Tim Watts
@timwatts.bsky.social
Bicycling for joy; gardener; chickeneer; left of center-left Democrat; recovering programmer. Hemlock's caretaker. He/him.
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Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.
January 20, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.
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Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts
An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
www.fox13news.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
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In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...
Contract detention officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee at ICE facility in Basile
A former ICE detention officer pleaded guilty Monday to the sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan detainee at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, according to court documents obtained by WBRZ.
www.wbrz.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:10 PM
In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...
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BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest.
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest.
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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"...it is what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”. The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes."
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:01 AM
"...it is what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”. The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes."
"...it is what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”. The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes."
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:01 AM
"...it is what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”. The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes."
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This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The worst politicians in America are about to quote Martin Luther King Jr.
You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.
You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The worst politicians in America are about to quote Martin Luther King Jr.
You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.
You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.
"He’s out of control – and if you don’t hang together to counter him, you’ll hang separately"
Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump
He’s out of control – and if you don’t hang together to counter him, you’ll hang separately
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:35 PM
"He’s out of control – and if you don’t hang together to counter him, you’ll hang separately"
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The US has reduced its presence in Greenland to a single base and less than 200 troops.
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
The US has reduced its presence in Greenland to a single base and less than 200 troops.
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
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This is why so many of us in academia don’t care how many “good” uses of AI you can show us. Maybe one day things will be different. But, along with enabling cheating & undermining pedagogy, the current commercial technologies on offer are criminal enterprises stealing from us & breaking the law.
January 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM
This is why so many of us in academia don’t care how many “good” uses of AI you can show us. Maybe one day things will be different. But, along with enabling cheating & undermining pedagogy, the current commercial technologies on offer are criminal enterprises stealing from us & breaking the law.
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It is a giant illegal plagiarism machine monetizing all of our intellectual property, & like every tech/finance grift before it, the business model is built on breaking the law & malfeasance. And the rush of university leaders & administrators to embed it in every aspect of our work is shameful.
Seems like the companies pushing this tech are not being strictly v honest with anyone about how it works.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.
futurism.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM
It is a giant illegal plagiarism machine monetizing all of our intellectual property, & like every tech/finance grift before it, the business model is built on breaking the law & malfeasance. And the rush of university leaders & administrators to embed it in every aspect of our work is shameful.
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Gonna see a WHOLE lot of quotes from I Have a Dream today. And fewer but still a lot of Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
"Give Us the Ballot," Address Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
kinginstitute.stanford.edu
January 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Gonna see a WHOLE lot of quotes from I Have a Dream today. And fewer but still a lot of Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
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The key point here is mass deportations are unpopular *in the abstract.* Marquette poll finds 56% oppose removing longtime residents w/job and no criminal record.
To achieve the scale Trump/Miller want, you *have to* target those people. The core policy is what's toxic in addition to ICE's conduct.
To achieve the scale Trump/Miller want, you *have to* target those people. The core policy is what's toxic in addition to ICE's conduct.
I'm glad Douthat admits the public is turning against Trump's ICE raids, but he undersells this. The mass deportations aren't just unpopular because ICE agents are terrorizing and killing people. The core underlying goal is itself unpopular, as I try to argue here:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 19, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The key point here is mass deportations are unpopular *in the abstract.* Marquette poll finds 56% oppose removing longtime residents w/job and no criminal record.
To achieve the scale Trump/Miller want, you *have to* target those people. The core policy is what's toxic in addition to ICE's conduct.
To achieve the scale Trump/Miller want, you *have to* target those people. The core policy is what's toxic in addition to ICE's conduct.
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Today, we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Brennan Center is committed to fighting for the democratic principles that Dr. King fiercely championed.
January 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Today, we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Brennan Center is committed to fighting for the democratic principles that Dr. King fiercely championed.
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German Finance Minister
January 19, 2026 at 12:53 PM
German Finance Minister
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In addition to being a Hollywood star, Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping technology. She created it as a way for Allied torpedoes to defeat Nazi signal jamming, but it later became a foundational technology for wireless communications, including cell phones, Bluetooth, and WiFi.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
In addition to being a Hollywood star, Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping technology. She created it as a way for Allied torpedoes to defeat Nazi signal jamming, but it later became a foundational technology for wireless communications, including cell phones, Bluetooth, and WiFi.
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The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
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This morning, take a look back at how much of a struggle it was to convince the Republican Party, and particularly President Reagan, that Martin Luther King, Jr. deserved a federal holiday.
January 19, 2026 at 12:50 PM
This morning, take a look back at how much of a struggle it was to convince the Republican Party, and particularly President Reagan, that Martin Luther King, Jr. deserved a federal holiday.
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Wow, making a move, Gallego.
PS - constraint doesn't look like "more money for body cameras and de-escalation training and binkies and foot rubs" or whatever shit @booker.senate.gov and other flaccid Surrender Dems are proposing.
PS - constraint doesn't look like "more money for body cameras and de-escalation training and binkies and foot rubs" or whatever shit @booker.senate.gov and other flaccid Surrender Dems are proposing.
Gallego: "We cannot vote for anything that actually adds more money and doesn't constrain ICE ... we cannot keep funding this type of goon squad"
January 19, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Wow, making a move, Gallego.
PS - constraint doesn't look like "more money for body cameras and de-escalation training and binkies and foot rubs" or whatever shit @booker.senate.gov and other flaccid Surrender Dems are proposing.
PS - constraint doesn't look like "more money for body cameras and de-escalation training and binkies and foot rubs" or whatever shit @booker.senate.gov and other flaccid Surrender Dems are proposing.
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I’d take eight thousand verbal assaults over being shot in the face once, thanks for playing
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I’d take eight thousand verbal assaults over being shot in the face once, thanks for playing
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