Matt Knight 𓀦
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'At a court hearing on December 15, 2025, we learned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has filed a motion to pretermit, seeking to terminate Heng Guan’s asylum application and deport him to Uganda, a country with close diplomatic and security ties to China.'
DHS Plans to Deport Heng Guan to Uganda — We Urgently Need Your Help
At a court hearing on December 15, 2025, we learned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has filed a motion to pretermit, seeking to terminate Heng Guan’s asylum application and deport him t...
www.change.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
'At a court hearing on December 15, 2025, we learned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has filed a motion to pretermit, seeking to terminate Heng Guan’s asylum application and deport him to Uganda, a country with close diplomatic and security ties to China.'
What's a film franchise you've never seen any part of and have no interest in doing so? For me: Avatar.
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What's a film franchise you've never seen any part of and have no interest in doing so? For me: Avatar.
"Good morning ☀️, here are the GenAI emails I will read and write for you today. I've also gone ahead and erased your hard drive so you can free yourself up for higher level creative tasks."
Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily "Your Day Ahead" briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Good morning ☀️, here are the GenAI emails I will read and write for you today. I've also gone ahead and erased your hard drive so you can free yourself up for higher level creative tasks."
the stories i write 5 minutes after graduating from HR's three-slide unconscious bias ppt
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
the stories i write 5 minutes after graduating from HR's three-slide unconscious bias ppt
counterpoint: 41,000 jobs created for broken chatbots that will tell children to kill themselves
When does all the winning start for the non-billionaires?
December 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
counterpoint: 41,000 jobs created for broken chatbots that will tell children to kill themselves
Year on year change in number of visits
apnews.com down 46%
nbcnews.com down 44%
washingtonpost.com down 38%
cnn.com down 36%
foxnews.com down 34%
dailymail.co.uk down 39%
reuters.com down 35%
independent.co.uk down 41%
apnews.com down 46%
nbcnews.com down 44%
washingtonpost.com down 38%
cnn.com down 36%
foxnews.com down 34%
dailymail.co.uk down 39%
reuters.com down 35%
independent.co.uk down 41%
Ten news websites saw their monthly visits decline by 40% or more in November compared to a year earlier, with visits to the Forbes website down by the most year on year: 57% to 51.7 million pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Top 50 news websites in the US in November: Ten newsbrands down by over 40% in a year
Press Gazette lists the top 50 biggest websites for news in the US. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data from Similarweb.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Year on year change in number of visits
apnews.com down 46%
nbcnews.com down 44%
washingtonpost.com down 38%
cnn.com down 36%
foxnews.com down 34%
dailymail.co.uk down 39%
reuters.com down 35%
independent.co.uk down 41%
apnews.com down 46%
nbcnews.com down 44%
washingtonpost.com down 38%
cnn.com down 36%
foxnews.com down 34%
dailymail.co.uk down 39%
reuters.com down 35%
independent.co.uk down 41%
'The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.'
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
'The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.'
It's Christmas.
Can't we just let oddly similar AI-generated nonexistent Black people call for peace with white people?
Can't we just let oddly similar AI-generated nonexistent Black people call for peace with white people?
In recent days, oddly similar AI-generated videos depicting nonexistent Black people accompanied by captions such as “dear white people” and “hit follow if you want peace” have proliferated on TikTok. Here's a look at the spam network posting the videos.
www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-gen...
www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-gen...
One AI-generated human race
None of these people exist, but that hasn’t stopped them from posting profusely on TikTok
www.conspirator0.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It's Christmas.
Can't we just let oddly similar AI-generated nonexistent Black people call for peace with white people?
Can't we just let oddly similar AI-generated nonexistent Black people call for peace with white people?
