The Grok reddit is just dudes giving each other advice and encouragement on how to commit digital rape. There needs to be accountability for this. I don’t want to hear “the genie is already out the bag.” This shit needs to be destroyed.

Happy end of the holiday season for all who celebrate!!

NEW STORY: Three nursing home residents died because employees of UnitedHealth Group helped delay or deny them critical hospital care, 2 pending lawsuits and a complaint to state authorities have alleged 🧵 on our 6,000 word story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Looking for supplemental reading suggestions for Juan Linz's Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Critiques or works in conversation would be appreciated!

Im a bring your dog to the restaurant type of person as well but uy does say a lot about where we are as a society (in la at least) that dogs are more welcomed to these spots than babies.

AI is the death of everything that affirms life: pain, suffering, joy, silliness, peace. AI is being forced on us as authoritarianism rises. A polity intertwined with LLMs is the death of society. AI is an attempt to kill the essence of what it means to be alive. open.substack.com/pub/kandist/...

I want my writing to provoke, engage, and spark curiosity. Each published piece should be an intervention aiding in the progression of the human experience. This is why I would never use AI for my writing. New post: open.substack.com/pub/kandist/...

AI is the death of everything that affirms life: pain, suffering, joy, silliness, peace. AI is being forced on us as authoritarianism rises. A polity intertwined with LLMs is the death of society. AI is an attempt to kill the essence of what it means to be alive. open.substack.com/pub/kandist/...

Just sent this to my students as recommended reading for exam season: “AI is Death” by @kandistmallett.bsky.social kandist.substack.com/p/ai-is-death

To be a part on Mamdani’s admin you had to at least have 5 figure or more follower count.

NEW: When LA communities scarred by fires received evacuation warnings amid heavy rain, it was a reminder of dangerous compound climate disasters. But federal support to rebuild and prepare is collapsing because of politics. capitalandmain.com/california-e...

Totally normal times

Leslie recently passed away, he was dedicated in educating people about the dangers of Covid and Long Covid, a vibrant and caring person who helped so many, also as an educator and journalist, he will be missed Please donate to his GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/lleeiii

This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone. These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!

A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent: lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...

I need to clean my camera roll cause my iPhone will be like “remember when” with a photomontage and it’s of me getting tear-gassed at an action.

Raising a little human is crazy cause I’ve been trying to teach my 9m to clap for the last few days and I came home to my husband being like she’s been clapping all day!

This is shitty

“FLOWERS WILL EMERGE FROM THE DESERT” - Interviews & Communiques from Sudanese Anarchists https://libcom.org/article/flowers-will-emerge-desert-interviews-communiques-sudanese-anarchists "A small selection of interviews and writings by Sudanese anarchists, published by Muntjac

LAPD & FEDS WORKING TOGETHER Here’s some shots of LAPD & border patrol detaining someone in skid row around 1 pm today:

What’s happen to left media since Elon bought Twitter is tragic. Teen Vogue was one of the few mainstream places that I could write. And while I still had to use coded language to get past the copy editors, I had the liberty to discuss ideas that weren’t welcomed elsewhere, and that will be a loss.

It’s fitting that my last piece for my column in Teen Vogue was about preparing for Trump’s repression against the left. Even then the media was very hesitant to say he would go full authoritarian. Look at us now. Black Canary you will always be that bitch 🖤 www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

donate & share to support carlos jimenez, the 24 y/o who was shot by ice in ontario this morning, & his family. they are in urgent need of help w medical & legal fees.

2+2=5

People complain that if we have universal health care we’ll have to wait 90 minutes to see our doctor. I have private health care and I have to wait 90 minutes to see my doctor for an appointment that to months to get.

Seen off the 110 freeway

I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...

Dodgers will need to set an ICE truck [redacted] to win the city back bcuz you can barely tell they are in the World Series. Hardly any merch vendors, no flags everywhere. Desgracia.

the thing about these kinds of court orders is that they present as attempts to correct or curb the abuse of authoritarian power, while actually giving it a method to continue unabated. "Without warning" is not an actual limit on use of tear gas - but the judge gets to appear as a check to power

Might delete this but fuck it. I want to start a writing group. This could be digital or in person depending on who responds. This would be to discuss what we’re working on, offer feed back, or help work ideas and so on. If this sounds interesting feel free to DM me. No cops or feds 🙅🏾‍♀️

You’re definitely seeing a lot less Dodger gear around in my part of the city. This time last year the neighborhood was Dodger blue.

For me it’s

Why are all the writing retreats in rural areas where I got to be nervous to go to the grocery store?

I would really like to make the move to only publishing my writing in print.

Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.

I need Bluesky to have more sauce

I need Instagram to have a “do not suggest me” option.

The death followed months in immigration detention — and human rights groups’ condemnation of Belgium’s crackdown on protests.

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

Many blockades in Italy as part of the general strike in solidarity with Palestine. Reportedly more than 2 million people in the streets across the country.

NEW INVESTIGATION California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030 A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

🚨 BREAKING: The Sirius-Haifa (carrying Drop Site editor Alex Colston) has been boarded by Israeli military...Contact with Colston has been lost; as part of security protocols, he and other... 🎥 “The Ship Sirius: A day in the life,” a video report from Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social)...

What I think when I see someone has saved my skeet:

Anyone trying to primary the Dems. Here’s your ad:

I think this can happen parallel to each other. Local assemblies and international spoke councils. Coordinated labor, debt, student strikes. Recruiting and building up collectives in existing media, tech, and the unions. There’s a lot that could be done and mirrored domestically and internationally

I was karaoking at a bar and this young French guy asked me where I was from and I said LA. He said he was sad about Charlie Kirk. The interaction felt weird until I watched the French news the next morning. Every time I turned on the news they had something about Charlie Kirk.

They are both the scorpion.

Hearing other Americans while traveling abroad:

I need people to stop saying we’re headed into authoritarianism. This is authoritarianism. We are here.

About two-thirds of Los Angeles' 1.48 million households are rentals. Many have no A/C. But heat waves are getting longer and hotter. I spoke with City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez about her proposal to enforce a "maximum indoor temperature" in the city: capitalandmain.com/a-c-saves-li...