If your usual music streaming service is down at the moment due to Cloudflare controlling half the internet, it would be a great time to try something alternative. Why not check out: The Indie Beat Radio: https://theindiebeat.fm/ The Faircamp web ring: https://faircamp.webr.ing/directory.html […]

Meatpacking: Four Corporations, Total Control | Farm Action https://farmaction.us/meatpacking-four-corporations-total-control/

Ah, creating a legal entitlement for $500K for some elderly millionaires because they being investigated for their role in an insurrection *in exchange for* a show vote to make health care affordable.

Tech writer @bcmerchant.bsky.social talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles. AI MAY NOT simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble.

Tough to read but important reporting on the everyday, bureaucratic Trump deportation machine. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/mass-deportation-immigration/684871/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWv6mvMeoNr8aKfvBdHgGgpE

The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Nothing describes the state of the union better than this, Trump staring out in "senior moment" mode while someone passes out in the Oval Office

"In the notice posted to a government contracting website on Tuesday, ICE officials said there is an "immediate need" to establish the call center, which is expected to receive and process "6,000 to 7,000 calls per day" regarding the locations of minors. " ICE to open call center to help track […]

I, too, would be panicked if I thought Mamdani was about to implement socialism in NYC, but fortunately, I am not completely detached from reality about the actual powers of a metropolitan mayor. He's going to hike taxes somewhat, and implement a few small beer boondoggles. The city will survive.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Ok. I have now watched. And I am confirming my guess. This is good. Very good.

I'm happy Mamdani has been elected Mayor of a place that I was a resident of for 17 years, a place I still have serious love for. Cuomo is a corrupt d-bag & Sliwa is a nutter d-bag - neither are fit for dogcatcher, let alone Mayor. Based on my knowledge of how that town works, I'd say Mamdani […]

A Chicago man is now in critical condition after Trump's masked thugs had him in a chokehold. Trump's America

Here's what's crazy to me about all these pirated books in the LLM datasets: These knuckleheads *could* have purchased a single copy of each book they ingested. I would still personally consider it stolen content in the sense that the author never sold the rights to LLM training for endlessly […]

Largest line I've ever seen for an odd number year election - last minute voters (like me) out into the parking lot. And this turn out came just on TX State Constitutional amendment proposals. Good to see some involvement by the community. #elections #uspolitics #texas #atx #democracy

This woman's screams will haunt you. She was taken from the airport in Salt Lake City. Mother of 4, legally in the US with a work permit. "I have my papers!" she screams. "Help me!" No one does. They just watch as she is kidnapped by thugs with no uniform and no ID of any kind.

Evanston, IL Please watch. Please share. Brutal footage of Trump's masked thugs beating a man who is already cuffed. Witnesses said ICE slammed on their brakes, causing the red car to rear-end them. This is the pretense ICE used to brutalize these citizens.

#giftarticle #trump admin makes *misleading* case in high-stakes #asylum hearing #homelandsecurity asked a judge to #deport a man to #afghanistan, where he expects the #taliban to kill him. What happens next could affect thousands. To make its case, the #dhs did not accuse him of any crime or […]

The left did not create the right through its own mistakes. The right is not some passing reaction to the left, some temporary fever that can be cured with just the right policy tweaks. The right exists! Reactionaries want what they want no matter what the left does or doesn't do.

And everyone who screamed about Hunter is silent. Endless corruption. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

ICE: thug trash.

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's been 11 years since I left NYC, after being a resident for 17 years, so my opinion on this is kinda moot. But if I was still there, think my vote for Mayor would go to Joseph Hernandez, a Cuban immigrant running as an independent, whose policy approach […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You fuckers should run…and hide. Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks https://fortune.com/2025/10/26/37-white-house-ballroom-donors-funding-300-million-build-tech-ceos-trump/

Federal Agents Use Tear Gas Again, Disrupt Northwest Side Halloween Parade #chicago #ice #politics https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/25/federal-agents-use-tear-gas-again-this-time-in-northwest-side-confrontations/

The incomparable @mluckovich.bsky.social

In Chicago. Another US citizen violently snatched by Trump's masked thugs.

Please watch. Please share. Trump's masked thugs attacked a blind protestor in South Portland last weekend and dragged him away like an animal. The man is 4'6" and legally blind. A US citizen. "They picked the weakest person they could find," he told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

AI snake oil that could get kids killed www.wbaltv.com/article/stud...

Early access on the Patreon! My old work laptop is too old to get an update to Windows 11. Funnily enough, my daughter's school laptop runs Ubuntu, and it's a LOT less powerful than my old work machine. Looks like it's time to swap the operating system and […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Trump didn’t just take billions of taxpayer dollars and give it to Argentina with no legal process to help a politician he likes avoid losses in domestic elections and hook up a billionaire he knows who made a bad bet on Argentina. He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.

The plutocrats who helped a gangster demolish the White House. Putin has got to be loving this... #whitehouse #gop #epstein #uspol #uspolitics #google #palantir #peterthiel #blackstone

Key findings: 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. Gemini performed worst with […]

The whole pretext is that public companies provide the capital that allow companies to take on large projects and make money. This makes their stock worth owning since they will give you some of the profit in the form of a dividend. This description of markets is so quaint and out of line with […]

Trump just told this “I ended 8 wars” lie 🤥 again, so here’s the truth in case anyone cares 👇🏽

Trump and Nazi Noem are not tracking how often their ICE thugs grab US citizens. ProPublica did. More than 170 US citizens. Their tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

This is murder, and this administration is responsible and needs to be held to account

BREAKING: Trump humiliated as official numbers are in — 7 million people joined the No Kings rallies, making it the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. 🇺🇸💪

OK everyone with Trump Derangement Syndrome saying “wah wah wah why does she need two,” EVERYONE knows it’s bad luck to fly in a plane after you’ve killed a German Shepard in it

At this point "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" is starting to sound like a pretty solid basis for a system of government

CHICAGO: “Feds chased a car through a residential neighborhood… intentionally crashed into the car.. responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying 3 rounds of tear gas with children & seniors in the area…” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Graphene OS evangelists have sometimes annoyed me in the past, 1st from often putting out a "we are the only way" attitude as far as alternative mobile OS's go, & 2nd from pushing a product that is wholely dependent on Google for its base, not only in software, but in its supported hardware as […]

A super-militarized ICE is getting more and more violent. After assaulting a musician playing the theme from “Ghostbusters”, ICE took her out of Oregon, to Washington state, where she remains in jail […]

This is absolute evil: "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to their attorney, ...the officers refused and […]

R&B Legend D’Angelo Dead Following a ‘Prolonged’ & ‘Courageous Battle With Cancer’ #StrangerFuture www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...

- It is legal to organize and fund protest. - That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid. - Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal - It is good to oppose kings and fascism - That's not what what "begs the question" means

Absolute garbage. www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i...

Still warm from the kiln, covered in warm earth tones—I’m so relieved this piece came out successfully on the other side of firing. I worked on it over the course of a month and remembered to document moments of process which I think I’ll share in a thread […] [Original post on mastodon.social]