Mill City Market this morning had a vendor doing very brisk business taking donations for anti-ICE signs, and several immigrant vendors were selling their usual wares (this Ecuadoran chocolate I'm eating right now is fabulous). Minneapolis carries on.

More inhumanity. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Northfield MN, pop. 20,000, on a chilly afternoon (-12 F with a little bit of wind). About 350 bundled up to march, plus a lot of cars and trucks beeping support (including some delightfully profane truck decorations--hands were too numb to get that picture, sadly).

The Powderhorn Park neighborhood has been the biggest target of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. It’s home to a large immigrant community who is now struggling to pay rent. Kidnappings are on the rise because people cannot stay home. Please help us out. Link is in my bio. gofund.me/350c67697

Flying around downtown Minneapolis and the Vikings stadium for the last two hours is a small plane trailing a banner: “Rick Scott. Hate socialism? Us too! Move to FL” #republican-wtf

#NoKings Minneapolis. I couldn’t get high ground for a photo, but it was many thousands of people who love America packed into a dozen city blocks. Great atmosphere, great speeches, great organization.

I get why Walz encouraged cancellation of the protests in Minnesota. But I was proud to join about 1000 neighbors in Northfield, MN (pop. 15000 when the students are gone for the summer). Some Trump trucks drove by and revved, but we mostly ignored them. (A few birds were flipped...)

I'm looking for interesting gen-AI applications. I'm interested in hilarious failures and mind-blowing successes (if any) and anything between. Just trying to get my head around the state of things, and the hype is making it really hard to separate real stuff from bullshit.

Big thanks to my friend @naomikritzer.bsky.social. Every election season, you help keep me from freaking out (well, mostly anyway). Hang in there, everyone.