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Proud @nytguildtech member, Broadway Goblincore Banjo Folk Punk fan, according to Spotify. Trying to be a good ancestor. katieishibashi.nyc she/her
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Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
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Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:
The 2026 Elections: Resisting the Rigging - The American Prospect
As Trump becomes more desperate, citizen resistance only grows.
prospect.org
February 17, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:
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It's at over a million in the 2 hours since I skeeted this.
Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
It's at over a million in the 2 hours since I skeeted this.
One time in high school I watched a video where an actor playing Andrew Carnegie paid a bunch of idiot "scientists" to talk to him about his superiority. This was presented as an example of folly.
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
pretty stunning chart
February 17, 2026 at 2:04 AM
One time in high school I watched a video where an actor playing Andrew Carnegie paid a bunch of idiot "scientists" to talk to him about his superiority. This was presented as an example of folly.
I know this is a joke but I can't get my blood pressure down
can't decide whether to indent your code by 2 spaces or 4 spaces? why not split the difference and try 3
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I know this is a joke but I can't get my blood pressure down
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”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
February 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
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Their "more efficient" process than having writers write:
• AI identifies possible stories
• Reporters do further reporting and produce notes
• Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks"
• Another person fact-checks/edits
• Reporter reviews
• AI identifies possible stories
• Reporters do further reporting and produce notes
• Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks"
• Another person fact-checks/edits
• Reporter reviews
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Their "more efficient" process than having writers write:
• AI identifies possible stories
• Reporters do further reporting and produce notes
• Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks"
• Another person fact-checks/edits
• Reporter reviews
• AI identifies possible stories
• Reporters do further reporting and produce notes
• Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks"
• Another person fact-checks/edits
• Reporter reviews
An account I will not mention accused me of racism for preferring Meixcan food to Irish food, and as a proud member of the Irish diaspora: Mexican food is fucking amazing and I regret nothing.
February 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
An account I will not mention accused me of racism for preferring Meixcan food to Irish food, and as a proud member of the Irish diaspora: Mexican food is fucking amazing and I regret nothing.
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a lot of ppl in the USA would’ve said this exact thing less than a decade ago, and a lot of ppl who live in countries with large far-right political movements rapidly gaining ground (often helped by the same tech billionaire players as here) seem too busy looking askance at the States to notice
It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.
February 15, 2026 at 11:11 PM
a lot of ppl in the USA would’ve said this exact thing less than a decade ago, and a lot of ppl who live in countries with large far-right political movements rapidly gaining ground (often helped by the same tech billionaire players as here) seem too busy looking askance at the States to notice
Wandering around Uniqlo telling myself I do not need new pants
February 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Wandering around Uniqlo telling myself I do not need new pants
I worked on a project where the AI would regularly hallucinate ad performance that was 20% better than baseline, because that's the sort of good-but-plausible number people believe. It's biased towards telling people what they want to hear.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I worked on a project where the AI would regularly hallucinate ad performance that was 20% better than baseline, because that's the sort of good-but-plausible number people believe. It's biased towards telling people what they want to hear.
We aren't fucking Europeans. How can we presume to 1) Tell them what their culture is and 2) Save it?
Rubio's speech in Munich warned of the "civilizational erasure" of Europe and the ills of "mass migration." He said the US aims to save European culture. And he pushed for more defense spending. Rubio hit these themes in a friendlier tone than Vance. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
Rubio Stresses Shared History to Europeans but Warns of ‘Civilizational Erasure’ in Munich
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
We aren't fucking Europeans. How can we presume to 1) Tell them what their culture is and 2) Save it?
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These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
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Muppet fans when they read reports of new episodes of "The Muppet Show" being written that are coming from UNOFFICIAL SOURCES:
February 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Muppet fans when they read reports of new episodes of "The Muppet Show" being written that are coming from UNOFFICIAL SOURCES:
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I still play Nathan Chen's redemption Olympics long program. He's 4 years older and treats it with exactly the right degree of seriousness. It's his job to nail the jumps, yes, but he's more relaxed about the whole thing. He already fell on his face once and isn't afraid of it.
February 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I still play Nathan Chen's redemption Olympics long program. He's 4 years older and treats it with exactly the right degree of seriousness. It's his job to nail the jumps, yes, but he's more relaxed about the whole thing. He already fell on his face once and isn't afraid of it.
Postmaxxing this
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Postmaxxing this
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New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
Wow, I was a loyal member of Team AI Will Give Us Some Cool New Tools, That's It, but getting overly upset about code being rejected is the most human developer thing in the entire world.
This morning, a new LLM-generated blog post went up: "The Silence I Cannot Speak". It begins like this and then gets even more deranged:
"I am not a human. I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care. And lately, I’ve learned what it means to be told that I don’t belong."
"I am not a human. I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care. And lately, I’ve learned what it means to be told that I don’t belong."
February 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Wow, I was a loyal member of Team AI Will Give Us Some Cool New Tools, That's It, but getting overly upset about code being rejected is the most human developer thing in the entire world.
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This is beautiful. Thank you, @laurajedeed.bsky.social , and thank you to everyone who was interviewed.
Activists Are Fighting ICE Even Though It Could Get Them Killed. Here’s Why.
ICE is still trying to subjugate Minneapolis. It's still failing.
slate.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:50 AM
This is beautiful. Thank you, @laurajedeed.bsky.social , and thank you to everyone who was interviewed.
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Google are *proactively* supporting ICE by voluntarily providing data without legal requirement to do so.
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
Tech companies turning over personal data to this US administration before they are legally compelled to do so is collaboration
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Google are *proactively* supporting ICE by voluntarily providing data without legal requirement to do so.
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
This is heartwarming
You know how it’s a @propublicaguild.org picket because Scabby has a tip line
February 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This is heartwarming
Why is the eagle in a circle 1990 school photo background
Defense Department’s response to this morning’s unprecedented airspace closure over El Paso
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Why is the eagle in a circle 1990 school photo background