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On Tuesday morning, a coalition of leaders and members from labor, community, and faith organizations in Minnesota
denounced Operation Puppet Master,
an alleged campaign by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spy on Minnesotans during Operation Metro Surge earlier this year.
In a press conference held outside of Target’s headquarters in downtown Minneapolis,
the coalition urged Minnesotans to continue standing in solidarity with one another,
and demand…

“A Manufactured Conspiracy”: Minnesota’s Labor Movement Denounces Federal Surveillance Operation - Workday Magazine
Leaders and workers respond to the federal government’s surveillance of organized labor and community in Minnesota.

So disappointing. I admired what this director has done previously, and this 40 second “trailer” is almost unwatchable. Not a single character is there; there is no there there.
https://xcancel.com/NeillBlomkamp/status/2079078300660769193#m

Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp)
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0. I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start. It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people. Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai Full film…

Shopware 6: A data protection officer asks for your deletion concept for abandoned guest accounts and old carts, and someone quotes "a day" to build it. Shopware already ships the command — but it has two sharp edges that can delete more than you meant to if you skip the fine print.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #21: database:clean-personal-data — GDPR housekeeping, built in - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
At some point a data protection officer — or an auditor with a checklist — asks the question: "Guest checkout customers who never completed an order. Old

Thinking about #tests: assertions and matchers
https://zverok.space/blog/2026-08-16-assertions-and-matchers.html

Imperialism in a Full World: Neomercantilism and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game
Alberto Garzón
Energy, critical minerals, the far right, MAGA, and China.
- Monthly Review https://monthlyreview.org/articles/imperialism-in-a-full-world/#en33backlink

Imperialism in a Full World: Neomercantilism and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game - Monthly Review
Since the wane of mercantilism in Europe, conceptions of wealth, trade, and productivity have also changed: from one of a zero-sum game reliant only on the productivity of land, to... READ MORE

By @… for Zeteo:
https://zeteo.com/p/airbnb-joe-gebbia-red-pill-trump-doge

He Co-Founded Airbnb. Now He’s a Red-Pilled Billionaire Helping Trump
Joe Gebbia, the first-ever chief design officer of the U.S., went from supporting Democrats to going all-in on Trump and increasingly spreading racist takes and conspiracy theories online.

I enjoy conspiracy diagrams that present drudic councils as more powerful than NATO

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has invited ridicule by announcing
he is “looking at chemtrails” and their adverse impact on public health,
reviving a long-debunked conspiracy theory.
RFK Jr was addressing the anti-vaccine group "Children’s Health Defense" at an event in Washington, D.C., Thursday
when he assured his audience
“you have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House”.
The health secretary, who chaired the…

RFK Jr shredded for telling anti-vaxxers he is investigating ‘chemtrails’
Health secretary’s announcement met with storm of ridicule and derision: ‘What about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the Easter Bunny, and the Abominable Snowman?’

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book
"Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era".
Neiman argues that evil
— far from being an outdated religious concept
— is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world.
The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil,
part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, f…

“Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era
We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era. Neiman argues that evil — far from being an outdated religious concept — is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world. The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil, part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, fools,” she says. “People worry that it…