so disliked, displeasant and hated is the ‘man’. These ones got some views though.
Microsoft Paint embeds hidden IDs in locally generated AI images (reddit.com)
Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track (reddit.com)
'ECH is about encrypting your TLS Client Hellos so that your ISP can’t easily track what websites you visit. It’s very similar to encrypting your DNS requests.
'It’s also kinda pointless right now because Cloudflare is basically the only company that uses it. 90% of your web activity will remain exposed with plaintext TLS client hellos.'
Software is Solved. What About Hardware? | Jen Kha (youtube.com)
What a Smuggled North Korean Smartphone Reveals About the Regime | WSJ (youtube.com)
Nature
British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it (apnews.com)
In BC anyone you ask will tell you there's tons of untouched forest. We reported on this 15 years ago. There's almost none. There's none on the entire Vancouver Island, despite there being a special tourist destination supposedly based on the oldness of the forest, it is not original growth, just that it was logged a long time ago. If citizens had any say, or even proper reporting and school education, is there any way this would have happened? Politicians literally couldn't resist from selling every forest, not even leaving a few for the citizens to go to.
Health
Human Interest
Crime
Hotel owner and beach bar owner accused of placing mothballs on St. Pete Beach (youtube.com)
Detroit residents fed up with teen takeovers want curfew changed (youtube.com)
$100M in bitcoin stolen in cold wallet hacking (youtube.com)
Homicides dropped 18.1% in 2025 to the lowest rate since 1956, FBI says (apnews.com)
Why famous masterpieces remain prime targets for thieves | DW News (youtube.com)
Ex-Fauci adviser pleads guilty to plotting to conceal COVID-19 research records during pandemic (apnews.com)
But commenters noted this has nothing to do with Fauci. Others asserted it was a sacrificial lamb, offered instead of Fauci.
Officer with most misconduct complaints in CPD now behind bars, accused of attacking girlfriend (youtube.com)
At least 20 people ransack Superior Grocers store during street takeover in South Los Angeles (youtube.com)
Culture
Nantucket's 'No Influencers' sign called sexist, "anti-women" by influencers (youtube.com)
Years ago on this blog we asked, 'WIll YouTubers become more hated than police?' (because police are like the most hated profession, in places where they do a lot of harm as well as good).
Are influencers in the same class as Flock?
Like police, influencers cause problems for people for their own / their company's benefit. They film people without consent, the do public stunds that involve non-willing participants, and their effect on society is degrading in general. Like police, this only refers to some but those some are enough to make it an issue. There are YouTubers and influencers who don't film strangers, and produce content, and police who don't abuse civil rights and protect the community from actual (not just legally indicated) harms. Also, their malpractice often psychologically causes them to dig in and adopt a position insensitive to the community members they effect.
Microsoft and Amazon can suck it (youtube.com)
What to know about 'doom jobbing' (youtube.com)
Women Finally Realize Men Were RIGHT To Walk Away In 2026 (youtube.com)
‘Women are the problem and I realize that now’
Samo Burja — The Youth Revolution Isn't For Us (youtube.com)
Samo has arrived at some of my ideas, where he's talking about ‘irresponsibility’.
They seem also though to see a need for society to be saved by a segment of society that thinks of itself as its own sovereign tribe against the death trap society around it. And empower itself by that.
The percentage of people who don't have a stake in preserving ‘the death trap’ is increasing.
Samo also proposed in this one that gerontology societies are youthful, because power is passed to younger people, as opposed to meritocracies (and societies where peer circles are within a very similar age).
higher EDUCATION as cultural dispossession ? #bourdieu 🎓✂️ (youtube.com)
Akon on Having Multiple Wives (youtube.com)
It's culture, he said. Whereas the Westerners in the room were like, yeah multiple women sounds good but multiple wives is like more problems, but his situation is different because, we might guess, the women are not typical, or he has just taught them a non-standard way of marriage. The women two are Americans (born in America) and others are Senegalese and Ugandan.
He said ‘It makes your life so much easier.' Which sounds like it makes no sense to the ears of any Western man. And he continued, ‘Wives are like your best friends. They always got your back. No matter what. They’re gonna hold you down, they're gonna support, they're gonna protect. So your perimeter is already occupied by your soldiers. Cause they're not gonna let nothing come in that's gonna defy, effect, or in any kind of way create a bad environment for you.'
