Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it." A few profit and the most vulnerable pay www.economist.com/united-state...

Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52

Student from Minneapolis just spoke at Princeton’s ICE Out rally and said, “my neighbors Renee Good & Alex Pretti were murdered for less than what we’re doing now.” Next a *high schooler* from Trenton described the days she spends doing ICE Watch. If kids can show up and organize you can too.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Waymo under scrutiny after hitting child near Santa Monica elementary school

This is so unhinged

We talking Roland Fryer who was recently allowed to start having advisees again after a sexual harassment suspension? www.thecrimson.com/article/2021... Roland whose publication claiming no racial bias in the policing of Black people helped spur RAND to produce this? www.rand.org/research/gun...

Amazon announces it is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/a...

Imagine working for Satan and complaining that Hell is hot

The fact that white folks are still "imagining" the brutality that Black folks have endured for two and a half centuries is FRYING ME.

it's boring as hell but data governance and regulation needs to be a central plank of Reconstruction 2

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing

Welp…TikTok was a fun ride while it lasted

“This is un-American“ is anti-Indigenous, anti-Black gaslighting and if you find that inconvenient imagine how our colonized and enslaved ancestors felt and grow the fuck up

A lot of prominent pundits and public intellectuals claimed—frequently and spuriously—that DEI measures in higher ed are anti-free speech. The standing federal ruling on this question, though says the opposite—only after their polemics helped fuel worse censorship than the McCarthy Era.

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

Whew buddy the Lakers suck..

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

Send those bumass Chargers back to San Diego and fry Herbert on all the talk shows tomorrow.

All cops are ice

My friend and colleague @michellesphelps.bsky.social explains how the history of community organization prepares Minneapolis for this moment. @newrepublic.com

Yup. If you’re wearing an “I Voted” sticker, they’ll pass over you like it’s the blood of the lamb

Minneapolis Public Schools has canceled school for the rest of the week — an email just hit inboxes in the last few minutes.

I’d prefer if he were struggling to breathe.

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

And I know this isn’t a popular opinion. But someone need to call down to Chapel Hill, tell Bill to dump that girlfriend, get his mind-right and come coach the Ravens

As a Ravens fan, EYE for one, am happy to not have to watch that sorry ass Harbaugh-coached team for another week

NYT: The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.

*endless screaming*

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

*looks directly at camera*

It’s something

These last few episodes of Stranger Things is as bad as advertised, I fear.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

OpenAI is doing enormous evil and people who try to push its products on us should be relentlessly questioned.

65,210 words out of an expected 70,000 Today's stack

Yeah I’m with this. Both a problem, but one is the more lucrative and terrifying goal.

I’m not the one to play into the sports leagues are rigged, but you can’t tell me the Ravens/Steelers week 18 match up isn’t something the league needed to happen because there are no other meaningful games

It’s honestly criminal that you could have NBC but need a Peacock subscription to watch certain sports.

This is not sustainable

It’s depressing how today’s movies and shows think the audience is so stupid. This character just spelled out the entire plot while talking to a dog. A pretext to erase all doubt about what is the most trite, obvious storyline in written language.