1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Atlanta DSA is entering the most consequential moment in our history. We have to meet this moment. For Atlanta DSA's officer elections, we're running experienced organizers with a record of success leading efforts to build our party, build worker power, and win real change for working people!

Anyone who spends a lot of time at young conservative conferences can tell you this is fairly common. Or who goes to a happy hour in D.C. for AEI, Heritage or any of the other big conservative think tanks.

Did the Mamdani-Trump meeting preview a new kind of “bottom vs top” politics? Does Marjorie Taylor Green transcend political labels? Is it time to move beyond "left vs right" entirely?

No! Organizer @blimpjuice.bsky.social on the only two sides there are: powermapmag.com/it-is-about-...

May be posting these slides a lot in the next few weeks/months...

Tax increment financing (TAD/TIF) is *not* designed for places where property values are already rising fast. It will likely DIVERT already rising revenue from schools & citywide services to development projects in TAD/TIFs. 1/2

MLT City Council voted 6-0 to cancel the contract w/ Flock Safety.

“We’ve heard from our residents about the many troubles & challenges that this has this possibility of bringing. I think it’s time to pull the plug,” said Mayor Pro Tem Bryan Wahl.

#MyMLTNews #MLTNews

mltnews.com/time-to-pull...

Remember when segregationist cops sicced attack dogs on peaceful Black protesters during "Bloody Sunday" in Selma?

Now, it's happening again in broad daylight, but with the federal government unleashing attack dogs on everyday residents

www.vice.com/en/article/a...

as cities debate Automated License Plate Readers, we often hear the same reassurances: don’t worry, we’ll regulate them/set strict rules/never share data with ICE/we'll only use them for speeding/etc. political promises may feel comforting but it misses that the INFRASTRUCTURE itself is the danger.

💥 💥💥New Article Alert.

"The ‘Beginning of the end’ for the Atlanta Way? Not so fast."

First 50 copies free (please use your library access if available).

Library access: doi.org/10.1080/0266...

First 50 free (if no library access): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CQ4VX...

The People’s Power Union seeks to ensure the Public Service Commission works for all Georgians. Efforts by the People's Power Union and many others led to the overwhelming victory of two democrats in the statewide public service elections in November.

This article is copaganda. This article is intended to make us believe that holding police accountable is possible.

ALPRs are powerful. It's not safe for anyone to use them. There is no legitimate use of ALPRs. ALPRs make us all less safe.

www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans.

(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)

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"nixos is declarative and reproducible" why don't you "declare" you have a girlfriend and "reproduce"

When elected officials aren’t allowed to question those in power, your democracy is in full collapse.

Assemblymember and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani held back by police for trying to question Trump’s ethnic cleansing head Tom Homan. #FuckICE

(📷 @mahoneyw)

NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...