By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.

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"So, do you have a quest," the witch asked as she finished dressing the last wound, "or doing general adventuring?" "A quest. I seek a book." "Ancient tome of forbidden lore?" "No, one I read as a child." "And this dragon didn't have it?" "Alas." "Have you asked a librarian?" "They're scary!"

We must all have ways to hold, release, some of the devastation and fury in these times of terror and rage. When we do, we may have more capacity for useful action. Because we must take action. But we must have capacity. Some words, and some resources:

A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

Today on the pod, a food scientist debunks the vilification of seed oils on social media and explains what research says about them.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Popehat Signal: looking for NY attorney familiar with revenge porn laws to give some pro bono advice to a victim menaced by someone in NY.

Markey: Vance said that he was just doing his job. Murdering a young mother and orphaning her child is not a job. It is a crime

ACLU of MN is collecting reported incidents of ICE/Fed violations here: www.aclu-mn.org/ice-feds-form/

Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.

Really interesting thread on LLMs and their ability to reconstruct the books they've been trained on. Seems to go against the claims of the LLM creators that the training materials are sort of absorbed and chewed up, but not retained in a way that would allow them to recreate them verbatim.

Warning about writing scams seems kind of beside the point right now...but a scam is still a scam. Scammer posing as a literary agent on MSWL & falsely claiming association w/ the Ampersand Agency. Her website is full of lies & a "team" of AI people patchenlucillen.wixsite.com/patche-n/about

As an historian, author, & game designer, data entry regurgitation, commonly called AI, in particular "generative" AI, is directly oppositional to my best interests & the best interests of my communities, colleagues, & customers. I don't want it in anything, anywhere. I will never use it willingly.

“Let’s see how you make things better for people in their lives—not to emulate life, but to make life better for the living,” Stevie Wonder told Scientific American about AI

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

Really glad my agent got my rights reverted last year, as soon as the out-of-print books were eligible. For anyone wondering if agents are worth having, mine reminded me when the rights were available (I thought it was later), and did the request and all the followups needed. #BookSky

This was a major initiative from the Biden White House, based in the idea of getting together all the countries with a stake in this crisis. They pressured China to stop precursor chemicals, hit hard at the capital funding for production in Mexico, and funded Narcan in the U.S. It apparently worked.

I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

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Melt, and no more be seen

This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

On one hand I’m worried about the snacks cabinet and on the other hand I’m worried about WW3. I don’t even have hands

I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

PSA: if you get an email out of the blue that is supposedly from me, offering to help you with marketing or other publisher services, or asking for money, it is not me, it is a scammer. This is a very common scam now, one of the many scams aimed at aspiring and new writers.

“Fewer children will be vaccinated, and children will be harmed because of this decision,” says @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social about today's vaccine schedule change.

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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here? And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site? No money for Musk, ever, please.

Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites “Zoon tribes are very proud of their Liars. Other races get very annoyed about all this. They feel that the Zoon ought to have adopted more suitable titles, like ‘diplomat’ or ‘public relations officer’. They feel they are poking fun at the whole thing.”

For the record, and even apart from the context of its use in current political insanity, I really hate the word "optionality." It's just so corporate-speak and off-putting. (Had to look up with off-putting got a hyphen. There's always a mistake when posting about language!)

Some, peradventure, have on them the guilt of premeditated and contriv’d murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gor’d the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery.

Contacted my senators to thank them for their quick, clear (no pussyfooting) opposition to the Venezuela military action. I haven't seen a statement by my House Rep., but will follow up. #DidThisToday

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

And here I stand both to impeach and purge

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.

Useful thread of fact-checking about the (mostly AI-generated) misinformation related to the military operation in Venezuela

Just contacted all my Congresspeople with a somewhat flailing (but all I can think of at this point) message of outrage & opposition to the totally unwarranted invasion/occupation of Venezuela and kidnapping of its leader. #DidThisToday

Clowns will say it doesn't matter; we don't have the numbers to impeach. You get the numbers by FORCING THE ISSUE. You make NOISE, you DEMAND, you NEVER STOP YELLING. You do nothing? You get nothing. Ignore the clowns. Call your fucking reps and tell them to do their jobs and IMPEACH. reps.fyi

I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.

Actually, that exactly how JURISDICTION works unless you have an extradition treaty