CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

South Korea: #NoKings! Thousands of people came to show support to the US democracy!

Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Idle prediction: We see crafts like knitting, model airplanes, etc. become more popular because you can't ask Chat GPT to make you a sweater or glue together a P-51 yet and therefore they become more impressive feats relative to other hobbies you can "outsource."

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

​I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

There was clearly no physical threat. He just didn’t like what she had to say.

Some have argued that traffic cameras are a regressive tax on low-income people. While I agree that fines could be somewhat commensurate with income, maybe people of any income could just stop driving 15 mph above the speed limit?

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)

📸 Highlights from an exciting Day 1 at hashtag#UIST2025 🚀 Vision Talks 👩‍💻 Women's First Panel 🥗 Out in HCI Lunch 🔬 Demos

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

If you use any of my How LLMs Work blog posts in your classes, could you please let me know. I'm applying for a thing 🙏. The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work medium.com/@mark-riedl/... A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype medium.com/@mark-riedl/...

Fascinating study. Note that this is 1 in 10 adults. Factor in children and the percentage of non-driving Americans is much higher. Cities and towns need to account for their mobility needs too.

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

OUR BATHROOM MIRRORS ARE VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Tireless Mercatus team @salimfurth.bsky.social @ebwhamilton.bsky.social @charlescgardner.bsky.social just dropped 18 (!) strategies for state govts to increase housing supply. Love the ideas to limit "lawsuits of questionable merit" [ahem, Virginia]. www.mercatus.org/research/pol...

“Technology is never culturally neutral.” #UWAllen professor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social had her own experience of “digital culture shock” early in her career, which inspired her future research direction and her new book from @princetonupress.bsky.social: www.washington.edu/news/2025/09... 1/2

GPT-5-codex just ``git reset --hard'' ongoing changes in a repo, saying "I panicked!" h/t Zeyu Shen @ Princeton

boston globe like “listen up headline writers, we are back to basics. BACK. TO. BASICS.”

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Voila. This is the way.

#Engineering #Professor #Students #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic #BlackSky #NoireSTEMinist

This was an academic research project funded by the NSF! 🥰

Hey, boss, do you think people will know what road this leads to, or should we get a bigger sign?

I've been thinking about this all day

solidarity to all the faculty sweating and hewing in the recommendation letter mines

President Trump -- who refused to call Gov. Tim Walz to express his condolences after the assassination of the Minnesota House Speaker because he thought it would only "waste time" -- says that Walz should've called *him* to ask that flags be lowered.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is wildly unusual for lower-court judges to so publicly express frustration with the Supreme Court’s *behavior* (versus, say, a confusing ruling in a specific case). But the number of *different* examples is completely unprecedented—and pretty powerful evidence that something is seriously wrong.

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

The ‘it’s not fascism’ thesis has been subdued by blunt force trauma

I'll say again: This matters. For months NYT has been pushing "Harvard is about to cave" line. That line is 100% in MAGA's interest. Every other institution will think, "If not even Harvard can stand up, how could we." Today, NYT: Oh, I guess it's a disagreement WITHIN THE TRUMP TEAM.

Online this morning, NYT update from "Harvard is about to cave" team. Today's update: Well, actually..... See headline below. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u... For context of this narrative, please see my piece yesterday fallows.substack.com/p/harvard-vs... (Full timeline before paywall.)

Huge turnout for first #BikeBus of the new school year. Unexpected forced detour down Cedar St (ugh) didn’t stop us!

We will not yield.

Hooray for Healey!! The problem in MA was that PCPs are too busy to give vaccines, but the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy forbade pharmacists from giving the shots w/o sign off by the CDC ACIP. So today, Gov. Healey "essentially wrote a... 1/5 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...

But under the surface !