I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

discord is asking everybody about how they feel about AI. have at it folks

The financial instability of The NewsHour is a civic crisis. PBS’s flagship nightly news broadcast can’t fund a weekend broadcast or keep its last bureau — Phoenix — open.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If they make it part of the experience - I will leave @discord.com And fuck discord for making each answer 30 - what is AI gave you free money and then one, what if not using AI gave you herpes? So.... with this bias... Fuck you in advance.

Your timeline needs the cleansing energy of a video where it seems like something bad is going to happen but then it's actually just two lil friends having a nice lil time

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

It's a new year, and I am begging y'all to put captions on your streams. Don't know how? I got you. Here's a thread of captioning options for your streams. With the exception of Meld that does not have a caption plug in (yet). These should work on other stream software.

For No Reason in Particular Here’s a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis

weirdly silent about ICE killing an unarmed woman in cold blood, surely there's no politics at play here

*Everyone* murdered by ICE is another call to arms (and I’m using that phrase deliberately) for us as citizens to show up and say No More. See you tomorrow in Santa Ana.

She said it was Boer-ing

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

I have personally met two lesbians who have moved to the area from Florida in the past couple of years.

Federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, just one day after a killing by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent sparked national outrage. theintercept.com/2026/01/08/f...

AND LISTEN TO LOCAL AND ESTABLISHED ORGANIZERS. Los Angeles is not Chicago. New York City is not Philadelphia. Local leaders who've been out there doing the work...will know best. Listen. to. them. Stay frosty.

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

2018: “Tumblr has been removed from Apple's app store because it let some users post images of child sexual abuse.”

Thousands of people on X are using Grok to create sexualized images of adults + minors wearing minimal clothing. This not only violates X's own content policy, it may violate the guidelines of Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store: www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

His name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Mayor Jacob Frey: “There’s little I can say again that will make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE — To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis” I wish more officials would abandon decorum when situations are truly egregious

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

As Jack Smith said, government officials lying about matters such as this is a crime. This is not First Amendment protected. Impeach, prosecute, imprison Kristi Noem.

This is an excellent question:

WAIT WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE FIRST MARGARET ORGAN-KEAN ART SINCE TEMPEST?!?!

Twice in the last few months, @wired.com has reported on AI image generator startups that have left databases of images they create exposed. In both cases, the technology was being used for AI CSAM and harmful images of women. (The companies pulled their services when we got in touch)

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

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Welcome to the new world:

If you have any subscription to the Washington Post and the New York Times, just know whatever consequences come from Trump's illegal invasion is on them, and their owners. These two publications cannot be called journalism anymore.

all I am going to say about this is that propagandists got tried for war crimes at nuremberg too www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

hacking the US or leaking inside info may be scary, but you know what's even scarier? war do the right thing. use ur skills, use ur knowledge.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right

No one who's not on the ground has any idea what the fuck is going on other than there's explosions don't trust any of the helicopter stuff yet be careful about what footage you're spreading I've already seen some stuff on X that looks like Syria Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

This! There is no difference between what Putin did in Ukraine and what Trump is doing in Venezuela. The entire international community needs to sanction the fuck out of the US. Destroy our economy. Ban Americans from international travel. Make us a pariah state.

BREAKING Residents of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, say they are hearing explosions and seeing aircraft overhead at night. Power outages have also been reported, along with accounts of gunfire in multiple areas.

Werner Herzog 📽️

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

This is a good example of why Bari Weiss' demands over 60 Minutes' CECOT piece were so revealing. Doing journalism ethically means giving subjects a chance to respond and sometimes going to lengths to provide that chance to them. If they say no, that's their prerogative. It shouldn't ice your story.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Sama'a works day in and day out to keep her family alive, and our aid is the slender line she relies on to keep them fed and sheltered. Please give what you can.

For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI. 10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!