Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Mikie Sherrill is pulling the same stunt Pritzker and Walz did, defending state police violence against peaceful anti-ICE protesters as necessary to protect the public from DHS, who would be “so much worse” and it’s incredible they don’t hear how abusive this logic is

The concept of “free speech zones” and “first amendment zones” is fucking bonkers. So you mean the full constitution doesn’t apply outside of the little square y’all decided on? And we’re supposed to just comply with that?

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

Police apparently facilitating federal immigration activity through crowd control has been quite the repeated trend in the last two days of reports alone, from Evanston to MPLS to NJ.

The reality is that MPD arrested more people who played instruments outside of hotels than ICE agents who attacked, kidnapped, or broke into the homes of Minnesotans. This article confirms what we already felt, but it’s a must-read for anyone who showed up in my mentions to say “just call 911.”

The ICE agent charged with shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and lying about the circumstances has been arrested in Texas after Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents tracked him there.

Minneapolis police rarely responded to immigration-related emergency calls during Operation Metro Surge, even as the department spent $10 million on overtime and standby pay preparing for unrest that largely never materialized.

"The detainees’ demands are not better conditions for the inside – they want their freedom." @us.theguardian.com

“We need to keep remembering that the fight is about those on the inside,” said Cristian Moreno-Rodriguez of El Pueblo Unido of AC. “As long as we keep doing that, we encourage everyone to keep coming, to make sure we’re highlighting the atrocities and abuses these ICE agents are committing.”

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

one of the most frustrating things about co-owning this company is realizing how fucking easy it is to treat people well and pay them for their work

This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.

hey chat what does it mean when AI executives are getting eviscerated on the commencement stage while skeptics get thunderous applause asking for 7 of my closest hyperscalers

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New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

"Even while they continue to celebrate, the family worries that last month's court win that allows him to stay could be challenged by [DHS]. He and his family avoid leaving the house as much as possible..." Santiago Campos for @51st.news 51st.news/ice-detentio...

I'm not going to link or screenshot the main-character article of the day, but I will say, as exhausting as I find the constant pressure to use generative AI, what I find even more exhausting is the seeming desire of AI promoters to believe everybody already is using it. For the record, I'm not.

It just occurred to me that conversations with AI enthusiasts get so unhinged because you’re always talking to someone who has gotten used to being told they’re right in situations where they’re wrong. Of course that trickles into their treatment of other people.

This is a disturbing but important project. Black Churches were a major organizing hub of the Civil Rights movement so of course white supremacists targeted them.

These are the men who are trying to convince college women to give up their careers and spend their lives in the home. They tell women that life as a trad wife will give them access to domestic power, knowing full well that their own homes are spaces of domestic violence.

This “calorie standard” language is sinister as fuck. Basically we’re feeding them enough to stay alive but nothing more.

When perpetrators are permitted to hold positions of power, many of them use the institutions they control to continue to abuse and punish their victims. It’s part of why it’s so important that we strip perpetrators of their power when victims come forward. It’s literally prevention of future harm.

“Here's a stat for you — If somebody abused women & girls with Jeffrey Epstein, they are literally more likely to be hired by Trump's administration than prosecuted by it”

U Florida chairs of departments most of whose courses no longer count toward gen ed degree—history, lit, any acknowledgment that Black people & women exist—forced to sign loyalty pledges to new rightwing program that has—what’s that word fascists use?—replaced them. So much “free speech” it hurts.

“The decline actually ended years ago, and the latest numbers from the American Booksellers Association show independent stores expanding at a pace not seen this century.” abcnews.com/Business/wir...

Been thinking a lot about this.

Something never discussed in the "vibecession" debate is that the country lived through a huge expansion of the welfare state and then saw all of those programs taken away. It has long been conventional wisdom that taking away social programs leads to huge backlash. Nobody applies that to COVID.

A wave of hunger strikes is taking place in several ICE detention facilities. In Southern California, detainees are on hunger strike at Desert View Annex - demanding an end to inhumane conditions. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

This isn’t in the article, but one of the thoughts that occurred to me while reading about the gender gap in AI use is that men can only love AI because women are still expected to do things by hand. There’s someone there to manage the problems and mistakes—in the form of gendered invisible labor.

One thing you can do *today* if you live in Massachusetts is urge your State Representative to support the version of the PROTECT Act passed by the Senate, which has robust protections for courthouses, among other "sensitive" locations.

“Why are women less bullish overall on AI than men” is not actually that mysterious of a question

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is a really important piece from @joyurcaba.bsky.social. Most people think that the government's restrictions on health care for trans people was limited to minors (which has been the government's messaging). It's not, and people need to know about it.

I just watched video of 5 ICE agents abducting a guy from a courthouse in my area of Massachusetts. Periodic reminder that ICE hasn't gone anywhere. They are still here and still terrorizing immigrants.

I helped on this one. I found one of the shooters active in an incel forum complaining about being short, attacking women and giving advice on self-harm. The shooters weren't nihilist. They're representative of the ties between incels and white power that's fueled by the great replacement theory.

Cannot 👏 emphasize 👏 this 👏 enough

I first saw this argument penned by science fiction writer Ted Chiang in 2023, just a few months after ChatGPT was released to the public. If you missed it then, it’s worth a read now.

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

Deepfakes were normalized through the violent sexualization of women, but we’re always a stepping stone on the way to other forms of exploitation.

BREAKING: Three-judge district court reaffirms earlier rulings, even in light of Callais, that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map cannot be used because it is “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination” and that the court-ordered map is, again, to be used in the 2026 elections.

For anyone else who wants a not-AI search engine:

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

HUGE. Kilmar Abrego Garcia will not face the inside of a prison cell. It is extremely hard to win a vindictive prosecution motion, but here the evidence was so strong that the judge had almost no choice but to grant it. They are STILL trying to deport him to Africa, though.

BIG WIN: 8-5! We just passed a temporary data center moratorium and I was proud to be lead author alongside my colleague Jason Chavez, @jchavezmpls.bsky.social 🧵

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

A consequence? In my United States? It’s more possible than you think!