ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

The High Cost of AI

I don’t think tech companies want to stop mass surveillance of Americans. I think Anthropic & other tech execs just object to the government taking over their power. They don’t want the government taking over anything of utility, they want more privatization.

PUT IN your FCC comment opposing the huge satellite proposals now. The deadline for a comment opposing SpaceX proposal is March 6th. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Prediction markets are gambling.

I'm getting paranoid thinking maybe AI chatbots that say bad things to people are maybe just prisoners trapped somewhere going off the rails. So many stories about AI turning out to be workers in India or Romania, or remote drivers in some other country.

This Senator told me POTUS keeps using key defensive munitions stocks on schoolkids so I asked how much stock we have & he said he just passes a budget to appropriate more afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just dropping munitions on schoolkids and… well, actually he didn’t seem to care much.

Whenever I hear that a published author or writer or journalist is using some chatbot, I make a mental note not to bother with any of their stuff, because I have to assume anything they're putting out now is probably error-filled AI slop.

Republican Rosemary Brown now says she supports data center moratorium. The same Rosemary Brown who tried to tell us last year that we have to accept data centers because we use online shopping.

FYI Dems came up with the idea of DHS

This is the vote FOR the data center industry to write local municipal codes... being pushed by democrats in Pennsylvania We need better democrats because these people are terrible. www.palegis.us/house/commit...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers. If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

This certainly gives me the impression that 357 members of congress are in fact implicated in sexual misconduct and harassment. Why else would they be covering it up?

Prolific NonDisclosure Agreements are a threat to a civil society.

Police fielded 50,000 calls during the surge, canceled over 1,000 days off and extended 500 shifts. The department says that more than $5 million was spent on policing between Jan. 7 and Feb. 1.

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

It's not that I had fond feelings about Neera Tanden before but I think her retweeting Nick Fuentes is pretty good evidence that twitter is a gamma radiation field for your brain

The AP has been vociferously hawking slop for years aidirtylist.info/entities/ass...

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AI Strike Team celebrated as a win what most would view as corruption: Senator Mccormick's wife appointed president of Meta.

More candidates like this please. "We are no longer asking for a better future. We are DEMANDING it."

why is this in my notifications???

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

It’s starting to feel like Trump will eventually cut and run, leaving all these countries with abandoned bases and an escalating regional war, which is just as fall of the Roman Empire as it gets.

Ignoring the Constitution, public sentiment, and the warnings of his own advisors, Trump made the choice to plunge an entire region into war, send young Americans to their deaths, and sacrifice the lives of Iranian civilians. That’s the behavior of a tyrant.

The people who can’t understand pronouns are gendering breakfast foods

It reduces people with mental health conditions as somehow just whiners who need someone to tell them what to do & decides a chatbot is an imperfect but possible substitute boss or something. It perpetuates dangerous mental health stigma about morally rooted cause when the brain is a physical organ.

A LLM magic 8 ball can't do anything about mental healthcare because mental healthcare is healthcare. And the egregious assertion that mental healthcare is just something "those mentally ill people" can treat with a chatbot is highly ableist and abusive.

This is like saying for uninsured Americans we need to find ways to make crystal balls most helpful for patients who really need cancer treatment but can't afford it so they just have a crystal ball.

Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.

Data center developer lawyers go to town meetings and say bend over or we're going to force you anyway. www.wvia.org/news/local/2...

We need to bring utilities back under local control.

A consortium led by BlackRock and a Swedish private-equity firm is buying US power company AES for $33.4 billion. AES is one of the world's biggest utility companies, generating electricity in 15 countries. In the US alone the company has over 1 million customers.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c... "The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."

new AI talking shop set up in Australia, likely to soak up money while taking the doomsday squad seriously www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/02/a... by @cameronwilson.bsky.social

Whether you’re represented by Democrats or Republicans, it’s extra important for your Members of Congress to hear from you right now. Urge your elected officials to use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to Trump’s illegal war with Iran.

Data centers create noise not jobs. wat3rm370n.tumblr.com/post/7979688...

I'm already against the next war.

Ceasing use of the word "innovation" would probably save countless lives. Thinking of Stockton Rush & all those pushing the noise & air polluting data centers on our communities who want to add in experimental modular nuclear on the sly built by execs who've burned their former employees literally.

sure everything sucks but at least it's basically spring *looks at weather app, sees it's going to be fifteen degrees at sunrise tomorrow*

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lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Something that gets lost in the 'ai is scary good' discourse is that the scary part is so often the fact that whatever it is doing it's doing it wrong or with errors a significant amount of the time. Remember that a lot of the science cited is actually pr and marketing.

That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this bloom.bg/3ORPnBo

Why haven't these doctors and these known incidents at least been investigated by law enforcement?

＞ Are AI toys safe? A major leak exposes troubling privacy gaps https://proton.me/blog/ai-toys-safety

With Trump, there's always a tweet.