F ChatGPT. Be like Pope Leo (or Ryan Coogler - "For all the writers out there, when y’all look at that blank page, think of who you love, think of anybody who you’ve seen in pain that you identify with and wish they felt better and let that love motivate you") www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...

Chicago, has “tens of thousands of surveillance cameras—up to 45,000, by some estimates. That’s among the highest numbers per capita in the US.”

Five women authors by whom I’ve read five books Ursula K Le Guin Robin McKinley Louise Erdrich Marge Piercy Mary Stewart Also a bunch of others like Anne McCaffrey, Georgette Heyer, and several of the authors listed in the earlier skeets on this thread

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Everyday Americans shouldn’t be stuck footing the bill for illegal taxes (tariffs). They deserve their money back. Refund checks should be issued to every American.

Had to drop everything and respond for foot patrol because ICE was circling my kid’s school today at pick up. Slowly circling. These guys are assholes of the highest order and intimidation is their only purpose at this point. And they’re still here. Fuck ‘em.

love to be looted by our criminal president

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

Excellent piece. Even if the DHS withdrawal is real, the damage has been done...and the goal of terrorizing the city (as an example to all), dealing it ongoing economic damage, & the expansion of concentration camps, will continue. But so will the example of resistance Minnesotans showed us all.

Hi attorneys! Want to not be able to get to sleep tonight? Here's Judge Rakoff (probably the single most well-respected judge in SDNY) saying that the use of AI destroys both attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

Welp.

NEW: In Iowa, when someone's charges are *dismissed,* they still had to pay court fees. So prosecutors pressured ppl into pleading guilty: 'plead guilty, you'll have no fees. (If you win, you'll owe $$.)' Iowa's Supreme Court struck that down in January... but prosecutors want to bring it all back:

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

I don’t believe anything they say, is the thing

Now that the underlying decision in the European Commission’s €120 million fine against X is in the public domain, Oliver Marsh and LK Seiling examine what it reveals about data access under the Digital Services Act.

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true: There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious. Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process. Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.

There is no protocol like it in the world, because it was created in a different one. And every other world died. SMTP. Email is the final gasp of the original dream of electronic sovereignty. Of a federated world of peer communication. It's the final one. The last protocol.

"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Link: projectsaltbox.substack.com

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Just as a reminder, Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist.

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

A big Latino "chinga te and your racist bullshit."

The power lines would be the political statement people who are mad about this absolutely aren’t getting

I mean I am up dancing. Plus Cardi, Gaga, Ricky Martin? Brilliant.

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

The European Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design. TikTok says it will challenge the findings, but it’s a massive test for the Digital Services Act, with potential implications for all platforms, writes Chris Stokel-Walker.

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I figured out why, despite the fact that I 100% should hate it, I love Shrinking. The dilemma/conflict of basically every episode is this cast of funny, warm characters, trying to figure out how to show up for each other and take care of themselves. No big villain. No big dramatic chaos.

So counter-intuitively— capitalism was an early means to a freer press. British imposed heavy fines, taxes and restrictions on press in many of its colonies around the world, including the U.S. Advertising + wealthy owners then became baked into the U.S. newspaper system.

Me: This apple is slightly old, too old to eat. Maybe I’ll use it for baking. Also me: This date is all crystallized and kinda leathery. It could be from a jar they found in the desert. Delicious.

Former race and ethnicity reporter Emmanuel Felton wrote, “I’m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn’t a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

Scientists off the coast of Argentina found a rare giant phantom jelly 820 feet below the ocean's surface. The phantom jelly can grow as long as a school bus and was first discovered in 1899.

A murder beast that apparently gets cuter as it becomes more murderous.

abolish ice, abolish cbp, dissolve dhs

The @kuow.org broadcast right now is talking to an admin from little Liam’s school. It’s such a positive, common sense human discussion that I’m sharing it so others can hear people being sane and good. Not sure what program it is, I’ll try to find it and share the recording later. . www.kuow.org

That's a start. Hey @ofcom.bsky.social

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

and there are more of us every day

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

How is it only Tuesday?

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections / gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...