Michael ☕️
Michael ☕️

@mcpinson@mas.to

🚴☕🌎🖖🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 (he/him)
Tech support by day, t̶w̶e̶e̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ tooting by night.
Wait… that sounds wrong.

I'm automatically attracted to cat pics- I just start faving them. It's like a magnet. Just fave. I don't even wait. And when you're on Mastodon, they let you do it. You can do anything.

USPolitics; CarFreeLife; Biking; SF&F

Avatar: the rebel alliance logo from Star Wars
Banner: my photo of a flower spike of a deep orange orchid that I once owned

Raptured
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Deleted Xitters
|@mcp_pol &
a/s/l
|62/M/Texas
Birth CO₂
|~319 ppm
November 18, 2022

I have long thought that choosing the US for establishing a fascist dictatorship was an exceptionally bad choice because statistically, the freedom loving population is heavily armed.

But now we know, what Trump is up to: Massive mass surveillance, public physical characteristics scanning like in China, AI-based predictive policing, and more.

Someone clearly watched Minority Report and thought, “What a great idea!”

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

The Guardian

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions

Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities

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