Help a single mother from my hometown, biddeford maine www.gofundme.com/f/madre-solt...

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Building ethical spatial computing for everyone - XR Guild www.xrguild.org#resources

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “ICE knows that it cannot shoot us all,” our columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes.“But the Department of Homeland Security is close to being able to track us all.”

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Indeed, a couple of weeks ago, I joyfully watched the Artsled rally at Powderhorn.

New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse. @lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

It is fitting that the US edition of concentration camps are going to be situated in disused warehouses (former data centres?): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This story clearly demonstrates that to safeguard against authoritarian government surveillance, we must reign in surveillance capitalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

I voted against the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and I was pleased to speak with Ta-Nehisi Coates @VanityFair about the mood surrounding that debate. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Remember that a large part of the adtech ecosystem is school data. Every school app is full of adtech. Or sells on data. Same with your car data too Switching off cookies or using a private browser won’t save us when schools are selling us out

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches

IMPORTANT: As Davos is back in the news, you should DEFINITELY watch and share this. It’s still right. “It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference & no one is allowed to speak about water.” “You’re counting the wrong things!” With @rutgerbregman.com & Winnie Byanyima youtu.be/P8ijiLqfXP0?...

All the countries at Davos with actual Kings: "That's not for us, right?"

This board game is amazing! It's super complicated and VERY true to the science. Every astrobiologist board game geek should get a copy! I'm SO impressed at the research behind this game. I would LOVE to review this game! Anyone know how/where I could do that? boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41... 🔭🧪

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Predictive algorithms in hiring, creditworthiness, and welfare programs are sold as objective and efficient, writes James O’Sullivan. In practice, however, they operationalize historical bias, scale discrimination, and launder political choices through opaque technical systems, he argues.

Middle finger mask guy welcomes ICE agents back to HQ. Whipple Federal Building, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota 01/17/26

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

If you work for the Minnesota National Guard, text me via Signal app at 202-510-1268. I will protect your anonymity.

Gentleman on the scene who talked to this Dad said that he asked ICE officers if he could vacate his family and they said that's fine. He loaded up the car and as soon as he put it in drive, they lit the car up with flashbangs and tear gas. The 6mo old stopped breathing and EMS had to be sent in

For serious Perkins experts, a non-profit in her family’s generational Maine home town seeks a curator. jobs.nonprofitmaine.org/job/curator-...

10/ Abolishing ICE is much harder today than Section 24 was then. ICE is statutory and an entrenched agency. But Perkins reminds us they are policy choices. They’ve been built, dismantled, and rebuilt before. Immigration enforcement is policy. And policy can be changed.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

NYT: “In the last 4 months, immigration officers fired on at least 9 people in 5 states + D.C., all while in their vehicles. In each case, officials claimed the agents fired in self-defense, fearing they’d be struck by the vehicle. At least 1 other died.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Mpls Parents are raising funds for families at South HS impacted by ICE raids. Money will go towards food, necessary supplies, and rental assistance. We appreciate your love and solidarity during these difficult times. ❤️ Please share widely with friends and family! gofund.me/e32d501a3

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

In case you're wondering, the NYU law school has been running the War Powers Resolution Reporting Project at the Reiss Center on Law and Security, since February 2020. Researchers created the first publicly searchable database tracking all presidential 48-hour reports to Congress. 1/4

I wish today’s advertisement was as ephemeral: 1948 (Shōwa 23): In Tokyo, a man walks the streets stamping ads onto pavement with a pat-pat sound. Water from a backpack tank feeds a felt pad on his foot—called the “Road Sign.” Inspired by tabi socks, the prints vanished when dry, leaving no trace.

Deadline is coming up. Here is a blog post that @nickkauf.bsky.social & I wrote in April for @metagov.bsky.social about organizing sessions at @schoolofdata.nyc 2025. Looking back, I'd say the community visioning session for @cunypitlab.bsky.social & @beta.nyc's #NYCPITPopup was a smashing success.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

At several locations across the city where bike bus routes cross busy intersections, the Portland Bureau of Transportation has programmed traffic signals with a custom, bike bus-friendly timing plan that is activated by a longer push of the beg button. (!!!) bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...

“You have this narrative that data centers are needed and will make us rich and thriving, but this is a real crisis.” 🧵

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to let Facebook and Instagram users set a chronological feed by default, a first test of the EU’s Digital Services Act in civil court. Tech Policy Press spoke with Bits of Freedom’s Rejo Zenger on the ruling’s significance.

This is like those turtles in the Super Mario World castle

Withnail and AI

Chris Cornell, astrophysics pioneer