Matthew Mowry

Texas town rejects detention centre in protest against Trump’s immigration policies Owner of warehouse refuses to sell or lease facility to Department of Homeland Security in growing backlash

Texas town rejects detention centre in protest against Trump’s immigration policies ft.trib.al/cKHEehV

Why am I just now realizing that an entire generation didn't just get dumber because of tetraethyl lead in fuel, but because the advent of streaming and ubiquitous cable TV didn't compel them through scarcity to watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune every damn night? Like Sesame Street for Boomers.

She's putting a gilded lid on a massive underground data warehouse and surveillance hub, and doing a bang-up job of being an effective distraction. A room-temperature potato could do the same thing, but that's not the point

I hope she's right in the sense that the future of journalism is to be rebuilt, starting small, from the bottom up. What I hope for is a distributed distribution/hosting model that ensures that journalists are paid for their work and citizens aren't beholden to a "platform"

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."

Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.

Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

every leftist i know is very excited about technology but unfortunately they want tech that improves society and makes people's lives easier and that's harder for wealthy prdophiles to build a trillion dollar industry bubble around

It’s 2026, you can’t just go around saying a crew of religious dudes have touched millions without being more specific. People will get the wrong idea.

let's not forget the overtly political imagery (e.g. sugarcane)

i'm here for it, lfg

My family, full of questions and not Spanish-speaking: "Dad, what do you mean 'Holy shit, sugarcane! They went there!'"

It really is that simple. If you're following me, odds are you're privileged in one way or another. Spend it.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I mean… 🐐

…to hide prodigious debt and escape prosecution FTFY

so funny this immediately happens when software companies can’t pretend that ai was anything more than money moving between 10 different companies over and over and doesn’t lead to any real growth

Our Analyses - Election Truth Alliance Election Truth Alliance’s 2024 U.S. Election Analysis uncovers forensic data, swing-state irregularities, and the need for transparent hand audits.

If this read "2024" I'd repost it. electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-elec...

🚨ICE is teargassing a PRE-SCHOOL! 🚨
#ICEoffOurStreets

Let's not forget that Tom Homan was the force behind family separations last time around. He's a full-blown white nationalist, even if he does cosplay as Kevin from The Office instead of 3/4 scale Joseph Goebbels.

Once Again, Under the Shadow of Authoritarian Power, Americans Must Decide What Kind of Nation We Will Become Will we stand with the generations who expanded freedom through resistance and sacrifice or surrender self-government to fear, force, and authoritarian power?

Once Again, Under the Shadow of Authoritarian Power, Americans Must Decide What Kind of Nation We Will Become
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

Not that it’s the same crowd by any stretch, but with ICE/DHS providing “security” to the NFL for the Super Bowl ™️- I wonder if any data will be shared between the two events.

Note: I almost edited “pharmacy” into “insurance carrier,” for accuracy. But then I remembered that the pharmacy, the PBM, and the insurance carrier are all different heads on the same beast.

He has already done Putin’s bidding in destabilizing the US, removing it from its unipolar world power role, and crashing the petrodollar. Greenland is for his other daddy, Mr. Thiel.

Lauder might be Trump’s geriatric buddy, but Peter Thiel is calling the shots. And he already tried to buy Greenland. Which is proof that he has no intention of considering the rest of humanity in his decision making, and justification to strip him of all the benefits provided him by civil society

Denmark makes 75% of the insulin sold in the US.

If you voted for this regime, I do not have enough forgiveness in my heart for you. May you be forced to endure similar circumstances until you learn empathy.

The retail cost of a 90-day supply was $9700, at least 10x what the insurance company pays.

I spent 9 hours last weekend desperately trying to convince my pharmacy to fill an insulin prescription (two months late, down to less than a day supply) with some of the $27k/year that is paid to them on my behalf in lieu of a competitive salary. 1/3

Step 1: have elections. Step 2: try to count most of the votes. These are bigger hurdles than they seem. I don’t dare hope that we get to hand count 2024, but it’d be nice.

From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food. Explore this post and more from the minnesota community

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

a solid find; would that those who need to read it had the stamina for reading more than a few dozen words without pictures.

I've got a long list, but Your Racist Friend has proven to be far too prescient not to mention lately