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(via Exclusive: Oracle is Forcing Employees to Hand Over Their Face)
Oracle now forces their staff and contractors in the USA to hand over their facial biometric data, and you could lose your job if you refuse.
Documents shared exclusively with Crust News showed there is no opt-out for employees.
The new rule came into effect on July 1, the company refused to comment when we reached out to them.
Abolish ICE and find jail cells for every person who took at job there since Jan 20, 2025.
(via Why Authoritarians Try to Control Gay Men and Not Gay Women)
Homosexuality has never been policed because of sex.
The double standard was never really about sex. It was about hierarchy. Male homosexuality threatened masculinity, inheritance, military order, paternal authority, and the brittle little fiction that men are naturally born to dominate.
Female homosexuality was often ignored, not because patriarchy was tolerant, but because patriarchy was arrogant. Women’s desire simply didn’t count unless a penis had clocked in for work.
Superstitions fed the phobia. Justinian blamed earthquakes on gay men because he lived in an age without geology. We don’t have that excuse today. We have science. We have data. And yet Conservatives are still superstitious enough to believe that gay men can be “reprogrammed,” as if sexuality is a switch you can flip back to straight.
Today’s authoritarians won’t blame natural disasters on gay men. Not yet. They’ll blame school shootings, demographic decline, military weakness, civic decay, or whatever “woke” crisis is convenient. The target will shift, the accusation will modernize, but the instinct remains the same: find the men who don’t follow the script and make them pay for it.
But here’s the trick that the transphobic tribe always misses: Once you are policing one group’s sexuality, it is only a matter of time before you are policing everyone’s sexuality.
A thermal satellite operated by British company SatVu captured something the cryptocurrency industry would prefer stayed invisible — the full physical heat signature of one of the largest Bitcoin mining operations on the planet. Located in Rockdale, Texas, in the United States, the facility consumes approximately 700 megawatts of electricity. To understand what that means in human terms: 700 megawatts is enough electricity to power 300,000 American homes simultaneously, drawn continuously, around the clock, to solve mathematical puzzles that produce no physical product. SatVu's sensors, capable of detecting temperature variations at a resolution down to 11.5 feet, mapped active cooling systems, overloaded electrical grids, and racks of heat-generating mining hardware in striking thermal detail from orbit.
The imagery makes undeniable something that the industry has historically kept abstract. Critics have long argued that cryptocurrency mining's energy cost is real but largely hidden from public view, buried inside electrical bills and inside corporate server halls that most people never see. A thermal satellite photograph of a Bitcoin mine at night — blazing with waste heat visible from space — changes that calculation permanently. A single Bitcoin transaction generates carbon dioxide equivalent to driving a gasoline car for 1,600 miles. Across millions of daily transactions, the cumulative climate cost is staggering. Data centers driven by AI, cloud computing, and crypto mining combined now account for approximately 0.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, a figure growing rapidly.
Advocates for thermal satellite monitoring argue this technology represents exactly what environmental accountability requires — objective, real-time, orbital evidence of heat waste from digital infrastructure that has historically operated entirely beyond the reach of conventional environmental oversight.
Source: Pultarova, T. Space.com, 2026
Rep. Nancy Mace was the only member to vote "present."
Here’s the part they’re not telling you: some of this is already known. Taxpayers paid over half a million dollars covering for SEVEN former House members both parties. And these settlements got banned back in 2018, so this is about cleaning up years of buried secrets, not stopping something happening today. Still transparency is transparency. Every name deserves daylight.
Here’s the part they’re not telling you: some of this is already known. Taxpayers paid over half a million dollars covering for SEVEN former House members both parties. And these settlements got banned back in 2018, so this is about cleaning up years of buried secrets, not stopping something happening today. Still transparency is transparency. Every name deserves daylight.
Now here’s my real question: this covers Congress, but I wonder if that same energy will ever make its way down Pennsylvania Avenue to a certain someone with a very expensive settlement history of his own. 🤔
What do you think will the accountability ever reach the top?
“Google is making a decisive move away from the open internet. They are building their own closed information garden and that’s a decisive shift away from the model that undergirded all of the company’s history down until the last couple years. Because Google is so big and has such a dominant role in the architecture of the internet, that’s a decisive shift for the future of the internet as well.”
— Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’
At first, Big Tech’s move to the right was focused on Musk, Thiel, their circles and acolytes and then people like Mark Zuckerberg who saw the MAGA light leading up to the 2024 presidential election. But recently, Google cofounder Sergei Brin has moved decisively in the MAGA direction as well. He’s not in the full white nationalist shit-posting mold of Elon Musk. At least not yet. But it’s a big shift away from the image, political giving and political culture Google’s founder-leaders had for most of the company’s history. Brin’s big hobbyhorse is funding opposition to a California wealth tax and in a move both to avoid those taxes and as kind of a MAGA signifier he recently relocated to just across the California border, set up his new home on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.
As with all grifters, the truth is never hard to find: just follow the money.
Oh, and *half* the money is our tax dollars. Just taken.
(via Your Phone Can Protect You, Or Expose You)
Hardening your device is what security professionals call OPSEC, Operational Security, but here, we also define it as community care.
Protecting your digital footprint is an act of solidarity that keeps your friends, family, and organizers safe from being “stitched together” into a map of movement activity. You don’t need to be a hacker to be safe. You just need to raise the “cost” of watching you so high that surveillance systems look for an easier target. You don’t have to disappear, you just have to stop making it easy for them.
Phones are tracking devices by design. However, you can take back control without throwing your phone in a lake. This guide walks through the essential “locks” for your device like strong passcodes, revoking app permissions, and using encrypted messaging for safer organizing.
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I’ve been following bunker stories ever since Douglas Rushkoff wrote about them. Soon after, someone sent me a 2017 article from The New Yorker that revealed the secret bunker culture of bankers and hedge fund managers. They really do get together over tapas and brag about their doomsday plans.
A wide range of Democratic voices are in the process of shaping new political language to move their party, and the country, forward.
From immigration detention to voter restrictions to Bible passages in public schools, the old order is not proving strength. It is confessin
I wrote that conservatism does not rise because it is correct…it rises only because it is afraid. Every time the world changes shape, the old order reanimates, drapes itself in duty, sanctity, nostalgia, family, nation, law, and God, then pretends the costume is a skeleton.
A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a m
A federal judge halted Trump’s executive order seeking to create a federal voter list and restrict mail-ballot access, siding with nearly two dozen states and the District of Columbia. The ruling is very important because the order reached toward the machinery of counting itself. Voter rolls, mail delivery, citizenship lists, eligibility screens, federal agencies, all of that bureaucratic machinery can sound dull until someone realizes dull tools are still tools.
