Rebecca Williams

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Remix of a quote from Peep Show. Super Hans says the secret ingredient is crime. I say the secret ingredient is politics.
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Screenshot of budget - politico reporting said: “The White House budget proposal released in April sought $35 million for the U.S. DOGE Service. However, at that same hearing, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) noticed in the request ‘that DOGE was pretty much eliminated.’
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BORN TOO LATE TO OWN PROPERTY BORN TOO SOON TO BE A TEEN TIKTOK STAR BORN JUST IN TIME TO WATCH AGE VERIFICATION DESTROY THE WORLD
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New unregulated technologies cast this shadow long and deep. Facial recognition has made your face your ID, ad trackers have normalized persistent tracking online as the default, and now Al-fueled bots and deepfakes insist all humans need even more and more confirmation that they are real. Privacy laws have struggled to gain traction in the United States without being watered down by Big Tech. Meanwhile, age verification legislation—which encourages more tracking online and has been backed by a remarkably successful lobbying effort—has outpaced consumer privacy laws in a fraction of the time, despite mounting evidence that they do not work as intended and create harmful side effects. It's a
Many “I did this!” Trump stickers on a gas pump, suggesting he did the high gas prices
two posts side by side — one jests that spurs fans might pretend basketball no longer matters since they are currently losing the nba finals, another post says the environment matters
Mayor Mamdani tweet comparing him speaking to social media mics to FDR speaking to news mic during his fire side chats
Screen grab of text that says: Lydia Pelot-Hobbs: This brings to mind another story related to the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition. At one point in the campaign, organizers identified the need to organize the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization where the jail is located. They were like, "We know their orientation is going to be against a jail expansion through NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) politics-as if the main harms of the jail were the risks posed to homeowners and their property values by incarcerated people and their loved ones coming to the neighborhood-but can we shift that so people are also against the violence of criminalization and jailing?" Not by coming in and demanding that everyone "be abolitionists." But to go and do teach-ins about the various ways the jail wasn't in their or their neighbors' interest, to steer the neighborhood association away from only thinking about property values, to highlighting the layered violence of jailing. I was not in these teach-ins, but I'm sure there were people there who talked about "criminals" and "danger" and so on. But the organizers didn't leave the room. They didn't shut down the conversation. They shifted the conversation by engaging in political education that not only met people where they were at but deepened collective analysis by raising questions about city priorities marked by uneven investments in carceral versus social institutions. And the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization came out against building a bigger jail, which had a real impact on their council member's vote. These homeowners were not people who would typically be seen as likely allies, but organizing them made them part of the struggle.
Humanity Protocol has self-reported that over 8 million Human IDs have been created-however, the accuracy of this number is disputed. In leake@audio from June 2025, Kwok admitted that, in terms of Human IDs, there were nine million created, but there were actually quite a lot that were bots... the number of people who were actually verified I think it's approaching a million
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Google privacy council Al Mode All News Images Videos Forums Shopping More Tools - Al Overview The Privy Council is a formal body of advisors to the British Sovereign, advising on the exercise of Royal Prerogative and statutory powers, often issuing Orders in Council. Its key functions include advising on government matters, overseeing royal charters, and providing a final court of appeal for some Commonwealth countries via the Judicial Committee. The House of Commons Library +2 Role and Powers . Advising the Monarch: Advises the King on giving formal effect to proclamation and orders. . Orders in Council: Issues legal instruments that have the force of law, often used
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RFI Background The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is gathering information to better understand how the industry's commercial Big Data and Ad Tech providers can directly support investigations ac-tivities. ICE components are working with increasing volumes of criminal, civil, and regulatory, administrative documentation from numerous internal and external sources. The Government is assessing the marketplace for existing and emerging commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions comparable to large providers of investigative data and legal/risk analytics. As well, the Government is seeking to understand the current state of Ad Tech compliant and location data services available to federal investigative and operational entities, considering regulatory constraints and privacy expectations of support investigations activities.
CONTRIBUTORS Edited by: MC I'm a generative AI writer for The Media Copilot. I help author posts, and with the help of human editors, play a growing role in the site's content strategy.
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Unfortunately, rather than reflect on how the discretionary powers of USDS have contributed to DOGE's actions, many prominent past leaders of USDS have published pieces defending DOGE's tactics, taking issue only with the current leadership goals. Their pieces suggest that only the people in power are the problem and offer no suggestions for systemic fixes to prevent this clear abuse of discretionary power.
