The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The new Väsen album is really nice. Very chill, but with a strong pulse. Makes we want a 5-string low viola. vasen.se

#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."

i hereby state that i do not give journalists permission to use my personal skeets on the record

went to a delightful bluegrass jam in Brooklyn last night, played a No Kings protest song by an old-timer on uke, and was gifted a ticket by a stranger to see Michael Daves, Tony Trischka and Erik Alvar right afterwards. thanks NYC!

At #wikiconferencena a man pulled a gun on stage wearing a "non-offending pedophile" sign, aggrieved, seemingly, that wikipedia doesn't allow him to write about that subject. Disarmed by hero Wikipedians Pharos and Fuzheado and arrested.

feeling energized after listening to this fantastic Anoushka Shankar performance youtu.be/4d8Qey7xdkg?...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

my sister was at Planet Fitness in Lake Forest Park, WA this afternoon, when a large number of US Marshals came in, and handcuffed a man literally while he was on a step machine. seemed to be looking for a fight. when confronted by patrons, they acted like bullies and refused to answer questions.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Minority Report but the precogs are just an LLM reasoning model and the precrime cops are the stupidest, most racist people you can imagine

what a narrow, weak, pathetic masculinity these fascists push. like, bro, you're choking your own soul.

find joy where you can youtu.be/TM6BEZ-Dzy4?...

i think it's possible to make good art with AI but this is still the only time i've seen it actually done in a way that connected for me. saw this three years ago, been listening to MF DOOM ever since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5i-...

How to choose a tech contractor step 1: run each cover letter through Pangram and screen out all the ones that are AI slop

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

i was never really 'into' tech until i started editing Wikipedia. the feeling of using text (wikicode) to reliably build something (a web page) and have it work exactly like i wanted it (unlike Word's nightmare UI) was empowering. the AI user experience is the opposite. feels like pull-tabs.

forgive me

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Excited for the "Gen AI and the Wikipedia Assignment: Challenges and Opportunities" panel that's about to start (hosted by my org), because it's a bunch of really smart people and I have no idea what they're going to say. wikiedu.org/speaker-seri...

We talk a lot about the black box problem in AI and not enough about AI as censorship.

They're so mad that people aren't lying down and accepting this, which is a sign that you should keep heckling and protesting these doofuses whenever you can. Your fear is what gives them power.

5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood. This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.

i am often jealous of so many of you out there who have the soul of a poster, but it's the right thing for me that i just hit Cancel before posting 95% of the time

ngl i hope we see the same energy from people yelling at ICE agents on the street with the anti-homeless stuff. i think thats the only way we'll be okay

Just mailed my ballot voting for Semra Riddle for Lake Forest Park City Council. I attended a recent council meeting and got a sense for how she thinks and communicates; she's super smart, and seems like one of the most progressive members of the current council. #LFP

Eli West's new album was great on first listen. gonna be spinning it more this week. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

vibrating strings have the juice youtu.be/94oOi7rS1XI?...

Incredible scene. FBI: Do you like Marx? Mhmood Mamdani: I haven’t met him. FBI: No, no, he’s dead. MM: Wow, what happened? FBI: No, no, he died long ago. ... He wrote that poor people should not be poor. MM: Sounds amazing. www.warscapes.com/conversation...

this place is a hellhole but jazz music isn't nothing. happy birthday to jazz music

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Cop gets caught on tape saying horrible threatening stuff. Gets transferred to INTERNAL AFFAIRS, where be became a SUPERVISOR. The “bad apple” line is a joke in general, but to put to a clear bad apple in charge of ferreting out bad apples shows utter contempt towards oversight.

something beautiful to start the day youtu.be/BJ_KNgmc6cM?...

The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.

Jeffries doesn’t call Trump’s act of war illegal or unconstitutional. The leadership of the Democratic Party is worse than useless.

To which Hegseth says, "Senator, I'd be careful what you read in books, and believing it. Except for the Bible." In which, as he notes with approval in HIS book, The War on Warriors, God does tell militaries to slaughter the unarmed.

grounds for impeachment

I thought the TikTok ban was an idiotic moral panic and a gross curtailment of expressive freedom, but I’m at least as uncomfortable about a scenario where a platform with 170m US users exists entirely on the personal sufferance of Donald Trump (or any president).

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

ice is just a bunch of dumbass fascist thugs

If you were at the big protests in Seattle yesterday consider showing up at the immigration facility in tukwilla today. ICE ordered a bunch of people in for no reason and they need people outside to take names and make sure everyone who goes in comes out

in Lake Forest Park, WA, the No Kings protest is hoppin

no kings but Rhododendron Rex

absolute unit of a camomile

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow