This looks quite a lot like an assertion by the Home Office that it knew it was breaking the law, didn't care, and doesn't regret it.

I share this only to help those contemplating whether to tweet "I support Palestine Action".

Ai was created to fool the Turing test, so all it does is trick you into believing it's thinking. It's the one thing it does well.

THREAD 🧵: The Epstein files are real. The antisemitism they're fueling is also real. And right now, the second part is getting almost no attention.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

things have not changed here. please, if you’re not in minnesota, do not look away. please prepare where you are. this is what they’ll do to your community next.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

I’ve been dealing with one that’s doing customer service and as frustrating as it is that it can’t answer questions, what makes me want to go burn down a factory is how it won’t stop telling me how good the questions are

I truly don’t understand how anyone can stand the repulsive sycophantic way LLMs are programmed to talk. Who knew so many people had been waiting all their lives for a personal toady?

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong Environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor has helped her field to be more welcoming to researchers of colour. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.

This raid didn’t get much press at the time because it’s Idaho. But it’s truly shocking. And it shows that these policies work like we’ve alleged in Alabama. The scale just makes it so much harder to minimize the harm of a show-me-your papers regime. These people weren’t let go “promptly.”

Every time I open this website or read the news I learn about more shocking, unimaginable horrors and I do not know what to do with this torrent of despair.

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

Reading an earthworm survey recorded in all-caps, with notes on the soil structure that sound like earthworms reviewing a restaurant. "VERY FINE CRUMBLING SOIL" "FIRMER HARDER TO BREAK UP LARGER AGGREGATES" "MOIST SOIL THOUGH BREAKS DOWN EASILY INTO FINE AGGREGATES" &c. Delightful.

Y'all ever think about what society could be like if we were allowed to turn our substantial technological innovation to the good of humanity instead of the snowballing wealth of oligarchs?

Shh, don't tell them! Go on, Elon, go to the Moon and stay there. You deserve it.

In Amazon's LotR the main antagonist uses the evil "Palantir" technology to spy on people and sell them “Rings” which are designed to ultimately give him more power

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

“AI writing is here to stay.” So is syphilis but that doesn’t mean we need to encourage it.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

we hear a lot about how young men are being radicalised as Nazis or whatever, and there's surely something to it, but it does also seem that as a demographic they are still well to the left of old people of all genders

I want someone to campaign the benefits of inefficiency. Everything's been stripped to the wires in the call to be efficient, and that efficiency never benefits anyone except a select few. Hospitals should hire more staff than they need. Stores should have times where nothing needs doing.

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It’s hard to focus on one thing to be appalled about, but these stories out of Minnesota are awful. (And, of course, on the other hand, very encouraging.) I cannot believe you can wrongly grab somebody, transport them, and then leave them where YOU took them.

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Moved house this week and I keep thinking about salamander genomes. Truly the "just chuck everything in a box and deal with it later" DNA replication strategy.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

well well well look who’s afraid of memes now

Me: Huh there's fewer posts from Minnesota on the general strike day than I would have expected Me a few hours later: Oh they're BUSY

Minnesota: Nice

Even more impressive when you remember that when Americans say -9º(F), they mean -23º(C)!

So once ice vehicles have been discovered and are being followed, they often become incapable of doing their sinister work. This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.

Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

This is all such a weird argument. Hitler sang the praises of the US genocide of indigenous peoples. Lots of things are like other things! The reason people reach for 'Gestapo' before 'slave patrols' is not for the relative aptness of the analogy but because of how much closer it is to living memory

Hugely impressed by my sister-in-law, who had a baby *less than two weeks ago* and is now talking to me about how she wants to get involved in community support for migrant families, as ICE has recently been spotted just a few streets away from her.

I just thought everyone should see this

it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Kurdistan needs us. Rojava needs us. Wherever you are, however you can. Speak up for Rojava, they are mounting a heroic defense of Aleppo. My friend died defending the Rojava Revolution. It will not be in vain. Her Bijî Rojava! Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!