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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some of the key elements:

1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,
' President Trump, one of the named Defendants, is not included in this Order.
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as long as the Journalist has an objectively reasonable time to comply and an objectively
reasonable opportunity to report and observe;

b. Issuing a crowd dispersal order requiring any person to leave a public place
that they lawfully have a right to be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances as defined by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6,
2023), Sections III.F and XII.E;
С.
For purposes of this Order, a crowd dispersal order is a lawful command
given by a Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area when three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct that are likely to cause substantial harm in the immediate vicinity;
d. Using riot control weapons including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PIS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns,
Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs) - on members of the press, protesters, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others;

To facilitate the Defendants' identification of Journalists protected under
this Order, the following are examples of indicia of being a Journalist: visual identification as a member of the press, such as by carrying a professional press pass, badge or credentials; wearing distinctive clothing or patches that identify the wearer as a member of the press; or carrying professional gear such as professional photographic or videography
equipment. Other indicia of being a Journalist under this Order include that the person is standing off to the side of a protest, not engaging in chanting, sign holding, shouting slogans, or otherwise protesting, and documenting protest activities, although these are not
requirements. These indicia are illustrative, and a person need not exhibit every indicium
to be considered a Journalist under this Order. Defendants shall not be liable for unintentional violations of this Order in the case of an individual who does not wear a press pass, badge, or other official press credential, professional gear, or distinctive clothing that identifies the person as a member of the press.

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a
uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official
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duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence
will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when
wearing riot gear.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3h

Perry: "Are you aware that a federal judge found that ICE violated the First and Fourth Amendments rights of peaceful protestors at Broadview?"
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3h

Perry: Do you acknowledge that your depiction of what is happening at Broadview does not at all reflect what the Broadview Police and the Illinois State Police?
Hamilton: You must give great deference to the president
Perry: "What if he is relying on invalid evidence?"

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 47m

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1h

all very fun. mamdani up a whopping 60-25 among voters under 50, winning every borough except staten island, dominating among non-white voters, and still getting 1/3 of the jewish vote

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h

Of respondents, 41% say they're closest to Mamdani's view on Israel and Palestine, 26% say Cuomo.

Mamdani's strongest issue — by far — is housing. Other issues are pretty close.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1h

I suspect that as an empirical matter the right wing thing is false. I think they're amplifying whatever people will look at, and there are just as many people on the left as the right. they have 3 billion users

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

this turns on whether "interesting" means "good" or "like heroin"

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

well, what's scary is that by *their* metrics they're very, very good at it and getting better all the time

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

I am realizing the way I phrased this lets you read it as saying Sora is "pure algo" and "no friends involved" because the content is generated, but the claim in the excerpt is the exact opposite

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

It wasn’t until TikTok peeled off a huge amount of attention that Facebook finally realized that viewing itself as a social network was actually limiting its potential. If the goal was to monopolize user attention — the only scarce resource on the Internet — then artificially limiting what people saw to their social network was to fight with one hand tied behind your back; TikTok was taking share not just because of its format, but also because it wasn’t really a social network at all.

This is all interesting context for how OpenAI characterized Sora in their introductory post: it’s a social app.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

in the article's framing, tiktok is on the instagram side of the distinction in that the tiktoks you see are virtually all from people you don't know, and it was pressure from tiktok that moved instagram in the same direction

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

this is a bit out of left field, but I found Ben Thompson's piece a few days ago contrasting Sora and Instagram very interesting — the move to pure algo feed is a move a way from "social" social media because there are no actual friends involved
stratechery.com/2025/sora-ai...

Second, remember the creativity point above: one of the challenges of restricting Instagram content to just what your social network posted is that your social network may not post very many interesting things. That gap was initially filled by following influencers, but now Instagram simply goes out and finds what you are interested in without having to do anything. In Sora, however, your network is uniquely empowered to be creative, increasing the amount of interesting content in a network-mediated context (and, of course, Sora is also pulling from elsewhere as well to populate your feed).

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

this is a bit out of left field, but I found Ben Thompson's piece a few days ago contrasting Sora and Instagram very interesting — the move to pure algo feed is a move a way from "social" social media because there are no actual friends involved
stratechery.com/2025/sora-ai...

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

the constant feeling of needing to explain yourself and qualify and give background is also a consequence of context collapse. the sense that anyone in the world might read what you're saying so you can't assume anything about what they know or think

As a result, younger audiences believe this sort of engagement is how texts should work, and that texts written without this sort of visible scaffolding are engaged in hostile acts. Perfectly ordinary degrees of implication or purposeful misdirection produce confusion, and thus anger. Every argument must be stated as baldly as a recipe; every narrative must begin “Once upon a time”; every apparent hero must be simon-pure and every villain’s hat should be black. (I follow several online forums for Foundation, which now allows you to perfectly estimate my class, and many, many viewers are upset that they were led to believe a character had nice traits before he committed mass murder—how could the creators make them root for a bad guy?)

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

people talk about workers discussing the communist manifesto and the writings of lenin. etc

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

I sort of suspect that this sort of nonliteracy has long been widespread and what is most alarming people is its spread among students of relatively elite universities. but I would be very interested to read a historical counterargument to that

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3h

"The demise of literate culture has just left us with a form of nonliteracy, in which simple texts can be processed but elaborate ones may as well be written in Linear B."

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3h

Oh brother, Rand Paul reading from a Hell World article on the senate floor.

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 4h

Lmao

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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 5h

movies have given us so much technical information about water

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 5h

they all think good works are important even if not the basis of salvation

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 5h

this is now the HyperNormalisation thread

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 5h

we stan a woke pope whomst... simply affirms the most straightforward and obvious teachings of christ
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

75. The Church’s tradition of working for and with migrants continues, and today this service is expressed in initiatives such as refugee reception centers, border missions and the efforts of Caritas Internationalis and other institutions. Contemporary teaching clearly reaffirms this commitment. Pope Francis has recalled that the Church’s mission to migrants and refugees is even broader, insisting that “our response to the challenges posed by contemporary migration can be summed up in four verbs: welcome, protect, promote and integrate. Yet these verbs do not apply only to migrants and refugees. They describe the Church’s mission to all those living in the existential peripheries, who need to be welcomed, protected, promoted and integrated.” [65] He also said: “Every human being is a child of God! He or she bears the image of Christ! We ourselves need to see, and then to enable others to see, that migrants and refugees do not only represent a problem to be solved, but are brothers and sisters to be welcomed, respected and loved. They are an occasion that Providence gives us to help build a more just society, a more perfect democracy, a more united country, a more fraternal world and a more open and evangelical Christian community.” [66] The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 6h

this line about younger people is kinda bullshit. the age subgroups in the study were < 65, 65-75, and 75+, so the net benefit for the youngest group could be entirely due to people 50-65. only about 3% of the sample was under 45
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says. Instead the data show that, while the shot is most effective for older individuals and those with comorbidities, “it was also protective in those without risk factors,” she says. Additionally, Viswanathan says that the study design made the evidence “more compelling” because the authors included enough women and younger individuals, which made the results more balanced and provided a fuller picture of vaccine effectiveness for all cohorts. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this year’s COVID shots to adults aged 65 and older and those with underlying health conditions that increase risk of severe disease but decided that vaccination for healthy people older than the age of six months should be based on shared clinical decision-making.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 6h

what do you think about the age cohorts? only about 3% of the sample was under 45, but the grouping was < 65, and the error bar is much bigger for that group and almost reaches zero. seems hard to say the evidence is clear for people under 45