Stuart Marks

Remember when the DHS suggested deporting 100 million people?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What would 100 million deportations do to the economy?

Deviant Ollam (@deviantollam@defcon.social) Attached: 4 images Wondering what journalists might be interested in the news story of an ICE agent negligently discharging his gun through the walls of a hotel he was staying at. Folk FOIA'd the po...

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TL;DR ICE gunman in his hotel room was adjusting the backstrap on his Glock, which was loaded and had a round chambered. Gun fired, bullet tore through his shirt, went through the wall and into the next room. No injuries.

Did you hear about the case where the off duty DHS gunman accidentally shot a hole through his sweatshirt and his hotel room wall? Somebody on Mastodon posted the police report; I’ll dig it up.

What gave it away is not Lutnick's answer, but Van Hollen merely saying "Very well then, continue." He'd never say that.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

The last time somebody thanked Pete Hegseth, he replied “No problem“ !

Now that I think of it BoT also has a suicide/sacrifice theme. “In a different reality, I could have called you friend. … Just one more duty to perform.”

Not worth quibbling about exact order. BoT is definitely in there. IMO so is Doomsday Machine. As a youngster I was scared by the planet killer, but Decker’s sacrifice permanently lodged itself into the back of my head. (You and I had an exchange about suicide on the birdsite.)

I wanted to see them lower a pot of hot coffee on a long rope.

In Gattaca (1997) they wore suits and ties for space travel. Quite the upgrade.

This is my full 50-page statement to Gov. Pritzker's "Illinois Accountability Commission," trying to explain comprehensively the depth of corruption, culture, and training problems within ICE and CBP. I hope you'll at least consider scanning through it: drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...

Thank you for watching it so I don’t have to.

Instead of ICE/CBP “agents” or “officers” I prefer to call them paramilitary forces, militias, or masked gunmen.

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Start Your Year with Java Right with Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando Hi, Spring (and Java) fans! In this episode I am beyond delighted to talk Java developer advocate and longtime friend of the show Billy Korando about the latest-and-greatest in the Java ecosystem.

I loved chatting with Oracle Java developer advocate, and friend of the show, Billy Korando in this week's episode of a Bootiful Podcast!

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Maureen Dowd didn’t want to admit to this one?

Good article. While it’s popular to call ICE/CBP fascists or nazis or thugs or whatever, these are easily dismissed as mere name-calling. Instead we should use descriptive terms used for similar groups in other countries, such as “paramilitary forces” or “extremist militia“ or “masked gunmen”.

Model UN kids are fine, except for those who treat it as a competitive sport.

Another Boston cabbie story. A colleague took a cab and asked for a restaurant recommendation, and later reported that the recommendation was for “Jimmy’s Homicide”.

No-Name on the Fish Pier? I visited Boston a lot on business trips. Once, I took a cab to No-Name and asked for a receipt. The cabbie wrote “No Name” and the wrong date. I figured this would take too much explaining so I threw away the receipt and filed my expense report with “receipt lost”.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

a man with a mustache wearing a cowboy hat and vest is sitting in a bowling alley . ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a cowboy hat and vest is sitting in a bowling alley .

#Java peers…

I was reminded that on January 8th I celebrated 25 combined years at #SunMicrosystems and @Oracle focusing on multiple Java projects, many of which address the community.

Thx to everyone who’ve supported me all these years

After working on ZGC for a decade, I’m happy to announce that I’m publishing a book about ZGC in JDK 25. It ships 22 May (www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...) and is being published by Taylor & Francis. You should get a copy if you want to learn more about ZGC. It’s available for pre-order now.

Yeah this sh*t has been going on for years.

Great Spike Jones callback!

#GOTOpodcas: @mauricenaftalin.bsky.social and @smarks.bsky.social revisit Java Generics and Collections.

Listen for reflections on Java's development and many “we thought this was fine” moments.

🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Heh. I knew about Price Club but I didn’t know about Smart & Final!

Cool. When I visited the KSC I found the Saturn V the most impressive. I walked from one end to the other; it’s massive. And at the pointy end there is a tiny capsule that carried the astronauts to the moon and back, and it’s the only bit that returned. 🤩