"A possible source of new information"--GB

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

The problem with gamifying life Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 02/09/2026 · 49m

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@biblioracle.bsky.social have you seen this?

The Taken: Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents From Minnesota to Texas We document these patterns through the use of sworn declarations and court filings.

I just published:

The Taken
Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas

Documented through court records.

Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.

If you want to help you can PayPal me at benjamin.wittes@gmail.com or Venmo me @benjaminwittes. (Venmo is better, as transactions fees are lower). This is not an organizational effort. So there's no tax deduction. This is just me spending my money. If you don't trust me to spend yours, don't send it

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

Pernicious wordplay by Vance.

Vance: "Nobody is talking about doing immigration enforcement without a warrant."

Truth 1:

DHS is doing immigration enforcement IN PEOPLE's HOMES without a JUDICIAL warrant.

Truth 2:

Our system - the Fourth Amendment - requires a judicial warrant.

Fires me up! He’s the real deal.

Will he run for President in ‘28 or in ‘32? Powerful stuff. Talking like a generational talent.

You're seeing what I'm seeing, right?

Stop looking for a "mind" inside the GenAI model. Start looking at the model as a mirror that reflects the genre, tone, and context of the text you provide.

Remember when people had to be taught that just because they saw something in print that didn’t make it true?

"Let it rip!" --Sam Darnold

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

Oof.

Good point. Makes me consider how that public/private guardrail, in Texas anyway, is weakened, made porous, with the use of public school vouchers for use in religious based private schools. At a certain point, it’s pretty naked “money with strings & repression for thee but money & freedom for me.”

Kara is the GOAT.

I don’t get how it’s “free expression” if there are certain things you now aren’t allowed to say that 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago you could say without looking over your shoulder a bit.

Voting patterns in the 2024 election Voting patterns among many demographic groups in 2024 were similar to those in 2020 and 2016, but Trump made gains among several key groups, a Pew Research Center analysis shows.

Whites need to figure their shit out more. Blacks do recognize it but more went for Trump in 2024: “Trump nearly doubled his support among Black voters between 2020 and 2024: 8% voted for him in 2020 vs. 15% last year. Still, 83% of Black voters backed Harris.” www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Would an example (or counter-example?) to what you propose be that at a faith-based college, using the word designating that faith would work against diversity?

Negritude, or Negro—since the MAGAs are more comfortable living in the past, in the wayback machine.

I don’t get how it’s “free expression” if there are certain things you now aren’t allowed to say that 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago you could say without looking over your shoulder a bit.

What the Post Cuts Will Do With a third of its staff gone, the Post won’t be able to deliver on the vision its leadership has laid out.

Jesus. I was wondering about severance packages. Their union is fighting for better ones. But not everyone was in the union and if you worked there for less than three years, the severance, if any, was small. www.cjr.org/analysis/wha...

Again. The WaPo is dead to me.

Bezos is turning it into the Washington Times.

An inhuman centipede.

It’s difficult to draw any other conclusions.

Europe is more moral than the USA.

And the WaPo pushing the B$. Unsurprising now. Sadly.

Trivializing.

2.5: Does using AI do harm? If so, should we stop using it? Energy, water, IP violations, and exploitative labor are among the harms caused by AI. Deciding what actions individuals and society can take to address this is challenging.

"Does using AI do harm? If so, should we stop using it?"
A mini personal essay in my student-facing OER text AI and College Writing: An Orientation that references @jonippolito.net and @kconrad.bsky.social
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Yes. People around the country felt it. It hurt to see. No process was followed. On the conservative podcast for Commentary magazine, they made light of the concern. To them I think it showed why Democrats are losers: they pay too much attention to trivial things. The panelists were laughing.

Not bad. This is the kind of right brain imagination run I might make—though yours is actually humorous and not just clever.