1. 📰 Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ (direct link) (👍1186 👎11)

from Not The Onion (!nottheonion@lemmy.world)

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials, from their respective app stores, 404 Media has found. The move comes after Apple removed ICEBlock , a much more prominent app, from its App Store on Thursday following direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials. Google told 404 Media it removed apps because they shared the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group that recently faced a violent act connected to these sorts of ICE-spotting apps—a veiled reference to ICE officials. The move signals a broader crackdown on apps that are designed to keep communities safe by crowdsourcing the location of ICE officials. A long-running immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, where ICE is currently focused, told 404 Media some of its members use Red Dot. 🖊️️🤖

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2. 📰 FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States (direct link) (👍774 👎5)

from The Onion (!theonion@midwest.social)

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord. A recently declassified CIA report confirmed that all known al-Qaeda-affiliated organizations—from Pakistan to Yemen, and from Somalia to Algeria—have been instructed to kick back and enjoy the show as the United States’ federal government, energy grid, and industrial sector are rendered impotent by internal dissent, decay, and mismanagement. Soon, the United States will watch in horror as its bridges crumble, its desperate citizens suffer in want of medicine and paying employment, and its once vast riches are reduced to naught. The FBI has also warned that numerous al-Qaeda agents may have established sleeper cells for the purpose of “getting a kick out of” the nation’s downfall on American soil. “If we’d listened to experts or even our own common sense, we would’ve realized that this plot was being actively orchestrated within our own borders. 🖊️️🤖

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3. 📰 Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, is found visiting the bear exhibit (direct link) (👍195 👎1)

from Offbeat (!offbeat@lemmy.ca)

Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, is found visiting the bear exhibit

A wild, very “polite” and possibly lonely black bear recently paid a visit to its neighbors at a Northern California zoo. Advertisement“The wild bear did not appear aggressive and was observed interacting with Tule, Ishŭng, and Kunabulilh through their habitat fencing,” the post said. It is, however, the first time a wild bear has appeared within the facility, she said. The wild bear could have climbed a tree to get in, Baldwin said. The wild bear’s visit has sparked playful commentary from Facebook users including Priscilla Lange who said, “[The bear] was a very considerate guest. 🖊️️🤖

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4. 📰 Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he’s had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol (direct link) (👍81 👎3)

from Not the Onion (!nottheonion@lemmy.ml)

‘I Am Not a Secret Nazi’: Graham Platner Tattoo Controversy Roils Maine Senate Race

Embattled Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner found himself in the middle of another controversy Tuesday when a video surfaced showing a tattoo on his chest that appeared to portray imagery commonly associated with neo-Nazi groups. Democrats see the race as one of their best chances to flip a red seat during the 2026 midterm elections. On Platner’s chest appears a baseball-size tattoo of a distinctly designed skull and crossbones, which the outlet reports is commonly associated with Nazi groups. The tattoo, advocacy groups have said, resembles a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo. NEW: Graham Platner reacts to recently resurfaced video of him singing shirtless at a wedding and an opposition research attack alleging he’s a “secret nazi.” 🖊️️🤖

Posted by cypherpunks

5. 📰 Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US (direct link) (👍71 👎1)

from And Finally… (!andfinally@feddit.uk)

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US

In a letter to parents, school principal Kate Smith said the school’s safety team “quickly reviewed and cancelled the initial alert after confirming there was no weapon”. “I am calling on Baltimore County Public Schools to review procedures around its AI-powered weapon detection system,” Baltimore County local councilman Izzy Pakota wrote on Facebook, external. This, Omnilert said, was then passed to the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) safety team along with further information “within seconds” for their assessment. Omnilert says it is a “leading provider” of AI gun detection - citing a number of US schools among its case studies on its website, external. “Real-world gun detection is messy,” it states. 🖊️️🤖

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📰 Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919) (direct link), posted in Strange Times (👍3 👎0)

Strange Gods Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)

But The Book of the Damned was playful, slippery, so unlike the earnest tomes common to the genre. If there is no difference between the real and the unreal, anything is possible, and just as likely impossible. “I think we’re property”, Fort wrote. Or, perhaps not; so skeptical he could not accept even his own authority, he had given up theorizing. “We have expressions: we don’t call them explanations: we’ve discarded explanations with beliefs.” 🖊️️🤖

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