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Katy Naples-Mitchell, program director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School, has reviewed Dankoff’s data and called it “unsurprising.” Naples-Mitchell spends time as a pro bono attorney at South Bay Jail, aka Suffolk House of Correction. She was conducting an unrelated legal visit on a recent Friday when a family walked in to pay bail for a family member, and were given a receipt by the clerk magistrate.

“Their loved one never came out. Because instead, ICE had been alerted by the jail that this person was releasable, and so immediately upon the bail having been paid— making the person released from state custody— ICE enacted their federal detainer, and took the person into federal custody,” she said. The family, she said, told her the woman who was detained had a green card with no active order of removal. “ICE enacted their federal detainer. Instead — they were disappeared behind the jail,” she said.

People are being disappeared from Massachusetts jails

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

“Be impressed!!!” It’s weird how much you care. What’s impressive is solar panels!! Harness the sun’s power??? What am I? A wizard?????

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

No, but actually: why is it "missing out" if I'm choosing to...use my own brain to do work? I enjoy thinking for myself, thank you. That's how you grow as a person.

Never-ending complacency sounds like a sad way to exist.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Precisely. The subject of one of my favorite pieces by Lynn Hunt, which I love teaching

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Here's what happens: The unfortunate victim Googles a company name looking for a contact number, then calls the number thrown up by Al. This doesn't actually lead to the company in question, but rather to someone pretending to be that company, who then tries to take payment information or other sensitive details from the caller. It's not clear exactly how these fake numbers are being planted, but the best guess is that they're being published in multiple low-profile places online, alongside the names of major companies. Al Overviews then comes along and scoops them up, without running the proper checks to verify the information.

In short,

Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.

It was inevitable. Google’s dubious AI overview feature is being used to scam people.

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.

The cake is ready! 😃 Now to transport it to his place. It's not perfect (I don't have my baking tools with me), but I'm very pleased with how this came out.

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Someone did a legit experiment on butter temperature in cookies, controls and all, full days analysis and stats included, and I am SO HERE FOR IT. This is so incredibly nerdy and I LOVE IT

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I've known practically-my-brother since we were 3 and still have 2 very close friends from high school who I catch up with regularly. Otherwise everyone else is a casual acquaintance.

The best way to do valentine's day! I hope you have a fantastic time together ❤️

Thank you! I'm so excited for our plans: we're going to stay in, eat good food, and watch a movie together. I suggested Deadpool, the just romantic Marvel movie 😆 (we're both massive nerds)

I tried a little bit of frosting on cake scraps and *chef's kiss* it's incredible. My partner will (hopefully) love it!

I know I don't *owe* my partner anything, he's doing what a good supportive partner does. But this past 7 days? He's really gotten me through everything that's happened. I would be in worse shape without him. I want to show him how much I value him and everything he does for me. He knows, but still.

Update: cake progress! I'm dipping the strawberries tomorrow morning so they don't get weird in the fridge overnight

I'm just glad they're being safe. Go wild and consensually enjoy, Olympic athletes!

Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Disabled people are part of the future.
We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be.
This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

Have astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole? A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole.

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole. n.pr/4aomsxr

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

I would not have been able to get through the last few days without my partner. We are safe and warm right now, and I can't even begin to say how much this means to me. I am the luckiest person ever.

The last few days:

Lost one cat. Took her to be cremated.

Heat went out in the apartment building at 10am yesterday. They're currently trying to find a part to fix it. Took my remaining cat to my partner's place because I was concerned about her getting too cold. I already lost 1 cat this week...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.