imagine the thousands and thousands of unbelievable horrors going on if we're just hearing about "regularly kidnapping legal residents, dropping them off in a different state, and telling them to deal with it"

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

They kill. They lie. They repeat.

This is the craven torture of a helpless person by federal agents. There can be nothing short of trials and stiff prison sentences for these people and everyone above them in the chain of command. bsky.app/profile/amre...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained. Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.

The number of these that end without any charges mean they are terrorizing people for the sake of terrorizing people. (Their violence would be excessive even when it leads to criminal charges)

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds. The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things What are we doing here

Some of my favorite albums released in 2025 were (not really in order): Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight Attention Bird Utopia - Best of Kings Sacred Paws - Jump into Life Dead Pioneers - Po$t American Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs Geckøs - Geckøs

These were my favorite books I read in 2025. Like in 2024, the top row stood out above the others, but all of these were really great reads. The authors and titles are in the alt text if the image is to hard to read.

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

This is so gross. Anyone who has lived in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul specifically) will tell you that the Somali population there is among the kindest and hardest-working people you'll ever meet.

Absolutely this. But taking the easy way out does such a disservice to our students and undermines the point of education.

this is just gutter racism

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

There are few places I feel better spending my money than a worker owned site that produces deeply researched and important articles alongside deeply silly ones. It’s a bargain at full price and you’re supporting the people doing the work instead of a CEO’s fourth yacht.

I just started reading The AI Con by Emily Bender & Alex Hanna. Highly recommend it based on what I’ve read so far.

I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.

I went through the trouble to make this image for the above caption but then I saw the bowl of kibble by itself and that just seemed funnier to me as a “meme a dog would make“

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

In a world of terrible royalty payments from platforms like Spotify, @bandcamp.com Friday is a great way to support artists. Attention Bird Utopia (check them out if you like Wilco) and Sincere Engineer (catchy pop punk from Chicago) were my picks today.

Does the training begin "everything these tools were built on was stolen, this is fledgling tech and anything it produces has the potential to be catastrophically wrong, and using it is destructive to the environment and to our ability to reason. Here's why we're gonna do this anyway"?

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

In Feb. on Velshi I said Trump won due to racial anxiety not economic anxiety, as evidence by his policies. The bill Republicans passed is the proof. Months of stoking racial fears through anti-DEI mandates, ICE raids, to push through a bill that takes food and healthcare from struggling Americans.

Apropos of nothing, the best book I've read so far this year was "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

So, per the DHS Secretary, the Trump Regime has deployed troops to Los Angeles to overthrow the duly elected government of Los Angeles and of the State of California. bsky.app/profile/just...

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Politicians should be saying "trans people have always used public spaces alongside everyone else, there's never been an issue, this whole thing is made up nonsense, banning them would be a human rights abuse, which is why I'm introducing primary legislation to protect them"

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

Just because someone isn’t deemed a functional or contributing member to society, doesn’t make them any less valuable as a human being. Someone’s worth isn’t measured by their ability to pay taxes.

It's actually wild. There's literally no mention of why Jackie Robinson is important in the MLB press release. At all. Just that he "played his first Major League game on April 15, 1947."

There is no way to support this with a clean conscience. The administration has admitted he legally should not have been sent there and then actively worked to keep him from being returned. It’s slavery. (The other people also should not be sent to prison camps in foreign countries)

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

There is a way that this could be — and in fact should be— framed where this is not about political victories but human rights, the rule of law and what is just in America. When will we learn to stop treating democratic crises as mere horse race politics?

Reminder - this is what Griffin claims fulfilled his duty to notify voters he was challenging their votes. It: • Doesn't have his name on it • Looks like junk mail from the GOP • Puts the onus on voters to find what is being challenged • Requires use of QR What Dem or UNA voter would trust this?

Honestly might be the most nakedly anti-democratic move to invalidate a free and fair election in NC since the Wilmington Race Massacre of 1898

Also they ruled that it makes sense to throw out the votes of people who live in more Democratic areas (and legally voted under election law) but not to do the same to people who voted the exact same way in Republican counties. TLDR: We want our friend on the court so screw the actual voters.

This is something A.I. shares with crypto. They are both parasitic technologies. Crypto can’t exist without the U.S. Dollar and A.I. can’t exist without access to a robust ecosystem of ever expanding human knowledge. Excellent analysis by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...