James Dunbar

Demonstrates as well that they are fine moving that money around so long as they have control over who gets it: TV station and social media co owners for ads, consultants for strategy, but never fellow citizens.

Similar dynamics at work in philanthropy, for those who still even bother.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

i think it depends on your setup.
if you have nice components - turntable, phono pre, amplifier, speakers - and the time to enjoy it, then vinyl is a no brainer.
A good CD player (nice DAC) can sound as good as vinyl and there’s one less component; plus you can rip to a library easier than vinyl.

also worth mentioning that the anarchists are part of the backbone of minneapolis magic we all know and talk about

growing up around anarchist co-ops and culture is like, part of the driving force for why i actually believe another world is possible

“The left must not be drawn into a defense of normative neoliberalism”

@kmilb.bsky.social, co-author of Radical Abundance, writes for @thenation.com:
www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Is Fascism Making a Comeback? (Part II) Continuing the reposted series from State of Nature, the question is whether Fascism is making a comeback? Laurence Davis Seventy-two years after the end

"Whereas contemporary fascists are giving voice to the ugly authoritarian & reactionary face of popular opposition to the political and economic establishment, an egalitarian & inclusive left popular radicalism ... 1/2 criticallegalthinking.com/2017/12/05/f...

Terminally online “revolutionaries”: “read theory and burn down a Walmart” (does neither)

Wine moms: commits arson on a possible ICE warehouse in broad daylight

Children will starve to death so this asshole gets to live like royalty. Tell me again that this country doesn't need a real revolution. I'm not talking that midterm voting bullshit. I mean the real thing that would send pricks like Vought into the wood chipper of history.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

I'm working on a guide for community opposition. There's going to be so many ways to make this impossible to materialize if people are willing to put in the work. Local community efforts dealing with zoning, building codes, etc will be vital. We must stop this

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

they’re talking about the decision to add facial recognition to the camera glasses. this company needs to be shut down.

best valentine's day ever, just there, in the street

out with Verso in 11 months

What I read this week The poverty crisis, the debt crisis, and the cliamte crisis.

More than half of borrowers now use credit cards just to pay for essentials.

With credit card interest rates around 20%, debt becomes a mechanism of redistribution: money flows from workers to banks simply so households can afford food, rent and utilities.
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BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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Important listen on how community resistance to massive ICE detention camps is spreading.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.

Unbearable.

The local federal court received almost as many habeas petitions – asking judges to order the release of those unlawfully detained – in January as in the entire period from 2016 to 2024. More important, the federal judges in Minnesota are granting the petitions and people are coming home (though not without ICE obstructing and demeaning them at every step). But then ICE started transferring people out of state as quickly as possible, often within eight hours, thwarting the local habeas efforts. Every day now, chartered deportation flights leave from the Twin Cities airport carrying people with their hands and feet in shackles. Observers report other adaptations. ICE have gone from wearing tactical army gear to Midwestern civilian garb; I have even seen photos of agents in keffiyehs. They have changed their cars and their licence plates: from out-of-state to in-state, to blotted plates or none at all. Meanwhile, Trump’s ‘border tsar’, Tom Homan, has replaced Greg Bovino as head of ICE operations in Minnesota, an attempt to dim the lights on what will be a violent march in either guise. ‘There’s no sanctuary from federal law enforcement,’ Homan has said.

To my knowledge, moving prisoners around the country in an attempt to avoid habeas corpus review has been banned since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. Habeas corpus is, of course, protected in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Dear God.

Is this a lot? It sounds like a lot...

As someone who has co-written two National Historic Landmarks, I know just how much work goes into getting these important sites designated (even more so for monuments). I keep thinking about the group of scholars who must have dedicated so much time to this, only to have it made meaningless.

is the latter a clavichord furnished funicular? putting the fun back in funicular!

Scottish Challenge to the Proscription of Palestine Action None

www.crowdjustice.com/case/scottis...

fantastic!

“They’re fearful of not being invited to baseball games or out with friends…There were no attacks on members of the KKK, it was a boycott of them in public life. That’s what we’re trying to do to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved”

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"We wanted to show them that we will fight for them, with them, that it is beautiful to fight, and that tomorrow is a new day. This is all to say, we wanted to remind our people of the kind of future we can have by taking our power. "

Report via @indybay.org

we need some 'good trouble' in the US; perhaps some good sabotage, some good breaking of things; most of all good courage to start making good trouble now

I remember coming across an article where Nervi was discussing the project - in an Italian magazine and not translated. I'll send a link if I ever find the article again ~

excellent piece! it’s a stunning building - and a lovely interior where those hyperbolic paraboloids set on great site cast concrete columns.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous