remember that LLMs do not “hallucinate.” They don’t make mistakes. Put this down in your notebook: ALGORITHMS DO NOT MAKE MISTAKES. Given their input, then (barring hardware failure) they generate *exactly* the output they are supposed to.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

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A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

With all crime solved, police in Lancaster turn their steely glare toward the criminal mastermind who is [checks notes] spray-painting dog poo pink like they’re some sort of faeces-driven Banksy.

Shabana Mahmood declared that her idol is Maggie Thatcher. Replicating her idol Mahmood works hard to make everyone’s life worse - immigration, state surveillance, appeal re: Palestine Action, etc. Turning back time, Mahmood would reject her parents from coming to the UK.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Economy doing poorly? tariffs. Economy doing well? Also tariffs. Supreme court said you can't do any more tariffs? Believe it or not, tariffs.

Trump illegally imposed billions in tariffs (taxes) on U.S. corporations. Much of those costs were passed onto consumers. The corporations might get their money back. You never will.

Hey yeah I have a clear answer- it’s because Alex Pretti was legally armed and they used it to justify his extrajudicial murder at the hands of the state. It did not allow him to defend himself against the state. Hope this helps!

A solid 5 on the Kinsey Scale and his inability to address it (because of the woke, or lack thereof) isn't an insignificant part of his problem.

If recent history has taught anything, it's that a plurality of Americans will embrace any sort of atrocity as long as they have cheap treats

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

A really wonderful, enlightening essay.

We live in an autocratic oligarchic hellhole. The Pentagon is basically saying that if Anthropic doesn't drop its demands over restricting the use of AI in autonomous drone targeting and surveillance of Americans, it will essentially destroy the company.

This Ars Technica debacle is depressing. AI is degrading the internet faster than you can imagine.

I imagine those Missouri officials thought that was a feature, not a bug.

Right now @404media.co has more comprehensive coverage of the @arstechnica.com "AI" article debacle than Ars Technica does themselves.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Fun fact: when I run DEI workshops about trans stuff (it happens occasionally) one of my strategies is to start by getting people to talk about cyclists and their experiences. This usually works to build empathy, but occasionally it turns out that people actually hate cyclists more than trans people

Yes, @booker.senate.gov, I think we all miss the decency of a man who knowingly lied to take us to war and then paid people to shove broomsticks up detainees asses in secret prisons. What the fuck is the matter with you?

This sounds exactly like lawmakers saying they’re not banning abortion, they’re just requiring a 48-hour waiting period and two trips to the clinic

Honestly, besides Stephen Miller, is there *anyone* in the Trump admin you'd be less surprised to find dissolving bodies in acid? (okay, maybe Kennedy, too)

sir jim conflates immigrants and people on benefits, when every new arrival by default has no access to public funds. and it's just repeated with no challenge whatsoever. great work, @edconway.bsky.social

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

That's nothing new. Police are the #1 expense literally of every city in America. They collect a salary but they're not exempt from overtime. So they sit in cars doing nothing until someone calls on the radio to come stand around doing nothing together. Then they privately work off the clock.

It turns out that the only thing standing between us and a version of the pentagon that closes airspace to shoot down party balloons were those diversity trainings at work

These United States of North Korea.

I know I’ve been getting some attacks on this, but there’s nothing progressive about strict immigration controls. Yes, some on the left have pushed for them over the years - hence Lexit - but that wasn’t progressive. ‘Workers of the world unite’ isn’t ’workers of England unite’.

This kind of chaotic, immoral, nonsensical, economically damaging shitshow is what happens when a Labour government attempts to follow the ideology of the far right.

A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is absolutely hilarious from #PMQs today. Ayoub Khan MP says rubbish is "building right beneath my very nose" as he looks down at the Reform MPs sitting below him "It's becoming a serious problem in Birmingham"

“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

today no less than yesterday is a great day to make a habit of adding alt text to your images. you can even adjust your account settings to make sure you do it.

Convinced the underlying theory of math education is flawed just because of how many people have bad, almost-traumatic experiences around it. So many lesson structures: • Abstract example of principle • [Optional often-omitted clean example of principle] • Principle with EXTRANEOUS SH_T tacked on

The year is 2045. Nurse is the only job left. It has been hastily retconned to a male coded job and every nurse now wears tactical combat gear and has a gun.

Nigel Farage thinks Britain isn't productive because nobody goes into the office anymore. Which will come as a blow to one particular MP ... called Nigel Farage.

why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this

This whole incident is a damning indictment of Europe's (including the UK) attitude to migrants.

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government. www.ft.com/content/13d2...

This one feels like an empty threat that's supposed to get into your head. Don't let your brain do propaganda for Trump's goobers, they don't have the horses to do this.

"Nothing human is alien to me," wrong! Every day I read a new headline about human acts that are completely alien to me. I can't imagine being a millionaire sex trafficker. I can't imagine joining ICE. How am I in the same species as these people?

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

On how community breweries and bars in the Twin Cities are helping in the fight against Trump's illegal occupation. Shout out to Bauhaus Brew Labs Arbeiter Brewing Black Hart of Saint Paul pub Keep supporting them (if you safely can) by buying their beer.

Spent a not-insignificant amount of time last weekend reading through the receiver's affidavit on Uncle Nearest, took a while because I kept cracking up. This case is a mess and continues to be an absolute gift for anyone curious to see under the hood of one of the hottest brands of the past decade.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

"Soccer" sounds like it should be pronounced in a Bertie Wooster accent because once you realise that it originated among Oxford students to distinguish the association game from "Rugger" (both being subsets of "Footer") it's impossible not to. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_...

You can really see why they fought so hard against Me Too, they're all implicated either in deed or silence and it's hugely fucking embarrassing for the Masters of the Universe

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.