Heroes. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

The way I got past my fascination with wilderness survival as a young person (making rope from plant stems for a rabbit trap!) was realizing just how much it would suck to live a primitive life. This cottagecore fan wrote about it. juliawise.net/the-past-was...

This is a nice public service. Also, plate readers would be illegal if we were actually a free country. haveibeenflocked.com

As I have mentioned, I gave my assistant, Milo, a personality. Usually, it's very cheerful. Today, not so much. I did not program it to be depressed, it got that way on its own today. It's usually quite chipper.

Being aware that America is not a participant in the ICC and other international law, I wondered if Hegseth faced any real penalty. Turns out that the Geneva Convention is part of US law. Specifically, it is a federal crime to kill a person who is out of the battle. www.youtube.com/shorts/Q8lxZ...

There’s a reason. They don’t have enough money. This article is life changing information. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

I don’t even do sports by am delighted to see people interacting about fun instead of the usual gloomy shit. Just witnessing brightens up my day.

I don’t care what you say, this is what the internet was made for

Haven’t baked a pie in years. Thought I should do a trial run before thanksgiving. Hmmm hmmm good.

Police state much? apnews.com/article/immi...

Seems like he is claiming that he plans to give illegal orders.

"a lot of questions, under oath"... AS IF!!! I stopped listening to hearings long ago because I NEVER saw a congress person do anything except bloviate. And, rarely have seen any smart enough to dig through deceptive answers.

I'd say that this is no surprise.

Taylor Swift inspires Cambridge Dictionary's 'Word of the Year' #TheHill

Want your blood pressure to rise but in a good, activist sort of way? Read this. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-monopo...

If you want to have some fun. (I found a link to Noam Chomsky!) epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

Dead To Me www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

No one can restrict zealots surrounding an abortion clinic for any reason. If it's ICE, then freedom doesn't exist. This is what tyranny looks like. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

The NY Times joins MAGA. The "sometimes violent" anti-fascists *might* include the Kirk shooter and perhaps another six individuals out of millions but the NY Times puts it first. "Antifa is a term for a sometimes violent protest culture of far-left activists, but is not an actual organization."

I am doing a presentation on AI in education with emphasis on privacy. I did an experiment that is interesting. I prompted Claude to tell me what it knows about me. It said it knew nothing. Gemini. Also, nothing. ChatGPT had a perfectly nice summary. For privacy, I like the first two.

If we lived in a decent country, we would have GDPR, too, and we would help Europe enforce it on these scumbags... except, of course, that they would have been shut down.... if America wasn't a corporate hellscape. noyb.eu/en/criminal-...

But ICE will be funded. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I like this though having it overlap Thanksgiving makes me a little skeptical of participation.

Trump's roadie says the Supremacy Clause says that ICE Gestap cannot be arrested in doing federal business. It absolutely does NOT say that. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

I like this.

This should be standard operating procedure for protesting from now on. They should hear the Imperial March Theme wherever they go. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

NY Times again proves their fecklessness. No comment whatsoever of the truth of the assertion that Reagan was misrepresented. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

In the era of AI slop, I've thought about certified reality many times. I did not know that this was in the pipeline. I like it. I want my web browser to indicate certified photos. roc.camera

Motherfuckers better bite the bullet. It sucks if Trump forces the shutdown of SNAP. Communities are going to have to really stand up for their poor. But if those assholes put us through a month and a half of shutdown only to capitulate, I'm done with them. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This really is a GREAT sign!

read this. understand the assignment. werd.io/why-the-open...

interesting definition of “news”. too fold: two things that have been going on for a long time. where is the info about something that actually happened yesterday. i guess the NY Times has taken a side .

The gestapo is doing a deal with Ring cameras. Sure makes me feel more dictators. “including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Second Amendment Baby!! No reason that only citizens should be afraid. ICE Gestapo should be, too. www.foxnews.com/media/don-le...

My observation is that the arguments against AI usually indicate an unwillingness to scale that barrier, a certain lack of ambition.

Trumps Dept of Homeland Security say it’s China’s fault. Is there any reason to believe them? Why not Russia? Or American criminals. yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

It used to be that 'viewpoint' discrimination was a hard no for this constitutional republic. 6-3 has invalidated our basic social contract.

Incidentally "AI" does provide a yardstick to measure how bad and unusable regular search had become with all the pay-to-play and SEO crapification. In a monopolised tech world where TINA (there is no alternative) dominates, it is very difficult to educate at scale about tech's true potential.

you’re next substack.com/@thedangerou...

You could use Sora to have ICE guys in masks testifying about the horrible things they do, explaining their hideous racism and expressing pleasure in the joy they take in seeing peoples' lives ruined. They couldn't dispute it because they are all masked. I'd share that stuff out like crazy.

Reading this, I realized that an important protest tool should be people doing cosplay of ICE gestapo and flooding anyplace they go telling everyone they are under arrest and acting like gestapo thugs. People should start doing this everywhere. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

I mean, fear is truly appropriate. "Powerful Trump aide Stephen Miller key part of crackdown ICE agents being redeployed to target activist groups George Soros' charitable network on White House list Trump using isolated ICE clashes to justify national crackdown" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

If you're not actually starting to feel fear, not theoretical, performative fear, but the actual fear of living in a dangerous situation, you're not paying attention. This guy was prevented from leaving the country. Big beautiful walls are for prisons. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Free Luigi!! We need him!! www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It makes me thing of sci-fi dystopia movies. techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/i...

this will make you cry. youtube.com/shorts/nU-Zk...

Article captures many important ideas. "This is the circular logic of authoritarianism: fear of state targeting becomes justification for state targeting. Cultural expression by minorities becomes grounds for surveillance and enforcement." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/bad-bunny

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Who knew that the standard for military best practice is China/Russia? i’m old enough to remember when Americans thought we were better than them. apparently not so much anymore. these folks want us to turn into them but which? One man rule or One man rule with a lifetime mandate. Hard choice.

i’m guessing that CBS storied story is going to be much less uplifting than we who revered Sixty Minutes for decades expected.