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Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Secretary of Defense, Vice President, Attorney General and President of the United States mere hours after what no one could say wasn’t a decapitation strike on the US (attack meant to remove the leadership of a country all at once) are optionally all within 20 feet of each other during a war because the US Secret Service is inexplicably behaving as if the threat has passed.
Because they planned it? Or they’re horrifyingly reckless?
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Marie Hurabiell is a transphobe, xenophobe, and racist, but the silver lining of her running for Congress is that it got the Standard to publish this flyer.
Activists handed this out at a protest outside her org's gala, highlighting both Hurabiell's bigoted comments and her ties to Mayor Denim Dan Lurie. More people should know!

‘An actual moderate’: Lurie ally and former Trump appointee enters SF congressional race
Marie Hurabiell, director of the moderate group ConnectedSF, aims to appeal to centrist and right-leaning voters.

I wish this was available in Canada: #offline

Dry January, but for Your Smartphone
I spent a month with a group of people who aspire to a state of offline bliss.

I’m at the “greening without displacement” panel put on by Sierra Club SF group / SF Propel. Guests are Sunny Angulo from Propel, Sarah Moncada with Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, Sarah Munich from SFPUC, and Stephen Torres.

To be clear: with these people I always look to opportunism before conspiracy to explain their actions — but when you have this kind of rapidly convergent manufactured consensus within a political group, the distinction between those two becomes blurry.
Looking for malicious premeditation is probably just pursuing a red herring. I’m more interested in how they form their response, what they’re doing to try to shape public conversation, social media, the press.

Sources: OpenAI has 200 people working on AI devices, including a smart speaker priced between $200 and $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-openai-team-developing-ai-devices

Inside the OpenAI Team Developing its AI Devices
OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. New details are starting to emerge about the group and its development strategy. The smart ...

Source: Spotify laid off 15 people, or ~3% of its podcast group, with most cuts coming at Spotify Studios and The Ringer, which is ending a John Jastremski show (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-podcast-…

Spotify Layoffs in Podcast Group Cut 3% of Staff, at The Ringer and Spotify Studios
More job cuts have come in Spotify's podcast group, including layoffs at The Ringer, Spotify's podcast network and sports and pop culture site.

Anthropic has ruled out releasing its latest AI model, #Mythos, to the public because of the threat it poses to global cybersecurity.
However, the US tech startup behind the Claude chatbot confirmed on Wednesday it was investigating a report that a group of people had gained unauthorised access to Mythos.
The alleged incident has raised concerns over the pace of development and the ability of tec…

Repost: CLANS Workshop 'The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity' (24 April) | Call for Abstracts https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20143177/repost-clans-workshop-trade-religious-imaginatio…

15,000 people singing to call on ICE to leave their jobs!
🎵🎵🎵
Oh-h-h, It's okay to change your mind,
Show us your courage,
Leave this behind,
It's okay to change your mind,
And you can join us,
Join us here any time
🎵🎵🎵
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVEuV1hkvjG/

Singers on Instagram: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. Always and forever we say: ABOLISH ICE. Who in your life can you start a conversation with about abolishing ICE? Send them this video and invite them to join you at a Singing Resistance action near you! 💌 Song: Annie Schlaefer It’s okay to change your mind Show us your courage Leave this behind It’s okay to change your mind And you can join us Join us here anytime"
31K likes, 307 comments - singingresistance on February 22, 2026: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to prot…

The Fulu Foundation, a group founded by repair advocate and YouTuber Louis Rossmann, which pays out bounties to people who can remove user-hostile features on connected devices, is now offering a potential payout of $10,000 to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require Ring devices to send data to Amazon.

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

#throwbackThursday
My family in 1955.

I got quite a few photos Tuesday for which I didn't give somebody a token but I am prioritizing portraits for processing since I know people are waiting for them; here is a wide angle of the four season garden in the ILR courtyard with a class discussing outdoors
#photo #photography

#ACAB #NYPD https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-sho…

Off-duty NYPD officer allegedly opened fire on group he suspected of stealing his car: Sources
An off-duty NYPD officer was placed on modified duty after allegedly opening fire on a group of people in the Bronx whom he suspected of stealing his car,…

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

The BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835

Willem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.

