Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

agur donosti 🪽🌬️

our latest AI has passed the turing test. it agrees with every premise i propose it, which is exactly how a human should act.

“Chalma, Mexico,” a photograph by Graciela Iturbide, whose work is on view at ICP through January 12, 2026. Her monograph, Graciela Iturbide, was published by Editorial RM and Fundación MAPFRE last fall © The artist. Courtesy D.A.P. buff.ly/IZbbNOC

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

ocma.art/exhibitions/... Jan 30-May 24, 2026

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

"Amidst all this bullshit, Anderson has long been a beacon of light for readers looking for astute judgment." Conor Williams profiles film critic Melissa Anderson, and talks to her about her new anthology of columns. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/so-many-things-have-vanished/

Fui a conocer a una escritora española de 60+años cuyos libros descubrí por pura casualidad y quiero traducir. Es de las personas más dedicadas e inteligentes que he conocido últimamente. Luego me envió algunos de sus textos inéditos—me llenaron de inspiración. Algo positivo para empezar el 2026 ✨

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

“Lotería de preservación audiovisual” (con dibujos de la gran cineasta y artista mexicana Azucena Losana) communityarchiving.org/loteria/ 🎞️🎙️🎥🃏✨

anyone can release a book of poetry, they can't stop you, poets have no regulating body

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Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

@anagramaeditor.bsky.social 🚀

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (J0405-3648). RGB Filters: 1800, 1130, 770 PI: Berg, Danielle, program 07041. CRVAL: 61.355811, -36.835101 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

I wrote about glasses ads on BART and tech surveillance paranoia, but didn't use a single "through a ... darkly" pun, please clap: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/surveilling-...

The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."

amazing stuff apnews.com/article/warn...

Some thoughts on filmmaking from Robert Bresson’s “Notes on Cinematography” (1975) pdf: davenold.net/wp-content/u...

Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...

leila and the wolves

Nearly 80% of early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt

They call it the american dream because the president is asleep in all the meetings

Almost half of the people being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Northern California have no criminal record, recent data shows. That data also reveals that ICE arrests across Northern California have more than tripled this year. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-i...

Harto de aceptar cookies, harto. Como diez años en esta majadería.🙃

"Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government, influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor." Stare into the abyss/read this article:

"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."

My brother and I have been taking care of my father with dementia for 2 years (mom passed 4 years ago) and so much about this article hits home. The US is completely unprepared to support its aging population, or to lessen the psychological and financial burdens of those caring for them.

¿No vale un hombre, cualquier hombre, más que una bandera, que cualquier bandera? - notas y formas del escultor vasco Eduardo Chillida

notes and forms of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida

Films contain many images

Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)

The Harper's letter signature labeller is clutch. Contextualizes posts in a way I find useful.

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.

"Mustafa served alongside the United States military in Afghanistan. Like so many other Afghans who helped American forces, he later came to the US for its promise of refuge. When I met him recently, though, he had only just left an ICE detention center after months behind bars."

Bilbao📍

just got to see a screening of Czech animated short films and it was soo good

The numbers are in: new foreign student enrollment dropped by 17 percent this year. 60+ former sr State Dept officials and ambassadors (both D& R) explain why this is bad for America & Americans: drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...

Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August lataco.com/everyone-kid...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

"The US Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, AP has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested."

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