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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Ten Years of Horror Hits to Read This October Halloween is, of course, the traditional season for scary stories. But for those of us weirdly dedicated to the genre, it’s a year-round endeavor....

I spy with my little eye a list with @tkingfisher.com on it. www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

These are the "law enforcement" tactics federal agents are using in Chicago. Their car is obstructed by a moped so they tear gas the entire neighborhood.

Unacceptable in America.

"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."

Shirer, p. 242

I explained (I had been sent to search for transtibial prostheses) that the suffix trans is still returning garbled results because of what they did earlier this year. “Really irritating,” I laughed.

He widened his eyes. “More than irritating, it’s frightening.”

“Really fucking frightening.”

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Periodic request for a recommendation: it helps me, with complex code, to draw things out. Something like flow charts, but really just connected objects/concepts/functions. This involves shapes, text inside the shapes, and lines (sometimes with labels).

do any of the paid clipart sites disallow "ai" art?

nora reed designs ad reading "new this week" with a variety of pendants, some cufflinks, earrings and a bolo tie. the background is an image of a glass sheet in purple and green that eventually became one of the pendants pictured.

hello everyone! i am nora and i have a fused glass jewelry shop at nora.jewelry. i have a bunch of new stuff this week!

i specialize in pendants, cufflinks and bolo ties but i have recently started doing more with lightweight, easy to wear sterling silver earrings.

shares would be appreciated!

BARTENDER: So you headed home?
HEROINE: *hollow laughter*
BARTENDER: Book tour, eh? The only books I read these days are Humphrey the hamster.
HEROINE: So, funny story…
BARTENDER: *buys Dragonbreath*
HEROINE: *eats a very good bagel*

The only time I have ever been afraid to put my daughter (now 20) on public transportation was this past summer when troops had taken over parts of the city.

Before that? ::shrug:: She rode MoCo buses constantly and Metro occasionally and it was fine. These people are cowardly and racist.

Young people: We don't want global climate catastrophe

Elected Dems: Hello 911? Send SWAT

Young ppl: We don't want genocide

Elected Dems: Hello 911? Send SWAT

The worst adults in any given room: We have illegally occupied this federal building

Elected Dems: Hello social media? This is a crime

BREAKING: the chief of police in Huntington Park says they arrested a man Tuesday accused of impersonating a federal agent, with fake DHS docs, cell phones and a loaded gun in an unmarked car, amid ongoing ICE raids. They discovered he had a history of arrests for human smuggling

Traffic stop in Benton leads to ICE detention, deportation risk What began as a routine traffic stop in Benton ended with a man jailed, detained by immigration authorities for a month, and now living under the threat of deportation —

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days.

He has now been stripped of his immigration status.

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:

Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies

Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things

Violently handcuffed an Alderperson

It's 3pm

LGTBQ+ youth disproportionately experience homelessness compared to their straight and cis peers. In the US, up to 40% of unhoused youth identify as LGBTQ+.

That’s why this series was created - to provide support, essential tips, and resources to youth who are so often overlooked by the system.

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

This is how I feel about labels 🤝

I was on another call and so have just been able to join, but here is a thread on the Oregon military deployment TRO hearing —>

Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah, a former chief nursing officer, was previously the first female Bishop of London.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone else tired?

This is blame I'm happy to accept. Authors, check to see if you're eligible to receive compensation in the Anthropic Settlement and if you are, file that claim.

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Am I finally getting a published copy of your Swiss Family Robinson critique? 😍

EDITOR: Yes. I am sold. When?
AGENT: She has five books due next year. We talked about this at the meeting.
HEROINE: Was that a meeting? I thought it was an intervention.

Paladin’s Grace! Kindle! 99p! One day only! www.amazon.co.uk/Paladins-Gra...

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Thinking about that Chicago apartment building. Everyone got their apartments tossed as well, and this is how you can become functionally undocumented.

How does somebody who lost their paperwork this time prove they're who they say next time?