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This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

I don’t think LLMs are going anywhere but OpenAI sure might unlike Google they don’t have the backstop of the endless ad money spigot and I’d bet a lot more on Anthropic finding a path to profitability than these guys probably a reason they were so eager to jump on the military opening

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

asmr soft-spoken personal attention roleplay: george w bush tells you about gog and magog and other biblical prophecies being fulfilled in the middle east

did your congress persons vote to fund this?

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

I think the current state of affairs is bad, tbh

imo they don’t get enough sleep or enough to just exist, unscheduled www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

[The most medically illiterate person you've ever met]: "there are 2 genders..."

this is exactly what I'm talking about: it was a somewhat complex question about specifics regarding a long document in a language that I'm not fluent in that it quickly answered. if you're still "heh, ctrl-f", you're becoming one of those IJA soldiers in the jungle who doesn't know the war is over.

Yeah this is exactly the thing. Increasingly you are telling people to not believe their lying eyes when you tell them LLMs are useless. Their actual lives will directly contradict this. They will likely discount most other unrelated things you say as a result. This can’t become a left/lib dogma.

I had to figure out something related to my health insurance yesterday. I had a 60ish page document written in a language I can’t read well. I dropped the pdf in Claude, asked it a specific question, and it looked up the relevant info, searched the web and found someone in network nearby.

good thread. the LLMs are useful, incredibly so in some cases. denying that undermines any other argument one might make

“…Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge and US air defenses will not be able to intercept them all…The drones, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine acknowledged, are posing a bigger problem than anticipated”

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Ukraine's F-16 fighter jets didn't have enough missiles to shoot down Russian drones and missiles for more than three weeks after supplies from Kyiv's partners dried up just as Moscow was preparing a massive winter air campaign, three sources said.

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters

I solved the Tuesday 3/03/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 21:19! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

RACE CALL: All three North Carolina Democrats (Shelly Willingham, Nasif Majeed, & Carla Cunningham) who voted to overturn Governor Josh Stein's vetoes have LOST their respective Democratic primaries

Also worth noting: The bills vetoed by Gov. Stein were anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ. He did the right thing. These three did not. Cunningham, in particular, had this to say: "All cultures are not equal. Some immigrants come and believe they can function in isolation, refusing to adapt." Mmmkay 😳

RESULT: Over & over, Democratic lawmaker Shelly Willingham helped the North Carolina GOP override the vetoes of Governor Stein & Cooper. He lost just now to a progressive challenger, 56% to 44%. (And he's likely one of several in this position. Stay tuned.)

JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*. Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be. Our full recap:

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal." She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%! Context:

a good spin off would be kira nerys, miles o’brien and julian bashir setting out to destroy section 31 for setting in motion the chain of events leading to Odo having to leave Nerys forever

see also SCOTUS justice

Fun to think about the decisions we’re locking in now

I can tell you from experience, for instance, that the most banal right-wing geopolitical takes are treated with an automatic 'seriousness' that, for instance, gender analysis of geopolitics is not granted.

The Department of War regretfully informs you your husband has died lethalitymaxxing in Operation Epic Furry

(AXIOS) - No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Minnesota would like a word.

good morning Connections Puzzle #995 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

various entries in the star trek franchise involve tempting characters to remain in some form of false timeline where they have families/progeny. man do those hit different ~ and harder ~ at 53

forgot i still haven’t watched the TNG movies. gonna watch at least the first two of those before starting voyager. i’m on Generations rn and someone important just died in the opening scene??!

i liked ds9 the least of the three series i’ve watched so far (tos, tng and ds9). i did appreciate that it was darker and more complex. have a feeling i’m going to like Voyager a lot. i’ve seen a couple episodes and like the vibe

so i’m done with ds9. Voyager is next, yes?

The War Powers Resolution needs a complete overhaul because it's obviously failed, but at the end of the day, there's no procedural trick around having a Congress that's willing to stand back and watch a president flagrantly break the law and the Constitution and do absolutely nothing about it.

we have to elect better people to congress. that’s the only thing that can protect us

Iran's use of its threshold status (just short of a nuclear weapon) as a virtual deterrent has comprehensively failed. States without a reliable nuclear ally will be more apt to see the development of a nuclear capability as a binary delusion: go for nukes or don't.