@fibonaccieu.bsky.social I wrote this, oh dear god, more than a year ago, to give some context to the terrible decision we made at the last election: www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/22/a... I feel like it's useful for understanding why this happened, but also why it's often much easier to

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 think the Bush era did incalculable damage to America's imperial power. But we spent an entire century before that arranging the whole world's economy to flow through ours. It is amazing how they can't conceive of the level of power that was and threw it all away for nothing.

It really impresses me how much Bluesky skipped past the early days of Twitter fun and went straight to all the toxic infighting, constant nasty teardowns, canceling, and pathological inability to listen to each other.

Thank you for the admission, time to abolish it.

I'll take Shit That Didn't Happen for $1000, Ken.

think it’s time to start treating cbs news links the way sensible people treat free press links, by which i mean ignoring them and not spreading them

NY Times op-ed: @riana.bsky.social argues Grok is generating sexualized images of children, while laws meant to protect actually prevent AI companies from testing safeguards. Congress must create legal safe harbors for responsible testing. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

It's really time for journalists to get serious about digital security and encryption. It needs to be part of the work flow and part of what makes journalism actual journalism.

I still think there is a high chance this all ends in a military coup.

these captchas are getting ridiculous

How the hell do alleged leftists think this is ok? Every left publication has hundreds of data miners and profilers shifting through their readership, gathering data to manipulate us, but we just all act like it's normal and fine.

British police intelligence—used in a decision to ban Israeli football fans—was based upon a false AI response, police admit. The error “arose as a result of a use of Microsoft Copilot,” the police admitted after previously claiming it came from a Google search 🤦

Does anyone remember when we were going to make an energy transition so we didn't all doom our children to a climate apocalypse, before we just forgot about climate change and just burnt our carbon budget on AI slop? Seems so long ago.

This is hella illegal. I guess it goes in the ever-growing "nothing matters" bucket.

Don't touch this, please.

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

DHS Releases List Of Mothers Driving Cars

No, they are not. The UK owns the warheads and the rockets are from a common pool shared between the UK and the US. The UK government can fire the ones that we currently have in our subs at will and without US input.

I stand corrected on this post! Well, the France part still holds up 😂

In the great competition of best social media site between bsky, Mastodon, and X, I think we can all agree the winner is Tumblr.

Something homey here doesn't understand, and really Europeans *need* to, is that being this deep in the stack and nowhere else mean Europe has no geopolitical power in tech, and that's a deeply unsafe place to be. Where do we send those very polished mirrors? China.

Europeans taking the fall of America as a chance to proudly trumpet European supremacy sure is a look.

Note that @theguardian.com is wrong - grok image generation is not paid account only, they removed the "trigger it by replying" mode but it's still available free if you use the "edit image" menu item on any post with an image.

I really do suspect it's only a matter of time before we find a mass grave of people who died In migrant detention and got thrown into a swamp or something. It's a lot faster than due process. And it's always where these things tend to go.

If your name is "free speech union" it takes an astounding lack of self awareness to rush to court to get an injunction to stop someone from publishing information about you.

That is why legal observers like Renee Good are targeted: the threat they represent to (1) propaganda accounts, and (2) the lies they will tell, even in legal proceedings. They are front-line warriors against tyranny.

I have a friend who was arrested literally while giving a speech in the area segmented off for protests at the ICE facility in Broadview, as a staged event for Noem to witness on a visit-- just mauled. She was charged with a federal crime.

The porn aspect of what ICE/CBP crucial. Here's an excellent piece of journalism on how they literally stimulated riots for the camera in Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

One thing I noticed everywhere I worked was that local centers of power were always highly situated, even in a smaller country like Tunisia or Lebanon. Sometimes neighborhood to neighborhood. Sometimes there were very local strongmen, and their relationship with the autocrat was was complicated.

The *Flying Karamazovs,* otoh, are an incredibly sweet family with amazing juggling skills.

I was sick for all of CCC, which sucked. But the thing that I am most sad at missing was the hack of WhiteDate. *chef's kiss* media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-h... gizmodo.com/hacker-dress...

I know people dismiss Fediverse and Mastodon, but exactly how is this site supposed to become solvent, much less profitable? I know that, and exactly how, the FOSS social media site will survive. I don't even know how this one will survive this presidency.

you prosecute it, and you make scotus say you can’t. and then you put every democrat on television saying they’re immediately ready to pass a law fixing it and tie it to epstein and any resistance from the other side gets their throats torn out they would fold within an hour, and if they didn’t…

Something I've been noting for the last year... indelible ink comes in orange.

I heard from someone today who interviews families destroyed by online sports gambling. A lot of sons bankrupting their families etc. I truly don’t know how anybody is making it right now. I also need something less soul destroying to focus on for a day or two.

I DO NOT LIKE THE CONE

This is important. Things are FUBAR, but the peeling off is beginning to happen. DO NOT let Trump re-polarize again around CBP murders.

I'm monitoring first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I'll keep you updated, but Trump's deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence — and must end.

Ok I need some sleep could y'all just not get into a civil war before I wake up?

Made a quick zine of White Rose Leaflet #3

Federal agents have shot two people in Portland. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

Epic "That guy? No, he's not with us." moment.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

What few people know about my firing by the New York Times is that when they hired me, I was a few days away from complex spinal surgery. The same time I was being attacked by Twitter, threatened, stalked etc. I was prepping to have three discs removed from my neck and replaced with synthetic discs.

There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.

Walz: These are your neighbors, they don’t wear masks and they are allowed to make sure that you have your constitutional rights protected

Tim Walz has issued a warning order and is prepared to bring out the National Guard re ICE. Walz reminded everyone they are their National Guard, not Trump’s.