I listened to an interview with Alysa Liu yesterday and I can see that the interviewers are unsettled by her and do not know what to do with her responses. She challenges so much of what USians are taught about competition and frankly about how to live a life.

Well, shit. This is batshit. This is bullshit. Even *posting* that I think this is bullshit is... I can't even. (I have a green card) www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

They’re done. 💙 Contribute to mutual aid and you could win these mittens! Every $5 donated, call, protest, patrol counts! Email me what you’ve done, receipts for donations, trust on the rest at [email protected] I’ll pick a winner on 2/28. Pattern @/cosgriffcreations insta

It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.

“‘They cannot comprehend or understand that this is coming from the deepest corners of people’s souls. They cannot get their heads around it.’” organizingmythoughts.org/we-belong-to...

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Language modeling is a useful component of many technologies that can be built without extractive, exploitative means. Take the automatic transcription built by and for the te reo Māori people -- there's te reo Māori language model that's part of that. >>

It was particularly disappointing to see Doctorow misconstrue (and thus, if he is believed) undermine the work that many of us are doing to shine a light on the ways in which the ideology of "AI" and the specific ways in which LLMs and other "AI" products are created do real harm. >>

It's day 80 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Many of our neighbors have been in hiding for 11 weeks. We have 9 days to raise March 1 rent for those families. Please dig in and give as you can - many rent relief fund are in desperate need of $$ StandWithMinnesota.com

when people are like "well we use phones made from exploitative labour and mines" and "satellites were designed by a nazi" I'm like yes burn that shit down! start over! do better! none of these whataboutisms work with me because I have been shouting about each and everyone of them!

disappointing but not surprising. Cory’s libertarian ideals have always been what gave me pause about him and his work. this is an excellent rebuttal and rebuke of Cory’s posturing on LLMs. the neologism seems to have come for the neologist.

Guess even Doctorow must eventually enshittify.

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

It’s giving middle passage

Just like the creepy dude in my building!

“We have all been here before We have all been here before”

This is a super-important piece.

The only “commonsense reform” of a force empowered to murder is abolition and prosecution

The arc of the web is long but it bends towards accessibility and standards

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

This is Minneapolis: The weekly newsletter from our elementary school includes: -summer school registration link -link to our mutual aid fund -MN Attorney General federal action report form (to share how we've been impacted by ICE) -Know Your Rights information -resources for food insecurity

Alysa Liu, welcome to The War on Cars.

Knowing who to be mad at really is praxis.

I want to see someone get excommunicated

I really It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.

Grad school is hard enough without a supremacist government kidnapping you for weeks & then trying to deport you for months. A heroic accomplishment! Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk! 🥳

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

Kindness will save us all.

It’s been awful to have the worst people in the world in Minnesota all this time. And while it doesn’t make up for all the suffering and destruction they’ve caused, I’m so grateful that they’ve been answered by the best people in the world.

Brava 👏

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Insider trading is a chapter of the Epstein saga that has not gotten enough attention. Perhaps Andrew’s arrest will change that. apnews.com/article/brit...

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

I don’t want to live in a world where something like Polymarket exists.

If you needed another reason to 👋

NEW Epstein files reveal a data center on Little St. James, the same island visited by powerful figures across finance, politics, and tech including Sergey Brin and his ex wife, who survivors named as people they met on the island. The public deserves to know the purpose of that data center.

My buddy Alexis Goldstein is running for Congress. She is not only a badass who will fight for the people of Maryland and the United States; she is a financial expert who can and will go toe to toe with the rich assholes intent on amassing more wealth. secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi...

I feel Jesse Jackson’s loss deeply. May his life example inspire others to not shy away from speaking truth and fighting against economic violence - even when inconvenient or unpopular.

🗞️ NEW: Independent experts from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) said Monday that evidence w/in the recently unsealed "Epstein files" may meet the legal threshold for “crimes against humanity,” and suggests evidence of a “global criminal enterprise.” “So grave is the scale, nature, systematic...

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Alexis is one of the smartest, bravest people I've had the privilege to know. She is a helluva union sister but also...you don't get the Volcker Rule to where it's at without her and the rest of Occupy the SEC. They're right to be scared of her and the rest of the public servants at CFPB.

Books, bitches!

Read so closely that we memorize it, take long walks and discuss what it means to think. A lot of things have been right for a long time. What went wrong was the attempt to frame our interventions through metrics. AI is basically a bunch of metrics. It automatically wins in advance.

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

My ancestors just showed up here. Anybody who just shows up here is exactly like my family. Hate them, hate me. Harm them, harm me. Fight them, fight me.

Nothing less than the complete smashing of this sector will do.

Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.

C-SPAN thankfully has posted Jesse's whole 1988 speech at the DNC. Seriously. Go back and watch it and tell me you don't hear so much of what you hear now from folks like AOC, Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCA...