Jasper Brown

The New Fabio Is Claude

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

I'm a Columbia Heights resident. ICE is still here, terrorizing, breaking laws, harassing people, causing chaos. Tell your family and friends. No matter what this administration's minions report: Nothing Has Changed.

My favorite, as someone with chronic illness, is "Wow, you're so tough! I hope you get better soon!!!" 🙃 Like, what about "degenerative disease" makes you think I'm going to suddenly heal?!

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

*something, something* they're all jerking each other off. 🤢

"Oh goodie, more Epstein files to..." **chokes on tea**
"FUCKING SERIOUSLY?"

"Ethical AI" does not exist. There is no reality where you can have generative AI that's "ethically trained". There are ZERO AI models trained ethically, and there will never be any.

The term has been made up by people who want a pass on using AI. You don't get that pass, slop peddlers.

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.

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:

Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.

One of the few politicians I find myself cheering for. None of this "they need to wear body cams and then it's fine" crap. ICE doesn't belong *anywhere*, full stop.

Mayor Mamdani consistently and regularly demonstrates that your mayor, your politicians, could be doing this at any point and they just don't because they don't care, and that's exactly why the establishment was panicked and aggressively tried to make sure he lost. They didn't want you to see this.

it is incredible how everyone just moved on from the fact the US kidnapped another country’s president and is now effectively the puppet master of the government it left in power

The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved to 85 seconds.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social gave the keynote—and went in on why the West is in "hell" and how AI plays a part.

@mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/the-doomsday...

Thanks so much! I've been reading and re-reading my emails going "DID I SAY SOMETHING OFFENSIVE?"

Hello #BookSky & fellow #writers - I'm new to getting accepted at publications. Is it normal to not hear anything from editors after accepting a space in the upcoming publication? Given the current, more important hellscape, and how much work goes into publishing, assuming everyone is on fire rn.

a reporter asked “is mutual aid a form of resistance?”

and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond

of course

of course

mutual aid is an expression of love

love is an act of resistance

My probably-not-so-hot take is that the entire internet - unless you're on, like, a Mastodon instance containing only your friends with the server owned by someone you know well - is vulnerable. And even then, shit could happen. 🫠

Ok, but vast majority of Bluesky users have absolutely no idea how vulnerable they are *HERE* so it would be great if there wasnt an implicit “we’re safe here”

Bluesky is much easier to datamine and it costs absolutely nothing to do it. One of the devs cloned the entire dataset in a few hours.

Indeed. Nothing short of abolition.

#abolishpolice #abolishprisions #abolishICE #abolishtheState

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Folks, the cops were the ones arresting the clergy, not ICE. They are not on our side. I'm going to hold your hand while I say this: they're all the baddies.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

This is why "rallies" aren't enough, and why we need to transition away from them as the primary tactic. I wrote about this in April last year, and warned that rallies wouldn't stop boots on the ground... 😔 We needed to be getting into "good trouble" yesterday.

jasperbrown.net/posts/replay...

This post from April is now on my site: Getting Angry Isn't Enough. We can't just yell for change, then go home and hang up our hats, thinking we did something; we need to fight with everything we've got.

jasperbrown.net/posts/replay...

#abolishice #fight #revolt

Some places that provide direct support:

- Presente! Maine
- Maine Solidarity Fund
- Project Relief
- Food for All Services
- Mainers for Humane Immigration’s Freedom Fund
- Families in Crisis Fund of the Foundation for Portland Public Schools
- Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network

ICE is in Minneapolis. AND they are also terrorizing Portland and Lewiston ME right now. People are being dragged from their cars and out of the classroom there too. If you have funds, show your support for groups resisting there as well.

#fuckice #abolishice

Here's a very small thing you can do to send a little love to Minneapolis bookstores in the meantime. Search by state on Bookshop.org to support a particular independent bookstore, and rather than choosing your favorite local shop this week to receive a profit share, pick one that's in Minneapolis. Some favorites include Magers & Quinn, Moon Palace Books, Comma, Strive, and Wild Rumpus. Fuck ICE forever.

I would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.

Yes! This is my struggle with how some academic anarchists share their work. Very few are going to read 600 pages of theory - it's really daunting!

An aside: shameless plug for my zine on datacenters for every kind of reader. It's free! ✨🌈

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