People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

The morning so far

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

Probably this should circulate more and get more signatures: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/in...

The media's attention to Minnesota is drifting. This weekend, ICE had a road block at 694 and Central in Fridley, where they were asking for licenses and papers for every car that wanted to get through. Don't look away.

Seeing the general reaction to the draconian new citizenship policies (that will apply retroactively!) is making me despair. This is your occasional reminder that if you believe citizenship is a right, not a jealously guarded privilege for a lucky few, you need to speak up—the others are VERY loud

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Can we get someone to do a mass transit thing next year

I don’t follow Chomsky much, but in the email thread, is he also asking Epstein for help disinheriting his own kids? Seems like another indication that he wasn’t interacting with him in spite of the guys known crimes, but *because* he was morally bankrupt

“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it

I created a PRIVATE Facebook group 'Non-permanent MCRs in Humanities' at www.facebook.com/groups/14504... This is a temporary measure and aims at carrying out a survey among the MCRs and offering initial peer support and advice while gathering together those with 7+ years from PhD... #MCRNetwork

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Timeline cleanse. Would you swipe right or left

i don’t think we should have to rely on our ability to get a small child’s photo to get enough internet attention so that their representative can successfully physically extract them from the concentration camp for children

application for this phd closes on 10 Feb

To those local to me who think it can’t happen here, remember 1. The Swedish gov has contracts with Palantir 2. They “need” to do mass deportations bc of something called “integration debt” (yes, it’s ethnic cleansing) and 3. One of the main parties has made a map of where all the immigrants are.

Seeing the number of academics who actively sucked up to Epstein, knowing exactly who he was, is a good reminder that keeping a network of smart people with integrity is the right choice, even if it’s not the lucrative one

"RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE OR EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE" Protesting ICE, kids walk out from J. Graham Brown School, a K-12 magnet school, and Manual High School, both in Louisville, Kentucky.

I was away for 3 days and now my life is this, but one of these creatures is a human child (not complaining at all, they are my faves) www.instagram.com/reel/CkRJCRF...

A further 22 sets of infant remains have been recovered from the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway as excavation work continues there

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

I spent most of today at the oldest continuously operating subsea cable factory in the world and it was SIGNIFICANTLY more awesome than you are even thinking Also got to see some power cable manufacturing, which is like telecoms, except everything is gargantuan in scale

The term “wintry mix” is truly a dumpster of meaning. I didn’t know you could get frost 1cm thick

A moment of joy for you: I’m in a hotel in Bremen, and there are two pigeons that seem to live on my tiny balcony, snuggling together. I wish I were staying longer, or I’d befriend them properly

All the stars are here: Brantley Gilbert, Brice Bradley, Gabby Babby, Bibb Glibsy, Slab Gabbert, Brice Bryce,

The Swedish government wants to pass TWELVE new immigration policies between now and September, including revoking citizenships, revoking permanent residency for “flawed lifestyle” and longer waits for family reunification. Now would be a good time for folks to really wake up???

This is another outrageous attack on the dignity and safety of trans people — part of the ongoing campaign to eliminate them. Also, *everyone* is less safe when a state is stripping legal ID from a scapegoat group. It’s a direct attack on trans people. It’s also precedent.

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

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Hey, content designers, a small glimmer of hope in the thought that someday, a few of our kind will get the job of adding a question to various application forms about whether an applicant has ever worked for ICE. Just a stray hopeful thought that popped up this morning. May we live to see this.

MN folks feel free to correct, but hearing that supplies are pretty ok on the ground, and what’s needed most is rent money. Find vetted links to donate here and pls feel free to share more vetted ones in comments: www.standwithminnesota.com

Some really good news!

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

The point of large performative actions is to convince others they're not alone and make them feel safe to join

It’s not the number of times Jason Calacanis is in the Epstein files, it’s the SIMPERING he does*, and that he calls Maxwell “GMAX” *It’s also the number, he is in it quite a bit

The Epstein dump continues to show that the world’s most powerful ghouls are also really shit at email

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

I shouldn’t be surprised but I always am, at the level of unhinged denial a lot of majority Europeans have when told that there are injustices in “their” countries (a big tell is the way that it’s still not the immigrants’ country, too) that they aren’t aware of. Yikes on bikes, the abuse.

If Melania’s movie died any harder, Trump would bury it on a golf course

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

Last week, we were about 25 people, yesterday, we were probably triple that. We’ll keep doing it—join us if you’re local!

I swear if anyone tries to make me read that Rufo article I will not survive I need another discourse

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

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