Eagle-Owl 🦉

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of ex- treme hypotheticals about a future where the President “feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” Post, at 18 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.); see post, at 26, 29–30; post, at 8–9, 10, 12, 16, 20–21 (opinion of JACKSON, J.).

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists

The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.

The problem with the Supreme Court supermajority is not just one of ideology or politics, but of epistemology. The world as they understand it bears little resemblance to reality www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

"At a recent virtual meeting, chief prosecutors and other leaders of the 93 US attorney’s offices were told to provide DOJ headquarters with vivid instances in which judges obstructed through adverse rulings," w/a view to "inform[ing] potential impeachment referrals to Congress."

We're asking ICE to do nothing

Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.

If Vance isn’t able to attend an Olympic event without an entourage of armored vehicles that looks like he just landed at Normandy in 1944, maybe he shouldn’t go.

Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors

"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"

The paper contains a form of truly seedy emotional blackmail inside its spurious argument that “artificial general intelligence” is the same as “intelligence” in humans: that to deny LLMs general intelligence means you also have to say this or that human being does not have any intelligence.

Screencap of linked blog post: Agüera y Arcas is making the analogy “LLMs are like Deafblind people”, ostensibly to show how LLMs are more like people. But he hasn’t shown (and, I’d argue, can’t) that LLMs are like people, with internal lives, relationships, and full personhood. So the analogy ends up dehumanizing Deafblind people, by saying they are like something that is patently not human, and saying so specifically because of their disability. And even if you believe that LLMs might be somewhat human-like, the analogy is still dehumanizing, in saying that Deafblind people are closer to these (ostensibly) partially human-like objects than other people. And that, in turn, suggests that non-Deafblind people are more fully human.

Alas, this isn't new. As I wrote in 2022:

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Disabling Intelligences This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

But now we are fortunate to have @fractalecho.bsky.social 's amazing book out in the world. Read it to be better prepared to recognize & combat ableism and eugenics in "AI" discourse.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Screencap reading: They don’t have bodies. Without embodiment, critics argue, there can be no general intelligence. This reflects an anthropocentric bias that seems to be wielded only against AI. People would ascribe intelligence to a disembodied alien communicating by radio, or to a brain sustained in a vat. An entity that responds accurately to any question, but never moves or acts physically, would be regarded as profoundly intelligent. Physicist Stephen Hawking interacted with the world almost entirely through text and synthesized speech, yet his physical limitations in no way diminished his intelligence. Motor capabilities are separable from general intelligence. The sentence starting "Physicist" is highlighted in blue. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-6

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it:

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So Pedophiles run the Republican party.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

If anyone is wondering, like I was…

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

So, for real, question for the men following me - women low-key know enough men behave like this to distrust men in general. What are you doing with your peers and friends and self to create trust with women? How can you help knock these fuckers down?

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.

If not, why not?

I am used to people underestimating my intellectual capabilities and range and it would be nice to not be used to it

Okay I do see why these dumbasses want a chatbot to write emails for them

Next time choose *not* to get played.

This is what has happened in LA. I rely on @lataco.bsky.social’s daily updates because even local news often fails to report kidnappings now. ICE has been taking our neighbors since *June* and sometimes I despair of people elsewhere knowing/caring.

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

ICE claims a man shattered his skull running into wall; Minneapolis hospital staff reject account "It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses. "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall."

"It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses. "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall."

Trump: Alex Pretti is a domestic terrorist. We're going to continue to abduct people in Minneapolis

Homan: Mistakes were made. No I won't tell you which ones. We're proscuting people who are mean to ICE as domestic terrorists

MSM: Isn't it wonderful that Trump is finally lowering the temperature