Notices by Ken M (kmontenegro@freeradical.zone)

it is unclear how the Predator surveillance could “support” ICE agents and other federal law enforcement without monitoring the protests and capturing images of protesters. https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-predator-drone-flights-la-protests/

RFK Jr. Orders HHS to Give Undocumented Migrants’ Medicaid Data to DHS https://www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr-orders-hhs-to-give-undocumented-migrants-medicaid-data-to-dhs/

ICE advances sole source deal with Palantir for new surveillance backbone https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/ice-advances-sole-source-deal-with-palantir-for-new-surveillance-backbone

NY county exec's armed volunteer unit amounts to illegal militia, Democrats say in lawsuit https://www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/ny-county-exec-armed-volunteer-unit-illegal-militia-democrats/6137572/

Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants, until they're asked how https://www.axios.com/2025/01/19/poll-americans-mass-deportation-policies-trump

‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/27/mexico-city-utopias-project-mayor

Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/squeezed-high-prices-growing-number-americans-find-shelter-long-term-m-rcna184166

The primary goal of this post-AI socialist technology policy would be to endow individuals, irrespective of class, race or gender, with access to institutions, infrastructures and technologies that augment their creative autonomy and allow them to develop their capacities to the fullest. In other words, we need to enact a switch from human augmentation to human enhancement. https://buff.ly/3DlHI8P

Elon Musk is planning a rude awakening for 94% of federal workers by monitoring their every move https://fortune.com/2024/12/06/elon-musk-doge-remote-work-federal-employees/ remember how musk hates being monitored

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack https://buff.ly/4g1Jc6m

“The Secret Service reportedly hid behind a flimsy claim that users consented to the sale of their location data, but even back in 2022 the agency told my office it hadn't bothered to actually verify this,” https://buff.ly/3O6owOj

I wish more of the movement #security community were accepting of folks, specifically migrant folks, being stuck with WhatsApp. They're stuck because in many countries cellular plans still charge for SMS but will have "unlimited" data for WA, FB, Instagram, & other data-hoovering big tech.

I'm sitting with the elite capture of the term "fascism". Neoliberals have captured the term so that in the US "anti-fascism" includes a peaceful transfer of power from a center right to a far right government.

Formerly “first world” USA… IV fluid supply crunch forces hospitals to postpone elective surgery https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/iv-fluid-supply-crunch-forcing-hospitals-postpone-elective-surgeries-rcna174649

Revealed: Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/15/shell-oil-project-2025-climate-crisis

Microsoft Services Agreement update warns of AI limitations https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/14/microsoft_services_agreement_update_warns/

They give us footage of conflagrated tanks, fighters literally jumping for joy, and, in general, the triumph of indigenous ingenuity over imperialist hubris. This is the difference between arrogance and confidence: Evidence. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/the-battle-against-western-arrogance

UN chief says world is on ‘highway to climate hell’ as planet endures 12 straight months of unprecedented heat https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/climate/12-months-record-heat-un-speech/index.html

Martha Gellhorn Was The Only Woman to Report on the D-Day Landings From the Ground https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/martha-gellhorn-was-the-only-woman-to-report-on-the-d-day-landings-from-the-ground-180984456/

Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o