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data processor. recovering mathematician. lazy anarchist. tech mercenary. parent. immigrant. child of the corn. unpronounceable. toronto rodent. seeking puzzlement. nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy. https://infrahumano.github.io/exterior
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Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

ABC News can’t fire California Gov. Gavin Newsom for telling the truth about Stephen Miller.

I hate the "the protests are small! they're overreacting!" framing! even if the protests were as big or bigger than they were in 2020, it still wouldn't justify the occupation of a city by troops!!!

Thousands gathered in Federal Plaza right now in Chicago saying STOP THE RAIDS, ABOLISH ICE.

Same. Mostly worried now that the United States is going to visit me.

there’s basically zero chance we make it to 2028 without a member of the US military injuring or killing a civilian in an official capacity now, huh

oh my God a New York Times editor had to resign 5 years ago over publishing an op ed by Tom Cotton calling for the military to shut down George Floyd protests now Wall Street Journal is letting him do the same shit separately, "Tom Cotton" sounds like the final boss in a video game about slavery

Very proudly a third world immigrant.

Noticing “third world” turning up all over the place in racist WH messaging. Not just ‘lawlessness’ in LA but ‘third world lawlessness’

NEW: We investigated several stories of people who spiraled into severe, life-altering mental health crises after developing all-consuming obsessions with ChatGPT. Screenshots we reviewed show the AI directly engaging with and supporting user delusions + conspiracies. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

absolutely brutal reporting from @jackhauen.bsky.social about the collapse in ambition of GO rail expansion happening under this government www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

These bees seem to enjoy sleeping on this particular grass. Sleeping by hanging on with your mouth doesn't seem comfortable, but whatever

Oh wow, the City is proposing to fill in a chunk of the lake beside the Leslie Street Spit - for both practical municipal utilities, and to expand the park. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Stancil is clearly in the right here

Ahoy! Do I know any muralists in Toronto/GTA? Friend of mine with a real big boy job is looking for someone local.

thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

Yesterday, Bike Share reached a record 36,000 trips! In addition the 14-day average is about 20% higher than this time last year. The popularity of the system is exploding, and our governments need to support a safe and connected cycling network.

www.wnep.com/article/news...

It is not even 80-20.

¡Me llegó un regalo de @acevedofiore.bsky.social!

What is happening right now? ChatGPT/OpenAI outage for 3 hours Heroku down for 4 hours (even their status page is down!) NVIDIA dev docs as well (runs on Heroku) Pipedrive (CRM) issues for 4 hours What else is down… and are these connected? Something started 4 hours ago…

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-d...

I've been experimenting with AI-proof assignments for a long time. Last semester, that meant Soviet video games and sci-fi short stories --and it worked pretty well. My latest Substack essay below. "Teaching in the Age of AI: How I avoided a shitty semester" hegemon.substack.com/p/teaching-i...

Quality of data has been rapidly deteriorating since January.

Yesterday I noticed that Netflix subtitles were writing “a Lyft” where the character was just saying “a lift”. Unintended advertising, I guess.

"There does not seem to be a limiting principle on Trump’s mobilization of the guard, morally, practically, or legally...First Trump normalized the use of masked, unidentified secret police. Now he has normalized the mobilization of the military against civilians." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-most-d...

An extended excerpt from Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics, regarding abstraction in the function concept. www.infinitelymore.xyz/p/abstractio... #InfinitelyMore #PhilMaths

i dont want to reach a wide audience i want to talk to my friends.

This is what they voted for.

One of the most exciting projects underway in Toronto right now. Cycling the Weston Loop this morning … part of “The Loop” that will soon be a 72 km continuous circular trail connecting Toronto's ravines, hydro corridors and waterfront.

I think about this at least twice a week

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.

This is it.

هر سخن کز دل برآید لاجرم بر دل نشیند

Universal Language is its own very special thing.

Summer fashion has arrived.

Georges Perec va escriure una novel·la on tot passa en el moment de la mort del personatge principal, Percival Bartlebooth, el 23 de juny de 1975, una mica abans de les vuit del vespre. Perec deia que li va venir la idea mirant una imatge de Saul Steinberg a «The Art of Living»

I’m just going to get this out now, since I know it’s coming, and I can just link to it. DO NOT FETISHIZE NON-VIOLENCE. It is a PRACTICE and a DISCIPLINE. The people who employed it successfully trained RIGOROUSLY. It’s not just a decision, because it goes against basic human instincts. 1/x

BREAKING ABC News has suspended Terry Moran for this now deleted tweet. This morning the White House Press Secretary said she asked ABC News for accountability. A reminder that ABC and George Stephanoupolus paid a multi-million dollar settlement to Trump.