This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n

"All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?” Now an entire classroom parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt" bsky.app/profile/bren...

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

And yes people talk about Love Actually and all that. But it is not about making ourselves feel better. It is about the incentives on future behaviour. He must be seen to lose and these techniques must be seen to fail.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

A 5 year old is practically a baby. He probably can't communicate completely clearly. He very well may need to wear pull-ups at night, he may still be taking naps, he probably needs help getting dressed, and might not be independent in the bathroom yet. It's child abuse, plain and simple

Grotesque

Lunar new year is a major cooking holiday w/ several required dishes: steamed whole fish and noodles being among them. Contemplating this: 50hertzfoods.com/blogs/recipe... cc @fthames.bsky.social the tofu cream looks like an interesting riff on the classic

1. “The city smells of death. In all my life, I have never seen snow fall in Tehran and not a single person even smile…everyone is stunned; a whole country is in mourning, a whole country is holding back tears, a whole country has a lump in its throat.”

"We should be pumping money into climate adaptation, into dealing with wildfires and floods, and the entire time, actually, we’re distracted with being Donald Trump’s poodle." - Zack Polanski (quote copied from the Byline Times news feed)

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

The embarrassing capitulation of the EU on trade and energy in the summer, followed by the humiliating U-turn of the EU over tech regulation in the autumn didn't even buy us goodwill from Trump to make it to the spring. A lesson for appeasers.

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them

This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.

I spent today with Nigel Farage and watched Robert Jenrick’s rumoured defection become reality in the space of minutes, listening to a phone call from my vantage point in the back seat of a people carrier. Here’s how it happened. www.thetimes.com/article/12d3...

Western values are not suitable for sustaining democracy, we should learn from Asia.

3,000 dead in Iran. This is what dictatorships look like, have always looked like, and inevitably end up looking like. This is the future some in the West are actively rooting for. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...

Mom Deer watching over her Protected Fawn 🦌 #Nature #Wildlife #tuesdaymotivations

This is the level of FAFO I would like to bring to America. bsky.app/profile/apne...

if you are worried about the abolish word you simply do what trump would do when asked and say "well, we're going to take a look very seriously at a few things but theyre out of control and my opponent wants them to kick in your door but we're not going to do that....we're looking very seriously"

Put them in one of these and you can pretend your breakfast is a building site. Twice the fun.

Will be interesting to see who suddenly cares about the president’s weaponization of the Justice Department now that it might threaten their bottom line $$$

I HAVE FOUND THE CAUSE AND THE SOLUTION #banfootball

We visited Renee Good's memorial. There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone. Flowers & stuffed animals galore. Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water. Grief. And belief. Scenes from Minneapolis:

Joy Behar, "Are we in the middle of fascist America? Just this last week" "Hegseth started an illegal war for oil in Venezuela" "Miller threatened a military takeover of Greenland" "RFK Jr slashed childhood vaccine recommendations" "And ICE shot and killed a US citizen"

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

There are real people, real women, real girls whose images have been edited by grok at the request of users. This is not some fictionalised, nebulous harm. That the 'adults in the room' and 'rules-based order' governments are humming and hawwing over taking a firm line on this is extraordinary

If there was a child porn factory down the road, it’d be closed immediately. The Govt’s response wouldn’t be “hang on, they let us print flyers there too”.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Look at these beautiful children, growing up in war and poverty. Please help them - even a small donation makes a difference

Guys, it’s genuinely important that the incriminating videos be made available on major media. Please don’t exploit this for Bluesky likes or to dunk about unrelated issues

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

Finally someone has noticed: "they're not buying based on AI," Terwilliger says bluntly. "In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps..."

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Video games, rap music, rock and roll, and horror movies have been demonized by the media for YEARS. But ChatGPT gives a how to guide on making CSAM and committing suicide and it’s crickets

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..." then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live! people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US. it's MAD.

The CO2 Newsletter, (1979-1982)- by the late William N. Barbat, a geologist who "got it," is a revelation . Enraging (b/c scientists - & some politicians - knew, but couldn't get the action that was needed to happen.) Terrifying too, obvs. All 18 issues will go up this year. First one, Mon Jan 5.

The way back to a fictionalized 80s that never existed is to return to a fictionalized racial purity that never existed. They are trapped in the ghost of a memory of a nightmare.

I'm certainly not defending the Abd el-Fattah tweets but I really can't stomach the outrage about them from those who also insisted that Lucy Connelly was a heroic martyr for free speech and were equally outraged by her punishment.

2025: Liz Truss criticising Keir Starmer over the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah 2022: Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary trying to secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah

How does Moscow view Donald Trump at the end of 2025? One Russian paper today: “The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World…he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold to be destroyed…” #ReadingRussia youtu.be/7EwZNk6KgHU

The most ferocious warrior against AI use in my university is one of the Computer Science professors. I am planning to meet her next semester to get tips. My goodness she is relentless. Humanities and social science and natural science students 100% accept a moratorium but her students do not.

It is weird how 9/11 fucked up Dirtville, Alabama more than New York, which actually got attacked.