I don't know what to make of this dispute: the toxic microplastics issue with artificial turf seems potentially real, but it's ridiculous that people are threatening to recall Chyanne Chen over it when she has basically no say in the matter.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/0…

It’s a (plastic) turf war at Crocker Amazon, and Chyanne Chen is caught in the middle
Anti-turf group says they’ll launch a recall of D11 Supervisor Chyanne Chen if Rec & Park and SF Giants plastic grass plan goes through.

"Public theology is never just about cursing the darkness," says Bishop William Barber, Director of the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS. "It has to be about giving hope, giving answers, saying there’s another way, whether that way is accepted or not.”
Read our new story on the center's biannual conference, held in New Haven last week to address the moral and spiritual issues in the 2026 election.

Power loom built by T. Larmuth & Co., in Manchester, around 1860 - now at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
> "By the early 19th century, new machines like this power loom could make cloth more quickly and cheaply than people. Groups of angry handloom weavers raided cotton mills at night. They burnt and broke power looms to protest against the new technology."
This aspect of the Industrial Revolution is now being breathlessly repeated by those who s…

It's quite ok. A bit crowded meanwhile. Last time I've been here in 2000. There were almost no people back the. #Beijing #ForbiddenCity

Sadly couldn't join myself (wife wasn't feeling good and wanted me to stay home and help parent while she napped) but my SAR team participated in a great inter-agency training this past weekend.
It's always nice to practice alongside volunteers from other teams that we work with on real incidents and get to know each other without the pressure of a real emergency.
One note: I half feel like there should be a CW on this post for mentioning law enforcement in a positiv…

Sources: Apple plans to send a significant part of its Siri team, known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp; the group is expected to be fewer than 200 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-sends-siri-…

Apple Sends Siri Staffers to Coding ‘Bootcamp’ in Latest Shakeup For Organization
Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected to unveil a major, AI-powered revamp of the voice assistant, people familiar with the team said. The company plans to send a significant chunk of people working on Siri—a group ...

They surveyed 2,388 tenured and tenure-track faculty, and ~644 responded. I don't think that it's too controversial to say that a group of highly educated people who are willing to self-identify their political leaning would be overwhelmingly liberal.
"Fewer than 10 percent of faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison identify as conservative, while 70 percent identify as liberal, according to a new poll from the school’s Tommy G. Thompson Center"
#Politics #WI

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The S.P.L.C. defines a hate group as an organization that
“has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” according to its website.
The indictment appears to fit within the Trump administration’s pattern of using the Justice Department to punish its political adversaries.
The S.P.L.C. has certainly been adversarial toward the president:
In an article last year, Margaret Huang, who was then the…

How the Southern Poverty Law Center Drew the Ire of Conservatives
Before the Justice Department filed charges against it, the group had faced scandal and critiques from both the left and the right.

@… On the note of group policies; those are certainly most ideal, but many people often find themselves with not many other people they know with the same passion and drive to start such a project. Frequently none.
I myself host a nextcloud for several groups as its lone administrator. And not out of choice. I've been looking for someone to …

#MentalHeath #research
This may be of interest to a few people here, and I am told by a friend in the group that they are desperate for more participants!

Repost: CLANS Workshop 'The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity' (24 April) | Call for Abstracts https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20143177/repost-clans-workshop-trade-religious-imaginatio…

✨ SIG-Marcomms and SIG-MSP Joint Meeting Recap ✨
Earlier this month, NRENs gathered in Lisbon for two days of shared learning across two Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
The question that ran through both days: what changes when the people who build services and the people who communicate them work together from the very beginning?
🔗 Read the full recap:

Joining about 25 people for the first meeting of #ChatBTV , a brand new local meetup group in the Burlington, #Vermont, focused on… of course.. #AI ! Looking forward to learning…
(“BTV” is the code for…

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FPS is the biggest available channel that I'm aware of to funnel Academi into ICE/CBP enforcement operations. The point of using FPS to support ICE agents is that FPS is stocked full of troops from EriK Prince's private army (now called "Academi" but formerly called "Blackwater"). This means that carrying out ethnic cleansing can dump money directly into the pockets of America's version of the Wagner Group (side from, of course GEO Group).
The Erik Prince angle also means that there can be an alternative chain of command that exists outside of official channels. ICE is already bad enough, but similar people have worked as mercenaries for a long time. Having an established chain of command over armed occupiers, one based entirely on economic incentives, one that can't be legally monitored or audited, one that's completely outside of the government, should be especially worrying.
I don't believe we've ever seen a clear explanation of who was kidnaping people off the streets, but I know that Academi had a contract (I believe with FPS) in Portland at the time. We also don't know who is on the ground in US cities right now, because they're wearing masks.
The bit reason J6 didn't go as planned is that Erik Prince wasn't behind it. Now there are troops with experience occupying American cities who can be called directly via Erik when Trump wants to make sure he doesn't lose again. And Erik won't back out at the last minute this time, because he's already seen that there will be no consequences for participating in a coup... if the time comes.
#USPol

