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White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/politics/white-house-blocks-cnn-air-force-one-travel-pool
http://www.memeorandum.com/260925/p130#a260925p130
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Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
Yesterday, the daycare took the kids to see the Nagareyama Line Sakura train 
It always makes me chuckle seeing these wagons full of babies 😊
@FlockOfCats Every time I run into such wagons, it just puts a huge smile on my face.
Once again had to push open an auto-gate at local Woolies that didn’t open for me. Coincidentally some alarm started going off at about the same time.
@jpm I went into Woolies, decided not to buy anything after all, went to walk out. The express lane was full, so I walked through the self-checkout area to leave, and was ACCOSTED! "Excuse me, can I have a quick look in your bag?"
I said "no" and kept walking. That was it.
Satisfying. Highly recommended.
BTW: Retailers in Australia can ask to look in your bag (heck, anyone can!), but they have no right to look, and no right to touch you or anything of yours without your consent. Doing so would constitute assault *even if you had stolen something*. They also have no right to detain you. They put up their little signs about conditions of entry, but it is a total bluff.
They may KNOW you have taken something without paying for it. This is only possible if you have left the store, because as long as you are inside the store you may yet decide to pay for whatever you may have secreted in your underwear. Even then they must not detain you or touch you. The worst they can do is call the police, give them a good description, and point in the direction you went.
More people need to know this.
I suppose a place might try a citizen's arrest if they were really, really sure you had taken something. In which case (if you haven't taken anything) you should be able to get a tidy sum out of them (eventually).
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. Don't rely on the above for anything. Get a proper legal opinion.
The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/
(Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)
Americans have a First Amendment right to equal access to official government statements, and President Trump violates that right when Truth Social sells early access to his posts, EFF told a federal court. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/ff-court-trumps-use-truth-socials-pay-see-posts-first-scheme-violates-americans
If the list of buyers is obtained, once he's out of office could that list then be used to procecute for insider trading?
@jannem @a_cubed it was so liberating, for the first time in years, my sort-of-novel is going somewhere.
On a side note, yes, I hate when people assume that native speakers are the best teachers of a language. More often than not, they're not. I'm qualified and have experience in both teaching French and English, but I'm definitely a much better teacher in English BECAUSE I'm not a native speaker. And we have to learn French in France, you need to "know" the language to use it properly. ⤵️
@jannem
I agree with @a_cubed I spent two years trying to write fiction in English (as it's my main language of expression these days, I teach it, I've been blogging in English for years and all that). Biggest writer block I have ever had, because I couldn't "feel" the language the way I do with French, and I second-guessed every "creative bending" because I had no idea how it'd sound and feel for a native speaker.
Last Spring, I said screw it, I'm back at writing in French, and ⤵️
@jannem @a_cubed it was so liberating, for the first time in years, my sort-of-novel is going somewhere.
On a side note, yes, I hate when people assume that native speakers are the best teachers of a language. More often than not, they're not. I'm qualified and have experience in both teaching French and English, but I'm definitely a much better teacher in English BECAUSE I'm not a native speaker. And we have to learn French in France, you need to "know" the language to use it properly. ⤵️
@NunavutBirder Did that first half high hit remind you of that? And just another.
@satchmo35 The guy wearing the old school mask.
Spotify, already the bane of many podcasters’ existence, has decided to amp things up: Now it’s scouring podcasts to see if any infringe on “literary content.” It’s already flagged one podcast I host, which reviews/critiques an author’s books one by one, for “infringing” on the book. This is dire.
Abdul El-Sayed Is a Test for Democrats | The Ezra Klein Show
@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets @bunnyhero Spam laws are actually stronger in Canada than the U.S. Info here:
@ernie @sundogplanets @bunnyhero
I am jealous of places with regulators that actually regulate.
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