‘[She] said words in the Han Gwich’in language that essentially mean, “We’re not a threat to you. Have mercy on us and leave us alone.” Her grandmother and other elders always told her that animals understand the Native language. “I’m glad I remembered that and that I knew those words,” she said.’

Good text that should help many people understand that it is generally not a very good idea.

This was a difficult one to write, but with input from many smarter colleagues, I hope it offers some useful thoughts for anyone considering building LLMs or other AI tools for Indigenous languages.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Can confirm these sweatshirts are insanely cozy, really beautiful, AND support Indigenous language revitalization!

yay the indiscriminate chemical warfare being done to Portland neighborhoods is now MORE illegal ✨

Great story, with possibly the greatest author's disclosure of all time: "Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign."

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

$3,000 billion dollars. the whole earth is being turned into paperclips right now for this trash people don't even want being shoved into every product that's consistently failing businesses that are trying to use it, deeply screws up and even undoes learning in ways that seem borderline irreparable

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Flood it. www.mcda.us/index.php/re...

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

Every single person I've spoken to says ICE is still terrorizing, brutalizing, and abducting people at the same rate they were before Homan's little speech Falling for Rational Voice at a time like this is downright psychotic. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than tone

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

wait are there people who don’t use Signal for literally everything? why? I got all my septuagenarians on there easy

for Alex Pretti

It can get lower!

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

this is the key problem with continuously executing random members of the populace: you can’t kill everybody, and the ones you don’t kill are more likely to start squaring with the possibility of it than fleeing in terror

Join us to celebrate the launch of the UNESCO Chair on Rights Education among #Indigenous and Non-Dominant Language Communities! 📆 February 21, International Mother Language Day 🕔 5:00 pm Pacific (Vancouver) time 💻 On Zoom: bit.ly/IMLD2026

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

I love my beautiful city so much

If you use Discord, here's a chance to voice your opinion on if they should implement AI. I know where I stand, but also, swearing in surveys isn't really useful. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking

Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location. Download, mirror, and reshare. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I love cross-species friendships

“Tell everyone on this train I love them” echoes in the mind, the last words of another person who stood up to a violent bully. The kindness, the heart, the sheer decency of the people who are murdered by the cruelest, the most hateful, the most cowardly wretches on earth

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

When things are going well

This is Christian Miranda Romano. He is a teenager and an American citizen. Last year he said his goal was, “In five to ten years, I want to be taking care of my mom and siblings”. Yesterday, he was working at a Target in Richfield, MN when ICE kidnapped him (link to video below).

THEY SHOT THEM IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL FUCKING PARKING LOT

ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

“I knew it was going to start here,” said a local resident, who gave the name Aaron D., fighting back tears. “This neighborhood is deeply integrated, it’s deeply diverse.” www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

Heading toward the White House

No more, no more.

Based on this report, the CPB/ICE had not provided ANY medical assistance to the people they had shot by the time Portland Police arrived on the scene. PPB had to call the paramedics too. Recall yesterday how CBP physically prevented medical professionals from trying to help Renee Nicole Good.

Federal forces have shot two people in southeast Portland.

Unverified information says that ICE has shot two people in SE Portland.

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

the front passenger's seat and glove compartment are filled with a little kid's stuffed animals. i am shaking with anger

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.