Goodness 🌱 www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

Happy holiday rom com season, to all who celebrate.

I’ve stopped buying salt water sea food because 1) some mammals that live in the ocean appear fo be starving, and 2) #fishing businesses don’t seem able to coordinate their practices to actually be #sustainable. Thank goodness for tofu and pasture-raised poultry. www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

PS @plancpills.bsky.social has stickers you can plaster in bathrooms, on lampposts, or wherever to spread the word about abortion pills. Free with suggested donation to cover costs, and available in English and Spanish www.plancpills.org/stickers

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

My God.

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the fact that Chicago is still under invasion & most of the rest of the country just chugs on, is reminding me really really unpleasantly of losing more than a million Americans to the early pandemic, with a collective shrug.

“I’m kind of in a different income bracket” = a techie who has spent $250,000 on a council seat in a town with ~10,000 people, and drives a cyber truck. Seems like he really just wants development in Woodinville to happen exactly how he wants it to happen, maybe based on vibes.

“Relying on chatbots isn’t fringe — it’s the predictable result of care made scarce, stigmatized, and costly. Recognizing that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing chatbot care, but it’s past time to name what’s happening: Privately owned chatbots are functioning as public health resources.”

New in PN: The DOJ's "election monitoring" is really voter intimidation "If Hispanic voters are no longer in the GOP fold after watching Trump’s ceaseless, country-wide violence against immigrants, the administration’s solution is to make sure they can’t cast a ballot."

Why not just cut to the chase and pull the plug on the networks entirely and send the reporters to go spit-polish boots at the white house

Overall, a great read on photo surveillance. “One of the biggest dangers of facial recognition is not a corporation running an advanced camera with fancy sensors, it’s an angry Taylor Swift fan who doxes you using a regular picture of your face.” from @404media.co www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

Why are American women leaving the labour force? You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. 🤷‍♀️ economist.com/finance-and-...

“Centrist” and “moderate” are different words for a reason, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social Link to article: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

More @404media.co gold: “If you are actually interested in the generative AI boom and you are not identifying porn as a core use for the technology, you are either not paying attention or intentionally pretending it’s not happening.” The whole article is great. #AI www.404media.co/openai-sam-a...

'No Kings Day' protests in Seattle, WA and across U.S.: What to know www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A lot of people who aren’t from the desert think of it as an empty space. It’s far from empty: it’s home to some of the most magical landscape and wildlife anywhere. This ridiculous wall is causing harm to an area already stressed region. #arizona @azluminaria.org azluminaria.org/2025/10/07/a...

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

From @404media.co, a great write-up of a really unfortunate attempted use of AI - beer judging. The development of a beer and how qualified beer nerds analyze & express the qualities that make it good or not are human activities. AI doesn’t belong anywhere in there. www.404media.co/what-happene...

ICEBlock is a well-designed, useful tool for ppl who care about their community. It doesn’t provide real-time stalking, it’s crowdsourced observation. This is a disappointing action from #Apple & seems like an obvious, huge free speech issue. Via @404media.co www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

This editorial is a great example of why I subscribe to @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social What are we, each of us, going to do? www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

📣 Don't miss the results of local elections today in Arizona, Alabama, and Georgia. Our guide explains everything you need to know about these races and we will be updating it as the results come in.

Britain, Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

My DEFCON talk "We are currently clean on OPSEC" now has over 30k views on YouTube, so now more people watched my talk than attended DEFCON itself. If you haven't seen it, please do! The Trump admin's incompetence is mindbogglingly BONKERS www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...

Let’s not move too quickly past “antifa cell.” Hi 👋🏻 my name is Bethan, and I’m a parent, a vet, & an antifascist. Every living room in the country should be an active “antifa cell,” for the same set of reasons we’d be proud if our great grandma helped organize protests for women’s right to vote.

Who Is Brendan Carr of the F.C.C.? This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

There’s ABC not getting any of my money or time again, ever. I already cancelled my CBS / Paramount subscription. What should we expect from HBO? www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Land of the free, my friends.

I take no pleasure in this. Most Black people in the U.S. live in red states. But it’s important to be truthful about the caliber of governance. And so much of this is the bad decisionmaking that results from racism. Like refusing Medicaid expansion. Underfunding public education.

This is the same guy.

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

“Unlike previous surveillance methods, new digital tools allow law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance persistently, universally, at an unimaginable scale. They can do so with no special permission, no oversight and no advance planning.”

Department of Homeland Security re-ups with Clearview AI in what I think is the company's biggest gov deal so far: www.404media.co/ice-spends-m...

Via @mississippifreepress.org, www.mississippifreepress.org/priscilla-wi...

Me- this afternoon I will get so much done Also me- oh what’s this Apple Tree Yard show? Hiro the dog- the human is sitting still

This game is so good, and I say that while we’re 2 points down.

This Storm game against Liberty is going GREAT, 38 to 32 with 2:20 left in the first half. Storm is playing with a ton of scrap and hustle (as technical as I get with basketball). #nothingbutstorm

Why, yes!

He had a good long life and made some truly beautiful clothes. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Here’s our book club’s booklist for the year, in case you’re in need of nerd recommendations

7:19 left in the game and the Storm are ahead by 8. This is a great game #nothingbutstorm

4 minutes left in the half and it’s Storm 40, Sparks 27. Pretty good.

Seattle Storm are having a great game so far against the LA Sparks #nothingbutstorm

Please take 10 min to comment here www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS... to keep new roads from getting cut into #forests & #wilderness areas. Public comment goes until 9/19. Contact your legislators. The rule theyre working to overturn was a ~10 year bipartisan effort. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

‘Publicly funded affordable housing isn’t always that good of a deal ... A studio in Thai Binh was listed in June at $1,546. Across the street, a similarly sized unit at the market-rate apartments leased for $200 less and didn’t require the extra paperwork...’ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...