Your #library is as strong as you make it! At the March 18 For The People (FTP) Friends & Foundations Network mtg we’ll talk about about #library governance and how #FriendsOfTheLibrary

> Fowlkes’s alleged crime is using Signal, [...], telling people how to delete messages, and removing people from group chats,
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/16/daniel-sanchez-estrada-prairieland-trial-zines/

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

Front View of Fairy Fest 2026 parade
#photo #photography #fairy #fairyfest

The Leader's Handbook Study Series
https://www.in2in.org/shop/p/the-leadership-handbook-study-series
In his forward to the Leader’s Handbook Ackoff offers a format to study the book which we will follow in these sessions:
“I suggest a small group …

The Leader's Handbook Study Series — In2:InThinking Network
Description: In The Leader’s Handbook , Peter Scholtes offers a comprehensive expansion of Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge. Drawing from his deep expertise in organizational development, adult learning, people and intrinsic motivation, Scholtes operationalizes Deming’s teach

A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group.
Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder.
Eight protesters now face at least 15 years in jail. -- Their legal teams plan to appeal.
The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside t…

Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets “Antifa Cell”
A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group. Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder. The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wo…

Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-alibaba…

Tencent, Alibaba in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek at $20 Billion-Plus Valuation
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising for the first time, according to four people with knowledge of the conversations. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management, is ...

How Up with People paved a Super Bowl path for Bad... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47778267/super-bowl-half-shows-people-flashback-bad-bunny

#whatimreading
#Horses, a 4,000 year genetic journey across the world, by Ludovic Orlando (translated). Somewhen somewhere in our past a group of people figured out domesticating horses for fun & profit. Their horses are ancestors to all horses today. The search for the first domesticated ho…

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Much better photo conditions today at the Zhangjiajie national forest park (Avatar Mountains)

Every once in a while i hear people talking about work conferences as like mysterious worlds where everyone is a stranger they'll never meet again and I have to wonder just how large their industry is.
Like when I go to HARRIS I know all of the grad students who run the event, the professor leading the research group, I'm expecting to see some of the same vendor sales reps, the same teams from the same European government agencies, etc. The keynote speaker is a former college h…

There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products,
and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable,
and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement;
that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured in a metric and deployed at scale.
Economists have a word for assets that can be swapped one-for-one without loss of value: fungible.

Communities are not fungible
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured

On today's International Trans Visibility day - I'm just going to defer to comedian Pete Holmes.
#transvisibility #trans_day_of_visibility #InternationalTransVisibilityDay

Signal can help you organize a group
I have been amazed at the stories about neighbors helping neighbors in Minneapolis and in other towns and cities. Nothing can replace the courage and kindness of the people who have risen to the occasion to help others. And one tool they use to organize their neighbors and friends is Signal.
You might think of Signal as a messaging app. It is that, but it is so much more. In addition to messages, Signal supports private video meetings, phone …

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62 people indicted by Taiwanese prosecutors over ties to cyber scam company Prince Group https://therecord.media/62-indicted-taiwan-prince-group-scams

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I have a problem with the House of Commons floor crossers, as I think most people do.
But I havent been able to come up with a more palatable alternative or at least a different scenario.
The biggest problem, for me, is the act of poaching. The trickle of MPs.
It gives the impression, falsely or not, that these people needed just a little more time, a little more convincing, a little more... ? to eventually turn on their constituent's choice of party.
What would be more pallatable? How about a group? Rather than a trickle.
People tallk, it is naïve to think it isn't known between individuals who may be thinking of leaving or switching parties.
So if there is more than one with that thought I think it would be better for our democracy if those MPs banded together and made their concerns known privately in their caucus first, then if nothing changes, they communicate to others including the public, and make it clear this is something that could happen en masse.
Then at least it takes away the transactional nature of it and frames it more as a democratic choice, informed by whatever situation is happening and done for the benefit of constituents and Canadians.
How does this change get made? Unfortunately that's the hard part. It would be hard or maybe inappropriate to "legislate".
It would need to be an expectation, a habit, a "norm".
It could happen. Though today, politicians following "norms" seems to be a little out of vogue.
#canPoli #cdnpoli #canada #democracy #houseofcommons
https://halifax.citynews.ca/video/2026/04/13/floor-crossing-raises-questions-on-canadian-voting-stability/

