The collapse of the DOJ continues; suggestions that they used ChatGPT or another LLM to research/write a legal brief in a case involving conditions in ICE confinement at the Whipple building in Minneapolis.

Breaking: The Pentagon is weighing sending an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East.

Last year a middle schooler sent an adult to our local TDOV event, the question she sent in to our panelists was, "Why are they doing this to us?" I have lost count of how many times I've thought about that since last year.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign pledge to freeze rents for tenants in about 1 million regulated apartments got a lift Thursday, as newly released city data showed landlords faring quite well financially: gothamist.visitlink.me/9lZdqx

i wrote about milton mayer’s account of german men’s lives in the nazi party and parallels with our ICE situation today www.welcometohellworld.com/the-little-a...

NEW: The FBI went down to Georgia, looking for some ballots to seize. Now, in an Atlanta courtroom tomorrow morning, the government must defend a search warrant built on recycled fraud claims & glaring omissions. My primer on Fulton County’s battle for ballots: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fult...

Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.

slop, you can ban it www.theverge.com/tech/901461/...

"Reversing the Flow: Reconsidering Sanitation Knowledge Transfer Around the Globe," by Kory Russel, Daniel Tillias, Sebastien Tilmans, Sasha Kramer, in Transformational Participatory Urbanism. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Nurturing transformational resistance: How humanitarian engineering education shapes students' capacity to challenge systemic inequality, by Emma Stine, Amy Javernick-Will, Tiera Tanksley: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Also, students are a big part in anti-ICE walkouts, if the Atlantic did even a quick search of student newspapers. Like this 1000-student anti-ICE protest at Brown U in January for example: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...

Block,the bombs Block, block,the bombs Stop,the war Stop, stop the war Melt,the ICE Melt, meltthe ICE Tax,the rich Tax,tax the rich Free,the people Free,free the people Love, your neighbor Love, love your neighbor

You could feel the union power on the CFU-UAW picket line yesterday. And you could feel it even more strongly today when they announced a deal with NYU. A huge congratulations to the faculty members who fought so hard for this victory. Power belongs in the hands of working people!

"Between...demonstrations, film screenings, & fundraising events to support...relief efforts in Palestine, the group has been working with local lawmakers to amend the city’s investment policies...to ensure that...funds are not invested in...human rights violations, war crimes, or other harms."🍉

Tech Justice Law Project, Abolitionist Law Center, and Center for Constitutional Rights file Amicus brief in Anthropic vs US Dept of War, supporting neither party, and demonstrating that the Dept of War and Anthropic are jointly engaged in war crimes: techjusticelaw.org/wp-content/u...

Honestly, fuck off.

I took a closer look at the ProPublica union’s vote to strike, including their demand for protection from AI-related layoffs. The vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...

It is that time of year, so I thought I’d mention that my book YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION is very much a thing you can buy for any tech workers in your life. Or yourself! You can buy it just about anywhere books are sold—or hey, ask your library to grab a copy! ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...

Octopus shows off its incredible camouflage. Original post

Everything old is new again. Except this isn't that old, and we should really listen to the lessons of the past 25 years. Most of the solutions to these problems aren't going to be technical. They are going to be normative and cultural and political, just like the social media questions were.

No cookie for Dario!

Good. bsky.app/profile/scho...

Tech Justice Law Project, Abolitionist Law Center, and Center for Constitutional Rights file Amicus brief in Anthropic vs US Dept of War, supporting neither party, and demonstrating that the Dept of War and Anthropic are jointly engaged in war crimes: techjusticelaw.org/wp-content/u...

Hi! Your friendly neighborhood 82nd Airborne vet here to tell you 1,000 paratroopers is a command group+advance party and it makes no sense to send this element unless the plan is to send a fuck ton more ground troops relatively soon!

#Bridgerton boss issues warning to fans ahead of queer season 5 storyline https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/25/bridgerton-season-5-francesca-michaela/?utm_content=1774444800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenue

Y’all are busy calling him “Diaper Don” or “Dementia Don” meanwhile he’s made a 3.4 billion dollars profit off of his presidency so far. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

The @blockclubchi.bsky.social story is extremely credulous, despite Charles's efforts to clearly describe why this is a bad thing. Some related reporting:

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

OpenAI news: 1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing. 2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely. Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

It's just that consuming fascist media is not good for us & if we too talk about the fascist media we consume people will hate us and it gets to a point where idk maybe we should see how the other 30% of the world lives But we won't We'll just keep watching poison and hating each other for it

"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics." In her speech at the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Yara Hawari examines the brutal reality of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

A Rhopalonematid jelly (Crossota millsae) feeding with tentacles extended in all directions filmed at a depth of 1,015 meters (3,330 feet) off southwestern Puerto Rico. Original post

look I don't want to count my chickens or downplay the extent to which the right has fascist aspirations. but if the GOP had an unassailable, undetectable election rigging strategy - or the juice to openly do the detectable kind - you do kind of suspect they would've started here

Study from @haimson.bsky.social et al. found transgender, nonbinary and disabled people are more negative to AI. doi.org/10.1145/3715... Perhaps because of AI's tendency to want fixed categories, Haimson says in this new article about it: www.advocate.com/technology/c...

want a list of specifics for what mamdani—who campaigned on not only protecting trans people’s right to access essential healthcare but *expanding* it—could be doing, that you could highlight when reaching out? check the article. then reach out to mayor mamdani. 🧵 📧: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

some context: a federal judge *did* rule last week that rfk’s HHS overstepped with the rule that threatened hospitals providing trans youth healthcare. here’s a non-paywalled link that doesn’t pay the guardian, which is generally shit for trans people: archive.is/Xtujg 🧵

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

We bombed an elementary school, Bret

Florida Democrat Brian Nathan's victory is now the 30th red-to-blue flip of a legislative seat since Donald Trump returned to the White House. During that span, the GOP has flipped zero seats. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Damn, this series of really brutal polls on the economy

EUA e Israel bombardearam a casa do Kiarostami www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Happy that happened, but then there's shit like this (that's not getting a ton of coverage): bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3mhqmk6aq322b

"A handful of journalists have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allegedly seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote propaganda and censor news coming out of the White House. " thehill.com/homenews/med...

I said what I said

This Anthropic v. Dept. of War hearing not going well for government. Gov lawyers basically admitted that Hegseth didn't have the authority to do the wide-reaching ban that he announced. Judge: So why did he say it? Lawyer: I don't know.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video platform Sora after it flopped Disney is now exiting their $1B deal with OpenAI

“Ambulance transfers from the ICE facility’s address cost another nearly $250,000.”

BREAKING: New Mexico jury finds that Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp are harmful to children's mental health and orders Meta to pay a $375 million penalty.