Gene Morrow
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Minnesota is the best of us.
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ICE agents are doing what they're doing because they believe in it on some level; they've been acculturated into an institutional environment that gives them permission to be thuggish, violent assholes; and they lack the moral compass to look at themselves and their colleagues and say no.
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
ICE agents are doing what they're doing because they believe in it on some level; they've been acculturated into an institutional environment that gives them permission to be thuggish, violent assholes; and they lack the moral compass to look at themselves and their colleagues and say no.
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I'm sorry, doing the right thing is going to require a modicum of moral courage, and these motherfuckers manifestly don't have it. You don't need to feel bad for them. They can all eat shit, and I hope they have nightmares about what they're doing until their dying day.
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I'm sorry, doing the right thing is going to require a modicum of moral courage, and these motherfuckers manifestly don't have it. You don't need to feel bad for them. They can all eat shit, and I hope they have nightmares about what they're doing until their dying day.
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State and local law enforcement organizations in Minnesota have spent the past several days telling anyone who will listen that they "stand with ICE"
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
State and local law enforcement organizations in Minnesota have spent the past several days telling anyone who will listen that they "stand with ICE"
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect.
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect.
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
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the humans in the "reinforcement learning from human feedback" protocols are incentivized to have the most shallow and easy-to-articulate explanation for why an output is "good" and those people probably don't care at all about any of it
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the humans in the "reinforcement learning from human feedback" protocols are incentivized to have the most shallow and easy-to-articulate explanation for why an output is "good" and those people probably don't care at all about any of it
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i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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She's almost 80. She's never running for office again. Her ideological allies in the Party are dead, dying, or on the way out. Nobody has to give a shit what Hillary Clinton thinks about anything, and the sooner we internalize that, the better off we'll all be.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
She's almost 80. She's never running for office again. Her ideological allies in the Party are dead, dying, or on the way out. Nobody has to give a shit what Hillary Clinton thinks about anything, and the sooner we internalize that, the better off we'll all be.
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Roth. Click.
The conservative grievance business is always hiring: defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Roth. Click.
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it's funny how the initialism "DEI" gets deployed to obscure its own meaning, by framing it like a policy, like ACA, or an agency, like DHS. if you write "efforts to erase diversity" instead of "efforts to erase DEI," you're describing what Trump is doing much more clearly and truthfully!
when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI. n.pr/4pmCNr2
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
it's funny how the initialism "DEI" gets deployed to obscure its own meaning, by framing it like a policy, like ACA, or an agency, like DHS. if you write "efforts to erase diversity" instead of "efforts to erase DEI," you're describing what Trump is doing much more clearly and truthfully!
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the DHS socials are staffed by actual nazis designed to make posts that appeal to nazis, they want genuine believers in a white state. there is not a single ICE agent that “is just following orders”, they’re all buying into an intentionally fascistic project
hey guys are we ever going to talk about what's happening with DHS on social media
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the DHS socials are staffed by actual nazis designed to make posts that appeal to nazis, they want genuine believers in a white state. there is not a single ICE agent that “is just following orders”, they’re all buying into an intentionally fascistic project
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Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
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Trump is murdering people simply because he likes murdering people and he thinks it makes him look good. defector.com/how-do-you-s...
How Do You Stop A Serial Killer? | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Monday, on social media, President Donald Trump announced that he had murdered three people—”three…
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September 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump is murdering people simply because he likes murdering people and he thinks it makes him look good. defector.com/how-do-you-s...
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This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...
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"It's quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigot, whose career achievements were pushing for hatred and violence toward those he saw as inferior to him." defector.com/this-is-who-...
This Is Who Charlie Kirk Was | Defector
Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a…
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September 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"It's quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigot, whose career achievements were pushing for hatred and violence toward those he saw as inferior to him." defector.com/this-is-who-...
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Butlerian Jihad now: defector.com/butlerian-ji...
Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector
Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adam Ra...
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August 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Butlerian Jihad now: defector.com/butlerian-ji...
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"'We feel proud,' the spokesperson said. The feeling across the union is one of hope, and joy. She explained that across all of @cupescfp.bsky.social, their goal is to bring back power to unions, and to stand for their charter rights."
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
Strike 'Ends Unpaid Work' As Union Reaches Deal With Air Canada – The Rover
Low wages and unpaid labour led to flight attendants using food banks, sleeping in cars.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"'We feel proud,' the spokesperson said. The feeling across the union is one of hope, and joy. She explained that across all of @cupescfp.bsky.social, their goal is to bring back power to unions, and to stand for their charter rights."
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
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like, this is correct, but the point of course was not to understand an artists intention but to understand art itself as subordinate to datafication
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
Why Genie 3's AI Nighthawks is a massive downgrade of Hopper's masterpiece
Google's 'explorable' painting misses the point of art.
www.creativebloq.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
like, this is correct, but the point of course was not to understand an artists intention but to understand art itself as subordinate to datafication
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/go...
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There are two kinds of Alberta Separatists: conmen who have no intention of ever leaving Canada but need a political cudgel to wave around and get the local base riled up against pronouns or books where kids have two dads, and their marks.
August 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There are two kinds of Alberta Separatists: conmen who have no intention of ever leaving Canada but need a political cudgel to wave around and get the local base riled up against pronouns or books where kids have two dads, and their marks.