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From earlier this week, reporting on what led up to this arrest at @documentedny.bsky.social:

hell yeah

Scoop: Ricardo Prado Vasquez, a man who was 'disappeared' by ICE, is on a hacked flight manifest for a March 15 flight to El Salvador. This means US govt may have a less detailed list of who it's deporting than a private airline: www.404media.co/man-disappea...

Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

it’s cold up in this muhfuh / chicagope up in this muhfuh

breathing deeply of the hopium that is zohran and the kid mero at dallas bbq

brainworms have never been up by this many points in geological HISTORY

dog what are we DOING

guy who thinks the Protect The Dolls shirts are about tariffs

ugh merry christmas to the mid edm producer mandem 😔

me every day this last week

someone told ChatGPT to replicate an image of The Rock without changing anything 100 times over

🦪 FUJIAN MENTIONED 🫖

NIOSH is the agency that sets standards and quality tests things like N95s, if you’ve ever heard of those

If you are a visual artist whose NEA grant was terminated today, I want to talk to you for ARTnews. You can contact me on Signal at karenkho.45. I can grant anonymity if necessary.

Checking out some interesting releases in the "Memory Stick" format on discogs 🔎 www.discogs.com/search/?form...

this campaign is so chock full of great ideas 🥺

loaning my copy of “a small place” by jamaica kincaid to a white man who didn’t give it back…that’s on me

If you're wondering why there's been so much insistence lately that COVID-19 was a lab leak, here's why: it is going to be an example for why all biomedical research & public health work should be defunded. No evidence supports a lab leak, but it's used to justify cutting NIH's budget by 40%.

genuinely what is it like to earn billions of dollars off of running the largest social networks in the world and still *obviously* have no basic understanding of what friendship is

NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social bloom.bg/43am95w

any news outlet that treats the HHS “review” on trans care like anything other than a politically motivated document is manipulating anti trans sentiment for clicks they aren’t even making the authors of their “review” public and it was ordered up by fiat, definitionally a political document

The White House has released its homebrewed pseudoscientific report on “best practices” for “treating” gender dysphoria in kids which is explicitly meant to replace the current WPATH guidance.

welcome to the revolution, thepointsguy dot com centrists

mario could do “für elise” but beethoven could never do “how do i breathe”

In 1938, Mexican American pecan shellers — many of them immigrant women and children — took a stand against American industry, demanding better pay. They fought back with a song, "No Nos Moverán," as producer Avery Thompson chronicles in this week's episode of The Hustle from @fi2w.org. 🎶

New Yorkers, do you want to know where the Mayoral candidates stand on increasing funding for our public libraries? Well, NYC Public Library Action Network has you covered: nycplan.org/candidates-s... - Keep checking this page for updates.

a warning not a manual

not surprising at all but it is very funny to have hard evidence that the people crowing about intellectual diversity and heterodoxy cooked their brains in a soup made by a guy who proudly admits he’s grooming right wing chuds lol

NEW: Police are using “tower dumps” to get data on any vehicle that connected to cell towers thanks to connected car features. But automaker & ISP policies dictate what cops can get w/o a warrant. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop. (no paywall bc FOIA) www.wired.com/story/police...

African workers labeling data and providing content moderation are the invisible backbone of AI development. They perform critical labor under challenging conditions, often for minimal pay, yet remain absent from our conversations about the AI value chain.

are the "clever and invigorating jokes" in the room with us right now

plopping down next to nancy on the plane in these

Autonomous. Competent. Connected.

To mark Independent Bookstore Day today, I wrote about the bookshop that changed my life and why indies are more important than ever. dansinker.com/posts/202…

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

lowkey less disturbed by the 9% than the 17% who DON’T KNOW? What other data points do you need???

prompt engineering is fun if you love the experience of delegating tasks to someone kind of incompetent and not very sharp

Amidst the despair of the moment, I’m opening up a summer cohort for the sf work/shop. Stories are one of our strongest weapons against the violence being directed at workers and work itself, and we need space for them to come into the light, now as ever: everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf