The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Yup here’s the gift link for everyone www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh

This hit so fucking hard today.

A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’, the perfect mascot for 2026. [news.cgtn.com]

I watched the new Starfleet Academy and I liked it. People who don't like it are those purists that think that we should just keep making the old Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation over and over again.

PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨

These are too good 🤣

132. T. Kingfisher’s Snake-Eater Sometimes a woman's best friend is her dog. Sometimes it's her septuagenarian trans grandma neighbour with a shotgun. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a…

You get the users you get—with their existing habits, their limited attention, their varying levels of motivation, their phones buzzing with notifications from seven other apps. Of all the languages, @cwodtke.bsky.social decided to speak the language of facts. eleganthack.com/the-formula-...

Since the AI bubble hasn't quite burst — a small batch of some more sceptical pieces on AI in the first issue of the year :-) mailchi.mp/7dde6332c467... Including work from @emilydileo.bsky.social, @cwodtke.bsky.social, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, @lizthegrey.com, Lizzie Matusov, & more.

I wish we could cancel the election, suggests the guy who truly loves American democracy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is a great piece by @cwodtke.bsky.social. It articulates the love/hate relationship I have with Generative AI. AI can do lots of good things. It is not value neutral. cwodtke.medium.com/i-love-gener...

@cwodtke.bsky.social's latest post on why good UX is still your best strategic moat: eleganthack.com/ux-is-your-m...

Could we get the solution to climate change first, then scale out?

He could have commented on the dangers of a president vowing to punish an entire city because he doesn’t like the democratically-elected Mayor, or asked Mamdani to do so. Instead, he took these threats for granted and asked whether voters should decide to be swayed by the rhetoric of an autocrat.

In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.

Okay, good: "Dislikes are private and the signal isn’t global — it mainly affects your own experience and, to an extent, others in your social neighborhood." Because public dislikes would be TOXIC AS HELL. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Pam Bondi swore no victims were trafficked to anyone but Epstein. But the victims say Epstein and Trump worked as a team to traffick them to Prince Andrew…

Kerning is important!

laughing while crying

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

The Winchester Mystery house seems fun but also perhaps triggering for people who have to use Workday at the office

1. You can't even get hot food on SNAP, much less use it for nails or "weave". It doesn't work like a credit card. Items that do not qualify do not ring up. 2. Let's call a spade a spade. That right there was not a dog whistle. It is old school pure uncut Reagan era racism. What he said was RACIST.

So I hear ICE is coming to San Francisco.

"The Cory Doctorow Doctrine Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.” " Highly recommended!

This is the mockery I crave

The ads write themselves. "While Republicans were making your prices higher and cutting your benefits, Donald Trump gave himself a gold-and-marble bathroom with a chandelier and a view of his Epstein ballroom."

this is happening in my birthplace, and I want to vomit.

There are basic issues of democratic legitimacy when armed and masked men are defying the wishes of neighborhoods and cities of America.

every morning, Nina gives sterling some loving. Sterling is not a fan.

"only about 5% of the variance in personality can be predicted from digital footprints, and personality‐tailored messages show negligible effects on behavior... When design and evaluation flaws are controlled, the combined end‐to‐end effectiveness of psychological targeting approaches zero."

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

Nina hanging out

Let us all sleep so well

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Nazi site prepares to make it easier to promote only Nazis

Smart appliances aren't smart. They're skeevy little rats telling your secrets to giant corporations who sell your life to other giant corporations because they can. Your Roomba and Alexa are basically creepy stalkers. Don't let them into your home.

"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."

I was next to (one of) the AI slop booths at DragonCon and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. So, as you may or may not know, there was a booth selling AI slop images printed on acrylic panels at DragonCon. They were in booth a-10. I was in a-11. Here’s what happened from my perspective.

Good info for short fiction authors looking to find whether their works are part of the Bartz v Anthropic class action

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