There needs to be some serious accountability for the colossal harm to life these absolute demons have caused, and will cause. Life in prison is the moderate option.

every day i get to come onto the internet and read a sentence i could never have conceived of in my wildest dreams

I'm now doing a write-up of numerous replication attempts of this intervention for preventing harassment. I shared a preliminary report on the first few replications here. It's nice to see this simple intervention get taken up by more platforms. citizensandtech.org/2022/08/hara...

In a large-scale field experiment, I found that in settings where moderators have norms against harassment and enforce them, pinned messages with the policies can prevent/reduce harassment to a significant degree www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Oh cool- @signal.org just added a feature that was part of my PhD dissertation: pinned messages in online groups signal.org/blog/pinned-...

surprising no one, everything and everyone associated with the LA28 scam is a total scumbag

Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

ICYMI: T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

ICYMI: Canada did a consultation on a new AI strategy, formed a task force to write 32 reports, used an opaque AI pipeline to analyze the responses & reports, then published a partially-AI-generated summary of the consultation & a dataset of survey responses filled w linkable personal data

I was back in federal court today. They’re still prosecuting me — my trial date is May 11th — but we’re pressing for evidence discovery. Because someone is “unreasonably obstructing the usual use” of the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza. But it’s ICE, not me. And the evidence will prove it.

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The TESCREALists I wrote about (Goertzel), teaming up with pedophiles (Epstein), experimenting on five million Ethiopian children through "digital IDs" which they want for harvesting data to train "AI." My worlds colliding in the worst way.

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

“Orville Peck became the first country artist to publicly exit the sports, music and entertainment agency on Feb. 10, joining Chappell Roan, Chelsea Cutler, Wednesday and a handful of other musicians.” www.tennessean.com/story/entert...

Reminder that Alex Taylor’s delusional belief that OpenAI had “murdered” his GPT4o companion precipitated the violent breakdown that ended with his suicide by cop. For some of these people, the consequences of losing this sycophantic model will be severe. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This doesn’t mean they will stop sharing videos with law enforcement without user notice or permission.

We’ll see if this holds and if it is really about backlash rather than corporate wrangling but take it as a tentative win.

Climate fatalism is a failure of responsibility

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

I regret consenting to join a class with a lesson I needed to build from scratch on a day-and-a-half turn around. That was hubristic given my known current mental state (as sharp as extra-firm tofu, which is an improvement on jell-o, but still a far cry from knife edge)

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

...I love him?

Two things that occur to me when seeing ideas about 'AI for socialism' or 'socialist AI': 1) AI doesn't do science or productivity, it's shoddy simulation & precaritisation 2) Anyway, a reductive & preemptive epistemology is not a good foundation for a more caring world

*me and the homies looking around confused cause we’re worried about the folks living in the margins being poisoned by the data centers, CSAM being produced and distributed, scams fucking with our elders, and long term brain drain* … and you’re talking about some fucking “bosses”….

Cracking open a Presidente in front of your boss moments after getting placed on performance review. I will not miss Nick Castellanos, the player, but I will desperately miss Nick Castellanos, the man.

I appreciate that Castellanos’ last act as a Phillie was to confirm that the whole controversy over his benching in Miami was in fact even more dumb than we had previously imagined.

Baseball players should be allowed to drink a delicious cold beer in the dugout

I love him so much.

Castellanos also addresses the “Miami incident” when he was pulled from the game.

Some breaking news in the Vladyslav Heraskevych / IOC situation: Heraskevych has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to have him reinstated. If reinstated, he would take two official runs tonight or tomorrow prior to the medal runs at around 7 PM CET Story: www.slidingonice.com?p=13862

I continue to love Nick Castellanos. I'm disappointed things went sideways between him and the organization last year, and I doubt it was actually his fault. Both last year and the year before, he was the reason we had any wins at all in the post-season, so suck it if you want to talk shit about him

well at least this was dragged out for as long as possible to make everything worse for everyone.

Them: No, AI isn't just hostile to workers, any technology also creates new jobs!!11 The new jobs:

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because: 1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it. 2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution recently announced that they've discovered the oldest known recording of whale song in their archives. The recording was made in 1949 near Bermuda. 🤯 www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...

The lack of transparency in decision-making + over-reliance on auto-denials = record profits for insurance companies and delayed medical care for you. Your meds don’t arrive. Your procedure gets bumped. Your care hours get cut. Your bills stack up. Your body carries the stress.

Coverage for them. Consequences for you. They cash the checks. The AI says “denied.” You cover the fallout. Their AI prior authorization systems don’t help you be healthier. They overrule your own doctors in deciding what you need. 💔

3 degree C means total social, cultural, and economic collapse, in addition to billions dead, but most people actually believe that there's some kind of magic CCS bullet out there already that obviates any need for decarbonization www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If we are required to show a passport in order to vote, doesn’t that make passport fees an illegal poll tax?

Reminder that the pan right fascist movement that is in power is an omnicidal accelerationist entity that is openly attempting to kill as many people as possible.

The SAVE act also forces states to submit their voter registration lists to the DHS! I know we’ve been focused on voter ID but that’s only the tip of the iceberg !

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.

Please read Sasha's piece here if you haven't already. 4/4 theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/no-intelli...

Once you apply a logical lens, it becomes evident that not only is eugenics immoral and pseudoscientific, but it is a completely incoherent philosophy plagued by contradictions. Needless to say, the whole loathsome ball of yarn unravels quickly. It was a joy to watch students pull the threads. 3/4

You can't claim that the "natural" survival of certain "genetically-gifted" people over others is right and good while also claiming we should interfere and give them a boost by removing competitors from the gene pool. To square that circle, you just have to appeal to good old-fashioned bigotry. 2/4

My Evolution and Society class discussed @sashagusevposts.bsky.social's great piece "No, intelligence is not like height" in the context of eugenics and a student raised a great point: How do eugenicists reconcile their love of selective breeding and sterilization with their appeal to nature? 1/4

If we believe DHS’s numbers, ICE spent three months in Minnesota and arrested just over one person per agent in that time. The Minneapolis resistance worked. And let the momentum lead to abolishing ICE altogether.

I just got even angrier because my coworker just told me about these