Marc Slemko
@znep.com
Semi-retired weird software engineer. Stuff that interests me, such as reviving democracy.
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This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025.
Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
What happens when the AI race collides with child safety?
Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data
The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won’t say where it came from
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025.
Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
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Hell yes! Many of us have been following this story from the beginning, and I'm SO glad to see it resolved finally...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
January 29, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Hell yes! Many of us have been following this story from the beginning, and I'm SO glad to see it resolved finally...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
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What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning.
*21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity.
*Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution
*21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity.
*Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution
January 29, 2026 at 10:10 PM
What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning.
*21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity.
*Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution
*21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity.
*Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution
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Today I announced an initial set of actions to protect city residents in the face of increased federal immigration enforcement activity. #thisisyourcity
January 29, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Today I announced an initial set of actions to protect city residents in the face of increased federal immigration enforcement activity. #thisisyourcity
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Palantir is spending its revenue from ICE contracts on our elected officials.
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
Who takes Palantir’s money? A new tracker finds out.
Who takes Palantir's money? A new tracker finds out.
ICE relies on the firm for deportation tech—and its PAC pays it forward to Congress.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Palantir is spending its revenue from ICE contracts on our elected officials.
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
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Watch this interview with the County Attorney Mary Moriarty.
At around the 40m mark she says she hasn’t received a **single** case from any PD in the county (even MPD), despite her having practically begged the local PD to do so!
At around the 40m mark she says she hasn’t received a **single** case from any PD in the county (even MPD), despite her having practically begged the local PD to do so!
NEW: Regarding federal immigration agent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, as well as the nonfatal shooting this month, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty told Law Dork: "I know enough now to feel pretty confident that we will be able to make a decision about charges in those three cases.”
Talking with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty about Trump, Operation Metro Surge — and FAFO
Watch now (47 mins) | "[T]he people of Minneapolis are looking around, and this is what they’re saying to their electeds too, is, ‘Who is here protecting us?’”
www.lawdork.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Watch this interview with the County Attorney Mary Moriarty.
At around the 40m mark she says she hasn’t received a **single** case from any PD in the county (even MPD), despite her having practically begged the local PD to do so!
At around the 40m mark she says she hasn’t received a **single** case from any PD in the county (even MPD), despite her having practically begged the local PD to do so!
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AGAIN: If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tipline since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:44 PM
AGAIN: If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Signal: makenakelly.32
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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Art by Lar DeSouza…
January 28, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Art by Lar DeSouza…
"[T]hese watchlists aren’t the all-seeing eye of Sauron that many imagine. They’re more like the compound eye of a fly, a fragmented array of lenses (over 3,000 per eye in the common housefly!) that collectively form a mosaic."
🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...
Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans
Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
"[T]hese watchlists aren’t the all-seeing eye of Sauron that many imagine. They’re more like the compound eye of a fly, a fragmented array of lenses (over 3,000 per eye in the common housefly!) that collectively form a mosaic."
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I wanted to break away from my typical style of putting a light up to ICE's injustices and instead highlight Alex's life and how he was an embodiment of justice. He lost his life upholding justice, and now we must stand up to get justice for Alex. #topsy #alex #pretti #alexpretti #abolishice
January 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I wanted to break away from my typical style of putting a light up to ICE's injustices and instead highlight Alex's life and how he was an embodiment of justice. He lost his life upholding justice, and now we must stand up to get justice for Alex. #topsy #alex #pretti #alexpretti #abolishice
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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This is one of the Meta ads trying to promote data centers. "Meta is investing $600 billion in American infrastructure & jobs in local communities across the nation, like Altoona, IA.".
January 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
This is one of the Meta ads trying to promote data centers. "Meta is investing $600 billion in American infrastructure & jobs in local communities across the nation, like Altoona, IA.".
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This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan
January 28, 2026 at 4:53 AM
This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan
Taken in Mitchell Inlet, Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada.
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Taken in Mitchell Inlet, Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada.
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my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM
my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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she can also box tbh. blocking hand up, punching hand square and level. dude is lucky her people got him away from that overhand right
Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.
January 28, 2026 at 2:18 AM
she can also box tbh. blocking hand up, punching hand square and level. dude is lucky her people got him away from that overhand right
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I think that would *probably* be an equal protection violation?
ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.
California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing
ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I think that would *probably* be an equal protection violation?
"Yeah, I think a lot of white people need to grow the fuck up." -- @cohen489.bsky.social
Video: bsky.app/profile/curr...
Video: bsky.app/profile/curr...
Spoke with @currentaffairs.bsky.social this week and gave perhaps my most said-it-with-my-chest quote to date. I am once again saying it with my chest:
January 27, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"Yeah, I think a lot of white people need to grow the fuck up." -- @cohen489.bsky.social
Video: bsky.app/profile/curr...
Video: bsky.app/profile/curr...
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
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"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota
Via DonHarris4/X
Via DonHarris4/X
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota
Via DonHarris4/X
Via DonHarris4/X
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BREAKING: Trump doesn’t support the 2nd Amendment.
Q: Do you agree with the assessment from some of your own officials that Alex Pretti is a domestic terrorist or assassin?
TRUMP: Well, I haven't heard that, but he certainly shouldn't have been carrying a gun. I don't like that he had a gun.
TRUMP: Well, I haven't heard that, but he certainly shouldn't have been carrying a gun. I don't like that he had a gun.
January 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM
BREAKING: Trump doesn’t support the 2nd Amendment.
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On this day in 1945, the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau exposed the scale of Nazi crimes to the world and became a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust, the resilience of its survivors, and the guilt of its enablers.
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
On this day in 1945, the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau exposed the scale of Nazi crimes to the world and became a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust, the resilience of its survivors, and the guilt of its enablers.
"If the president were not to use the Presidential Model for his executive functions, AI gaps would develop between the president and CEOs and the president and his or her own subordinates. The question seems not to be if, but when, the president will use the Presidential Model." Hmm.
Given the government's growing adoption of AI, it seems that an Oval Office centered AI–which could reshape decision-making, records, and constitutional limits–is inevitable, writes Jason R. DiNapoli. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Inevitable Presidential AI Model
An Oval Office-centered model could reshape decision-making, records, and constitutional limits on executive power.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 27, 2026 at 9:22 PM
"If the president were not to use the Presidential Model for his executive functions, AI gaps would develop between the president and CEOs and the president and his or her own subordinates. The question seems not to be if, but when, the president will use the Presidential Model." Hmm.