Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

Amazon to pay $5.8M penalty for spying with Ring devices.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/amazon-ring-ftc-settlement-lax-security/

Also, Amazon makes more than $49M per hour:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/01/how-much-revenue-tech-giants-like-amazon-and-apple-make-per-minute.html

Bet that $5.8M “penalty" is gonna hurt for a lot less time than the 7 minutes it's gonna take them to pay for it…

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Just a reminder that Clarence Thomas let a GOP megadonor take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house and let her live there rent free, pay for his grandnephew to attend a private boarding school — all in secret until now.

How is he still on the Supreme Court?

Today was the 102 year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in which white supremacist terrorists mass murdered 300 Black Americans.

Here's how media reported on it—a complete erasure of Black people.

Three Tulsa survivors—Hughes Van Ellis, 102, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, and Viola Fletcher, who just turned 109, are with us today. They are the oldest living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. They have received $0 reparations.

This isn't ancient history. It's contemporary reality.

I’m grateful that we have a president who honors and pays tribute to our fallen heroes, and doesn’t consider them “losers” and “suckers.”

Speaking of #NewYorkCity #photography obsessions, I was singularly focused on capturing this past summer's #Manhattanhenge from the #TudorCity bridge in view of the #ChryslerBuilding. My first crack at it was a bust since it was chock FULL of people, but repeat visits over subsequent weeks netted me some AMAZING captures, and probably one of my all-time favorite #sunsets.

Prominent organized-crime boss Donald #Trump, who is still at large, seeks the names of federal agents investigating him so he can plot revenge. #GOP https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-fbi-justice-department-purge-1234743318/

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/30

Alleged scammers have been cashing in on a “Trump Bucks” scheme that has some of the former president’s most fervent and vulnerable supporters buying worthless checks, coins, and cards they believe will make them rich. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-bucks-scam-1234743556/

DeSantis accused Trump of having “destroyed millions of people’s lives” during the Covid-19 pandemic by “turning the country over to Fauci.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-attacks-trump-covid-19-response-1234742399/

Even people who know how to use semicolons correctly tend to be reluctant to use them because they know that so many people don't understand them; this is very unfortunate.

Jay Kuo reads the debt ceiling deal as a big win for Biden.

He writes,

"The fact that some of the 'Freedom' Caucus are already infuriated is a very good sign that Biden did a great job under the circumstances. If we can put the debt ceiling threat behind us, that will force the GOP back to its standard, more contained pattern of investigating Hunter Biden and playing the victims of government overreach and witch-hunts."

#Biden #DebtCeiling
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/whats-the-big-deal

Landed in Anchorage, Alaska, US. Apx. flt. time 5 h 46 min.

@gcblasing

Well, that was a terrifying school pickup.

A dude was parked (again) in a no stopping zone right where parents need to pass on the small road next to my kids' school. I asked him (again) to not park there as it's dangerous.

He screams "It's none of your business". So I said "it is, but we'll let the council decide". So I took a photo of his car in front of the no stopping sign with his number plate on view. He screams at me to "fucking come here or I'll fucking kill you". So I rode off 1/2