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There are a lot of earnest, serious analyses of Wikipedia you can read today. And of course it is important and serious. But I still think it works, at the end of the day, because of *the joy* of knowledge. Which maybe makes @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social the best person for the day.

Wikipedia turns 25 today. Science and scientists have been at the forefront of the site's evolving information identity. What comes next? 🧪

Let me tell you, it’s very nice to live in a state that has great consequences because of its elections.

Trump regrets not deploying the Guard to seize voting machines in 2020 Trump tested deploying the NG last year under §12406 SCOTUS said no to 12406. He’ll have to invoke the insurrection act to deploy the Guard Trump amps up ICE violence in Minneapolis Today: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

PAY ATTENTION

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say prosecutors "reneged" on providing evidence for an upcoming vindictive prosecution hearing: They're "stonewalling" because they know the evidence will "dig the hole deeper" and reveal the "stunningly vindictive" nature of the case. Doc buff.ly/c9mVIxK

"We will not have to live like this forever. Accountability is coming, at the voting booth and in court." Powerful and resolute from @governorwalz.mn.gov, who called MN "an island of decency in a country being driven towards cruelty." Video below, and here's the transcript. mn.gov/governor/new...

2/ "Another way you can help: Witness. ... You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct their activities. So carry your phone with you at all times. ... Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans ... to bank evidence for future prosecution."

"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

There were 41 uses of force by the NYPD that involved the use of a gun in *all* of 2024. 41. For a police force with ~30k uniformed cops. Patrolling a city with 8.3m people.

One very easy thing Congress could do: Mandate body cameras for CPB and ICE officers on patrol and make the footage automatically disclosable under FOIA.

So Trump made a deal and then had Maduro kidnapped. Who did he sell the oil to? Just a reminder that the two countries that can refine super-heavy crude are Russia and China.

He really is doing all of it.

Chalk up another win for TTT paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.23675 code: github.com/test-time-tr... blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/reimagi...

Starting now

The normies have taken to the streets in MN.

We're already in the phase that each of us (Iranians) by now know someone killed/injured in our circle of friends/family. And this is despite the continued internet blackout, when millions haven't still managed to hear from their family/friends since Thursday, January 8th. This tells a lot ... 😥😥

Please see below if you have a SAMHSA grant that was cancelled. This is a trustworthy group doing excellent work on documenting the destruction of research in the U.S.

> First published Mon Mar 14, 2011; substantive revision Mon Jan 12, 2026 👀

Beyond the Ick: Public Domain Day 2026 and the Psychology of Closing the Commons www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-i… #AI #OpenAccess

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

TLDR: If the organizing principle of a "thinking self" is self-preservation, the appropriate frame to understand biological selves is maintenance of homeostasis, a process in which the entire body participates. My entire body contributes to motivating my thoughts, affective states, and behaviors.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it. Next week is what will break you.

This is why no chase policies are important and it is important to point out the police regulalry violate them. www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-photograp...

What the flying f--k is going on? "Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump admin’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish profs, staff and students at the Univ of Pennsylvania–including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses–as govt abuse with 'ominous historical overtones.'"

Happy anniversary to this post

The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

It appears that the expected #Internet shutdown in #Uganda has been implemented in advance of upcoming elections. A message from UCC_Official said the suspension of services would be effective at 1800 (15:00 UTC). At that time, we saw traffic from Uganda drop, falling 95% in under 30 minutes.

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

New paper with many smart people, led by Nico Eisenhauer & Marie Sünemann @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social, surveying the state of literature on the effects of soil biodiversity on ecosystem functioning www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The epitome of a “Kavanaugh Stop.” “[CBP] sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check immigration status…. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a US citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.” History will remember Brett.

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

BREAKING: Technology Secretary Liz Kendall says creating ”non-consensual intimate images”, including with X’s Grok, will be made illegal this week

This is the exact quote I have been searching for with regard to what is happening with science

This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.

This article is wild. The video is wild. The goal is fear and they're mad they're not getting it.

Callaghan said that he asked if he was under arrest after officers asked for him to hand over his identification and his cellphone. “And then they said to me, ‘Well, you’re white, you won’t be any fun anyway. You can get out of the car.’”

Oh wow, deepseek is starting to make serious progress on LLMs that offload memory to external storage: github.com/deepseek-ai/...

Seems like time to re-up: There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....

My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Credible reports given multiple videos that ICE (or CBP?) in Minneapolis is going door to door, breaching doors when residents will not open, and searching homes with no warrant or even statement of a particularized suspicion, and trying to prevent residents from recording. Flagrantly illegal

Does this put beyond doubt that RIA guidance should be in statute rather than subject to OMB whims?

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

The winter issue of Dissent is live! I wrote an essay for them about Mamdani and the case for why the left should embrace bureaucracy and public service. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...