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Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

“My government has a relentless focus on looking after British citizens. Unless you’re kidnapped at sea, in which case good fucking luck I guess LOL”

YouTube video by CogSci: Interdisciplinary Study of the Mind Resisting dehumanization in the age of AI - Emily Bender

And if you prefer to watch & listen to talks, here's the talk it is based on:

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This is very good. And very funny and enlightening. Our ruling elites' useful idiots showing how far they will go in their disappointing, miserable little lives. The mind boggles at their strange lives.

Disembowel Enoch Powell - Arun Kundnani Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today. On April 20, 1968, British member of parliament Enoch Powell a...

The historic dynamics at play today. 'That the nation’s first racial populist was also its first prominent neoliberal reveals much about the relationship between racism and neoliberalism.' 'Too often, the left imagines racism as distinct from the neoliberal project.'
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China Road Trip Exposes List of Uninvestable Assets in the West Venture capitalists in clean tech are starting to say out loud what they’ve suspected for a while: China’s dominance has left key sectors in the West uninvestable.

“Venture capitalists in clean tech are starting to say out loud what they’ve suspected for a while: China’s dominance has left key sectors in the West uninvestable.”

YouTube video by JohntheDuncan How Neoliberal migration crisis is causing fascism! Global Care Chains

This is a very useful and succinct explanation of why the right is focussed on borders and gender.

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"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging.

Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time.

More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

Join the Center for Innovation, Law, and Society (CILS) for a talk with Dr. @timnitgebru.bsky.social about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement.

This in-person event will also be livestreamed: bit.ly/42kxaQV

#AGI #AI

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale Labour Party Conference 2025: Lobby Groups Line Up

My phizog, from Labour conference today

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You love to see it

DOJ’s attempts to charge these cases in DC and LA have been resoundingly unsuccessful. Grand juries have rejected a huge proportion of the attempts to indict. One case in LA that went to trial as a misdemeanor recently ended in acquittal

Sex work - It's just a job. The story of the struggle to decriminalise sex work through an assembly of people who work or have worked in the sex trades

'Sex Work: It's just a job'.

Netpol is co-host for a screening of a new film from the US on decriminalising sex work, with a Q&A including @alexvitale.bsky.social and sex worker allies.

🗓️ Friday 3 October
📍 Keyworth Arts and Media Centre
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...

Tomorrow, activists are meeting with Tower Hamlets Council to try and get the council to buy Bethnal Green Working Mens Club in order to safeguard it future as an important LBGTQ+ cultural space

“What a summer of women’s sport.”
“England women will inspire the next gen.”

Why are we whitewashing this year?

Trans women and girls were literally banned. Sex testing was brought back. And Black players are being subjected to racism.

Journalism MUST recognise setbacks as well as progress.

This is something we disabled people call "inspiration porn". It's incredibly degrading. Because it shouldn't be about whether this disabled person can make it up this step. It should be why is it inaccessible in the first place, so they have to struggle?

Don't cheer us – help make it accessible.

If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties.

BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?

PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?

EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. Opt-out means no housing
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Let that sink in

"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

Information literacy and chatbots as search By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

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Exact same thing this morning. First item on 6 Music News is a story about migrants trying to get on boats in France 🤯

So far there have been zero trans women reported as having visited epsteins pedo island. But lots of people who want you to think trans women are threats to children seemed to have gone there at some point.

Curious...

"I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”

― Assata Shakur