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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1h

Not even bothering to hide it anymore

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 5h

Concept: a starship named the USS Final_final_REALLYFINAL_thisone

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3h

This is what they've done.

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 16h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 16h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2h

Trump Regime illegally fired the federal public servants who ensured the $15B that ED sends to school districts to serve 7.5M disabled kids every year actually gets spent on special ed

Anyone who has ever been in an IEP meeting can tell you what's about to happen

www.patreon.com/posts/141171...

Trump Regime Fires Special Ed Staff. | Matthew Cortland

www.patreon.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

this is less about "what alternatives are there" though sure I appreciate that UDM14 got me exactly what I needed in seconds. It's more that Google broke its signature product for incredibly short-sighted reasons.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

Google is now returning AI summaries even for searches that start with "-AI", this bubble cannot burst soon enough.

Send feedback to google: product design or functionality

Is it embarrasing to work at Google these days? I know that one upon a time google was the crown jewel of silicon valley, a part of the web so integral it became a verb. But every AI summary is so likely to be riddled with errors it detracts from my research. Now "-AI" doesn't prevent AI summaries. You're giving me the trash I'm asking specifically to not get. This is dogshit.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2h

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 12d

This is, perhaps (I'm about to make a claim I'm unqualified to make in order to make the interestingness of this stand out), one of the most important results of our current moment as a technological society. A simple, elegant proof that AGI is not an inevitability, but rather intractable.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 17

The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2h

«The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!» via @olivia.science via#2 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social - thank you

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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Shaun Griswold @shaun505.bsky.social · 2h

bees joining the frogs to protest ICE in Portland

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1h

“Plan rejected by MIT” is not exactly catnip to ambitious boards/presidents.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 2h

We now enter the most dangerous phase, but also the one with the greatest opportunity. The U.S. has thousands of colleges, some run by red state governments, so it's too much to hope that NONE sign up for this federal takeover.

But it matters WHO signs up. The administration is taking a risk.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 8h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

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meorge @meorge.bsky.social · 3h

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. What the OG frog guy said about pointing out the absurdity is so on point. They cannot create the narrative they want to when the "dangerous antifa" are all dressed like it's sesame street

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C E, a.k.a. Cletus @69cletus.bsky.social · 3h

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2h

It is imperative that the special education community — particularly the parents of disabled children — understand what's happening (an attack on the right to an education of disabled students) and who is doing it (the Trump Regime).

www.patreon.com/posts/141171...

Trump Regime Fires Special Ed Staff. | Matthew Cortland

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 3h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 2h

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 11h

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2h

If a foreign nation state inflicted the same amount of damage on this country that the Trump Regime is inflicting, the United States would respond with nuclear weapons.

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2h

Trump Regime illegally fired the federal public servants who ensured the $15B that ED sends to school districts to serve 7.5M disabled kids every year actually gets spent on special ed

Anyone who has ever been in an IEP meeting can tell you what's about to happen

www.patreon.com/posts/141171...

Trump Regime Fires Special Ed Staff. | Matthew Cortland

www.patreon.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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@Thadd1950.bsky.social @thadd1950.bsky.social · 23h

join an anti-Trump protest before protesting is illegal

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social · 2h

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

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