So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.

And this is what they called it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

nothing will ever be twitter again idk what to tell the ppl writing about this stuff, it can't be twitter, bc we want better than twitter which ended up largely capitalizing on ragebait as a replacement for human interaction

this is immensely cool and I could not watch it bc my brain has an instinctive panic around anything that reminds me how small I am and how enormous the world/ocean is, video of blue whales terrifies me on an irrational level

see also i can't do images of space

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Who doesn't double check this stuff? I am really grateful that I work in medicine and we just. Do that.

Okay, brain literally stopped working, so time to stop for the night:
Progress: Day 4/8 (Exam due 2/19)
- 35/48 problem completed, but still need checking and clean-up
- macros created for set symbols in Excel and Word
- not screaming

2.) Started cursing at De Morgan's Law when I realized the complement was INSIDE the parenthesis and I couldn't use it.
3.) Realized I'd used Distributive, Commutative over and over and was going in horrifying circles.
4.) Forgot how to do addition. And subtraction.

Computational Thinking Exam I is All Set Theory, All the Time. It's due in four days; we have eight days to finish it. That may be enough time, I honestly don't know anymore.

Among my greatest moments:
1.) Had a crisis thinking I mixed up Absorption Law and Distributive Second Corollary

I keep saying lawyers are going into battle on the front lines every damn day and it matters, it matters so much. Here's a thread from one who never wanted to do immigration law but is doing it anyway under the worst circumstances.

God, I love that book.

We were coming up with perfectly good conspiracy theories why they shut down an airport for *10 days.* Then we all agreed it was probably going to be something stupid.

We didn't know it was going to be "we popped a balloon with a giant laser so the furious FAA shut down air traffic" stupid. Wow.

If you’re mourning Dawson today, add that colonoscopy

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face?

LYONS: None


SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back?

LYONS: None

Surely by now we should have an alternative that is private and not terrible?

However, at no point did we ever get a concept known as Symmetric Difference. I have no idea why I love those words, but such is life

Finished the double assignment this week for set theory, which I thought would be a nightmare but holy shit, why did no one tell me how much fun it is? THERE ARE LAWS.

Which yeah, now that I've spent a week stockholming myself into loving this, I do remember a lot of this came up in Algebra. B

This will go swimmingly, I'm sure

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

discord.com/press-releas...

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

The things people are offering up as "if you like Heated Rivalry," are all wild.

If you liked Heated Rivalry, go to AO3's "pining while fucking" tag. You're welcome.

THIS. They’re in the South Metro now, hitting Carver County & Minneapolis suburbs HARD.

NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

They’re detaining observers because ICE & CBP believe the real problem is people filming them, not that ICE & CBP is committing domestic terror.

Less footage = less national news coverage.

Prosecutors stunned as ICE lets suspect in $100m jewelry heist leave US Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, charged with stalking armored truck in 2022, allowed to self-deport to South America

What a disgrace.

ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial.

This is the result of Stephen Miller’s chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

From WIRED: How to Film Ice (an article)

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

By the numbers….

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

What an absolutely disgusting and disgraceful post by Trump.

But this is who he has always been: racist to his core and rotten in his soul.

Good people everywhere should stand up and reject this.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.