ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

ASK ABOUT HER PLANS FOR THE AGENCY ASK HER ABOUT HER FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB

I saw on r/nursing this week that a nurse reported a colleague for wearing meta glasses to work. That has a billion HIPAA and other legal violations written ALL over it and that person should be fired

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...

[Exit Murderer.]

Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings. Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.

I’ve seen it said that the conclusive proof for innate sexuality is the continued existence of heterosexual women over the age of 30.

Monet never met Kandinsky, but Kandinsky credited him with freeing art from subject. After seeing Haystacks, he said, “Objects collapsed before my eyes.”

I think this clarifies how AI is often used as a substitute for objectivity. Actual scientific objectivity refutes conservatives at every turn, but w/ AI they can disavow their own perspective by deferring to an automatically produced reproduction of a part of the world.

This is only slightly dumber than originalism

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968. Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.

Classic Chotiner interview, in that Landsman thinks it went great for him and is wondering why his family looks sad and is wearing black and there are all those casserole dishes in the kitchen

I actually don't have words as to how angry I am. Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021. UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.

Here’s Luxon saying NZ supports “any action” to stop Iran and me following up to ask if that would include carpet bombing (vid via RNZ)

Fintech is discovering why all those financial regulations exist but “why taking out life assurance needs you to have an insurable interest in that person” is a particular doozie

whoops

Literally, at work this morning: Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B. AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B. Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

Why should this wet paper bag get to lead our nation, why would he even wish in that mediocre mind of his to be in his role, if his aim is so obviously to stand for absolutely nothing ever? #nzpol

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

If this is true, it’s very clear that we want to destroy the possibility of a genuinely democratic opposition taking power, because we want to install that dog Reza Pahlavi as Shah

War is not a morality play. The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things? The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

Absolutely the fuck not what the actual fuck

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From last night - how dumb is this war? Let @professormusgrave.bsky.social count the ways. (separate question from 'how illegal is this war', the answer to which is 'about as illegal as it is dumb')

Yikes

Art can distract, even briefly, from disturbing news. Igor Gusev, contemporary Ukrainian 🇺🇦 artist. His String Theory series, with glitch effects, is one of my favourites. He is now serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

What no one seems to be talking about is that there *was* a nuclear accord signed in 2015, one that Iran appeared to be keeping to – and Trump tanked it in his first term, essentially because the US had negotiated and signed it during Obama's presidency.

You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

Imagine if we all fought for trans people more.

NZ Labour pls pay attention challenge

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

"Govt new rules for building a granny flat... still complex, full of restrictions and just as expensive as they always were. The real change these rules bring, say experts, is when things go wrong, they shift the burden of responsibility from council to homeowners." www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

> Glenn Greenwald man.

Cops did this to my cousin in Idaho. Denied him his siezure meds then dumped him outside in a storm. He walked 4 miles home, passed out and hypothermic, had a major siezure and died.

cant.stop.laughing

Inshallah.

This is a "papers please" "English is the official language" "eat slop and be grateful" "disappear the unhoused" "women are second class" "don't learn real history" "local FBI office" government and we really cannot afford to be smug about other countries' slide to open fascism, Aotearoa

I was asked by a respectable publication to write about "tradwives" last fall and my reply included these paragraphs. it's possible to say no

Please, I am begging you: If you love your children, get them vaccinated.