The truth is that Denmark didn’t fight against the Nazis during WWII. More Danes died fighting for the Nazis than fighting against them.

What? How is that possible? Were there that many nazi sympathizers or was the initial invasion by the nazis that successful that Danes were bowled over and annexed before large scale combat?

Whenever I see these types of stories I wonder what fucking project these people think they’ve been part of. Like this isn’t even “we fought on the same side against the nazis”, this is “we fought on the same side as eschatological genocidaires to build a narcostate for child fuckers”

EFF: ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least another $56.25 billion over the next three years, ICE’s budget would be the envy of many national militaries around the world. Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel.

Yes it makes sense that an agency that supposedly does immigration enforcement has similar needs as a country engaged in the largest war in europe in 80 years or that of a country that has waged war on 9 of its regional neighbours while maintaining a system of concentration camps.

ICE has also spent $5 million to acquire at least two location and social media surveillance tools: Webloc and Tangles, from a company called Pen Link, an established player in the open source intelligence space. Webloc gathers the locations of millions of phones by gathering data from mobile data brokers and linking it together with other information about users. Tangles is a social media surveillance tool which combines web scraping with access to social media application programming interfaces. These tools are able to build a dossier on anyone who has a public social media account. Tangles is able to link together a person’s posting history, posts, and comments containing keywords, location history, tags, social graph, and photos with those of their friends and family. Penlink then sells this information to law enforcement, allowing law enforcement to avoid the need for a warrant. This means ICE can look up historic and current locations of many people all across the U.S. without ever having to get a warrant.

rules-based international order / international law fruit beverage / fruit juice

I also hate recommending my own post

Don’t, I/we appreciate your contributions to the community.

This goes for everyone - if you’ve written something you think is valuable please flag it for me to highlight.

if you open a data center in greenland that produces woke imperialist memes for at least 18 months then your interest on student loans will be paused

yeah agreed, but I think good to switch it up. I’ll draw more from starship troopers next week