I see no sign of any recognition from those who would want such a ban that they see any of the collateral damage a successful ban would have on the majority of kids who are not falling for this bullshit. That they are banning any good at all along with the bad.
Under 18s only
I see that the lobbying for these laws are funded by the absolute worst companies on the internet, those who will be entrenched by the legal compliance costs, that will cement themselves as the arbitrators of who is allowed to access the internet.
It’s a gift to Palantir and other surveillance companies. The very people running these algo-feeds are the ones who benefit from IDing every user and stalking them across the internet on their government-approved internet-licence IDs.
I don’t think even a successful ban on social media for kids would actually address the issue of kids being exposed to sexism and misogony or reduce the kids alienation and depression.
A ban can’t help, will make many things worse, won’t address the problem, and will make competing with the worst surveillance capitalists on the planet more difficult.
Going to war with every internet site and advice forum and making internet access harder won’t fix anything, and will have massive collateral damage against everyone seeking support from strangers or trying to learn things their parents won’t teach them.
But I see we are going to do it anyway.
The direction is clear.
Those companies do get what they lobby for, and they are lobbying hard for ID checks on every website, wrapping their desire to enclose the internet commons for themselves in a faux concern for children’s welfare.
And governments wish to monitor and control the internet, so they will pass these laws.
I wonder how many parents have a family group-chat that they’re going to accidentally ban their kids from using, not realizing that ‘social media’ might include Whatsapp? 😆
It won’t fix anything, it will make the situation for kids worse, impose costs and rents and hacks and exploits on all of us, and increase government and corporate power.
Many will lose access to their networks of support and help.
So it goes.
We will build a better more censorship resistant internet. It’s already here really: Briar. Matrix. Nostr. Bitchat. Veilid. Spritely. And the rest.
The laws may push us there faster.
The race will go on.

YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists to fight AI impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/youtube-deepfake-detection-journalists-politicians…

YouTube expands deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists
AI tools are making it easier to create convincing videos of real people.

Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-anonymous…

Alibaba Anonymously Launches New AI Video Model
Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1.0, which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard and attracted a lot of attention on social media, according to two people with knowledge of Alibaba’s involvement. The new video model is the Chinese tech giant’s latest effort to step up its fight against its major rival ByteDance in all areas of AI,

In all seriousness, there are a ton of possible scenarios. The Iranian regime is weaker than it has ever been. I deeply hope for the liberation of Iranian people, especially oppressed minorities. Meanwhile, the US is lead by the most incompetent leadership ever (which is really saying a lot).
The Kurds, who could be the keystone ground forces needed to collapse the regime have been betrayed by the US so many times that they may not rise up (correctly) predicting that the US will stab them in the back at the fist chance.
But they are also a highly oppressed group in Iran, and may well take this opportunity. I don't know enough about this region to make any kind of reasonable prediction.
There are a huge number of unknowns, which is really *not* what anyone wants when starting a conflict.
To Iranian people, I wish you freedom and self-determination against all actors. To the US military, I wish you the best of luck getting your whole behive-dick situation.

Finally arrived at the restaurant. 3. backyard after the 5th backyard behind the bridge. But very beautiful #Beijing

"While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition."
It feels somehow worse that we have WW2 as a cautionary tale and yet are here now anyway.

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution

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A US court sentences Ramil Ventura Palafox, CEO of Praetorian Group, to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K people (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/389760/bitcoin-ponzi-20-years

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday my wife and I had to pay for a small renovation which necessitated some budget shuffling. Needless to say we didn't make the list of the Richest Canadians. The McLeans and Canadian Business 2025 ranking saw lots of new names, which is surprising because $4.8B only earns you a spot at #40. Tech, primarily AI and data centre related, and cryptocurrency pushed some fortunes upwards, while the usual group of staid family wealth looked on with disdain. The saying "the rich gets richer" holds true as the combined net worth of the 10 wealthiest people on the list is $310 billion, a nearly 20% increase over 2024. It's difficult to read the individual summaries and not be disappointed at the level of wealth disparity with the bottom 50% of Canadians. IMO Governments avoid higher taxes on the wealthy because they believe Capitalism drives the economy, not the people who work for capitalists.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Capitalism #TaxTheRich
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-rich-list/

