For your consideration: 2 mins of an octopus navigating a swift current 〰️🐙〰️ #octopus #cephalopodsofcoralcity #current #billowing #navigating #tentacles #chromatophores #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

if you want to help minnesota: bsky.app/profile/ziib...

Update. The Chief of Police responded with a long and very thoughtful email explaining exactly where the city's Flock data did and did not go and reassuring me about the city's privacy protections and that the city is not participating in immigration enforcement in any way. I was impressed.

You know what law was intended to prevent state legal regimes from racially profiling families and abducting children who might be caught without a parent? The Civil Rights Act of 1866. You know, the law to dismantle the Black Codes.

Just got an email from my kid’s basketball coach outlining the safety precautions the host school has put in place, including when and how they’ll go into lockdown if the federal secret police show up. Again, schools making plans to protect children from their own government.

one of the most hilarious* things about america and its preoccupation of being The Most Freedom Country is that it has an unprecedented surveillance network that is trivially available to government that government didn't even have to pay for, it tricked its citizens/residents into buying it

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ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

A cartoon by Joseph Mirachi, from 1974. #NewYorkerCartoons

"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

That's my rep. (He also likes to sit in with a friend's band when he's home.) Thank you @rephuffman.bsky.social

hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.

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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Not sure I have ever seen this color of aurora before - literally pure blue and indigo. This is happening now over central Canada in Rabbit Lake, SK. The camera is accessible and linked on my webcam list: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

Get in babies, we are hope scrolling tonight

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Just wrote my city manager asking them to disable Flock

Link to Aurora cams!

Another live view of pretty impressive aurora from a low-latitude in Europe: Rigi Scheidegg, Switzerland. go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.

It’s Martin Luther King Jr Day today in the US, which means I am going to take some time and sit down for a re-read of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. [HTML] www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen... [PDF] www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...

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

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

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Puffery of the day, no reasonable consumer edition (h/t @zacharyschrag.bsky.social ) (FWIW my students tend to divide on Leonard v. Pepsico; maybe not with this one)

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.

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Honestly all Denmark needs to do is to withdraw all Ozempic exports to the US and Americans will finally revolt

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I can't tell if I'm sick, burnt out, or just exhausted from running a low grade fury.

gloaming is such a good word

Hey Dems, you cannot "train" away the racism, misogyny, thuggery, and lack of conscience in ICE recruits. The whole process depends on selecting for these characteristics. We are way past this point. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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This is very funny

In case you need some trees.

Deep Breath. Mouth of the Estero Americano and Tamalas Bay in the distance, Sonoma County, California #photography #art #oceanview #breathe

Minnesota legend Charles M. Schulz knew what made a great citizen. “Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call ‘American Virtues’ who lack this faith in our country.”

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My new favorite song that was recorded in 1949 but I just learned about today. open.spotify.com/track/3uh9zk...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

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Please never give up on your dream that one day, you will finally have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

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Thank you to everyone who stood for goodness today. There are many creative ways to express your views. I once helped end a labor strike by parking the union loudspeaker van by the administration offices and blasting Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille until they came to the table.