Friday, November 21, 2025

Today's news and jokes

(The guy sitting down is the older brother (and injured).)





This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents

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— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM

NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling. Story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...

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— Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A write-up with link to the opinion.







CBS







Might reverse again by the time this posts







("We got laid off by a recording") ("Kroger requiring employees to return to office 5 days a week, starting in January")







"the Saudis can't bribe people any more because they spent all their money on sports teams and deeply stupid infrastructure projects they'll never finish" is a plot twist I didn't see coming, I'll be honest

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— Christopher Bird (@mightygodking.com) November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
(We'll see, but throughout, I've certainly thought about when Japan bought up everything)















Read this investigation by @byrontau.bsky.social now: apnews.com/article/immi...

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— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM


The data broker industry is losing their minds over more than 150+ lawsuits filed against them by Atlas Data Privacy for alleged violations of Daniel's Law. The NJ statute gives law enforcement in that state special rights to have their personal information redacted from data broker and […]

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— BrianKrebs (@briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy) November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM








Texas and Florida are considering similar legislation. Any other examples? What a wild time for transportation planning

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— Alessandro Rigolon (@alerigolon.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM








lol www.wsj.com/business/med...

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— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce.com) November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Paywalled, didn't read









Tote bag with extremely menacing energy

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) November 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM








FYI: turning off "Smart features" also turns off spell check and the promotions and social tabs. And more. In effect, a lot of traditional tools in gmail are switched off if you don't let them upload your contracts, love notes, and sad messages to your friends into their plagiarism machine.

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— Harry Connolly (he/him) (@byharryconnolly.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
(I don't know if that's true about the other features since I don't use them)







My phone calling my car an accessory when I plug it in is a power move

— Matty (@bestestname.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Demented that the phone can't be set to prevent autoplay in cars







The best thing to come out of some wildly uneven movies.

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— 🦃 Pablo Hidalgo 🦃 (@infinata.bsky.social) November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
(Actually, the second movie has some very fun action sequences.)

















FIA on the second red flag: “Some Race Control personnel remained on-site when the session was restarted. They reported that the manhole cover was moving as cars passed over it, which led to the session being ended under red-flag conditions. Further inspections are underway” #F1 #LasVegasGP

— Chris Medland (@chrismedlandf1.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
They had a year to fix the problem, a problem no other course has. Also, they started the broadcast by pointing out the stands were empty







I wish I could still use a drawing program while also listening to videos on my phone. The phone is capable of doing that, but youtube wants to charge me monthly for the privilege now, and I have to maintain some integrity or I will cease to exist like the mystic in The Dark Crystal

— mossworm.bsky.social (@mossworm.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
















Jesus Christ, the dog treat industry. I've seen some macabre puns in my time, but this one is harrowingly cutthroat.

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— Dan Marshall (@danthat.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
















https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/17212 『ディズニーピクサー ぴこーん！ココロこれくしょん モンスターズ・インク』発売！プレートはつけ替え可能！ "Disney Pixar Picon! Kokoro Collection Monsters, Inc." now on sale! The plates are interchangeable! #ガチャポン #gachapon

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— Random gachapon! ランダム・ガチャポン (@randomgacha.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM








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