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key9107.bsky.social
a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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phillipanderson.bsky.social
That sound you hear is Stephen Miller shitting a neutron star
phillipanderson.bsky.social Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 1d
They really put a sugar cane field on the 50 yard line. Impressive
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
¡Es culpa tuya, conejito malo!
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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fiveburger.bsky.social
america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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maryltrump.bsky.social
Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Is there some scifi book about rich people assigning computers agency and "sadness" so they can fix the computer "sadness" but ignore the suffering of the real-life people they're brutalizing and/or ignoring?

Anyway, either way, it's a website, it doesn't have feelings, and none of this is real.
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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ashleemboyer.com
Hire accessibility experts. A lot of us are disabled and so know what we're talking about. Your AI-agent-whatever-bs is trained on myths and inspiration porn.
A website tagline: Turn your terminal into an accessibility expert
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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voxmediaunion.bsky.social
We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can!

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Donate to Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers, organized by Victoria Song
On Friday, January 16, 2026, the Vox Media Union received news from management about … Victoria Song needs your support for Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers
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January 28, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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ominousrabbit.com
Y'all are really, really going to want to read this.

#AbolishICE
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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404media.co
SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

The full user guide here:
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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danhon.com
WE TOLD YOU
January 30, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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aclu.org
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Imagine this in a trial.

Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing

Declaration filed in federal court:

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."
January 25, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Watching this in particular. The effort to take witnesses to Whipple, as well as the police refusing to leave the scene, are key.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16d
Per this report ICE has detained several witnesses
mattmfm.bsky.social Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 16d
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Yes, killing peaceful protesters is a sign of tyranny.

www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/t...
Trump threatens to intervene if Iran kills peaceful protesters
"We are locked and loaded and ready to go," the president said on Truth Social early Friday, after economic protests in the Islamic Republic took a sharply violent turn.
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
old way: start > run > notepad.exe

new way: launch microsoft 365 copilot for sharepoint copilot for office copilot 365 hbo max 365 and simply say: "hey cortana. copilot run notepad copilot. sharepoint"
January 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
New Year, coup dis?
January 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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rusty.todayintabs.com
I really think this is the most important basic journalistic error we need to stamp out right now. If you know why Grok can’t comment on anything and also know any journalists, please check in with them and help them understand it too.
chronotope.aramzs.xyz Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · Jan 2
I hate this phrasing and how it buys into what is essentially a falsehood about the autonomy of chatbots that is RIGHT NOW deforming our entire law and society. Grok doesn't say anything. That's like saying 'Microsoft Word apologized for losing everyone's files'

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements ...
www.reuters.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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tomsennettgames.com
The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht
toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · Dec 15
Keita Takahashi (Katamari, Wattam, Noby Noby Boy) has moved back to Japan, and says he may be forced to quit the games industry due to To a T underperforming.

He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.

(Read more at GamesRadar)
A screenshot from Noby Noby Boy, a PlayStation 3 game by Keita Takahashi. The screenshot features a multi-coloured caterpillar type creature with a dog sitting on top of it, as well as a man standing atop another dog behind him, and an abundance of odd creatures in the background
December 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
This overlaps with a challenging mode of decision-making in orgs: validation.

I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.

If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Dec 13
Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
December 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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komaniecki.bsky.social
Anti-AI posting today
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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altibel.bsky.social
Honey, it's phrenology o'clock! "Retired engineer Gerald Piosenka created the dataset in 2019 by downloading photos of children from “websites devoted to the subject of autism” & uploaded it to Kaggle, a Google site that hosts public datasets for machine-learning practitioners." 🫠 #ResearchIntegrity
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM