Dispatches from the frontier of the new millennium.https://beyond2000.net/https://beyond2000.net/article/flock-camera-revolt-three-fronts/https://beyond2000.net/article/flock-camera-revolt-three-fronts/Severed camera poles, unanimous council votes, and a crowdsourced map of the surveillance state — the backlash against Flock Safety has hardened into a movement, and the company is calling it a coordinated attack.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:59:00 GMThttps://beyond2000.net/article/discord-war-crimes-investigators/https://beyond2000.net/article/discord-war-crimes-investigators/A global network of unpaid civilians on Discord is turning atrocity footage into courtroom evidence — at a cost to their own minds that no one is paying for.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:00:17 GMThttps://beyond2000.net/article/russia-fuel-crisis-khodorkovsky/https://beyond2000.net/article/russia-fuel-crisis-khodorkovsky/Ukrainian drones have knocked out roughly a quarter of Russia’s refining, and shortages have reached Siberia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky — who once ran the country’s largest oil company — says the real breakdown isn’t the strikes, but the state’s inability to respond.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:50:10 GMThttps://beyond2000.net/article/gaming-midsummer-massacre-walkout/https://beyond2000.net/article/gaming-midsummer-massacre-walkout/A brutal wave of layoffs — led by 3,200 cuts at Microsoft’s Xbox — has gutted studios from id Software to Bethesda. On July 15, game workers answered with the industry’s first coordinated multi-studio walkout.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:04:51 GMThttps://beyond2000.net/article/china-waico-rival-ai-bloc/https://beyond2000.net/article/china-waico-rival-ai-bloc/Beijing has signed 29 mostly Global South nations into a new Shanghai-based body — the World AI Cooperation Organization — a bid to write the rules of artificial intelligence just as US export controls push America’s own models behind a wall.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:34:06 GMThttps://beyond2000.net/article/ice-watchdog-online-critics/https://beyond2000.net/article/ice-watchdog-online-critics/A poll worker confronted by agents at a Syracuse polling site is the latest sign that ICE’s internal watchdog — meant to police its own — has turned toward monitoring online critics, even as its oversight of detention facilities slips.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:39:14 GMT