🔴 A defense contractor is now selling technology that scans every electronic device in your car as you drive past a camera. It ties everything to your license plate. You cannot opt out.

It is called SignalTrace. Made by Leonardo, an Italian military contractor with existing U.S. Special Operations Command contracts. It sweeps your phone, smartwatch, Bluetooth headphones, your dog's RFID chip, tire pressure sensors, your car's infotainment system. Anything that broadcasts.

It bundles these into what Leonardo calls your "electronic fingerprint," timestamped and geotagged. Stored in an "Enterprise Operations Center for future queries and analysis."

Those are their words. Not mine.

You did not consent. You cannot opt out. Your devices broadcast by existing. In most places, this is perfectly legal.

If this sounds like something that will be abused: it already has been. Police have used existing license plate reader networks to stalk partners, verify school residency, run background checks, and monitor protests. At least 22 officers charged or resigned for ALPR stalking.

SignalTrace does not read your messages. It does not need to. It knows who you travel with, where you go, and when.

Sources: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/24/surveillance-tech-company-is-pitching-an-unholy-alpr-stingray-hybrid-to-law-enforcement/ and https://www.leonardocompany-us.com/lpr/elsag-signaltrace

#surveillance #privacy #ALPR

I hope this email finds yourself
behind the wheel
of a laaarge automobile

@zzt @davidgerard Not once have I *ever* talked to someone who likes gen AI to have them open with "it's interesting you have a different opinion than me, let's talk about it and maybe we'll both walk away with something new."

It's *always* "haven't you read our pamphlet of 16 reasons why AI is amazing, yet?!" and they're *always* the same claims which were easily refuted like 4 years ago.

I'm legit so tired of arguing against the same "AI learns like people" points from 2021...

So tired of this…

RE: https://ohai.social/@redsad/116864159640938298

As a GenXer, I only hear: You'll sell out by middle age for the promise of a free-ride retirement that will never come.

Remember, if you follow your vision and work non-stop your whole life, you too can build something that will be passed between a series of soulless business goblins before finally ending up in the hands of a gang of petromurderers

It's almost like he's never gone grocery shopping 🤔 https://www.comicsands.com/mcintosh-mamdani-suspiciously-green-bananas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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New data shows a record 25.2 million U.S. adults under 35 lived with their parents in 2025, roughly one in three people in that age group.
This is not simply a story about unemployment. About 70% of 25- to 34-year-olds living at home have jobs, suggesting that even steady paychecks are struggling to keep up with the cost of independence. Expensive rents, elevated home prices, limited starter-home inventory, and debt as major barriers.

"A Disability Dongle is a piece of technology that is flashy, expensive, and technically impressive, but utterly fails to solve the actual problem it claims to address. It is engineering designed for the abled gaze, not the disabled body. It is designed to win design awards, not to be used." https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/

I would like to see a one-panel comic with #trans versions (have penis - does not have to be visible, just implied) of Ladies #Liberty and #Justice pissing on a grave with a tombstone that says "47" (Like those peeing Calvin stickers)

I lack the skill to create it. But if the idea tickles enough people, maybe I will get to see some variations.

#LadyLiberty #StatueOfLiberty #LadyJustice #StatueOfJustice #trumpCanFuckOff #comicIdea

@zzt apple has some of the most effective corporate propaganda. their brainwashing penetrates society in a way many fascist regimes would be jealous of

Pro-Israel Democrats need to get it through their heads that theirs is the fringe extremist view. It's over. It's not going away, everyone knows they sold out, and no one believes their bullshit anymore. They can suck up to AIPAC or they can win elections.