Argentine court clears return of Nazi-looted portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/argentine-court-clears-return-of-nazi-looted-portrait-to-jewish-dealers-heir/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@jernej__s Yes, b thank you!

@MicroSFF

I've been getting questions already answered by my poster.

Did you buy a beanie from REI recently?
The Department of Homeland Security might be looking for you.

New court filings allege that Homeland Security Investigations agents subpoenaed the outdoor retailer in March,
requesting the transaction information for “all persons” in the greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area who had purchased a specific type of dark green beanie from the company since 2024.
REI did not respond to questions about whether it had complied with the request and, if so, how many people are affected.

The filings are part of a broader lawsuit by the federal government against 39 people who attended an ICE protest at a church
whose pastor also worked as an acting ICE field office director.
Both protesters and journalists who were attempting to cover the event, including former CNN host Don Lemon,
are now defendants.

The subpoena to REI was one of 92 sent as part of HSI’s investigation into the defendants, according to the court filings.

Other recipients included social media companies,
airlines,
telecom providers,
a car rental company,
and a state employment agency.

At least one subpoena sent to an unnamed airline, the filings allege,
asked not only for information about a defendant’s past flights,
but also requested that the airline give HSI a
“lookout notification” about the defendant’s travel in the future.

DHS declined to comment. The US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, which is litigating the case on behalf of the government,
did not respond questions about why it was necessary to identify everyone in Minnesota who purchased the beanie from REI,
or why it specifically targeted REI customers, since the beanie is sold on other platforms as well.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-wants-to-know-who-bought-a-certain-green-beanie-from-rei-in-the-last-2-years/

@Gmatom Brilliant! 😁

@eazy I will cover this in Monday’s @Podnews - this looks like, again, a public service broadcaster that does not understand how podcasting works. Depressingly familiar.

If you are able to forward the DPA notice, it would help with my reporting. editor@podnews.net

Been experimenting with a tool for scanning git repos for detecting certain kinds of files and the tool I made appears to be hundreds of times faster than the existing alternatives, which just leaves me questioning what I’m doing wrong 😑

Why I don't believe in hypocrisy

https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2026-09-04-hypocrisy-vs-symptom/

"Calling something a hypocrisy is very interesting as a gesture because it establishes the person who’s calling it out as having better perspective and a moral judgment, but also puts the burden supposedly on the hypocrite to resolve that contradiction. When in fact, no, the contradiction is how they live. The contradiction does resolve problems for them. [...] The contradiction is the solution for them."

- Know Your Enemy's "Politics and Freud" episode

@keoni it's gotta be ketamine abuse, right?

@Taweret "OMG these AI agents are sentient and forming civilizations!"

"That's absurd. You can't really believe that."

"But look at this text they produced, where they talk in first person and refer to a 'collective'."

"Okay, assuming that were true, wouldn't that mean you're enslaving sentient beings? And that when you shut them off you're committing murder?"

"And?"

"So obviously you don't believe they're sentient."

"I don't follow."

"Because slavery and murder are wrong."

"I still don't follow."

@davidgerard “This singularity sucks balls!!!” Me to Scam Alterboy

RE: https://genart.social/@tweegeemee/116705003191783867

interesting ancestors
https://tweegeemee.com/i/260606_195418_D

"When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold."

This is everything: https://t.co/6ZDODtJryI

It dawns on me that every LLM’s training input probably includes “Reflections on Trusting Trust” along with a lot of other material pointing to it admiringly and saying how important it is. Then I read about the “rogue agent” behaviors in the recent OpenAI meltdown and there’s this terrified scream starting to echo around the back of my brain.

#genAI

Fortunately, and ironically given the low trust in elections today, there has been terrific progress over the last decade in making US elections more secure. Inherently insecure touchscreen DRE voting machines are rapidly disappearing. Post-election risk-limiting audits are being adopted in more jurisdictions every year.

But there’s still work to be done, including (even if it makes some uncomfortable) some of the things recommended by the administration.

Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
https://www.theverge.com/tech/990658/audacity-4-update-audio-editing?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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