Hearing reports that a man taken by ICE in Minneapolis died in federal custody.

for me, this may be the funniest product offering in the AI bubble so far

Went out for a walk in the park and ran into people distributing whistle kits and know your rights information Brooklyn feeling very pro snow and anti ICE ♥️

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THE SUM OF YOUR ACTIONS DETERMINES WHAT YOU ARE

If you don’t want any of the little herrenvolk shites who run the US government accounts to see you, just use this blocklist, it is incredibly useful bsky.app/profile/did:...

I went to a @wawhistles.bsky.social kit building event earlier today with and it was one million times better than sitting around doom scrolling and honestly more fun than most things. Lot's of cool people and great energy. Get involved here! linktr.ee/wa.whistles

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

another benefit of using signal before you need it is though messages are encrypted they can still tell when someone started using it or if they're using it. having normalized usage before many people in a region join at the same time in theory makes harder to infer usage is part of a recent pattern

wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.

So much for that "third place" I guess.

We lost a really effective customer service channel as well as a lever of influence. Definitely a contributing factor to products and services getting worse. We need such a wide-ranging backlash towards ethical governance, ethical business, and quality. It's all related to levers of power.

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

So many things, from annoyance all the way up to fascist oppression, could be prevented if people could accept the fact that other people have different desires and ways of being in the world and that that's a) completely fine and b) not anybody else's business.

I don't know, man. This all seems pretty fucked

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

"SAMHSA officials no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities." Makes sense that a government on the side of measles would also align with addiction and mental illness.

If you could use a pick-me-up, you can hear Southern Resident orcas calling right now on a hydrophone in the Salish Sea.

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

This is the GoFundMe that the org named in the article - Dare to Struggle SoCal - has set up for him: Please help spread the word.

It's 10am in Minneapolis and rapid response is underwater, reports of chemicals deployed already. As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago. We are in freefall.

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime. Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.

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The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:

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A generative text model trained on systemically ignoring the realities of dynamics when users told other users to “kill themselves” now tells people to kill themselves

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Right, there’s a lot of people who are probably on a path to getting to “abolish ICE” given the likelihood of continued overreach and given some rhetorical stepping stones (but aren’t there yet), and part of Dems’ job is to provide those stepping stones.

I think they should get the apartment at the top of the Smith Tower.

Folks on the ground are asking me to lift this up because the need is still growing, all around Minnesota. If you can give, please do, and if you can't, please amplify!

I guess I have *two* favorite posts about icon analysis now. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command

No one can say that I lack dedication.

I've been meaning to shop at Ace hardware more often anyway. Bonus, most are locally owned.

Imagine the meetings that led to this.

My ecumenical prayer for 2026…

This is a stupendous "big if true" claim and I would genuinely love to see any evidence or experiments

Slightly diminish a game Make Believe: The Gathering

This is exactly what I mean when I say that UX has no value when the business model is not "make a thing people want and sell it for more than it costs to make." The top 10 most profitable tech business models these days are different kinds of scam. You don't need design for that.

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What America saw happen in Minneapolis was not “self-defense” or “justified.” It was a killing of an innocent U.S. citizen by a lawless Trump agency. We need ICE out of our cities and truth, justice, and accountability for this tragedy. www.king5.com/article/news...

2,800 whistles in Capitol Hill Seattle, all printed with WAISN rapid response phone number (844-724-3737). Let’s see how quickly we can get these into people’s hands! If you need whistles, check out our linktree tr.ee/wawhistles and join us on Signal. Stronger together. Let the whistles flow.

yeah that sounds like its percolating through that they lost this case

With acts of nature, you can’t fight them. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. Not so with social disasters like shit rulers. Social disasters are different due to solidarity. When you're in a coalition with other folks, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win.