Camille Fournier
@skamille.themanagerswrath.com
she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
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If an AI system cannot show who authorized a decision, it should not be making it. Wrote about judgment routing, signing authority, and why invisible discretion is dangerous:
makingpublicwork.com/who-holds-th...
makingpublicwork.com/who-holds-th...
January 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
If an AI system cannot show who authorized a decision, it should not be making it. Wrote about judgment routing, signing authority, and why invisible discretion is dangerous:
makingpublicwork.com/who-holds-th...
makingpublicwork.com/who-holds-th...
An AI summary of an article about a. Matt Damon interview with Joe Rogan; in this case maybe I agree that the summary saved me a click
January 18, 2026 at 1:50 PM
An AI summary of an article about a. Matt Damon interview with Joe Rogan; in this case maybe I agree that the summary saved me a click
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January 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Not quite an xsnow day but not bad
January 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Not quite an xsnow day but not bad
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The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.
ICE Opening Huge Lockup 50 Miles North of New York City
The coming “processing facility” is already triggering protests upstate.
buff.ly
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.
Jesus, you know it's bad, but every single new thing you read brings it home that much more
New at Can We Still Govern?
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Jesus, you know it's bad, but every single new thing you read brings it home that much more
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For the Big Take podcast I joined Patrick Clark in a conversation with @sarahholder.bsky.social about corporate landlords — who they are, what they do, and why both the left and right have them in the crosshairs www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
Big Take: Trump’s Push to Ban Corporate Landlords (Correct)) - Bloomberg
Understand every aspect of the global economy – and know how to make your next move.
www.bloomberg.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM
For the Big Take podcast I joined Patrick Clark in a conversation with @sarahholder.bsky.social about corporate landlords — who they are, what they do, and why both the left and right have them in the crosshairs www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
Interesting and slightly depressing take on the need to cut out human to human interactions to make AI more valuable
benn.substack.com/p/why-cowork...
benn.substack.com/p/why-cowork...
Why Cowork can’t work
The future isn’t collaborative.
benn.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Interesting and slightly depressing take on the need to cut out human to human interactions to make AI more valuable
benn.substack.com/p/why-cowork...
benn.substack.com/p/why-cowork...
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this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?
January 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?
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In google meet you can now react with any emoji instead of the usual short list (clap, heart, etc)
*Importantly* if you use the crab emoji it scuttles horizontally across the screen, and this has a choke-hold on our larger meetings 🦀 especially if Rust was mentioned
*Importantly* if you use the crab emoji it scuttles horizontally across the screen, and this has a choke-hold on our larger meetings 🦀 especially if Rust was mentioned
January 16, 2026 at 4:39 PM
In google meet you can now react with any emoji instead of the usual short list (clap, heart, etc)
*Importantly* if you use the crab emoji it scuttles horizontally across the screen, and this has a choke-hold on our larger meetings 🦀 especially if Rust was mentioned
*Importantly* if you use the crab emoji it scuttles horizontally across the screen, and this has a choke-hold on our larger meetings 🦀 especially if Rust was mentioned
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Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
X has stopped working
X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
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"Among the many victims is Musk’s own ex-partner and the alleged mother of one of his many children, Ashley St Clair. St Clair has been subjected to the repeated undressing and sexualization of her image, including one of her at age fourteen." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-epst...
The New Epstein Island Is Right in Your Pocket: It’s Time to Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse
It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"Among the many victims is Musk’s own ex-partner and the alleged mother of one of his many children, Ashley St Clair. St Clair has been subjected to the repeated undressing and sexualization of her image, including one of her at age fourteen." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-epst...
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The Zaprudering of Renee Good continues. It’s amazing, really—it’s as if the quality of the footage magically degrades each time it’s analyzed, in a sort of magical process of complicating something that was perfectly clear the first time around. Soon, satellite imagery, perhaps.
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The New York Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Watch our visual investigation.
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 12:23 PM
The Zaprudering of Renee Good continues. It’s amazing, really—it’s as if the quality of the footage magically degrades each time it’s analyzed, in a sort of magical process of complicating something that was perfectly clear the first time around. Soon, satellite imagery, perhaps.
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they are going to do it again soon, too
ICE murdered a Cuban man at a concentration camp on American soil built and staffed using our tax dollars
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 16, 2026 at 3:11 AM
they are going to do it again soon, too
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Want to help support people in Minnesota right now? Check out standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Want to help support people in Minnesota right now? Check out standwithminnesota.com
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
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This is a very striking piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social - short, clear, to-the-point, and not just about AI agents doing coding: open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say.
We know how this turns out. First comes the novelty, then comes the corrosion.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
This is a very striking piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social - short, clear, to-the-point, and not just about AI agents doing coding: open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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y’all this is Beppe 🇮🇹
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
y’all this is Beppe 🇮🇹
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Going from: "theres a bunch of people in tech world who can't code and you want to hold the gate against them."
To: "I'm shipping 25 PRs a day I don't even read" in 20 years. Time makes a fool of us all I suppose
To: "I'm shipping 25 PRs a day I don't even read" in 20 years. Time makes a fool of us all I suppose
January 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Going from: "theres a bunch of people in tech world who can't code and you want to hold the gate against them."
To: "I'm shipping 25 PRs a day I don't even read" in 20 years. Time makes a fool of us all I suppose
To: "I'm shipping 25 PRs a day I don't even read" in 20 years. Time makes a fool of us all I suppose
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Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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I DM'd him on Facebook to tell him his name had been released, and he may want to private his socials. His response was to change his PFP to this.
Absolute king shit, gives zero fucks
Absolute king shit, gives zero fucks
January 14, 2026 at 3:33 AM
I DM'd him on Facebook to tell him his name had been released, and he may want to private his socials. His response was to change his PFP to this.
Absolute king shit, gives zero fucks
Absolute king shit, gives zero fucks
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“The physical machinations of the occupation are nearly impossible to avoid. ICE stops people randomly on the street. ICE rams cars, sometimes through intersections, and sometimes pulls someone out and leaves the car right in the street.” www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM
“The physical machinations of the occupation are nearly impossible to avoid. ICE stops people randomly on the street. ICE rams cars, sometimes through intersections, and sometimes pulls someone out and leaves the car right in the street.” www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)