Members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and of the Many Shields Warrior Society (an Indigenous community security group) have been patrolling the streets of Minneapolis’s Phillips neighborhood since the start of the occupation, and they do not plan to stop.
“We all have a place. My place is to make sure people are fed and get a cup of coffee,” Rice said.
As is the case with many Minneapolis residents who do not imagine themselves as demonstrators — much less radicals — gett…

Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE
Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

Contested Cures: Between Elite Rhetoric and Healing Rituals in Late Antique Palestine https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142160/contested-cures-between-elite-rhetoric-and-healing-rituals-late

Today we drove to the Great Wall. It's pretty amazing

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

2024 TfL hack affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".

Contested Cures: Between Elite Rhetoric and Healing Rituals in Late Antique Palestine https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142160/contested-cures-between-elite-rhetoric-and-healing-rituals-late

My "any involvement with a sex trafficking group was purely mercenary" press release has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my press release.

Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters says he is "nervous" about severe job cuts after Paramount's WBD acquisition and "a bunch of people are going to lose their jobs" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/16df7df4-6863-43d1-a8cb-2f7afe320ab4

Netflix warns Paramount-Warner Bros deal will lead to job losses
Co-chief Greg Peters is ‘nervous for the industry’, days after streaming group cedes WBD tie-up to David Ellison’s company

Wulingyang national Park

ICE selects untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
For decades, two companies have been the government’s go-to partners for immigrant detention:
Geo Group and CoreCivic
run the facilities where the majority of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are held.

But as the Trump administration embarks on a $38 billion plan to convert industrial warehouses into a new breed of large-scale holding centers,
it is turning to a cr…

ICE selects untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
The Trump administration has picked new companies to oversee warehouse detention centers, despite their relative lack of experience in immigrant detention.

YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists to fight AI impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/youtube-deepfake-detection-journalists-politicians…

YouTube expands deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists
AI tools are making it easier to create convincing videos of real people.

Contested Cures: Between Elite Rhetoric and Healing Rituals in Late Antique Palestine https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142160/contested-cures-between-elite-rhetoric-and-healing-rituals-late

Sources: Tencent is developing a top-secret AI agent for WeChat, and has tested using models from Zhipu, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, to compete with Qwen and Doubao (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-joins-chinas-…

Tencent Joins China’s AI Agent Race With ‘Top-Secret’ WeChat Project
Tencent Holdings is secretly building a new AI agent for its hugely popular WeChat messaging app, in hopes of leapfrogging rivals like Alibaba Group and ByteDance in the race to dominate China’s domestic AI market, according to four people familiar with the project. The projectcould dramatically ...

A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect,
-- pausing fighting in the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,100 Lebanese people and displaced over 2.1 million.
The agreement was announced earlier by Donald Trump, who said he had spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, and invited both leaders “for meaningful talks” at the White House.
Both leaders welcome…

Avatar Mountains or rather the Wulingyang national forest scenic park is very impressive. Unfortunately it was very cloudy today so we couldn't see all it's beauty from atop

Sunny Naqvi, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen, is now back at home
after her family says she spent about 43 hours in Department of Homeland Security custody.
Customs and Border Patrol officials are now disputing her relatives' claims.
Naqvi was born in Evanston and raised in the Chicago suburbs.
A few weeks ago, she was set to travel overseas on a work trip with five other people. That group included three U.S. citizens and three green card holders, all in the U.S. legal…

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days
Family said agents told them Sunny Naqvi was not in custody despite her phone location showing her at the Broadview facility.

As the temperature in New York City dropped toward the single digits
and the death toll during the deep freeze rose to 14,
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of 50 new single-room shelter units for homeless people in Upper Manhattan.
The goal, Mr. Mamdani said in a news release on Saturday night, was
to remove “barriers that keep too many New Yorkers out in the cold.”
In the past week, nearly a foot of snow has blanketed New York City,
and a linger…

Mamdani Announces New Shelter Beds as Death Toll During Cold Rises to 14
The 50 units in Upper Manhattan will house single people who may be reluctant to stay in group shelters.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116156833677623314
The Iranian regime is genuinely bad.
Nuclear proliferation is bad.
But war is an uncertain enterprise
and I am not comfortable being led into war by a group of people who specifically assured us
—…