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⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Minneapolis City Council is leading The Resistance. Minneapolis Mayor is inviting the Border Czar into our City Hall and allowing their SUVs to park in our bike lanes.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Plus ça change…

what the hell, who said OK to this???

This morning 5 ICE vehicles parked illegally in a bike lane and in MPD parking spots directly outside of City Hall. Myself and several other Council Members and city staff went outside to observe them and blew our whistles to alert people nearby. After about 45 minutes they left

If the Mayor needs to meet with the border czar or other high-level ICE officials, as he has done in the past, these meetings must take place off of City property to protect our residents and our workers.

The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing. “Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”

These are the everyday stories here.

sometimes there is also good news

I am now completely boggling myself trying to imagine what the heck a human Gonzo would look like

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor

I love this so very much. 😍

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

Minnesotans: I’m trying to help document this moment in our state’s history for an audio project on mutual aid. I’ve been doing some in-person interviews, but we’re all spread so thin right now. The simplest way you can help is by leaving a message with your story of mutual aid at 1-844-WE-HLP-US ☎️

anyone who can witness all this and not be a) full of rage and b) politically radicalized to the left might just not have a soul tbh

Friends, I learned today I have another set of neighbors who need help :( Young couple w a v giggly toddler, bought their condo last year. She works PT from home, his jobsite already got raided by ICE once, they're gonna miss their mortgage on the 15th. Amount needed: $2000 Venmo: Caz-A

if you donate $25+ to this ask for @caztastrophe.bsky.social's neighbors, i'll mail you a set of the "fuck ice" postcards i made (and a few other goodies). email me at allisonannecollage at gmail with receipt and your address Venmo: Caz-A Paypal: paypal.com/paypalme/ccabb

Weird. I tried to warn libertarians about Trump

A reminder that cops are TERRIBLE for multi-species families, and in the US, cops kill over 10,000 dogs per year www.courthousenews.com/dog-shooting...

For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I am also going to win, because I'm never going to wake up in the morning, stare into the empty eyes of the thing in the mirror, and realise I traded my soul and my children's world to make a small profit off slop.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

This is the neighborhood I grew up in. Please help keep our neighbors in their homes.

It blows my mind that the Democrats can't unify behind "let's not have a gestapo."

Giving somebody anonymity in a FEATURE WRITTEN ABOUT THEM is absolutely ridiculous unless they are like fleeing persecution. She doesn’t want to tell readers the truth, she doesn’t want to take responsibility for the ethical problems with what she’s doing, WHY are you promoting her?

I'm going to win.

They call it “persistent presence” and it’s a technique of war they have used in other parts of the world, notoriously in Somalia, which gives a new dimension to the cruelty of doing this to cities full of Somali refugees In some cases they’re literally using the same Black Hawks even

This was a complete surprise to me and I’m very honored to receive it.

“We’re running from seven in the morning to seven in the evening,” he said. “And even more. We still have some patrollers going out until like 11 or 12 at night.” ictnews.org/news/full-ci...

This was printed for *free* by Art Price Studio in Minneapolis. They are running a volunteer organization screen printing many pro Minnesota, anti ICE designs for free on any (preferably cotton blend) garment! 2-7 tomorrow- check out @artpricestudio on Instagram for more deets. (donations accepted)

Seriously, team! I don't know what this Status Coup News account is, but it's looking like a resistance engagement farming account right now in terms of lots of uncorrected misinfo.

You can very clearly see this is county sheriffs and others brutalizing demonstrators now.

Getting word and video from whipple that there are mass arrests happening by state police and sheriffs against peaceful protestors now.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

this is the hennepin county sheriff’s office deputies, not the minneapolis police. the whipple isn’t even minneapolis

"No amount of professionalism and care ... can make a mass deportation system not be harmful to people's health."

This is amazing but missing alt text, so I'll do a thread with detailed alt text for each of the three pictures.

My neighborhood school collectively fundraised over $100,000 to support our neighbors with rent and bills this last month. Now we need to do it all over again for March. PLEASE HELP! Every family we're working to keep housed & fed has elementary aged children. gofund.me/aac122499

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

A neighbor who's getting back on his feet had his car crashed into when Renee Good was murdered and he just got the vehicle back from the FBI after 4 weeks in evidence. Anyone want to match my $30 donation? www.gofundme.com/f/support-ph...

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

BREAKING: 4 students at the University of Minnesota are currently chained to Morrill Hall, demanding that their school end all cooperations with ICE and establish itself as a sanctuary campus.