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Wayfinding: Teenhood · Luma A panel of teens discussing what they wish technologists knew about being a teenager online. Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in…

You know how everyone's freaked out about how technology is impacting teens? Notice how often the voices of teens are missing from the conversation? Come to the Wayfinding: Teenhood event next week and hear a panel of actual genuine teens talk about their perspectives on it! luma.com/wayfinding3

illustration of a wolf with a speech bubble MARCH RENT! financial mutual aid needed supporting 11 families current goal: $7,000 venmo: @Emma-Torzs

posting to boost - this one came to me vouched by a person i trust - mutual aid drive for rent relief supporting 11 MSP families

Goal: $7,000
Venmo: @Emma-Torzs

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a technology we can all be excited about

Helen Frankenthaler, Southern Exposure, 2005

Helen Frankenthaler, Provincetown, 1964

Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.

you’re so talented and funny ??

lake, broken ice floating, geese taking off from it

i missed her

a red-throated loon

a white-winged scoter

a long-tailed duck

As the ice was melting, Montrose Harbor had a lot of interesting birds this afternoon. A sample:
1. red-throated loon
2. white-winged scoter
3. long-tailed duck
4. common merganser

A somewhat clear section of frozen lake appears almost teal. Section of white snow and ice surround the deeply colored, dark section of clear ice.

The sun breaks through clouds over a frozen Lake Michigan. Blowing snow drifts atop frozen waves in the foreground, lit by the sun.

Ice covering Lake Michigan as far as the eye can see near sunset. Puffy clouds are in the sky and the sun partially shines though

Peaks that look like distant mountains are conical towers of ice formed by freezing wave action. They are lit by the sun.

Lake Michigan never ceases to amaze, especially in winter

Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com “Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

I hate to quote myself, but: “…the technology’s real value isn’t improving productivity, or even in improving products. Rather, [‘artificial intelligence’ is] a social mechanism employed to ensure compliance in the workplace, and to weaken worker power.” ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Whatever the productivity gains promised by LLMs, they result in heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”

All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

it’s regular cc @interrobang.bsky.social

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that’s our Deirdre!!!

this is going to earworn me to death

Check out that site and you'll see some stats like "if you're in a room with 25 people, there's a ~70% chance at least one of them has covid" (Illinois/Indiana/Iowa). That person may be you! Wear a mask!!!

COVID-19 Heat Map Based on CDC Wastewater Data and Levels (U.S.) A map of the US showing covid levels. There's a band of Very High levels stretching from South Dakota over to Ohio. The only other Very High state is Maine.

Hey Midwesterners! Please wear a mask!!

paprika on the bed, sunlight on her legs and face

catching the light

Shedding light on Iran’s longest internet blackout A staggering death toll.

I interviewed an expert on what's happening with connectivity in Iran:

The longest blackout in Iran's history. Thousands dead. Documentation of war crimes dependent on Starlink. A regime that uses AI's ubiquity to undermine the credibility of evidence. www.theverge.com/policy/87184...

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.

📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

ICE releases Chicago-area mother after seven months. It failed to provide evidence justifying her detention. While Marina Lopez was in ICE detention for seven months, parishioners in her church stepped up to help care for her family.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/m... [gift link]

DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign.

“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…

here's a rent fun in mpls you can donate to right now, from organizers i know and can personally vouch for!

emergency rent support for North MPLS: venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA

A community warning, in English, of federal agents kidnapping 2 people in Humboldt Park, near the intersection of Lawndale and W. Augusta, on the morning of 1/29/2025.

A community warning, in Spanish, of federal agents kidnapping 2 people in Humboldt Park, near the intersection of Lawndale and W. Augusta, on the morning of 1/29/2025.

ICE activity has been ramping up in Chicagoland again this month.

The city's northwest side rapid respsonse team is reporting 2 people taken this morning from Chicago's heavily Latine Humboldt Park neighborhood, and advising that agents may still be in the area.

seattle!

UNTIL THIS OCCUPATION IS OVER, WE ARE POST MODERN TIMES POST MODERZE TIMES IS FREE FOR ALL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OUR OCCUPIERS! DONATE @moderntimescafe givemn.org/story/centralimpactuha OR IN PERSON

Hello, My name is Dylan. I own Modern Times Cafe in South Minneapolis and have for 15 years. Modern Times is on the corner of 32nd and Chicago Ave; 6 blocks from where George Floyd was murdered, 3 blocks from where Renee Good was executed, and a mere neighborhood away from where Alex Pretti was murdered. After ICE Agents shot and killed Renee and then Alex, l was at the scene within hours. I witnessed hostile and aggressive armed goons sent by the Federal Government protecting each other from unarmed, outraged citizens. I bore witness to these atrocities and was tear-gassed, smoke bombed, and concussion grenaded alongside my neighbors. Minneapolis has been living through the abhorrent horror of the federally sanctioned abduction of our neighbors, public executions of people exercising their rights, and a targeted escalation of government violence. It's an atrocious and despicable occupation. We are entering yet another week of this occupation with a deep sense of dread and mourning. We absolutely cannot go on as we have. I am sick of generating money for the soldiers in our streets and for a government that won't protect us - a government who is actively inflicting daily harm on its citizens. Effective tomorrow we are done making money for the fascists that occupy our city. We refuse to generate taxes under the guise of a functioning for-profit capitalist business aligned with government strategy. […] Therefore, for the remainder of the government occupation, we will function as a free and donation based restaurant, Post Modern Times. Everyone is welcome EXCEPT ICE. Hours will not change but our menu will be smaller. Staff agreed to be present on a volunteer basis, working from shared tips and community donations. […] I am inspired by the ways our community has grown together, our hearts breaking open, to give and receive care in all the ways we can. May we continue to see each other in the streets. People have a way to donate. @moderntimescafe Venmo

Saw this on Instagram: Modern Times Cafe in Minneapolis is going to be free and volunteer-staffed for the duration of the occupation of the city, is accepting donations to cover costs via @moderntimescafe on Venmo

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

On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

we recently moved the bookshelves to the front of Astoria Food Pantry and ppl have been using them much more which makes me SO HAPPY but also means we need more books! we love donations from neighbors, authors, publishers, (galleys are great), etc. you can DM me or email therollinglibrary@gmail.com