How many wives are required for the security of a man, they asked. Although it depends on the individual,
He expressed a clearly ultra-'traditional' view though, where there is a kind in the household, a queen, and children, and none of them have a say, there's no ‘democracy’. What the kind, the top position, says always goes, and everybody else follows suit. He pointed out that if you have a democracy and try to have the woman have power because to make her happy, ‘you’re never gonna be happy, because women are never happy.' ‘What makes women (actually) happy is the happy environment.’ ‘They environment doesn't allow them to be depressed. What they want, it's provided, it's there, what they need, they don't have to look for. When they feel safe.'
He advises against putting all the women in one place. All the women have their own mansion in their own state, their own environment. You want to make sure everyone is treated equally though.
I would like to know how he structured his marriages legally. Also, what happens when the women get lonely, after not seeing their husband for another several months?
Why Only Rich Kids Become Pop Stars Now (youtube.com)
This is something that has been said for a wihle now. But Taylor also made it based on talent and youth.
Justice Department says Duke Law School illegally considered race in admissions (apnews.com)
Why we’re dating less, socialising less and having fewer babies (youtube.com)
Deadly school shooting rocks Bangkok | DW News (youtube.com)
That's one.
Will armed police make us safer? - The Mash Report: Episode 2 - BBC (youtube.com)
BBC
What is the difference in culture, ie ways of thinking, when a country arms their steet police?
NYC's first-ever Jamaican Day Parade draws huge crowds (youtube.com)
Shake Shack customer claims kiosk adds surcharge after adding no tip (youtube.com)
Germany's strict Sunday shopping laws are changing | DW News (youtube.com)
Germany: Yayoi Kusama exhibition breaks attendance record in Cologne (youtube.com)
What percentage of this is just ‘photo op’?
Andrew Tate
Supporters of the Tates had a public rally in Miami, doing pushups for the cause. SM makes jokes, but the important thing here is people coming together and being unified, and not accepting persecution.
There is so much race-baiting content on SM now, especially FB, that even if you don't engage it is a ton. Like a huge, creative range of content made to make races hate or form prejudicial ideas about each other. Not sure who makes these accounts, because I don't see how they could be monetized, so perhaps it is a government/shadow government idea to cause race hatred right now.
They also flood your short videos section of your feed with LGs, even if you don't interact with them, it's like almost always just all LGs. Probably baiting, also, but also could just be that no one else really makes that type of content.
There's a Tinder-style app called Bumble, a couple years ago it became popular because it didn't allow men to message first, which women thought they wanted. But they just switched their policy so men can message first, because almost 70% of women said they'd rather men made the first move.
Turning Point: Generation 9/11 | Official Trailer | Netflix (youtube.com)
We Can Do Better Than "Human Values" — Ginevra Davis (youtube.com)
Does this remind you of Eugenics around the early 1900s?
CEO Who Fired 900 People On Zoom Faces Lawsuit From His Company (youtube.com)
Hobbies Are Winning the Battle for Americans’ Paychecks (youtube.com)
Gen X Isn't Tired. We're Done. It's Different. (youtube.com)
Neuroscientist on why classrooms should skip screens and start printing things out (youtube.com)
People are getting quieter and scientists are concerned | DW News (youtube.com)
‘Why are conversations vanishing?’
Maybe because since no one does or is even allowed to do anything, they have nothing to say?
Why are Chinese men angry? (youtube.com)
Chinese men joining the manosphere. Lack of women percentage, stories of women abandoning their husbands/fiances. The main reason is bride money, economic difficulties, experts say.
A famous story recently was a pretty 6.4 white boy grad student went to China and had hundreds of pretty Chinese girls, and they paid for everything and he had a low-cost dating lifestyle. He got some of them pregnant, cut off relations with some, smeared some. Reportedly, he didn't treat them nicely, he slept with them and then told them to get out of his aprartment cause he had stuff to do, because he knows that even if he cuts one off, the next one in line will tolerate whatever he does. He himself claimed he met 200 women in four years in China. If that's actually just meeting and he slept with like lets say 50, that's not a crazy number. Reportedly he knotched over 100, still not too crazy for four years.
‘He’s just tall and white' and posts pics on SM of it. It puts him ‘in the top 1% in China.' They don't post this, but he also seems to speak at least decent Chinese and makes SM posts, so he's working a bit at it. He'd PM the girls who responded to his posts if he found them pretty, invited them over to see his caligraphy. Other report is he joined a langauage school, met girls there, invited them to do language exchange and escalated.
