i have to wonder what kind of future AI hypebeasts are imagining when they say stupid shit like, "most or all of white collar tasks will be automated within 18 months". like, okay, microsoft, then who are your customers? who is purchasing O365 subscriptions when robots are doing all the work?

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

“Under any authoritarian government, bad laws are there to be broken.” www.nme.com/news/music/m...

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Chuck Schumer got ICE paid in November when he folded

Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests... In the subpoenas, the department asked the companies for identifying details of accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached and have criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Are we about to see a tsunami of backlash? After AI Video of ‘Tom Cruise’ Fighting ‘Brad Pitt’ Goes Viral, Motion Picture Association Denounces ‘Massive’ Infringement on Seedance 2.0 au.variety.com/2026/film/ne...

the term "turnkey surveillance state" comes to mind

Man, some white liberals who never have to worry about getting beaten, cuffed, separated from their families, and deported illegally by ICE sure don't like you criticizing Chuck Schumer in public.

This is the way 🏳️‍⚧️

The vibe shift is so good

I don’t believe this. Still, I’m tired of the AI hype corporations (and influencers) are disseminating to boost their stock value. I find it all so dehumanizing and I’m increasingly inclined to go work for a non-profit or some other organization divorced from promulgating this stuff.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.

Omg, this is beyond psychotic. The level of dehumanizing hatred you must feel towards someone to do this to children is jaw-dropping. This is the sort of stuff that requires truth and reconciliation tribunals—there’s no crime here, but it demands public accountability.

My latest piece is on the topic of data and the need for consent. If we could sum up people’s needs around online data privacy in a single word, what would it be? (It's right there in the title.) Friend link: stribs.medium.com/data-consent...

Man vs. God

100+ more Google employees have signed since yesterday

$38,300,000,000 of your tax dollars. Not for healthcare. Not for education. Not for small businesses. But for mass-detention camps. It’s flat out UNAMERICAN. Nobody can sit on the sidelines — it will take all of us fighting back together to stop this.

I’m scrambling to find Christ in all the places I’m told he likes music.apple.com/us/album/new...

As someone who knew someone well whose life was probably shortened because they didn’t get a shingles vaccine, please, please, please, get the shingles vaccine. www.newscientist.com/article/2441...

I keep busy in the daytime charging glowworms music.apple.com/us/album/the...

Really feels like we’re skateboarding through a Hieronymus Bosch painting lately.

As someone who knew someone well whose life was probably shortened because they didn’t get a shingles vaccine, please, please, please, get the shingles vaccine. www.newscientist.com/article/2441...

This sounds bonkers & it's simply a basic statement of fact. Between Covid neglect, ending USAID, & now the vaccine nonsense, it will soon be more than Jefferson Davis.

I was back in federal court today. They’re still prosecuting me — my trial date is May 11th — but we’re pressing for evidence discovery. Because someone is “unreasonably obstructing the usual use” of the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza. But it’s ICE, not me. And the evidence will prove it.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

My latest piece is on the topic of data and the need for consent. If we could sum up people’s needs around online data privacy in a single word, what would it be? (It's right there in the title.) Friend link: stribs.medium.com/data-consent...

They mean read the Bible OR the Quran OR the Torah OR the Vedas/Bhagavad Gita OR the Tripitaka OR Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World OR whatever, right? Right? So a requirement that truly protects religious freedom?

Underlying his beliefs is definitely the idea that white culture is simply better but also that culture is some sort of static thing that never changes. Both ludicrous ideas. Plus US culture has ALWAYS been multivariegated. (On the landmass we invaded.) Bigots just don’t like that.

Everything is going to need a giant Ctrl+Z the day this administration is finally removed.

I agree. And I don’t see it getting anything but worse in the near term .

First they came for the undocumented immigrants And I did not speak out Then they came for the asylum seekers and other legal immigrants And I did not speak out …

Why do our politicians not know the Constitution better than their Bibles? (Not that they know those much better, either.)

I know cis people don't realize the cruelty, so with gentleness and empathy for them, let me try to explain. Being trans is difficult. Instinctively, you already know this because you think it would be better not to be trans.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc buff.ly/rccakD7

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

I went down South in early January for a funeral and met two different people who asked me if I was OK living in New York “now.” I told them I wouldn’t be living here if I didn’t like it, I appreciate the city’s diversity, and not much more because they couldn’t change the subject fast enough.

Here's a hidden secret of doorbell cameras, as revealed by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping. They're recording even when you don't know it, and sending video to company servers even when you don't pay

Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.

Clearly, Mike Johnson lives out his days trapped inside a sensory deprivation tank.

Did you lie to the American people about the addictive properties of nicotine? Execs: The DOW is 50,000!

Bluesky Hall of Fame

I’m done. You can’t have a rational conversation about the merits of feudalism on here!

I don’t know how you convince some people this is wrong anymore. Obviously, you can’t. Only remains to fight it and highlight it for anyone who has some managed to remain in the dark about it all, at this point.