This is pretty much exactly what I expected and why I argued to my research group that to the extent we decide to use AI models, we must explore options to run them locally, maintain control and ensure that we can switch models easily. Large corporate providers fundamentally cannot be trusted.

A must-read if you haven't already: @kalish.bsky.social interviewed a dozen people, and sorted through 1,000+ pages of court documents and other records, to present a ton of new reporting re: ICE's cruel treatment of trans detainees. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The difference between plastic surgery & gender-affirming surgeries is the level of regret. The dissatisfaction rate for nose jobs is 15.4%. In contrast the regret rate for gender-affirming surgery is less than 1% pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23277618/

NEW: HHS has been using Palantir AI tools since last March to ferret out improper DEI and "gender ideology" from grants for child welfare programs. The observant @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has more:

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

Putin appears in the Epstein files 1,000 times. Masha Drokova (here) and Jagland, former prime minister of Norway, coordinated their financial plans. These alliances—between oil and sex, pedofiles and crypto-utopians, corrupt and ‘clean’ governments—paved the way to the current ordeal

straight up Gestapo shit

Bravo, Wall Street Journal Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents "See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday" Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Includes European media

“Hans…Are we the baddies?”

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

When you think about it, it was a pretty sly move by the Norwegian prime minister to make public his text conversation with Trump -- the one that revealed how Trump's pique over the Nobel prize is fueling his designs to take over Greenland. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Considering they decided not to give me the MacArthur Genius Prize, I no longer feel an obligation to be a pure genius

Students know what’s up. This sharp seventh grader raises the obvious question about what teacher use of AI implies for student usage.

Important work has been done on this for civil society, with regard to documenting crimes for the international criminal tribunals - applicable mutatis mutandis: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com

I know there are a lot of big stories. And I have long ago learned not to over-react to crazy things Trump says. But him telling the NYT that the only limitation on his power is his own conscience is profoundly disturbing. Because that is dictator territory. And because he has no conscience.

Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel & repeated here by Le Monde, the Trump administration has threatened to impose sanctions on the French judges handling the domestic criminal case against Marine Le Pen. I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.

Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Putinization of US foreign policy continues apace.

Most likely the most important thread all year, yes 2025. “All (LLM authored books) promoting propaganda reflecting talking points of the UAE, Israel and right wing European movements” If they are using AI and LLM to create propaganda elsewhere, you know they’re using it everywhere.

More than 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody in 2025 That’s the most in over 20 years

The nyt’s first story on the Cass report didn’t come out until the next day, when it portrayed the document, falsely, as part of a movement in Europe to restrict care. No such movement existed. France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria were taking positions in opposition to Cass and in line w doctors

"I understand Belgium is under a lot of pressure from Russia...but also from the United States" says @KajaKallas "In order to get off that pressure we should have a European proposal. Then 🇧🇪 will just abide by the law, and whoever has any concerns can go to court against 🇪🇺"

Mensen die veilig in het Westen roepen dat Oekraïne maar moet inbinden, laten vaak het lot van een paar miljoen Oekraïners volledig buiten beschouwing. En dat is niets anders dan een koloniaal bewind. Vooral mensen die menen tegen kolonialisme op te komen, vallen door de mand.

In a surprise move, Italy has tonight joined Belgium in its opposition to sending Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine, asking for alternative options at next week's🇪🇺summit Meanwhile, Brussels was informed that the new🇺🇸peace deal draft says Ukraine will joint the EU in a year - logistically impossible

An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.

The Trump administration is sending draft age Russian asylum seekers back to Russia via Cairo, where they are given military summons upon arrival. Pressing for a peace deal while feeding the war machine. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/10/a...

Loved this profile of the mother+son duo helping bring wildflowers back to L.A. fire-ravaged neighborhoods (and there's a link to support their mission, timely for Giving Tuesday!!) via @jmarantosplants.bsky.social www.latimes.com/lifestyle/ne...

They were 8 and 11 years old

Update #Serbien: Es finden weiterhin täglich diverse Aktionen und Proteste statt. Dijana Hrka, Mutter eines der Opfer, befindet sich im 15. Tag ihres Hungerstreiks vor dem Parlament. Es sind stets (mal mehr und mal weniger Menschen bei ihr). Die Lage ist politisch weiter angespannt, aber ruhig. 1/x

Kinder kosteten in Sarejevo extra: Wochenend-Scharfschützen auf der Jagd nach Menschen Diese Geschichte ist so unfassbar böse, dass man sie zweimal lesen muss, um sie zu glauben. Reiche zahlten um Menschen in Bosnien zu erschiessen. www.n-tv.de/panorama/Woc...

Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Maccarthysme : cédant à la pression du ministre de la recherche, lui-même cédant à la pression des soutiens de Nétanyahou, le Collège de France, jusqu’ici lieu de liberté académique, annule un colloque sur la Palestine conçu par l’historien Henry Laurens. www.lemonde.fr/education/ar...

All we need to do to solve the housing crisis is to deport ::checks notes:: one out of every three people living in this country.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!