Finally skied around Pike Island to Bdote, been wanting to do that for years

Decided 2026 is my year of running Kubernetes at home. I will probably regret this

2026 I'm going back to basics. Physical media, calling people on the phone, buying drugs with cash. That kinda thing

I forgot I took these pics the other day before the snow. The river froze so clear it was a mirror

The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.

I'm leading a small grocery distro effort for a church near us tomorrow and now my survival anxiety brain is making it very difficult to think about anything other than YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING FOOD TO PEOPLE

Even the pirates are hyperscalers now

Got a cheapo toy drone for free and realized it has enough lift to carry my old action camera, but only if I take out the cam battery and power it from the drone. How much work will I put into this setup when it will all likely break almost immediately

Today I had to write Perl for the first time in 14 years

After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering. MN deserves the same action. www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...

Every month or so I get an email that looks like it's legit from PayPal (SPF/DKIM valid) but is clearly phishing to get me to call a scam support number. Unrelated to any actual charge. I forward each one to PP fraud team, no reply or fix for months. Does not inspire confidence in their security

Happy first night of Hanukkah 🔥 My gamble making a single 4lb batch of vegan gluten free latkes paid off and everyone loved them

Trying to explain to my dog that it's good to bark at feds but postal workers are actually OK

A thread of anti-ICE signs I saw in storefronts on my recent trip to Chicago 1/

Perusing Twin Cities local news, i think there’s a huge disconnect. There are schools shut down and going remote, neighborhoods that are ghost towns, because we have federal agents terrorizing the community. But it’s just a single story a day at best

It's fitting that Mubashir was held at Ft Snelling, where Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved, where 1658 Dakota were held in a concentration camp, and where scores of Nisei were interned to teach Japanese during WWII. Remember this when SCOTUS rules on birthright citizenship next year.

Processing ICE in Cedar Riverside, they really seemed like dipshits fumbling around with no plan. Creating gridlock before neighbors did so on purpose, getting in and out of their cars for no apparent reason, and halfassedly directing traffic into random parking lots. We are going to win

i don't think i've ever seen pepper spray on fresh snow before—what a wild, striking visualization of its impact

One more shot from the ICE activity in Cedar Riverside this afternoon. So fucking proud of everyone who showed up to document, yell, give the finger to feds, and care for our beloved immigrant neighbors. We keep us safe

ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood

I keep this near my desk and have referred to it a lot over the last year: How to Rest and Recover While You Fight for Social Change

Let's not give him too much credit, I don't think O'Hara is saying they will intervene in detentions. "Unlawful force" is a high bar, would he say anything ICE has done in mpls so far has warranted intervention if MPD could've?

Been feeling helpless that I'm out of town following Twin Cities ICE activity from afar this week. But at least I broke this on Bsky 24 hours before KARE11 did

Watch this video for remarkable bravery and wisdom from Christina Nguyen and Naomi Rathke, and sloppy journalism from @kare11.bsky.social which repeated uncritically ICE's claim to the numbers arrested and charges without seeking evidence of crimes or asking how many were U.S. citizens.

We encountered an ICE immigration enforcement action on Park Ave. in Minneapolis today. When my colleague Ben Hovland and I arrived there were only a couple observers, but there were dozens blowing whistles by the time ICE agents left without making an arrest. www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...

Sounds like ICE showed up at Hola Arepa tonight and staff successfully turned them away because they didn't have a warrant

This evening, a resident was kidnapped by agents with face coverings. They disguised themselves in masks and as Uber drivers. They even left kids abandoned inside a car in the freezing cold. 1/

There is so much wrong with American higher ed, but I hope folks can view it as a site of struggle rather than a "cooked" institution that should be abandoned. I am confident that the world that comes after we give up on the University system will be dramatically worse.

Did you know there was a communist packaged foods company based in Superior, Wisconsin in the early 20th century?

I'm not a big black friday shopper but I did get a big bowl of dumpling and rice cake soup for $2 off at the restaurant inside Joong Boo Korean Market in Chicago

These people want the radio but are too narcissistic to realize it

Typical Wisconsin rest stop vending machine: dill chips, summer sausage, six varieties of cheese curds

If you want to help catalog license plate reader locations near you in MN, get in touch and I can help you get started!

I just went on a bike ride verifying and entering locations of MPD and Hennepin County Sheriff ALPR cameras so DeFlock should be pretty accurate for Minneapolis now deflock.me/map#map=13/4...

The most important shift in my tech optimist-to-leftist trajectory was really wrapping my mind around the labor theory of value. It clarifies so much

Don't take this to mean Signal itself is compromised, the records came from a “sensitive source with excellent access.” Assume there's a mole in any big Signal group.

More great reporting on the proliferation of automated license plate readers. They are probably in your city, do you trust your local police with them? Do you know if the data is being shared with the feds? apnews.com/article/immi...

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I want to remember Ra’Lasia Wright, an AfroLatine trans woman who was murdered in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood on December 1, 2024. Her murder has not been solved; only two local politicians made a statement.

Signal rolled out a built-in poll feature before Discord or Slack, lol signal.org/blog/polls/

Per MIRAC trained observers are on site and MORE OBSERVERS REQUESTED. Go if you can:

Proud to announce I won a drawing for a dairy and meat showroom gift bag, I was nominated for my contributions as UMN research staff. This is as close as I'll get to winning a meat raffle

I want to ban cars as much as anyone and am hesitant to give up tools to hold drivers accountable, but I have been learning about the prevalence of automated license plate reader cameras and the cops can't be trusted with this shit deflock.me

Nothing but respect for the artists but this is lipstick on a pig. MNDOT has recommitted to keeping Hiawatha a highway that splits up south Mpls for the next generation. It's all I can think of every time I cross it

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

That's my future senator

In keeping with the theme of the University of Minnesota walking out of negotiations: yesterday the graduate labor union at the U filed a petition with the state to finally get the University to follow the law. Explainer below, tl;dr press release here: umnglu.org/wp-content/u...

NEW RESOURCE: For months, ICE has engaged in an arbitrary campaign of warrantless stops and arrests in Chicago. Need security advice for activists under a significant threat landscape shift? Don't worry, we @lucyparsonslabs.com got you. PDF: goldframes.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/LPL_ICEinvas...

Or one better: Craig from Craigslist gives away $40M a year thru his foundation and his social media presence is mostly boosting teachers' school supply fundraisers

Raising money for an app just for talking about bluesky meta

Already beginning to doubt Monarca's strategy of a single metro-wide zone for texting ICE rapid response alerts