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Today attended a rally for Guan Heng outside the prison where he is held, in Binghamton, New York. We stood in the snow, and listened to a court hearing online via speaker from 830am. Thankfully the judge did NOT go along with any immediate deportation but instead
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December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today attended a rally for Guan Heng outside the prison where he is held, in Binghamton, New York. We stood in the snow, and listened to a court hearing online via speaker from 830am. Thankfully the judge did NOT go along with any immediate deportation but instead
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Cool so the BBC is doing an explicit "what if the Nazis are right" segment now
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Cool so the BBC is doing an explicit "what if the Nazis are right" segment now
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perfect encapsulation of the generational failure of media to grapple with the far right
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
perfect encapsulation of the generational failure of media to grapple with the far right
I'm failing to see the 'maze'
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm failing to see the 'maze'
We should not deny NHS patients the chance to win a free Palantir hoodie in exchange for their DNA 🇬🇧🇺🇸
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We should not deny NHS patients the chance to win a free Palantir hoodie in exchange for their DNA 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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European governments are voluntarily handing the keys of their vital IT systems in police, health care and intel to #Palantir, whose boss explicitly wants to end democracy. The Swiss seem to be the only ones who are paying attention when all the others have gone into snooze mode
Terrifying that Wes Streeting continues to try and pressurise hospitals into giving patient data to Palantir.
Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
European governments are voluntarily handing the keys of their vital IT systems in police, health care and intel to #Palantir, whose boss explicitly wants to end democracy. The Swiss seem to be the only ones who are paying attention when all the others have gone into snooze mode
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Guan Heng’s citizen journalist reporting helped confirm remote satelite documenting of the gulag in Xinjiang. It supported reports by Congress and UN. Guan Heng is a legal asylum seeker with a work card and a scheduled hearing. ICE is out of control.
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: Guan Heng’s Fate and American Values
Opinion | Guan Heng’s Fate and American Values
The U.S. may deport the man who helped expose the Chinese Communist horrors in Xinjiang.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Guan Heng’s citizen journalist reporting helped confirm remote satelite documenting of the gulag in Xinjiang. It supported reports by Congress and UN. Guan Heng is a legal asylum seeker with a work card and a scheduled hearing. ICE is out of control.
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This never was a “national security trial”. It was a regime security kangaroo court. It’s purely about political control.
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court.
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This never was a “national security trial”. It was a regime security kangaroo court. It’s purely about political control.
Reposted by Matt Knight 𓀦
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court.
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: Guan Heng’s Fate and American Values
Opinion | Guan Heng’s Fate and American Values
The U.S. may deport the man who helped expose the Chinese Communist horrors in Xinjiang.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: Guan Heng’s Fate and American Values
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And this new signature campaign:
Free Heng Guan and End ICE’s Illegal Detention of Asylum Seekers c.org/zyrRKT7f5c
Free Heng Guan and End ICE’s Illegal Detention of Asylum Seekers c.org/zyrRKT7f5c
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Free Heng Guan and End ICE’s Illegal Detention of Asylum Seekers
c.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And this new signature campaign:
Free Heng Guan and End ICE’s Illegal Detention of Asylum Seekers c.org/zyrRKT7f5c
Free Heng Guan and End ICE’s Illegal Detention of Asylum Seekers c.org/zyrRKT7f5c
People on Bluesky acting like this is bad/scary while hiding the fact you get a free Palantir hoodie out of it
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
People on Bluesky acting like this is bad/scary while hiding the fact you get a free Palantir hoodie out of it
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"I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer."
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer."
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Indeed. I just hate that we’re in a timeline in which support and empathy for marginalised groups is deemed extreme while hatred and disdain for those same groups garners support and air time on political/news programmes
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Indeed. I just hate that we’re in a timeline in which support and empathy for marginalised groups is deemed extreme while hatred and disdain for those same groups garners support and air time on political/news programmes
'McLennan said he decided to enter politics due to the "sheer unfairness and intolerance" towards landlords'
inspiring...
inspiring...
Reform wins first by-election in Scotland
David McLennan has been elected as a councillor in West Lothian, taking the seat from Scottish Labour.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
'McLennan said he decided to enter politics due to the "sheer unfairness and intolerance" towards landlords'
inspiring...
inspiring...
"AI will free workers up to do more creative tasks"
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"AI will free workers up to do more creative tasks"
me when im in a good space cognitively
"You’ll have one woke state and you’ll have to do all woke...You’ll have a couple of wokesters and you don’t wanna do that. You wanna get the AI done.” — The President of the United States of America 🦅🇺🇸
Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI
Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
me when im in a good space cognitively