Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Some of the most pro-Trump coverage NYTimes has ever done. On Epstein, they chose to adopt Trump's transparently disingenuous framing, treating a "grand jury records" stalling tactic as openness—he's trying to hide the rest—and presenting an obvious lie of "prepared to defer to the courts" as real.

Am I coming into work on Monday and proposing a Tolkein-themed anti-Ring campaign where we encourage people to throw their Rings into the nearest volcano? I don't know. Maybe.

I spent a whole day in a room full of privacy engineers talking about how they were trying to move their companies towards better practices and then I glanced at my phone, read this, and just let the wave of rage and despair wash over me: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights

Americans don't understand that the rest of the world just laughs when they claim to be the country of 'freedom'. They get about 4 days off work a year, no maternity or sick leave, no free healthcare, democracy is owned by billionaires, you arent even free to cross a street.

I'm not watching CBS News. I'm not reading CBS News articles. I'm not watching Paramount movies or TV shows. I am done with Paramount and CBS. They have sided with fascism, and we must side against them to preserve democracy. It's that simple.

Britain's extraordinary secrecy laws, including "super-injunctions" forbidding even the reporting that a court case is in progress, served it poorly during a recent controversy over relocating Afghan nationals [Ed West] www.edwest.co.uk/p/contra-pop...

Contra populum

Trump’s EPA eliminates research and development office and begins layoffs https://twp.ai/E6ADDl

WaPo: We've killed our independence and objectivity, please like our owner NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!

The whole idea of civil rights is that all people are equal members of a society and therefore mechanisms that make us unequal are illegitimate.

MAGA has built for itself a perverse mirror ideology in which certain groups of people are known to be inherently unequal and therefore any mechanisms that attempt to make us equal are illegitimate.

The very core of MAGA ideology is white supremacy. Second to that, Christian supremacy, and male supremacy. These are justified with a tautology. White people (Christian/male/hetero/cisgendered white men) are supreme, therefore they deserve social, legal, political, and economic privilege, because white male cis/het Christian men are supreme.

This is the evil heart of MAGA, and its only true core principle that they will not abandon. It lies beneath everything else; every corruption and every authoritarian attitude branches from an almost pathological need to create a racial and patriarchal underclass who can be dominated and tortured without consequence.

The entirety of conservative philosophy exists to justify and legitimize this core falsehood - that inequality is inevitable, natural, and desirable.

This is why there can be NO COMPROMISE and NO COEXISTENCE with MAGA, yes even blue, leftist MAGA. It is the cancer that we either purge completely, or will kill us.

Recent UK Labour governments have moved so far to the right that they're less and less distinguishable from the conservatives. They've shown growing contempt for freedom of expression, as demonstrated in this latest abuse. Example:

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25325826.man-banned-glasgow-city-centre-palestine-protest/

Old Clip Of Stephen Miller Praising Torture Resurfaces Amid Aggressive Immigration Enforcement https://twp.ai/E6ADlC

The standard demands for a peasant revolt for thousands of years of human history have been: erase all debts, destroy the records of their existence, and redistribute the land. Did you know that when you say "tax the rich" that you're asking for something half-assed and moderate in the grand scheme of history?

@benroyce > "what we do is we treat the #democrats like an empty vessel, take them over"

Amen, and it's exactly what MAGA did to the Rs.

#ZohranMamdani now has a good shot at being your next #NewYorkCity #Mayor

Something for you film buffs:

If you know the films

"Salaam Bombay!"
"Monsoon Wedding"
"Mississippi Masala" with #DenzelWashington
etc...

that's his mom, the director #MiraNair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Nair