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Joseph Cox
about 5 hours ago
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet
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âELITEâ: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agencyâs activit...
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
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Grok is an Epistemic Weapon
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"...conditions for the collapse of consensus reality..."
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: âReality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.â
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Grok is an Epistemic Weapon | TechPolicy.Press
Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.
https://www.techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-epistemic-weapon/
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kottke.org
2 days ago
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it.
[gourmetmagazine.net]
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Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
https://gourmetmagazine.net/
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Nathan Goldwag
2 days ago
Yes, we do really need to comprehensively overhaul the immigration system as well, but the actual case for abolishing ICE has virtually nothing to do with that, it's simply that it is untenable for the Federal government to have an unaccountable internal security force with arbitrary authority.
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Bill Chambers
6 days ago
FFC Patreon exclusive: "The 50 Best Films of 2025," by Walter Chaw (
@mangiotto.bsky.social
). Patreon subscribers only until January 16.
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âThe 50 Best Films of 2025,â by Walter Chaw - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
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https://filmfreakcentral.net/2026/01/the-50-best-films-of-2025-by-walter-chaw/
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exceptional article, I think this gets at the heart of why Minneapolis is such a target for the Trump admin even above & beyond other liberal American cities
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Steve Vladeck
3 days ago
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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Sahan Journal
3 days ago
What are your rights if ICE shows up at your home, workplace, or school? How do you make a safety plan? Written by Anna Nguyen
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What to do if ICE shows up at your home, workplace or school
What are your rights if ICE shows up at your home, workplace, or school? How do you make a safety plan?
https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/ice-confrontations-know-your-rights/
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Christopher Mathias
6 days ago
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
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i donât think i need to tell you donât do this but just in case: donât do this
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Joseph Cox
8 days ago
Grok is being used to remove clothes from random peoples' photos. Journalists think they got the chatbot to 'apologize'. What are you doing? An LLM cannot apologize. It doesn't know what is happening. A journalist doing this is a form of AI psychosis. Full ep here:
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Michaël Jarjour
8 days ago
If you're reporting on the deepfake porn site because of Grok, please make clear in the headline that governments not acting are allowing the scaled abuse of women and children online. Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.
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The Marshall Project
9 days ago
âFood is a uniquely powerful tool, and Aramark is using it to exploit a captive consumer market of incarcerated people and their families to unlawfully profit off them,â Shennan Kavanagh, director of litigation at the National Consumer Law Center, said in a press release.
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Aramark Cuts Free Prison Meals to Boost Profits, New Suit Claims
A lawsuit claims the prison food company is cutting institutional meals to force incarcerated people to purchase costly food from the same vendor.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/06/prison-food-abuse-aramark-lawsuit?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tmp-bluesky
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Bill Chambers
11 days ago
FFC review: ANACONDA (2025), by Walter Chaw (
@mangiotto.bsky.social
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Anaconda (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
*/****starring Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newtonwritten by Tom Gormican & Kevin Ettendirected by Tom Gormican by Walter Chaw The pitch mustâve sounded like: âPicture it! Tropic Thunde...
https://filmfreakcentral.net/2026/01/anaconda-2025/
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Scott Clement
10 days ago
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll
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Bill Chambers
10 days ago
Lots of notable movie anniversaries this year. ROCKY is 50, BLUE VELVET is 40, FARGO is 30, MIAMI VICE is 20, and GHOSTS CAN'T DO IT is 37.
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Harms Committed
15 days ago
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to support independent media, here is a comprehensive list of independent newsrooms. This thread features 72 publications â almost all of which are nonprofit or worker-owned â with various ways to support their reporting.
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Rian Johnson
17 days ago
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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J. Nathan Matias
18 days ago
In the spirit of mutual aid accountability, I invite US based folks to join me in this letter of solidarity for those barred from entering the US due to their work to fight online scams, hate speech, antisemitism and other digital harms. (reposting w/ correct link)
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In solidarity with European researchers
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSCkluwWmWz0h8HN-i6a-VKehoipp8aAx9mndjQQqpCww4gP7ouGQDICRv3HZDI8f_pfq9F7GXvLPfz/pub
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rob pike
21 days ago
And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation. To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
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Matt Zoller Seitz
21 days ago
This is just beautiful. Sincere but understated. You can feel the ache of loss. Scorsese is as good a writer as he is a director and actor. My house is full of books that he contributed essays, forewords, and introductions to, and every one is a gem.
