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A thing to keep in mind as we work through this is that there is no need to debate the legitimacy of violent/nonviolent resistance tactics if in fact it is very clear that this particular resistance is nonviolent in any reasonable construction of the term. It just gives the fascists talking points.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

When Huerta says “We are a power” He means the farmworker, the janitor, the nurse, the home care provider. The workers. And he’s right. You can’t detain a movement. #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll

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The nearly 15 million working people of the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions demand the immediate release of @californialabor.bsky.social Vice President and @seiuca.bsky.social and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta. aflcio.org/press/releas...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

Firefox switching to Github and then forcing AI buttons on me two weeks later is quite an ill portent. Maybe we're past portent at this point. Nonetheless

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Essential, definitive and wise. This is the report for us to start from.

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NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people

submitted 5 days ago • 105 comments

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

submitted 6 days ago • 2226 comments

Google may be pulling out of Pride but Wikimedia is still interested in hosting an archive of human knowledge where queer people's existence is recorded, with our participation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

my favorite parts of being a writer are procrastinating and self-loathing

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

The genuine problem at the core of dweeb-based analysis of vc capitalism / politics goons, clowns, bastards, and supervillains is a tradeoff between the violence of markets & the violence of the social. The violent reactionary nerd as a type celebrates market violence as safety from everyday cruelty

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

My feelings about generative AI: 1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work 2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI 3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP 4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people

submitted 55 days ago • 29 comments

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

submitted 11 days ago • 1119 comments

New from 404 Media: ICE is tapping into a nationwide AI camera network, data we got shows. Flock's automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in thousands of communities. Data shows "ICE", "immigration" as reasons for use. Local cops doing lookups for ICE, no warrant www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there

submitted 14 days ago • 325 comments

This blue Bay Area county insists it has 'zero contact' with ICE. But it gets $$ for sharing its info with federal immigration authorities. It's all part of a little-known data-sharing program that exists around the country & only some places have quit. really critical new reporting:

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

One of the things that scares me most in the world is the structural resemblances and direct influence from supremacist ideologies in Israel to how Hindutva metabolizes trauma into violence and ultra nationalism. India has more than 100x as many people, and will centrally shape our shared future

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit. We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.

submitted 18 days ago • 584 comments

Alright i wanted to be sympathetic to the whole Abundance thing (make it about social capacity & prioritization rather than just deregulation!) but I can't take anyone who takes this seriously seriously. AI's for men in middle-management fed up with their wife & kids who dont know how computers work

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"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry. "The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces. "It's incontestable." 🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith #savemurujuga #auspol

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 20 days ago • 466 comments

How on earth is there still not a reprint of Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation?? It deeply belongs on many syllabi

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The idea that gofundme donations are the way to respond to a genocide is… well meaning but so deeply and dispiritingly disconnected from any actual analysis of what it would take to get food past blockade by a fascist state. Unless there’s layers to this I’m missing. Donate with a model of causation

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The strongest weapon US fascism / MAGA has is its command of Silicon Valley tech platforms, their role in war & surveillance, and their purported tech superiority. If you’re not considering how to resist their hold on the world & your life, you’re not against fascism. It’s that fucking simple.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Great article from the vestige of Indian Engl. media speaking independent truth. “War and terrorism are working in great sync. Self-referential loops of thought across the political spectrum sanctify the current cycle of terrorism and war which cannot imagine an outside” m.thewire.in/article/secu...

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Microsoft: we will take anyone to court who forces us to cancel our cloud services in Europe. Also Microsoft: You that ICC guy? Sorry, no more emails for you. apnews.com/article/icc-...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

🌍 Europe is facing an exceptionally dry spring in 2025: 37 out of 38 countries covered by the @EEA have been hit by drought. To help track this growing threat, we’ve launched a new interactive drought map 🗺️— updated monthly & based on near real-time data: water.europa.eu/freshwater/e...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Republicans slipped into a reconciliation bill a provision that would nullify all state-level AI laws and ban any new ones for the next decade. Consumer advocates and Democrats are furious. The bill will be marked up today. My newsletter: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

Peter Kropotkin telling a story about a crab he saw at the aquarium one time.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

submitted 28 days ago • 65 comments