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ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
bradrodriguez.bsky.social
This is really concerning. No accountability for agents or agencies that don’t identify themselves and no ability for citizens to know if these are let criminals impersonating LIOs. This can only get worse. www.latimes.com/california/s...
'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A. - Los Angeles Times
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immigrant communities trust the police.
www.latimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
bradrodriguez.bsky.social
A little bit of karma shines bright with all the injustice out there. We can only hope the tides are turning.
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
Donald Trump humiliated as disappointing crowd turns up for Washington DC military parade | Irish Star
Users on Reddit were quick to poke fun at the less-than-impressive turnout
www.irishstar.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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chronotope.aramzs.xyz
holy shit
maxberger.bsky.social Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · May 21
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
May 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Anyway it’d be great if we could have a mayor of LA or gov of CA that just wants to do the job well and isn’t consumed with careerism (I miss you Jerry brown)
April 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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!!! yes!!!

reading "Why We Fear AI"
Given this relative autonomy of capital, we must understand technology (both existing and new) not merely on its own terms, but also in its social context, where it is used. The oil well as technology can extract oil, the oil well as capital must do so. In the same way, we must consider the properties of AI both from the vantage point of the toolmaking animal, and that of the political animal: both as a tool with properties of its own, and as an object that embodies the will of capital.
April 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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petrana.bsky.social
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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drkatemarvel.bsky.social
some ways to generate electricity

A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons

B) use sunlight to make electrons
January 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
bradrodriguez.bsky.social
Long live the cookie?
November 14, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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markmceachran.bsky.social
The Industry Pullback From Cookie-Based Tech Proves Cookies Are Already Dead
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The Industry Pullback From Cookie-Based Tech Proves Cookies Are Already Dead | AdExchanger
We should welcome the opportunity to be part of identity’s path forward, now that we’ve released ourselves from the shackles of the cookie.
www.adexchanger.com
November 13, 2024 at 9:51 PM