Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

NOW in Minneapolis: About a thousand are gathered at Stewart Park for a rally and march. The Day Out For Democracy March is organized by Minnesota AFL-CIO.

Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

According to the MN-BCA, on Friday, the FBI notified the BCA and reiterated that they "will not provide the BCA with access to any information or evidence that it has collected in the Jan. 24 shooting death of Alex Pretti" -- nor the Jan. 7 Renee Good or the Jan. 14 Julio Sosa-Celis shootings.

One Minute Tours host leaves Minnesota, citing recent high-profile shootings More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/one-minute-tours-host-leaves-minnesota-citing-recent-high-profile-shootings

Health insurance company got a chatbot and I have to admit it does make the process faster

See, big companies willingly turning over your info to the government is why even if most of you practice GOOD security, good cybersecurity you are not safe from your GOVERNMENT. Keeping that level of 'safe' requires either an incredible amount of additional work, effort and actual sacrifice...

Along these lines: if you live in Minneapolis, the Hennepin County Attorney we elect this fall is going to be the lawyer in charge of prosecuting ICE agents for the murders and atrocities they committed against us. That's why I'm supporting Cedrick Frazier.

it said one of my paintings from 2018 was ai but then said it wasn't ai when i cropped it differently. Its just giving answers that "seem correct" like any LLM does

I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

What could possibly go wrong by using AI for journalism? Let's ask Ars Technica.

16 February 1926 | A German Jewish girl Margot Frank, Anne's older sister, was born in Frankfurt. She and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam. After being arrested, they were deported with their parents to #Auschwitz. The sisters perished in Bergen-Belsen.

And now, in honor of Presidents' Day, the complete list of presidents in the last hundred years who have committed no war crimes or crimes against humanity: That's the list. No, I didn't miss anyone.

Assume Quinn is right that it's more efficient to have multiple people specialize in a portion of one reporter's job. He is saying making reporting into a game of telephone — with an AI hallucination machine added in to several steps on the way — will produce higher quality, accurate reporting.

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: • AI identifies possible stories • Reporters do further reporting and produce notes • Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" • Another person fact-checks/edits • Reporter reviews

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law. Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable

As the past two months have shown, anyone can be called a domestic terrorist - even victims of state violence. Congress & the public must continue to push on this, to demand answers, and to say clearly that calling your opponents domestic terrorists is not consistent with a robust democracy.

Unfortunately this is not unprecedented; the FBI has a history of targeting climate activists & other progressive domestic advocacy groups. But that doesn't make it normal, and whatever checks previously existed - however inadequate - have likely been erased. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...

We're seeing it play out in real time. The Intercept recently reported that in early Feb., a climate activist was visited at his home by FBI agents, including one w/ a joint terrorism task force, which Trump and Bondi have tasked w/ investigating domestic terrorism. theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

Trump backed off calling Renee Good & Alex Pretti domestic terrorists because people didn't like it. But as I wrote, the admin is still doubling down on the use of domestic terrorism investigations to scare Americans away from using their First Amendment rights. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

This is a bubble that when it bursts, will upend the US/global economy, or too-big-to-fail will usher in tech totalitarianism. Fun times. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Seems bad that it's about 1000x easier to impersonate law enforcement, without local police batting an eye, than it was last year when a guy using the tactic went on an assassination spree.

Breaking: Scam is a scam.

My thoughts on AI and writing is simple: if you do not care enough to put time in to write and edit something, it signals to me that I should not put my time in to read it. Life is short. Why would I spend time reading something you care so little about?

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

"By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week" is an insane sentence.

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I know Saint Paul is one of the greatest places on earth because everytime we do patrol at our neighborhood mosque we are fed and brought tea and we all hug each other and it’s too wholesome to bear. This is how we win

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We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

We sure don’t allow AI slop—and it shows in our fantastic reporting and writing. Follow @mississippifreepress.org and other real journalism on this list.

Oh it got better. Ars Technica used ai to write a story about it me it made quotes up. arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

This AI-loving newspaper editor is teaching young journalists a valuable lesson: editors can be dumbasses www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

What’s your personal breaking point? Tech bros want to know so they can squeeze every last penny out of you. Stop algorithmic and surveillance pricing before it becomes normalized for the rest of your lives.

Wife and I had belated Valentine's dinner at Texas Roadhouse. She had the beef kabob, I had pulled pork. She said her kabob was delicious. I said the pulled pork was pretty good, but mine is better. Can't wait for true spring so I can fire up the smoker again.

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

DHS moans that they’re being “obstructed,” but then agents spend their time tracking down legal observers’ homes to show up and menace them. Which really demonstrates that the mission being obstructed is straight up dominance. They can’t abide a community that doesn’t bend the knee to them.

Protestors were shot in street battles. Political parties were outlawed and labelled Far Left Terrorists. Elections were "monitored" for the Security of the Homeland.

The Nazi plan for the "Final Solution" evolved over time. Early versions - before the Wannsee Conference - involved deporting the Jewish population to the island of Madagascar, & before that financial inducements for self-deportation, & before that widespread violence and terror to "persuade"

ICE keeps coming back to her house although they won't say why they're interested in her. She can't work or go outside. Thi Dua Vang and her husband have had to go into hiding. Please help this refugee family get what they need to survive this ordeal.

Another ICE horror story. Young boy opens door: “Do you know this guy?” they asked him, showing him a name. “Oh, that’s my mom!” her son replied. “Where’s your mom?” they pressed. “My mom’s still sleeping,” he said. Within minutes, the federal agents had roused Thi Dua Vang from bed.

The previous administration was run by beta cuck soy boys who were too soft to carry out their duties. Here’s why I fired a Coast Guard pilot for forgetting my blankie. by Kristi Noem

ICE is still active all across Minnesota, even parking at observers homes this morning. But we’ve been showing up all weekend with massive food drives, placing hearts where were abducted, at singing marches, and there’s another big protest at Jackson Square Park today at noon. Let’s keep showing up!