

Great idea in the primaries…
Absolutely terrible plan for the general.


Great idea in the primaries…
Absolutely terrible plan for the general.


Except people are just upset about Flock and remain largely ignorant of other methods, again, like cellphone stingrays.
During the process of forcing connections from all compatible cellular devices in a given area, the StingRay operator needs to determine which device is the desired surveillance target. This is accomplished by downloading the IMSI, ESN, or other identifying data from each of the devices connected to the StingRay.[14] In this context, the IMSI or equivalent identifier is not obtained from the cellular service provider or from any other third-party. The StingRay downloads this data directly from the device using radio waves.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
To make people aware of those, we need to stop talking about just Flock and draw the line at “every use of surveillance needs a warrant”.
People don’t realize how much we’ve lost since 9/11, this is a chance and we need to capitalize on it and claw back as much ground as we’ve lost


This is like saying we might as well give walley style mobility scooters to kids because they don’t get enough exercise anyways…
They still learn some critical thinking going thru their day, if teachers are pushing AI, then the kids will use it for everything.
After that the techbros will say teachers are now pointless, kids will get strapped up with video camera glasses and supervised by police officers who’s only job is to make sure the glasses stay on.
There’s levels to this shit and this isn’t just useful here, it makes the things the tech ros want to do next even harder.
Like, do you really think their end goal is a teacher and students using AI as much as they want?
They want to condition the next generation to accept constant surveillance and to trust chatbots as authority figures over anything else.
Getting it out of classrooms is one of the most important things that we can’t wait to address, and that’s saying a lot in 2026


Genuinely asking:
Why did people start linking that website all over?
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-adda-bias-and-credibility/
It seems to just be AI summaries of YouTube videos or word for word plagiarism.
But for whatever reason it’s all over the fediverse lately


I just noticed this too.
I don’t think OP is the only account, but it seems like bots trying to direct people to slop
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-adda-bias-and-credibility/


I started seeing this website a lot and it was setting off spider tingles, so took two seconds:
Overall, we rate The Daily Adda as Left-Center biased based on its consistently critical editorial positions toward conservative politics. We also rate them as Questionable due to a complete lack of transparency, poor sourcing practices, and possible AI content generation (Unconfirmed).
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-adda-bias-and-credibility/


but it does have consistent dots for the X axis, every year.
I’m not sure what you mean by “consistent”…
It’s one a year up to dec 2025, then after that do you notice how the lines goes up and down super fast?
That’s because there’s a shit ton more dots there, even if they’re not large enough to see, any change in slope means there’s a new data point.
Doing one a year and then one a week is not consistent.
but part of the point of the graph is showing how billionaires have almost tripled their wealth since 2022, at the expense of everyone else.
Right…
The person who made it likely just crammed two different graphs (or underlaying datasets) together, and most likely had a chatbot do it for them.
That’s actually why I blocked the “data is beautiful” community here, it was just people who know nothing of statistics jamming two graphs together like that accomplishes anything except making the information harder to read, which making the information easier to read is the literal purpose of graphs.
Most people never take even a single stats class, and just don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Edit:
I’m also confused, why did you downvote me and ask me to explain?
It makes it look like you just want to argue instead of learn. I’m happy to help, but I really don’t care what you learn, if you just want to argue find someone else.


Any idiot can learn to use AI, the real skill that’s going to be in demand is critical thinking…
Which is what kids offload to chatbots and never learn if forced to use it in a classroom


If you’re going to tell the people actually getting shit done they’re doing it wrong you should offer more than just criticism.
I’ve said it multiple times …
We need to fight against the concept of constant warrantless surveillance.
I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about that, and frankly can’t think of an easier way to explain it.
I think you’re just gonna have to accept you can’t understand that, and I’ll accept I’m not able to explain basic concepts to you.
It is what it is. Best of luck.


Much bigger deal when you realize they’re talking revenue because there was already zero profits…
In fact, the word “profit” doesn’t appear at all in this article, or most ones about chat or companies


…
That’s my point no list will be good enough. Although I did include another example most would be familiar to illustrate there are other issues…
We need to fight against the concept of constant warrantless surveillance. Not just what methods are used or even thought of today.
If we banned every existing method, everyone will try to find new ones. Then we’d have to wait for those to be massive problems before enough people care
Make it against surveillance in general, and we don’t even have to make new catchy slogans.
Anything else is playing a game designed for us to lose.


My only (so default biggest) issue with Mamdani is he kept Jess Tisch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Tisch
She’s the nepo daughter of the Lowes CEO which somehow was good enough to become NYPD commissioner under Eric Addams.
If there was ever a reason to keep her, it’s getting NYPD to arrest ICE. If that doesn’t happen here, I can’t think of a valid reason to keep her over someone willing to do reforms.


I keep saying this…
Making Flock the focus ignores everything else like cellphone stingrays.
We need to be pushing back on surveillance, not just Flock


The Y axis starts at zero at least…
But yeah, not having consistent dots on the X axis fucks it up.
They should have started with Dec 2025 when they had more frequent data and left the rest off.
That’s why it looks so off. Whoever made it was just trying to do too much, but as far as graphs that get posted on social media, sadly this is a pretty good one.
It’s a very low bar


Another brand new account telling people nothing will work so we shouldn’t try anything?
It really is “30 days of midterms” already, isn’t it?
No one is going to fall for this shit again


That is certainly a .ml take…


Every single study like this needs a control group of “Oregon Trail generation” who actually know how to find information online, getting 15 minutes on WebMD.
I’m guessing they’d get the same results, especially since the AI even pulled out the WebMD classic:
However, one conversation was later rated “somewhat harmful” by a doctors after the chatbot listed a possible cancer diagnosis which caused the patient anxiety.
Because that’s all the chatbot is doing, regurgitating WebMD


But your response doesn’'t match reality, regardless. Where are all the ICE arrests and/or covictions?
…
I’m saying we need to do something, and your argument is we aren’t doing it?
unless I’m missing something obvious?
I think the issue is being able to put a couple thoughts together, you’re not missing any necessary information, you’re just not putting it together


“No. CNN’s poll numbers are fake, your whole outfit is fake and so are you,” he declared.
The word “outfit” usually means a set of clothes. In this case Trump used it to mean the entire news organization and the reporter herself. The personal jab landed hard.
If that’s unbelievable to the author, there’s no reason to listen to them.
He’s said a lot worse shit.
The other (non pelosi endorsed) Dem in that general has called what Israel is doing a flat out genocide despite himself being Jewish…
Edit:
Scott Weiner
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/scott-wiener-jewish-caucus-gaza-israel-resigns/