"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
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The patterns and tropes of the story are familiar now too: The enormous expense, the lack of longterm planning, and of course the constant, reflexive, and bombastic lying by Trump himself.
This is what it means to be America now. 3/3
And every member of the US military discovered they are now an ICE agent when news broke that designed incompetence by the Pentagon put an American missile in a school. Troops are now ultraviolent pawns defined by obedience to brutal, stupid people. 2/3
🧵 The war on Iran reveals the total Trumpification of US power.
There’s no difference between Operation Metro Surge in MN and Operation Epic Fury in Iran. It’s a glitzy remake. Noem and Hegseth are the same character in the farce. Bondi and Rubio read from the same obsequious script. 1/3
Nekima on the Target boycott.
This is false.
Jamal Harrison Bryant, a Megachurch pastor, has said the boycott is over. He is not leaders, plural. He and his church were not the ones to start the calls for boycott.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, who founded the Racial Justice Network, and other Minnesota civil rights activists were.
Yes I’d like to see them be held to some accountability as in having their business destroyed by lawsuits.
“After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review…. Based on the feedback we’ve received, we clearly missed the mark. We are sorry and will do things differently going forward.”
Grammarly has walked back their fake and ill-considered “expert review” feature. It’s a huge red flag that they shipped such a product, but at least it’s gone now.
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He’s welcome to end whatever he likes. I will continue give Greg Bovino’s Bathroom a miss.
Not in the Twin Cities it hasn’t
Nadia Schadlow, Trump’s former Deputy National Security Adviser, hasn’t read the Constitution
Someone with Grammarly will have to tell me whether or not I'm being faked in this cursed app and also whether the advise it gives is any other than "use the word 'fuck' more often"
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I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
I know they're two very different things but it's still wild that this administration was so surprised to see Minnesotans standing up for neighbors with whistles and Signal chats and then the same administration was like "Now let's attack Iran, surely THEY won't fight back in any way"
For those keeping score at home:
I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.
To be continued...
I am aware that I am noticing a pattern of lying extremely familiar to victims of domestic abuse and violence and that the resemblance is not a coincidence.
The news from Iran is so strange to consume from Minnesota. The administration’s lies about hitting a school with a missile ring the same as its lies about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It is always the victim’s fault for this president.
For shits & giggles I plugged in some of my recent stories to Grammarly’s “expert review” thing, and its bots pretended to be @franklinavenue.bsky.social, @moryan.bsky.social, @emilynussbaum.bsky.social & @brianstelter.bsky.social among others.
This is some bullshit.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
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This man’s name is Justin Fox. In this clip, he explains why a documentary about Jewish women’s experiences in the Holocaust had funding cut for being “DEI”.
I really need you to watch this one and sit with it for a minute. Please, just watch. He - unelected - got to make such impactful decisions.
GIRL REFLECTED IN KNIFE comes out in 4 weeks, and 5 authors whose work I admire read it & said nice things. Thank you, @kathleenglasgow.bsky.social @ambersmithauthor.bsky.social @exrpan.bsky.social @novarensuma.bsky.social & @shauniedarko.bsky.social for these generous words that make my heart beam
Grammarly went further and resurrected a historian who died in January 2026 to serve as an ‘AI’ reviewer/editor. It’s grotesque, the company is enslaving digital ghosts all so they can get a few clicks more.
I'm an abolitionist, so this isn't quite a dream scenario for me, but call it a pleasant daydream.
You can be certain that local police are going to collect incredible amounts of overtime while ICE is terrorizing your city. It is going to cost you a fortune. It'd be great if cops actually worked for it by protecting the people who are paying for it rather than doing crowd control for feds.
If you can (and I have no idea how), make them commit to controlling scenes of traffic accidents and making arrests. Because ICE will absolutely cause traffic accidents.
I don't know *how* to do any of this, but I'd want to try.
My point is local police are so utterly deferential to lawless and reckless federal agents that it's absurd to watch.
If you want to prepare for ICE in your city, I think one thing you could do is get local police on record that they will intervene if ICE uses pepper spray or tear gas.
The last ICE kidnapping I witnessed in St. Paul involved a car chase and crash caused by ICE. SPPD allowed ICE to arrest a person who'd caused tens of thousands of dollars in property damage and who had violated multiple laws. But ICE didn't even have a warrant. They let him go days later.
Chief O'Hara is utterly useless. If none of the teargassings, pepper sprayings, and beatings were sufficiently serious for you, Chief, maybe this job is not for you.
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If anyone has a Grammarly account, I’d be curious to see what names beyond the ones the Verge mentions surface with this feature.
