Erikk Geannikis

A poster that says Did you see: -a tent in the woods? -someone shoplifting? -a person sleeping in their car? NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT people are struggling don't make it worse

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Just walked by a guy on a busy sidewalk with a bow and a quiver of arrows

forget what's actually under the hood here (which I'm sure is ML powered by a clearview-sized database, if not just clearview). but to make an analogy: the elisions, reversals, and swap-outs that turn this ostensible exercise of justice into its opposite are what genAI will enable *for everything*

a thing to think about in the future is that this is something a democratic congress will need to reign in, and we desperately need more democratic congressional reps to actually take the time to learn and understand how technology works, wyden isn't going to live forever

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

it's absolutely undignified that a very significant groove in my psyche was forged by a man named lucas duda. borderline unthinkable, here in the year of our lord twenty twenty-five. i say this not from shame, but from awe

mike conforto, who's on LA tonight, was there. I don't want to know that, obviously. I don't want to intone the name 'jeurys' as though a curse, or watch chris young's giant body traipse like a bigfoot through my mind. I don't want to still be in that exploded moment a decade on, but… here I am lord

y'know, 10 years ago to the day, the world series also went to the 14th inning

y'know for a guy who is often posting about baseball, your allegiances are pretty hard to pin down (complimentary)

These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

‘I Was NOT Expecting This To Work’: Man Drives To Graveyard. Then His Tesla Radar Starts Detecting Spirits There are several instances of Tesla drivers purportedly seeing ghosts on their environmental visualization screens, particularly when in or near cemeteries.

Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" hallucinates pedestrians and people on TikTok think it's seeing ghosts... it's not an all-too common failure mode in a safety-critical system, it's seasonal marketing!

insideevs.com/news/776769/...

If the AI bubble pops, it'll make dealing with our political crisis easier.

But if history ends up rhyming, it'll pop shortly before a Democrat becomes president, whenever that may be, and a lot of the public will blame the fallout on whoever is in power at the time, not on those who inflated it.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Zohran interviewing a Knicks fan with a mic. The caption is "bing bong."

another day, another email received from a dude looking to recruit strangers to sign up for his dryer vent cleaning service groupon, sent to every member of the bay area audiomakers mailing list

you sniffed out what I was wondering. in my many times eating his food during the takeout-only pandemic area, I ordered a ton of fishy things he featured, especially nostalgia-laden jewy ones, found them hit or miss. that cheeseburger though. damn. but also, fishy stews famously don't travel well.

ok but what was your sammy's order

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

(Civil War breaks out) Fuck this, I’m starting a pretzel company

i think it's great that this is written like a little mystery. the same day, you say???

spilling many spectators / onto a furnace.
now that's what I call enjambment.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

If we really put our heads together and keep the evening of December 24 clear, I am convinced we can Christmas Carol this man.

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit." Someone named Manny replies: "@grok why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

glad you're there brother