Wendy Ju

Could not be more clear who the real criminals are in this country

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

“People followed wrong AI answers 80% of the time. The effect size for the gap between AI-accurate and AI-faulty trials was massive…Essentially, AI determined the outcomes more than people.”
www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

::bounce:: My upcoming book - "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the U.S. Census" - is on the shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize!!! Thank you CJS/Nieman for your encouragement!! journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-s...

When a democracy is restored after an interlude of criminal looting like this, it is perfectly justified in seizing back the proceeds and prosecuting the looters, regardless of what they have done to make it “legal” on paper.

The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting

Please re-post: presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

Wow.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows The email details the scope of the former administration's attempts to tamper with the count, including pressuring the Census Bureau to alter plans for protecting privacy and producing accurate data.

www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1...

How the Trump administration skirts — and defies — court rulings on ICE detentions A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.

Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Every American needs to watch this:

such a happy story in the darkness

Close the ICE detention centers.

Douglas Engelbart, wearing a white button down shirt with a dark thin tie, seated, demonstrating the computer mouse in 1968.

Engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart was born #OTD in 1925. His team at SRI developed or contributed to the computer mouse, hypertext, networked computers, and graphical interfaces, all of which were presented in 1968 at what is referred to as the “Mother of All Demos." 🧪

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Arresting journalists.

Fatally shooting protestors.

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

We're going to win this election one House and Senate seat at a time!

Let's all follow @janetmillsforme.bsky.social for U.S. Senate in Maine and get her followers from 1,000 to 3,000.

1) I'm sharing this with my 77,000 followers
2) Share this with your followers
3) Rinse
4) Repeat

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Ti Couz. Breton-style crepes in San Francisco's Mission district. Their mushroom sauce (with some gruyere) was exquisite. As was the caramel sauce crepe with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Have never found anything that compares.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

as if this wasn't bad enough on its face, they didn't search a natsec beat journo like Ellen Nakashima or even defense Dan Lamothe/Alex Horton, it was Hannah Natanson, whose beat has been......DOGE and related abuses of feds

guys I don't think they were looking for classified documents

Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore

So excited to see my friend @add-hawk.bsky.social in the NY Times for his new book! Thi is one of those friends with a genius for living, and it’s been fun to see him turn this, over the years, into his livelihood. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...