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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.

Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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I have a story about due process in a mass adjudicatory setting.

A while back, there was this group called the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints that had a compound in rural Texas. Well these FLDS folks dressed funny (like bonnets and long dresses and suspenders and corncob pipes funny).

This is probably weird, but I like reading your alt text descriptions almost as much as I like seeing your pictures 🔥

TIMELINE ABREGO GARCIA GANG ALLEGATIONS - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION. 2011-2019: Entry and Early Life: Kilmar Abrego Garcia flees El Salvador to the US at age 16, after M-18 gang members extort his family and threaten to kill him and rape his sisters if they didn’t keep paying. He moves in with his US citizen brother in Maryland and lives there without trouble for years. March 28, 2019: PGPD Arrest. Kilmar is arrested for loitering outside Home Depot while looking for day labor. A Prince Georges County PD detective grills him about whether he’s a gang member. He denies any involvement. Four hours later, he is transferred to ICE custody, without PGPD charging him for any offense. April 2019: ICE Allegations: At a bond hearing, ICE claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. They submit one piece of evidence: a “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) filled out by the PGPD detective that claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. The GFIS says (1) he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, and (2) a “confidential informant” allegedly claimed that Kilmar was a ranking member of the “Westerns” clique, which is in Long Island, a place he has never lived in.

Summer 2019: Investigation: Kilmar’s lawyers reach out to PGPD to investigate these claims. They find out that (1) the police did not even file an incident report about his arrest, and (2) the detective that filled out the GFIS has been suspended for an unknown reason. August 2019: IJ Decision: At his final bond hearing, ICE declines to offer any evidence of gang membership other than what’s in the GFIS. The IJ denies bond, finding that the GFIS is sufficient proof of membership at this time, despite noting its obvious flaws. Kilmar appeals this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. October 2019: Withholding Win: The immigration judge rules that Kilmar is ineligible for asylum because he filed the application too late. But the judge does grant “withholding of removal,” finding that it was “more likely than not” that he would be subject to persecution if deported to El Salvador. A removal order is issued, but with a restriction that the one country he cannot be deported to is El Salvador.

December 2019: BIA Decision: Kilmar appeals the bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The appeals board declines to find “clear error” in the immigration judge’s decision to rely on the GFIS document. However, he is released anyway because he had won withholding of removal. 2019-2025: Normal Life: Kilmar lives a normal life in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife, their biological son, and his two stepchildren. With his work permit, he gets a job as a sheet metal worker, joins a union, and raises his family in a DC suburb. He doesn’t get into any trouble with the law. March 2025: Sent to CECOT: On March 12, 2025, ICE comes to Kilmar’s home and arrests him in front of his children. Three days later he’s transferred to Texas, where, thanks to an “administrative error,” he is put on a plane to El Salvador and sent to CECOT

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered.

As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Guys, if you’re not American don’t go to DEF CON… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... really, really

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

meme of Stringer Bell saying "is you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy?" with caption "are you automatically generating a transcript of this faculty meeting"

Screenshot of Geraldo Rivera in Iraq in 2003 drawing a sand map roughly indicating the position of the 101st Airborne Division and its expected future movement

Apropos of nothing, remember that time the US military threw Geraldo out of Iraq for drawing a map on TV? "He gave away the big picture stuff," one stunned senior military official told CNN. "He went down in the sand and drew where the forces are going."
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/m...

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.

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EFF Border Search Pocket Guide border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Trump did this in 2020 btw while he assassinated Michael Reinoehl. some of us tried to warn about it but as soon as Biden won there was no real desire among elected Dems to hold anyone accountable for stuff like that

Here's Where Those False Measles Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Came From The MMR vaccine is safe, effective, and the best tool to stop the current outbreak. So why do all those false conspiracy theories persist?

What exactly is behind that distrust, particularly in the measles vaccine? Here’s how the fully debunked and false conspiracy theories about the measles vaccine came to be.

This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.

The bat socks go hard, though

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably weren&#82…

Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...

Oh! She has! In at least one interview she talked about the briefings she's received on counter-intelligence. She has made music videos to click tracks instead of audio so it wouldn't leak.
Taylor Swift is a legitimate security expert like almost nobody in the world. She has to be. She's the target.

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My hobby is blackout poetry

Fun fact - on Windows, if you press WIN + Period(.), it includes ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ to make it easy if you want to put it in a message, and I'm the one that added it

Helpful lil privacy checklist guide for activists: activistchecklist.org

1. After a very manly bubble bath to cleanse my soul, I remembered a story. It's a true story, one about the difference between frugality, and being cheap, and why frugality is a good idea, cheapness is not. This happens in my home state of Louisiana, and I was told the story over thanksgiving meal

Screenshot of "Join the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS)" sign-in page.

Screenshot of the HTML of the selfsame page. 8 URLs with imagedelivery.net are highlighted in the HTML.

Via @zlz.bsky.social on X:
"The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt.

If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service.

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.