John Palowitch

I want all writers to be into writing as much like themselves as possible. I hate to see someone say writing's so good they wish they'd written it. You couldn't have, you're you, & they're them. That's the spirit of plagiarism behind AI. Believe in your capacity to create beauty unique to you.

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Sep '25: Google sends student activist emails to ICE in response to an ICE administrative subpoena -- *before* alerting the student

theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

"...objectivity is not the same as neutrality. If there is an aggressor and a victim, a liar and an honest person, a corrupt individual and an honourable one, then your task is to describe all that clearly and forcefully."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism And how to stop them

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

It's happening at Google, led by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...

There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”.

(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

in solidarity with the authors on social media who have been getting mocked or harassed for celebrating their accomplishments i would like to announce that i too am the worlds greatest author and i sell a lot of books. thank you

Name them
shame them

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Bad Bunny at the Grammys:

"Before I say 'thanks to God,' I'm going to say 'ICE Out.' We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

I’ve heard it all; 😀 I’m a 10+ year Googler and founding member of Alphabet Workers Union. #1 objection for the petition is fear of retaliation, which stems from inexperience with organizing and never learning labor history (wins!) in general.

More of this please

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

Genuinely unsure where your "fighting everyone" and "expecting to be taken seriously" quotes come from -- these do not relate to what I'm saying

Just noting that there *is* an actual strategy being proposed, whether you agree with it or not. Re resisting this Trump admin and the "feckless" Dems both, 100% with you. In fact I think the Dems who are not being feckless in this moment would agree with the @techconnectify.bsky.social post above!

The strategic path being proposed is to remove the focus on Trump in Abolish ICE messaging, which widens the critique to any Dems who have enabled ICE to exist. Seems like the sort of a-partisan accountability that can appeal to everyone except MAGA. Viability is debatable but there’s an idea there!

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:

YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota The Little Prince: Footage Unearthed Of Superstar At Age 11

This is the same building Prince stood in front of as an 11-year-old, when he came out in support of the teachers’ union when they went on strike. youtu.be/EQe0EoVoGqU