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carpoftruth [any, any]

@ carpoftruth @hexbear.net

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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

  • Poll reveals 85% of Greenlanders do not want to become US citizens

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  • I don't think it was your intent to use a gendered insult but nevertheless please don't.

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  • EFF: ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least another $56.25 billion over the next three years, ICE's budget would be the envy of many national militaries around the world. Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel.

    Yes it makes sense that an agency that supposedly does immigration enforcement has similar needs as a country engaged in the largest war in europe in 80 years or that of a country that has waged war on 9 of its regional neighbours while maintaining a system of concentration camps.

    ICE has also spent $5 million to acquire at least two location and social media surveillance tools: Webloc and Tangles, from a company called Pen Link, an established player in the open source intelligence space. Webloc gathers the locations of millions of phones by gathering data from mobile data brokers and linking it together with other information about users. Tangles is a social media surveillance tool which combines web scraping with access to social media application programming interfaces. These tools are able to build a dossier on anyone who has a public social media account. Tangles is able to link together a person’s posting history, posts, and comments containing keywords, location history, tags, social graph, and photos with those of their friends and family. Penlink then sells this information to law enforcement, allowing law enforcement to avoid the need for a warrant. This means ICE can look up historic and current locations of many people all across the U.S. without ever having to get a warrant.

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  • rules-based international order / international law

    fruit beverage / fruit juice

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  • I also hate recommending my own post

    Don't, I/we appreciate your contributions to the community.

    This goes for everyone - if you've written something you think is valuable please flag it for me to highlight.

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  • if you open a data center in greenland that produces woke imperialist memes for at least 18 months then your interest on student loans will be paused

  • The Kalshi-fication of everything. The predictions platform is revealing what a world of total financialization will look like.

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  • unfortunately that cuts off at the 'expand to keep reading' heading. the same thing happened when I used archive.is

  • The Kalshi-fication of everything. The predictions platform is revealing what a world of total financialization will look like.

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  • Is there an archive link or similar for this story?

  • ‘No more annexation fantasies’ Greenland PM responding to Trump's threats

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  • To deny it is to be absolutely STUPID, which is exactly how you'll feel just a few years from now when it comes true.

    Please check your tone. Per the sidebar:

    We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.

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  • yeah agreed, but I think good to switch it up. I'll draw more from starship troopers next week

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  • Russia is the other major source of this type of crude.

    I think Canada as well. A lot flows south from Alberta to interior states.

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  • Forget it Jake, it's efforttown. DM me to feature effort posts and good threads in the newsmega/newscomm here (including your own).

    Note updated comm rules in the sidebar text.

    @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net with several posts (1 and 2 and 3 and 4) on US military technology they believe was used to kidnap Maduro. the US has had a lot of practice doing door kicking night raids over the GWOT

    A good thread on Vietnam's rising fortunes with commentary from @seaposting@hexbear.net and @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net, with particular focus on China's efforts with Hainan island

    @CleverOleg@hexbear.net on the way recent aggression against Venezuela tightens the screws on Cuba

    Previous posts of the week: 2025: Oct 27 | Nov 3 | Nov 10 | Nov 17 | Nov 24 | Dec 1 | Dec 8 | Dec 15 | Dec 22 | Dec 29

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  • I appreciate that newscomm standards drop when big events happen but surely we can do better than SA shitposts

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  • In the Chinese zodiac, 2026 is year of the effort post. DM me to feature effort posts and good threads in the newsmega/newscomm here (including your own).

    Note updated comm rules in the sidebar text.

    @FALGSConaut@hexbear.net with the 2026 newsbingo

    @ComradeRat@hexbear.net on intra-Warsaw pact conflict and disagreements about foreign policy during the cold war

    I spent a couple days away from the news and hard to catch up. Please DM any good roundup posts about the kidnapping of Maduro/escalation in Venezuela.

    Previous posts of the week: Oct 27 | Nov 3 | Nov 10 | Nov 17 | Nov 24 | Dec 1 | Dec 8 | Dec 15 | Dec 22

  • psa: attention everyone, are you depressed and tired and shit all the time? are you getting IODINE IN YOUR DIET?

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  • seafood but for vegans

    when I walk on the right beaches I pick and eat sea asparagus for this reason. it's full of iodine.

  • psa: attention everyone, are you depressed and tired and shit all the time? are you getting IODINE IN YOUR DIET?

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  • yeah but it was rebuilt as a agricultural export center to service rome. it was important as a place to extract resources to keep rome's vast head count fed, not as an independent nation or place of learning.

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  • Fuck I was half a point off the SPY square. It dropped from 613 to 496 between February and April, it needed to hit 490 to be 20% down.

  • Trump says US bombed Nigeria today

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  • there are plenty of opportunities in the news to make wry remarks about the DPRK, but this kind of disparagement is just out of blue. consider why you need to compare US imperial aggression on the other side of the world to the DPRK.

  • You know the economy is bad when rich people have to turn to criminals to get their lobsters at an affordable price.

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  • a guy in a trench coat whispers from an alley as you walk by, "hey buddy, you wanna by a lobster?"