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Distillation and such reminds me of how the UK "decants" people from their housing estates. the AI potency language also rhymes with drugs, dabs and strains, and sure enough someone is trying to hawk drugs for your agent. They get to have all the fun now.. www.pharmaicy.store

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

We are lost without an anti-war party. National repression (ICE, the cops, silencing speech, etc.) are not separate from international oppression (war, assassinations, occupation). Any party that addresses only one side is at best buying time, at worst stalling.

I like the one where they go to the lowtech communitarian planet and it's great until they find the 'punishment box'. and also the Voyager ep where their own "AI doctor" investigates the hospital run by eugenic AI healthcare allocator. + the TNGs w/ Barclay and Geordie's AI addictions.

Lavender, Military AI, and Technological Delegation Earlier today, the Tel Aviv-based outlet +972 Magazine published a long exposé on “Lavender,” an artificial intelligence-based program that Israel uses to automatically identify and target suspected H...

reposting this old piece of mine on military "ai," since the issues in it are likely to become live again.

Had to take my agent in for an alignment

highly rec this @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social story on sunnyside yard nyra.nyc/articles/ava...

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

Council Member Shahana Hanif Will Rally to Ban Biometric Recognition Technology Alongside Advocates — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

MEDIA ADVISORY: Council Member Shahana Hanif Will Rally to Ban Biometric Recognition Technology Alongside Advocates

Monday, March 2nd, 9 AM. Details here:
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

TIL China Mieville wrote something on Familiars:

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News FULL HEARING: ICE Whistleblower Testifies Before Congressional Dems About 'Defective' Training

The executive branch is training criminals directly aimed at violating your individual rights !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_o4...

Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

Claude, soon: "I've found an element in the network that can be streamlined."

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare Putting smart glasses on trial.

A judge threatened contempt when Zuckerberg's team wore Meta Ray-Bans, cameras disguised as eyewear, into a no-recording courtroom.

Smart glasses need smart regulation when even a courtroom isn't safe from surveillance. Read more here:

idea *generation* you say? open.substack.com/pub/subconsc...

0-3 minutes / 3+ minutes

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

The Dept. of War started announcing WEXMAC TITUS awardees in September, and the most recent list dropped on Friday.

One new vendor is GEO Group, the private prison company that already runs some of ICE's most brutal prisons. CoreCivic, another private prison group, was an earlier awardee.

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.

Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Quite a day: Catholic clergy gained access to the Broadview, IL ICE facility this afternoon, and Church & state officials joined a mass & procession honoring immigrants this evening.

I hope my coverage today was useful, and as always, I appreciate any support you may wish to offer for my work.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

In honor of DHS spokesliar Tricia McLaughlin's resignation, let's revisit how her husband's company won a $220 million no-bid contract to run a stupid propaganda campaign featuring her boss, Kristi Noem, bashing immigrants while sitting on a horse in front of Mt. Rushmore.

incredibly compact plumbing wall

the home with just a single wall that all plumbing goes to for kitchen (sink/DW), 2 full baths (back to back) and laundry closet is slickest thing i've ever seen. right up my alley. so compact.

and nothing on the exterior wall.

it's perfect.

talked about this before but this sounds like a (mostly touted by conservatives yet has a truthiness about it) critique of media

"Be a Kevin." For over four decades, the "Valentine's Bandit" of Portland, Maine, secretly decorated the city with hundreds of red paper hearts every February 14th. Revealed in 2023 to be the late Kevin Fahrman, this beloved, anonymous tradition spread joy and love throughout downtown, including iconic spots like city hall and Fort Gorges. • The Identity Revealed: Following his sudden death in April 2023 at age 67, friends and family identified Kevin Fahrman of Falmouth as the leader of the group behind the decades-long, pre-dawn, Valentine's Day missions. • The Tradition's Origins: The tradition began in the mid- 1970s; Fahrman, a musician and photographer, took over the effort in 1979 to ensure the heart-filled tradition continued, aiming to spread cheer rather than seck recognition. • The Spectacle: The "Bandit" was known to put up hundreds of paper hearts on buildings and, in more elaborate, dangerous stunts, hang large, red heart banners from construction cranes, the Portland Observatory, and Fort Gorges in Casco Bay. • Legacy & "Be a Kevin": To keep his spirit alive, his family launched the Fahrman Foundation and the website "Be a Kevin," encouraging the public to download the official heart, print it, and spread love by placing them throughout their own communities. Fahrman's family and dedicated volunteers continue to ensure the hearts appear throughout Portland, ensuring the cherished, mysterious, and heartwarming tradition lives

Model shop that provided the first draft of many great Chicago buildings closes Columbian Model & Exhibit Works made architectural models for the Lakeshore East high-rise development, the Jeanne Gang-designed St. Regis at 363 E. Wacker Drive and the Obama Presidential Center in J...

My architecture column today. "To show off these structures that are being developed in Chicago, I think it’s a really beautiful art," Chicago Architecture Center Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Bakos said. "And it’s sad that it’s kind of a dying one."

ICE Took Wael Tarabishi's Full Time Caregiver Away... and it Killed Him Wael Tarabishi was a 30 year old disabled man who's father Maher was his full time caregiver. ICE took Maher in October, leaving Wael without support. He died three months later.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died 3 months later.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t even get to say goodbye:

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

This is just unconscionable man