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"The Tucson Police Department has deployed a controversial AI-powered surveillance tool that is also being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to scour social media, track locations and much more, according to documents obtained by the Arizona Mirror.

In August 2023, the Tucson Police Department signed a 28-month contract with Cobwebs Technologies for its “Tangles Open-Source Intelligence” software. The police department then sent a request to the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to get reimbursed from the state’s Border Security Fund.

In the reimbursement document, which the Electronic Frontier Foundation received in response to a public records request and provided to the Mirror, TPD requested the state reimburse it $277,500.23 for the purchase and installation of the software."

azmirror.com/2025/10/29/tpd-us…

#USA #Arizona #Tucson #AI #Surveillance #Cobwebs #OSINT #BorderPatrol #Immigration #ICE #PoliceState





💥 The #war_on_Gaza has not stopped, and #terrorist_Israel is bombing #Gaza neighborhoods on a daily basis, causing dozens of casualties.
🔹 The truce was just an anesthesia for the people of the world, to stop the global anger!





Healey refuses to tap $8 billion rainy day fund to cover SNAP, but doubles payments to food banks


The governor is releasing $4 million from another state account to double the state’s November payment to food banks. But she said tapping the rainy day fund would open the floodgates to other requests during the federal government shutdown.


#Affinity is now trending across Mastodon

#Canva is now trending across Mastodon




This online, free (and interactive) music theory book is really good!

#musictheory #counterpoint

viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusict…




iOS 26 leak co-defendant says Jon Prosser paid him $650
https://www.theverge.com/news/810656/apple-jon-prosser-lawsuit-ios-26-leaker-michael-ramacciotti-paid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Observing repeated correlations isn't enough to establish causation, even though it might be pointing us in the right direction. We need to figure out why one is causing the other if it is. We can figure this out through imagination and different observations. To become aware of that necessary relationship which is deductive in nature. To become aware of what is necessitating what. Something along the lines of if there is a water molecule there must be an atom of oxygen but for causation or necessitation. I say this while being aware that logic is relative to a degree or maybe just relative. #philosophy #metaphysics #induction #causation #cause
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in medicine they verify causation by checking dose dependence. Meaning if they observe that a potential medicine improves some condition, they know they are on to something, but it's not enough. If it turns out the result is independent on the dose, then the result was actually trash. I know there exist some other statistical tests for this but I don't know what they are.

Edit: might be a good starting point
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_i…

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@licho I don't know if that goes far enough for me or not. For me cause can only be known by establishing that logical relationship. Still, it works and I wouldn't rally against it, haha. Also thanks for the link!


eu sou o único que não precisa se fantasiar de dia 31 de Outubro pq minha aparência já é Creepy demais ,por si só 🎃 💀


I recently did this poster illustration for the Tunic: Design Works artbook (Deluxe edition) published by Lost in Cult!

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The version without graphic design, and the actual poster, that is made so it looks like an ad for an old Zelda game
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Watercolors for the background and digital for the logo and character


Absolutely ICONIC that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social went on Track Star and ... did not recognize Billy Joel. youtube.com/watch?v=LmqLZzRegV…


/ Gers, Mauvezin / Série « Arcadie - D’ici et de maintenant - La France, comme elle va... » France, 30.10.2025 / website thomas-catifait.com /
L’homme marque de son empreinte le territoire qu’il habite, inscrivant dans le paysage les traces de son occupation. Éléments vernaculaires de nos paysages, témoins du temps passé, révélatrices du temps présent ou supports du temps qui s’écoule, elles sont le reflet de la situation sociale, économique et politique de ceux qui vivent là. Cette série photographique, initiée en 2011, montre cela, constituant un "portrait de lieu", personnel et subjectif. Le "portrait de lieu" de la France d’aujourd’hui. D’ici et de maintenant.
Man leaves his mark on the territory he inhabits, inscribing the traces of his occupation in the landscape. Vernacular elements of our landscapes, witnesses of the past, revealing the present, or bearing the passage of time, they reflect the social, economic, and political situation of those who live there. This photographic series, initiated in 2011, shows this, constituting a "portrait of place", personal and subjective. The "portrait of place" of today’s France. From here and now.
#photographie #photographiecontemporaine #artistefrancais #france #paysagesfrançais #paysages #rural #architecture #petitpatrimoine #tracesdupassé #commercesdupassé #photography #artpicture #landscapephotography #frenchlandscape #ruralphotography #architecturephotography #storefronts #oldshop #dicietdemaintenant #moyenformat #sigma #sigmadp1quattro #sigmadp2quattro #sigmadp3quattro #leica #leicacamera #leicaphotography




"The chatbot company Character.AI will ban users 18 and under from conversing with its virtual companions beginning in late November after months of legal scrutiny.

The announced change comes after the company, which enables its users to create characters with which they can have open-ended conversations, faced tough questions over how these AI companions can affect teen and general mental health, including a lawsuit over a child’s suicide and a proposed bill that would ban minors from conversing with AI companions.

“We’re making these changes to our under-18 platform in light of the evolving landscape around AI and teens,” the company wrote in its announcement. “We have seen recent news reports raising questions, and have received questions from regulators, about the content teens may encounter when chatting with AI and about how open-ended AI chat in general might affect teens, even when content controls work perfectly.”"

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#AI #GenerativeAI #CharacterAI #Chatbots #VirtualCompanions #AISafety



Apple publica hoy sus resultados del Q4 2025 📊
Se espera más de 102.000M$ en ingresos y un subidón del beneficio por acción. Atención al rendimiento del iPhone Air y al papel de la IA en la estrategia.
¿Veremos sorpresa? 🔥
#Apple #AAPL #TechNews


#LinkedIn #Sales on my renewal call:

Sales: "First we'll demo our new feature set"

J: "Are they all #AI sourcing tools?"

Sales: "Yes! So exciting!"

J: "Does the manual boolean search still work?"

Sales: "Well yes but-"

J: "Then I'm good, thanks!"

Sales: "But it's only an additional $300/month on top of your current license!"

J: "Even if they were free, no, thank you."

Sales: *stunned* "...but why not?"

J: "I work in #tech and I know how they use the data. No thanks."

Sales: "OK well let me just show you our new automated search, guaranteed to reduce your sourcing time with predictions..."

J: :neocat_scream_angry:

It's officially happened, friends - I am become Old Man Yells at Cloud 2.0




#DropSea: Margherita Dolcevita

dropseaofulaula.blogspot.com/2…




The US made three bets on China. All backfired.

semafor.com/article/10/30/2025…




Al Jazeera, attacchi aerei israeliani nel sud di Gaza - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/10/30/al-jazeera-attacchi-aerei-israeliani-nel-sud-di-gaza_e13976e0-2e18-4b37-a899-8dcbc1753935.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa



Zelensky, raid russo nel Donetsk, almeno due morti - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/10/30/zelensky-raid-russo-nel-donetsk-almeno-due-morti_e00ae100-2ce7-4cdc-867c-182ed3d7acac.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa





"There is a reason China has made protecting visas for Chinese students a top priority," Marc Thiessen writes.

"They help the Chinese Communist Party carry out what [Christopher] Wray called 'the largest and most sophisticated theft of intellectual property and expertise in the history of the world.' Given this fact, why on earth would the Trump administration give the Communist China the opportunity to double the number of its students in the U.S. to help carry out that espionage?"

wapo.st/48VEyX5



SAMAEL - Black Matter Manifesto

youtube.com/watch?v=C49TF2ISv6…

#NowPlaying #FediRadio #UnoRadio #Musica #Music #Samael



"This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was supposed to validate the Trump administration’s push to harness data from across federal agencies to expose illicit voting and stiffen immigration enforcement.

DHS had recently incorporated confidential data from the Social Security Administration on hundreds of millions of additional people into the tool, known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system. The added information allowed the system to perform bulk searches using Social Security numbers for the first time.

The initial results, however, didn’t exactly back up President Donald Trump’s contention that noncitizen voting is widespread. Texas identified 2,724 “potential noncitizens” on its rolls, about 0.015% of the state’s 18 million registered voters. Louisiana found 390 among 2.8 million registered voters, a rate of about 0.014%.

Instead, experts say, the sweeping data-sharing agreement authorizing DHS to merge Social Security data into SAVE could threaten Americans’ privacy and lead to errors that disenfranchise legitimate voters."

propublica.org/article/dhs-soc…

#USA #Trump #DHS #SocialSecurity #Immigration #Deportation #Privacy #PoliceState #Surveillance



Autobus in fiamme a Roma per monopattino elettrico liberoreporter.it/2025/10/flas…