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 www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Primary them all.

Grok is an Epistemic Weapon www.techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-e... by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social "...conditions for the collapse of consensus reality..." @eliothiggins.bsky.social: “Reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.”

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]

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.

FFC Patreon exclusive: "The 50 Best Films of 2025," by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). Patreon subscribers only until January 16. filmfreakcentral.net/2026/01/the-...

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

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.

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

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

i don’t think i need to tell you don’t do this but just in case: don’t do this

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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...

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.

“Food 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,” Shennan Kavanagh, director of litigation at the National Consumer Law Center, said in a press release.

FFC review: ANACONDA (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/01/anac...

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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.

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 – almost all of which are nonprofit or worker-owned – with various ways to support their reporting.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

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) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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.

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.

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

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...

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: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

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.

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.

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: www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...

Please consider signing this petition urging ProPublica management to not become a slop rag.

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 citizensandtech.org/2025/12/onli...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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.

“Has a million dollars to spare and for some reason did not come to the United States before” strikes me as a rather peculiar demographic.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

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 wasn’t. But they lost! applyliberally.substack.com/p/birthright...

HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends

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.

if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?

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.

“I don’t know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changed”

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

The great @realgdt.bsky.social zooming in to @ucdenver.bsky.social to talk to my film students. So grateful.

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.

"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 #USA #Suicide #Weapons

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