Standing up to the small stuff might put you at odds w/ social trends. It might cause friction between you & your peers. It might threaten your employment prospects. It will be *socially uncomfortable*. That's why the train gets going: by the time it's socially acceptable to say No, it's too late.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Starting a thread to capture all the art and photography coming out of the MN resistance. I should have done this a month ago.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

we have got to stop allowing cops to use their taxpayer-provided squad cars and uniforms for their off duty security work, because we have a separation ordinance and yet here it looks like MPD are providing security for the ICE agents staying at the depot hotel

It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!

Today my block leader told me that a volunteer had come and cleaned her kitchen and bathroom. We were breaking Costco-much rice into smaller bags at the time. I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.

I am still asking the community to remain cautious and vigilant until we can confirm what this truly means. They said they are not backing down from mass deportation but will be ending the operation in Minnesota soon. 5/

Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I have coworkers who use GenAI for code and documents. Reviewing their work feels like someone asking me to do their work for them. A lot of the feedback I give is pretty obvious. But since they didn't create the material, they don't feel shame in its inadequacy -- or pride in its improvement.

I'm emotionally bracing for clips of my city to be in the background of every video essay for the next five years.

"These practices must end now." Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.

Reminder for artists: don't get blinded by the "big number" for an art project. Remember to do the math. $3,000 for a tarot card desk *sounds* great. But in reality you're only being paid $38.46 per artwork. And if each artwork takes 20 hours to make, you're getting paid $1.92/hr

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

As a ray of nice things, I managed to playtest five games in at Protospiel MN yesterday. Always a blast to see what our local board gamers are coming up with!

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

Saw dozens of candles on the way home but this little guy jumped out at me

ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

if you don’t live in minneapolis and you’re just watching from afar you need to get familiar with ring theory and stop venting your anger at us, it’s inappropriate and not helpful to have people who do not live here replying to us with negative emotions. stop putting that on us

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

I'm continuing to read this filing today and it has other amusing tidbits. Such as ninety-five separate MPD officers showing up to the January 7 shooting scene.

I know some people who follow me here are not in a place where they want various updates on political chaos/trauma. Feel free to mute me (or specific terms) until things in Minneapolis blow over. I have no idea when that might be since we're being targeted. But please save your spoons if needed.

it’s not hyperbole either, it’s actually happening right now. a RN at another hospital was threatened by ICE over the weekend as well.

example of an administrative ICE warrant and a judicial warrant being passed around

Before you, evil has offered you two paths. 1) You do nothing as it takes everything you care about 2) You resist and then it blames you for taking everything you care about It refuses to acknowledge a third choice.

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That's cool! Ages ago I created a Letterboxd list of "Most often assigned in college classes" but it's pretty dated. It's neat to see some more recent stuff in the syllabi. boxd.it/id5FW

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

/r/letterboxd frequently makes fun of thinking critically about their experience with a movie. They prefer unassailable takes like "it was fun" or "it was boring". That's fine. I get that people tend to avoid introspection. But it's weird that they're so proud of their inability to know themselves.

I'm calling it a day early. I was able to watch everything on my watchlist this year EXCEPT White Out, Black In / Branco Sai, Preto Fica (2014) I can't find a source with English subtitles. So it goes into the deep vault of things I want to watch but likely never will.

The process of a discovery is the development of taste.

Yup, checks out.

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I don't understand why people think subjectivity implies meaningless -- and specifically it being pointless to discuss. If I enjoy pizza, and find someone else who enjoys pizza, we both understand the enjoyment is subjective. But we can still discuss where and how and why pizza can be enjoyed.

/r/letterboxd apparently can't handle the concept that people curve their move ratings. They think I'm lying to myself because my irrelevant magic number is relative to all of the other irrelevant magic numbers I've assigned to other movies. My ratings curve even still looks like everyone else's.

Every time a non-Minnesotan politician mentions Minnesota it reminds me how full of crap these losers are. They have no idea what they are talking about. They just see us as political leverage.

I once got into an argument about the illusion of "stealing someone's card" during a deal. Which order you deal cards from a randomly shuffled deck is statistically insignificant. But, psychologically, players get REALLY UPSET if you deal in the wrong order. Someone else has "stolen their card."

@surlaw.bsky.social Happy autumn! This made me think of you and your Frog and Toad posting. 🧡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC82...

Short 🧵: One thing I don't see discussed regarding the whole likely implosion of the AI bubble is that Silicon Valley brought this upon itself by profoundly misunderstanding where human beings are at right now.

Frey vote share was negatively correlated with share of workers that take transit, housing cost burden, share renters, share non-english speakers and share BIPOC residents.

I don't know what to call them but there's an entire genre of web comic structured like this and I just do not get it. Panel 1: A vaguely drawn blob person Panel 2: A turtle Panel 3: "Hi I have a piece of cake do you want one" Panel 4: "Yes thank you" And that's it.

Last day to pile in! I'm beyond stoked that all the Fables have been funded. The news just keeps getting better. What an incredible effort and result from y'all.

Art folks, what kind of daily / weekly exercises do you perform to keep your edge? I'm looking into adding dedicated practice time to my schedule and need inspiration.

Today's reminder that Reddit is full of awful people, a thread about whether Good Time's Connie is "pure evil" has far too many defenders of his behavior. They think Connie's "love for his brother" means all the evil shit he did isn't actually very evil or something?

Also, my peeps, if you're skeeting a fucking wall of text, you should copy that wall, and PASTE IT INTO ALT TEXT! Go to SETTINGS>ACCESSABILITY > REQUIRE ALT TEXT and slide the slide to on.