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Hi, Bird!!

This is not outright horrible, but it's not great either. It makes the same error a lot of these guidance documents do in that it puts the presence of AI at the center, rather than the foundations of the experiences of learning. There's a lot of examples to illustrate, but I'll stick with two...

Have you read The Serviceberry, @therewithal.bsky.social ? It’s *so* good!!

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

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I just want one member of this secret state police force to think for a single second what it might be like to be a 20-year-old student, showing up to fulfill your routine visa paperwork, and being abducted and sent to a remote prison thousands of miles away from campus and family.

Catch-22 - if you don't follow the law, you're a criminal and they can expedite your removal if they catch you. If you do follow the law, they might just take you anyway. ¡Chinga la migra!

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

You can leave a comment. Anonymous if you so wish. I did. Today’s the last day to voice your opposition to recission.

One thing environmentalists have perhaps failed to communicate is that we need people to stop using fossil fuels, stop driving huge SUVs, stop destroying ecologies, etc, not because they’re against “abundance,” but rather the reverse! They want future people to have access to the earth’s bounty.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

But why no beach?

Walkable neighbourhoods are the best neighbourhoods.

Wildfire haze. Of course.

Is this fog or wildfire haze? ::squint::

OK, I’ll pause being melancholy to go to sleep.

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

So GEO Group and the likes of it definitely anticipate and salivate at the prospect of a future wherein they warehouse/enslave elderly folks (and others) who don’t have money to live off of. We’re not far from this, are we.

Meanwhile the real version of the Epstein case, the version that was experienced by its victims and exposed through their bravery, has barely been of interest to liberals, who are reality-based enough to know that they don’t want to get too deep into actually scrutinizing the habits of the powerful

a collection of critical tech books

Looking for good summer tech reads that aren’t going to boost terrible CEOs and their companies? I just made some updates to my Bookshop page!

Find my recommendations here: bookshop.org/shop/parismarx

A bunch of what I believe are Black Swallowtail instars hangin’ out on my dill and curly parsley.

Count the cats!

(Rest assured that not all my parsley is on death’s doorstep like that in the foreground.)

Imagine a world with a safety net for everyone.

We’re at our best when we look out for the most vulnerable among us.

It’s “normal,” and it’s *also* cause for concern with people likely to suffer because they don’t have adequate means to keep cool.

Why not both?

This happens because we have a federal political system in which voters in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago do not matter. Simple as that.

Are people so enamored with this shiny toy that— I’m not even going to continue this thought. It is so sad to see people disrespect themselves continuously

overheard one of the other customers say they found this shop by using ChatGPT. I know people use it for a lot of mundane shit, but asking an Internet robot to pick out a TATTOO ARTIST for you feels so perverse, I truly can’t wrap my head around it

I know my impact is just a drop in the bucket and maybe makes me feel slightly better more than it accomplishes anything else, but when I’m moved to help Gazans, I donate to @wck.org. Bsky user @mommunism.bsky.social has been posting a different legit Gazan each day to her page.