Carl Budd

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

Infatuated with Albuquerque’s free bus system, @abqride.bsky.social. Maybe I got lucky, but it was as quick to get a bus from the airport as a Lyft and then a transfer to Old Town. Best public transit experience I’ve had in ages!

Landed in Albuquerque, saw a toe sock in a flip-flop under a bathroom stall. What does this portend?

Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Hey y’all,

I have a friend who knows Mahmoud Khalil personally & he said he can vouch for this fundraiser. 💛

chuffed.org/project/just...

A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Strategically parked around the corner …

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Calling into work gay

Look at my opposition party dawg, we’re all going to hell

What if I have absolutely nothing to say? I remember when I wrote Twitter off as merely a disembodied AIM status message and I may not have been wrong.