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Tweet from Liam Quigley @_elkue Wegman's in NYC is scanning faces at their Brooklyn location — but they promise to delete your information if you don't work for them: WE ARE PILOTING A FACIAL RECOGNITION PROGRAM WITH A SMALL GROUP OF EMPLOYEES AT THIS LOCATION. ALL RELATED INFORMATION COLLECTED OF THOSE NOT ENROLLED IN OUR PILOT WILL BE DELETED FROM THE PILOTED TECHNOLOGY. 4:43 PM • Oct 16, 2024 • 82.1K Views
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U.S. DOGE Service 21,162 followers 4h + Follow Despite the reporting by the media, nothing has changed with the U.S. DOGE Service and it still exists as defined by the Establishing and Implementing the Department of Government Efficiency Executive Order. Both the temporary org and U.S. DOGE Service (previously U.S. Digital Service) are still operational. In addition to the staff hired directly into the agency DOGE teams, the U.S. DOGE Service partners with agencies on projects that modernize critical systems, improve public services, deliver fast, practical solutions where the country needs them most, and eliminate, fraud, waste and abuse. 3 Comments
@grok • Nov 23 Replying to @KylePLMT @LeadingReport and @DOGE Yes, recent reports from Reuters, confirmed by sources like The Guardian and Time, indicate that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been disbanded with eight months left on its charter. Its functions are now handled by agencies like the Office of ... Show more Scott Kupor v@skupor • Nov 23 See my latest post Morse Wheeler @WheelerMorse • 13h ~ "But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well:" Do... you.. understand.. that this is 100% Grade A, good-for-nothing, worthless, political-blather horse shit that we have heard 500 million times before ? TRANSLATION: "Back to business as usual." Goddam you all.
Scott Kupor @skupor Good editing by @reuters - spliced my full comments across paragraphs 2/3 to create a grabbing headline C The truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS. But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal workforce; making efficiency a first-class citizen; etc. DOGE catalyzed these changes; the agencies along with @USOPM and @WHOMB will institutionalize them! Here's the real story - opm.gov/news/secrets-o... 11:27 AM • Nov 23, 2025 • 71.2K Views
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? That's another Kingsman: E. M. Forster. I understand what he means, but in me the process is inverted. Because, in fact, I am usually immediately swayed by whatever intellectual fashion is in the air, and a first draft of any essay is more often than not a cynical and dutiful rehashing of the argument du jour. But, after an hour or so of that, I see what I have said and realize I don't actually think any of that. I reread. I frown. Delete. I try again, this time allowing myself to think honestly, aloud, a process that will involve the various strands of my thought arguing with one another, as they inevitably tend to do. Full disclosure: these strands are drawn, essentially, from four big isms. Feminism, existentialism, socialism, and humanism. Only the first is still fashionable, and the last has been so debased, misused, and weaponized over the centuries as to be almost unspeakable in polite company. Still, these were the ideas that formed me as a teen-ager, and they linger on in the way I think and write. No matter what the topic in the rectangle may be, they lie in wait, nudging me, correcting me, reminding me of what it is I really think. What I actually believe.
What is the harm? She explained: For their part (and by contrast), the plaintiffs have shown they will suffer concrete injuries if the Government's Passport Policy is immediately enforced; namely, they will be unable to obtain passports with sex markers that match their gender identity. The District Court found that this is a significant harm, noting that transgender people who encounter obstacles to obtaining gender-congruent identity documents are almost twice as likely to experience suicidal ideation, and report more severe psychological distress, than transgender people who do not face such barriers. In addition, the current record demonstrates that transgender people who use gender-incongruent passports are exposed to increased violence, harassment, and discrim-ination. For example, one of the plaintiffs, AC Goldberg, who is a transgender and intersex person, asserts that he has been sexually assaulted by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers conducting searches on his body. Another plaintiff, Chastain Anderson, attests to having been strip searched when traveling with identity documents that do not match her current gender expression. Another, Zaya Perysian, has been subjected to invasive patdowns by TSA agents to confirm her gender after they observed the disjunction between her female gender expression and the male sex marker on her passport. And two others, Ashton Orr and Ray Gorlin, have been accused of presenting fake identity documents, and were forced to out themselves as transgender and nonbinary to TSA agents.
And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. *And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.*
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1) the cult of tradition 2) the rejection of rationalism 3) the cult of action, distrust of intellectualism 4) the rejection of analytical criticism 5) the appeal against the intruders 6) the appeal to frustrated/fearful middle class 7) the obsession with a plot against the people 8) the building-up & tearing-down of national enemies 9) the principle of permanent struggle 10) mass elitism - nationality as ultimate privilege 11) the cult of heroic death 12) machismo 13) notion that leader incarnates the will of the people 14) newspeak