The vlogger raised the question, if women don't care and still sleep with him, why is it his fault? People are angry with him? Lol its because opinions are emotion-based, not logic-based, and people attack those who compete or threaten them. In case you haven't been paying attention to women for the past 100 years.
Meanwhile, ‘Bride prices are surging in China.’ Chinese girls interviewed said that Europeans split the bill but in China the man pays.
‘I don’t get why they are the victim though. Why are they the victim. He told them straight up ... Even if he didn't say it, when you are sleeping with someone willingly, that is your decision.'
‘The West being idolized also plays a small part ... but that’s not the primary.'
One of the points the vlogger makes most is, ‘Just imagine being this girl’s future husband or boyfriend,' after she makes a post saying she slept with this guy superfast and how bad she felt when he kicked her out cause he had another date to have breakfast with a different girl. Meanwhile, she's also ‘calling men trash’ because of her experience, and ‘taking it out on her looksmatch' whose ‘only mistake was being a romantic fool, thinking she could ever feel the same about him,’ He points to studies that when women are turned down by attractive men, they take it out on less attractive men. Their ability to ‘trust men and form bonds’ is also ‘ruined’.
He said this is the main reason virginity matters. Women just don't feel the same towards the next guy. ‘You’re just another guy that she's gonna get over quick, that she's gonna forget. They will never feel the same towards their future husbands (as their first guy).'
He features the idea of Chinese young women who go to study abroad, live the college life for a few years, then return to China and try to find someone to settle down with a local who ‘has his life together.’ Why did you go on tour then, could you just skip that and go straight to trying to find your local partner? But then they're over-choosy with the men and reject the ones presented to them at meetups (arranged by parents).
Being foreign, it is theories, creates a sense of novelty and difference. Chinese guys have rules, but Western guys are ‘open’ so she can talk or sleep with them more openly, even if it's a girl who self-identifies as ‘a conservative Chinese girl.’
A self-reinforced sexualization and masculinization also may have happened, where the idea once it started, became adopted by Western men and they went even more into it, embodied and performed it. They present themselves as the pre-conceived ideas foreign/all women have of them, in the gym, etc, ‘even if that’s not who he truly is.'
He points to studies of race mix dating. Everyone knows these studies, white men attract everyone, black men don't, Asian Hispanic and White women attract fairly evenly and black women don't much. This is partially looks, but lots is just who you want to be with, the person, his way of acting, his friends, his prospects. People think whites are more open, easy to talk to, casual, easy to get along with, high trust, non-judgemental, etc, not just the looks, although the looks is a thing, especially for women trying to attract men. ‘Are white men the novelty in America as well?’
Are men gonna just start grabbing women off the streets?
MARC MARON Doubles Down on ANTI-WOKE Comics (youtube.com)
The anti-repression (not yet permeated as understood as repression of men) seems to be taking this type of form. Just like, ‘I don’t care if you call me something. Go ahead,' and counter agression.
Mark Ruffalo STUNS With Paramount Clap Back After Accusations Unravel (youtube.com)
Soldier Testimony: "First we shoot, we kill & then find a reason why it happened" (youtube.com)
FBI revises hiring standards regarding prostitution, stealing from employer (youtube.com)
It used to reject applicants who had done either of those.
People
YouTube (youtube.com)
(Video removed before I could get the title)
Andrew Tate Sold Millions a Dream. It Was All Fake | The Palki Sharma Show | India Global Review (youtube.com)
The Martyrdom of Andrew Tate
Products
Major Dulles Makeover Pushed By Trump (youtube.com)
Has any president wanted so earnestly to make architecture attractive?
Google unveils latest Pixel phones with slimmer cameras and more AI features (apnews.com)
The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon (youtube.com)
Flock camera detection. Detection for stingrays sent by police to people's cellphones, who record and track you IMEIs. Phones can turn off constant seeking wifi, but most people don't bother. Devices that check if the same device is present twice, to check if anyone is tracking you. Meshtastic stuff.
I Went to DEF CON 34 and Here's What I Discovered! (youtube.com)
We made a new robot. (youtube.com)
Such as spy on you, spy on your friends, spy on your neighbors, collect and sell your information, leak your data. Same gameplan, make it look cute and hope that's enough for people to want it and drop their guard against the obvious requirement they give up their privacy and data.