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Charles GetCovered-ba âĄïž
22 days ago
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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Greg Pak
23 days ago
Thanks for sharing this document,
@rweingarten.bsky.social
. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...
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Cengiz Yar
24 days ago
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at
@propublica.org
we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here:
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Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administrationâs claims that these immigrants are all âsick criminalsâ and âterroristsâ and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
https://www.propublica.org/series/deported-and-imprisoned
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Chalkbeat
28 days ago
New York City kids will soon be able to learn all about hip-hop in its birthplace, the Bronx. Officials voted to approve the Bronx School of Hip-Hop, which is set to open September 2026.
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A public school dedicated to hip-hop will soon open in the Bronx
New York City kids will soon be able to learn all about hip-hop in its birthplace, the Bronx. Officials voted to approve the Bronx School of Hip-Hop, which is set to open September 2026.
https://bit.ly/49kQWzC
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Meredith Shiner
28 days ago
this full statement was remarkable and it's worth taking less than five minutes to listen and absorb what Rep. McBride says here. She notes her biggest regret in life was her inability to experience a childhood free of pain.
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J. Nathan Matias
28 days ago
Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort? Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain:
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J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.
https://www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-openais-grantwashing-on-ai-harms/
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Please consider signing this petition urging ProPublica management to not become a slop rag.
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J. Nathan Matias
29 days ago
What does it mean for an online environment to be "toxic" or "polluted" and can we borrow ideas from environmental modeling to make online spaces more livable?
@gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
has a post announcing a new CAT Lab project
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Understanding Online Communities as Ecosystems
What do we mean when we talk about pollution and toxicity online; and what can we learn from environmental science to improve online spaces?
https://citizensandtech.org/2025/12/online-communities-as-ecosystems/
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
Merriam-Websterâs human editors have chosen âslopâ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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downchasm
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THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.
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âHas a million dollars to spare and for some reason did not come to the United States beforeâ strikes me as a rather peculiar demographic.
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Movie youâve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 1 month ago
By the end of the ratification debates, everyone understood that the 14th Amendment would grant birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. The only live question was whether that was a *good* thing. Some senators argued it wasnât. But they lost!
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Patrick Monahan
about 1 month ago
HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
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KielO IP Holder LLC
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Walter Chaw
about 1 month ago
Just got retained to write a booklet for an upcoming release I'm pretty excited about. You can do that, you know. Hire me to write for your physical media.
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Peter
about 2 months ago
if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say âthe Irish are demonicâ can you really not fail that kid?
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Wisconsin Watch
about 2 months ago
In the spirit of gratitude and giving, here are five stories that remind us of the power of community and how ordinary people can spark extraordinary impact. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed reporting them.
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These 5 stories show people building connection, power and hope
These Wisconsin Watch stories remind us of how ordinary people can spark extraordinary impact.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/wisconsin-watch-5-stories-people-building-connection-power-hope-community/
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Wisconsin Watch
about 2 months ago
âI donât know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changedâ
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âJust plain old Larryâ: A Wisconsin manâs testimony about gender-affirming care went viral. Hereâs his story.
Milwaukee retiree Larry Jones, 85, came to a legislative hearing supporting a ban. He changed his mind after hearing from transgender youth.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2025/03/wisconsin-larry-jones-gender-affirming-care-transgender-lgbtq-milwaukee-republican/
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Dave Levitan
about 2 months ago
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to âyou didnât want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinationsâ in a few years was the right idea
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Walter Chaw
about 2 months ago
The great
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Major
about 2 months ago
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others. Love all, help all. Go Jackets.
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Harms Committed
about 2 months ago
"Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we memorialize the members of our community we have lost over the past year." "Advocates for Trans Equality has made a crucial contribution by building a digital memorial, the Trans Remembrance Project":
www.transremembrance.org
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The Lives We Lost: A Digital Memorial Full of Life and Humanity
In the premature deaths of our trans comrades, Advocates for Trans Equality has extracted insights and understanding, both for our community and for the entire country.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-lives-we-lost-trans-day-remembrance
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Molly Crabapple
about 2 months ago
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. Youâre entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if youâre in the database, file a claim
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