have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

Kinda darkly funny take because the reality now is closer to that the cinematography drones were killed in the cradle because the bastards in the US gov have few interests outside making war.

🚲💡 Now that lipo batteries not-for-user-replacement are part of most all of my electronics, replacing 🪫🔁🔋those batteries is becoming a joyful (if slightly rebellious) hobby. So, I spent a few minutes this afternoon replacing the 18650 battery in my bike light (Cygolite Metro 550) 🧵

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Filter Blockades: A Tactic to Defend Your Neighborhood from ICE We review how to establish and maintain filter blockades, share accounts from filter blockades in the Twin Cities this past week, and conclude with a broader look at the history and potential of the model.

Today in Kafka's IT department I am arguing with IT staff on a ticket about how I need access to submit a different kind of request for IT to perform a software review for a hardware device.

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

This 11-year-old girl can't go home yet though because there was a goddamn MEASLES outbreak at this Texas ICE facility where hundreds of children and families are being locked up, and she and her mom have to quarantine first.

I've half heartedly wanted a 3D printer since I had access to one in high school. This moment makes me feel so incredibly jealous of all these fellow nerds ♥️

Okay, look, I wanna say something about this, because I know a lot of people are like "oh look the weird nerds are having a Day" and yes, we are. But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.

Boulder’s Kimbal Musk — Elon’s brother — referenced more than 100 times in latest Epstein files release trib.al/heQyKfn

We've documented actions taken on hundreds of college campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students. Here's the latest: https://chroni.cl/4k9patI

Looks like they have a crochet pattern for the hat too, which has been hard to find www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Drone journalism and generally obtaining footage like this increasingly faces restrictions in the US * A recent NOTAM bans drone operation within 3000' of DHS assets (read vehicles) * Restrictions on drone imports (esp DJI) will limit access to drones themselves Will link some🧵below in a moment

When Trump was re-elected, reflected on the different risks and threats I (and we) might face in opposing his regime... Things like financial risks and instabilities, costs to career up to loss of job and career opportunities, in worst cases threats of being detained, physically harmed, killed

This is a targeted attack on science media. Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?

"Detention center" is a technical term. Qualitatively, DHS is building a massive system of concentration camps. They may not be visible yet for what they are, but they will be remembered as such, and this must be stopped.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“What if someone adds a bad actor in disguise to the Signal chat” is a *social* problem that *literally cannot be solved by any messaging app*.

Also creating various new AI jobs and initiatives of dubious import while allowing critical positions that *could not / should not* be performed by a computer to be left unfilled.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

we've got Schumer calling for Miller's head, folks we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up

My colleague @sristovska.bsky.social provides significant analysis regarding the laws and interpretation of video evidence, in the context of recent state violence, at Scientific American.

Abolish ICE and CBP. This cannot atop at Bovino

Canning Bovino is good news. Noem and Miller must follow. ICE and CBP roving raids must stop, and the organizations must be defunded and abolished.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

these banners are printed with the coolest giant banner system ever, developed by @laborcamp on IG the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint

signal group chats are roughly as secure as the least secure device anyone in the group chat is running this makes a smallish signal group chat pretty good and a 1000+ person signal group chat secure until the feds collar one of the people in it it is much better than alternatives

if the USG wanted to expend the effort to get into your signal you were already turbofucked regardless this is not true for 99.9999% of people

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government

My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!

“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising

Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...

The students I work with and people in my community are diverse and many, including my spouse, are not US citizens. All face varied risks and anxieties despite legal status. If you are in Colorado, CORRN is one organization working to keep our community safe from CBP/ICE.

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Alex Pretti was a nurse and an an alum of UMN.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — NBA postpones Warriors-Timberwolves game at the Target Center 'to prioritize the safety and security' of the community.

There appears to have been another ICE murder in Minneapolis this morning. [CW: graphic video] www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Childish. Fucking. Ghouls. Who hate our state.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

One of the functions of this NOTAM is to ban drone journalism around ICE... their activities and the protest movement that surrounds them. This is unsurprising because autocractic governments have regularly sought to enact bans and restriction around drone journalism

You know this new FAA notice from Jan 16th that appears to prohibit drone flights within 3000 feet of ICE/DHS? Well, me and a number of others have been trying for days, and we've still heard *nothing* back from official government sources who might be able to clarify what this means in practice.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.