This incredible story underscores, amongst other things, the need for trust and transparency in arching tools, and for web archiving toolchain to be fully open source and archives to be verifiable.

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I once playtested my friend's video game, which used the Pavlok to shock you when you get hit. I got shocked a lot (they told me I was by far the worst playtester). It was a VR game, and I didn't realize I could look around. (Image via @genmon.fyi: interconnected.org/home/2026/02...)

Amidst many crises, the #Trump admin may be on the verge of a war of choice against #Iran. It would be: -blatantly illegal (U.S. & int'l law) -hugely costly (human & financial) -has no clear end game Your elected representatives have power to stop it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

this could be us bsky.app/profile/cost...

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

We know that these bills will save lives. This is a major win for the health and wellbeing of women across our state. I was very proud to cast my vote for these bills today, and I will continue fighting to increase access to affordable healthcare for the people of Wisconsin in the years ahead.

Wisconsin is doing this. America, we can do this everywhere!

"One of my little theories is that these are all horrible people, who have surrounded themselve with horrible people, and they have no idea that not everyone lives like that ." www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/the-...

⏳ The real cyber threat isn’t just new attacks—it’s old tech. In our latest piece, Eric Wenger of @cisco.com explains why end-of-life systems create a dangerous visibility gap in our national cyber posture. Read the full article here 👉 www.aspendigital.org/blog/end-of-...

Apologies --most Washington thing ever --quoting myself --but thought I'd share this gentle reminder from #dupont2026 Despite all of our travails...journalism is fun... youtu.be/ZhArYVe64Js

If I ever make a film again, which WILL happen goddamnit, I’m going to make sure I hire a DIETARY COORDINATOR for lunches and crafty.

We have set up a mailing list for the Algorithmic Kitchen project. You can subscribe to keep updated on kitchen workshops, events and news. lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/c...

In the fashion space, there's a big move toward "visible mending." In ceramics, there's #kintsugi. What does #VisibleMending look like for #software?

“The District of New Jersey is one of 94 federal judicial districts; in the District of Minnesota the chief judge said in an order last month that he had determined that ICE had violated nearly 100 court orders since Jan. 1, a figure he said was “almost certainly substantially understated.”

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Just unveiled the Building Up IL Developments (BUILD) plan and gathered a group to talk about housing in our state. The consensus? We need to build more and fast. Looking forward to getting it out to communities across Illinois.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

More photos from inside the Freedom Center today before it’s vacated by the Trib.

Knowing this is useful because filtration camps are typically military operations. Combining this approach with the Navy WEXMAC contract, we can see how the administration is deliberately trying to inject military models into immigrant arrest and detention as they move to expand the camp system.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Here are a few more I took from the same Chicago Tribune archive: bsky.app/profile/buck...

“This is the newspaper industry collapsing, and nobody’s really paying attention to what’s left behind.” - Kafui Attoh on his magnificent new work to capture the ashes of local journalism. www.chronogram.com/river-newsro...

Today, @gregorrobertson.bsky.social and I jointly announced that BC and the federal government have put forward $370 million to rapidly build 700+ supportive and transitional homes to seriously address homeslessness in BC.

Primaries may be coming sooner than you'd think: www.270towin.com/2026-state-p... We're less than 2 weeks out for Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina, with Mississippi and Illinois following close behind!

From the "from the libraries-matter dept" of @techdirt.com An important development facing the Internet Archive by @mark.bsky.social, Director of the Wayback Machine

Saw this in my way home from the gym this morning. Top comment on the news article: “You can’t park there” Photo credit, the Sun Times News.

"Paid rent this century" 💀

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

LOOOONG overdue, but if you've been wondering what I've been up to (or wanna see how my thinking has evolved), this week I completed a BEEFY overhaul of my website's speaking and coverage page. Check it out! bcavello.com/coverage

Your vote REALLY matters in primary elections. This is our moment to build a better Democratic Party. See our March voter guide here: leaderswedeserve.substack.com/p/leaders-we...

I've def seen way more negative comments about glp from fatphobes than from fat acceptance people. In fact I'd say I've seen zero from fat acceptance people?

Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism. It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.

Our design team is growing by 100%. Join us!

This has been a massive community project, and we need you all to participate! See more: evalevalai.com/projects/eve...

Really glad to share this work by @kennypeng.bsky.social, toward better theoretical foundation for the linear representation hypothesis.

I am tickled pink to share that I received a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship. I've always been sooooo impressed by the amazing scholarship produced by the academics that Sloan selects for this fellowship and so I'm utterly giddy to be among them. sloan.org/fellowships/...

📌 ICYMI: 2.3B people face food insecurity, yet just 3.6% of #AI-for-SDG projects target #ZeroHunger. Our new global survey results highlight demand for #AI tools that boost transparency, accountability & participatory decision-making in food systems. aspendigital.org/report/feedi...

Can you build serious skill-building momentum while ONLY pursuing "performance"? No probably not. A classic learning issue is that "PERFORMANCE IS NOT LEARNING"; optimizing for short-term performance will often lead us astray, I call this out in a lot of my talks www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-bM...

Can you learn AND offload? Yes. We do it all the time across our days. You just cannot do every single thing at once, and have to think about the structural support for different (sometimes competing) goals. Self-regulation isn't new, but it is a vital skill for developers now.

Flock cameras destroyed in La Mesa amidst surveillance backlash Luddites smashing machines that alienate them or threaten their way of life sdslackers.com/2026/02/16/f... Cc @bcmerchant.bsky.social

I was thinking about this recently.

Came here to post about the same workflow! Found a video from the author of that post: youtu.be/RSkk5MDmfz0?...

I remember seeing posts on twitter some time back on this. FOUND IT. x.com/_ODDEEO_/sta...

It's real simple! You render the cel on an alpha plane ar the highest resolution possible, to mimic the perfect clarity of paint on cellophane, & build a lightbox with a blindingly bright emmissive shader on it. You put the cel over it with the cutouts alpha'd,and then render it out using

Ive helped a couple people figure out how to do this in Blender!

An incredibly cool and insightful article. Experimented with some of the techniques this article talks about. I've been playing with an analog 'look' in my works for a while now, so it was easier for me to jump in. Example from the article on the left, my attempt at the right. What ya'll think?

This one is for my maps sickos