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Come on DR Congo!

my oh my This essay/review is… …stunning (ie, may leave you stunned) via the craft with which it’s Virgil walks you — firmly but w/ the care of one who’s felt the blow — through that tall grass where you’ve hidden those political suspicions which are, by their nature & by yours, un-entertain-able.

It would be pretty cute if I got to 300 pre orders this week, just saying

Max Belasco of UPTE UC Los Angeles explains how the University of California's IT workers added 2,100 members to union rolls—and won the right to bargain over how AI gets deployed.

What does this mean?

@lapubliclibrary.bsky.social the water fountains at the Studio City library has not been working for months now. While appreciate staff has water bottles to hand out, this is really lame. Folks need free cold water. Do better.

#LearningMachines is a free, beginner-friendly creative AI camp for educators, artists, students, etc. Across three core sessions plus an optional studio, we investigate how generative AI systems create text, images, and video. Details & interest form - ccfest.rocks/ccfest-camp #CCFestCamp

"We've never been duped like this before," Characters for Hire founder Nick Sarelli said, vowing that his company would never work with the landlord lobby group Gotham Housing Alliance again.

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

NYPD and most local PDS continues to be greatest challenge to democratic oversight and supervision. You can't police Trump, the oligarchs, etc. if the cops dont work for you and often against you. If you keep ignoring the PD problem you are just working on the margins.

This is really good “Concentration camps are places where groups of people targeted based on their identity are imprisoned in violation of their legal and human rights.” They then go through these criteria and explain how Delaney Hall meets each one.

It’s not inevitable! As I say here, “[T]here can be alternatives … rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” And I think it’s honestly coming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My mother, Atia Khan, passed away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after a battle with neural degeneration. Despite her 79 years, she accomplished much, surviving the Liberation War and genocide, emigrating twice, completing her education, supporting my father, raising three kids, five grandkids, and working.

In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.

Got late approval to head to NOLA for #CSTA2026. Excited to see my old friends and colleague and meet some new folks.

Mamuka Artmeladze was 43, from the Republic of Georgia, was arrested and held for 119 days. He died in ICE custody on June 4. He is the 19th person to die in ICE detention in 2026.

SeaScapingRealm Audio: on.soundcloud.com/8i3cnTXzvQqw... #MinaCoding2026 #random #sea Coded #SonicPi Blogpost: blog.illestpreacha.com/minacoding20... #minacoding #minacoding29 #minacoding5 #sounddesign #livecoding

Member states and the European Parliament have struck a deal on the Return Regulation to build deportation camps (aka return hubs) in faraway countries. It’s a turning point for migration policy. The EU migration enters uncharted territory.

Trans rights are human rights.

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“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

CBB Friendship Bracelets: A number of people wanted bracelets that weren’t going to the Chicago show / couldn’t find me. I have extra and can make more. If you would like bracelets and are willing to cover the shipping cost ($5), please fill out this form and Venmo me forms.gle/79gJYgqCCC79...

So much of the modern violence has been pioneered by the EU and provides cover for other states to pursue similar violence but you never read about it in the news.

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

Let’s go @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social

An agent at Delaney Hall attempted to kick a demonstrator into the tires of a moving semi. This cannot be reformed. Video via @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

PBS produced a segment with a U.S. correspondent inside Iran about the specifics of what happened to the school that was hit by U.S. tomahawk missiles in Iran. The U.S. government hasn't taken responsibility for the attack. youtu.be/QRSTJIIqzGM?...

“The time I find hardest of all is at night, when the house falls still, and there is nothing left to do and no one left to call. This was our time, when we talked without haste, when we discussed anything and everything” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...

"But in December, the Lafayette sheriff’s office entered a 287(g) agreement with ICE, which empowers deputies to detain individuals suspected of immigration infractions, even if they aren’t suspected of having committed a crime."

A man tried to record a hyper-aggressive #Boston cop, so the cop tackled him, arrested him, and filed a false police report accusing him of assault. After he beat the false charges, ICE agents grabbed him and detained him for four months.

WATCH: On Jan. 31, hundreds of families gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, to protest immigration enforcement. We spoke with two brothers, ages 11 and 15, who attended the protest and described being tear-gassed firsthand.

On May 5, Common Sense Media, known for its entertainment and technology recommendations for parents, launched its Youth AI Safety Institute, backed by a $20 million annual budget to “rigorously test AI products." Justin Hendrix spoke to Bruce Reed, Common Sense's head of AI, about the initiative.

“Roughly three-quarters of those children… are likely U.S. citizens”

I say it all of the time because it's true: Islamophobia in the U.S. is absolutely one of the most tolerated forms of bigotry. It's everywhere, routine and rarely challenged. It's not surprising that teenagers who swim in this water from birth would also be Islamophobic.

wOrKiNg cLaSs

Discover Airlines, a German leisure carrier, resumed its seasonal service to Minneapolis today. Imagine arriving from Frankfurt, excited to go shopping at Mall of America, and the first thing you see is an asshole in a mask, unrolling a full-body straightjacket restraint for ICE. 34 loaded today.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

Does Obama talk to “real people”

Excited to share that Teen Tech Vibes Hackathon is back at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica on Sunday, May 17! Should be s fun day of learning, collaborating, and making. Details and RSVP here: sites.google.com/k12.xrds.org...

Hindus for Human Rights, Jewish Currents & 1804 Books invite you to an evening with legendary graphic journalist Joe Sacco at People’s Forum NYC, Wed. May 13, 6:30–9 PM. On Hindu nationalism, anti-Muslim mob violence in India, Palestine & war. RSVP/Tix: secure.everyaction.com/mm8vq_U5xE-O...

Finally did some camping after years away. With an old nyc teaching fellow who is Bay Area. We met up by SLO, Cerro Alto by Morro Bay, and got last spot in the campground and despite the some rain we got in a good hike. Then went into town for food, dive bar and NBA playoffs.

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up.

We are horrified that Stanford University hosted a hatemonger whose organization USCIRF has called to sanction. We call on @HudsonInstitute to revoke their invitation to Hosabale. indianexpress.com/article/indi... (edited)

I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible. Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at: