Tom Andes

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

Thanks for coming out man!

Me and Tom Andes on stage at Shanty Shack Brewery in Santa Cruz, CA

Great catching @tomandes.bsky.social’s show in Santa Cruz tonight 🤘

They’re washing their asses on his and hers bidets while building a gulag and filming authoritarian porno videos using prisoners as props. This is Salò levels of Fascist perversion

Evil.

The contempt I have for Newhouse after what they did to the Times Picayune and other papers is profound. They are bad people who are historically bad for journalism in this country

Also that message was hilariously difficult to type because autocorrect kept changing words that were correct, so let’s not get carried away about this stuff.

I’m sorry but they’re making claims for this stuff like “it’s going to end disease in ten years.” If it does that I will cook and eat my shoes. Will it likely impoverish large numbers of people and cause a lot of misery? Yes. But let’s be clear about what hype we’re gonna believe.

I did this. Entirely worth it.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

He’s great, terrific live and creating a great body of work consisting of original songs and covers he’s really made his own. I’m happy he said this.

The Barbaric History of Sugar in America (Published 2019) How sugar became the “white gold” that fueled slavery — and an industry that continues to exploit black lives to this day.

As long as we’re talking about sugar and its history:

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday

Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

The gulf between democratic voters and leadership is so huge and the inability of leadership to recognize that and adjust is just crazy making.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

I feel like this (by which I mean the last 10 years) is an ongoing mask off moment where we’re going to see how few people who genuinely have those principles there actually are.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

Amazing.

If you're in line for Melania tickets, stay in line.

University and college administrators have so much to answer for in creating our present disaster.

This is the escalation cycle I've been talking about for months, one Homan can't pretend DHS is not part of.

DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...

They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.

Possibly the only thing I am less excited about than an album of AI-generated music featuring Liza Minelli and Art Garfunkel.

Not a lot has made me feel hopeful lately but this did.

This is really one of the best political podcasts out there. This episode lays out so much history and context for the present situation in Venezuela. It’s clear-eyed about the Maduro government‘s abuses without once letting that justify this ugly new chapter in US imperialism. I learned a lot.

Hotline operators report flood of calls for rental assistance as residents hide during ICE surge 211 calls from Spanish-speakers have increased more than 1,600 percent and requests for rental assistance have more than tripled, according to Greater Twin Cities United Way. Local officials are pushi...

Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.

This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.

People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.