Rare Colours Blues IV🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 IV🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

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

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

This looks very useful but I‘m reluctant to share this. Every computer tip that is just „open an admin terminal and enter this command that executes stuff right from a github URL“ is dangerous. Even if that one is OK - it teaches people that this kind of thing is not a super red flag for malware exploits. https://toot.communi…

Suspected ransomware attack threatens one of South Korea’s largest companies https://therecord.media/kyowon-group-south-korea-suspected-ransomware-attack

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

This will be very interesting to a very small group of people: 'For cultural institutions that provide metadata to the data space for cultural heritage, the implementation of IIIF Change Discovery provides an alternative to implementing OAI-PMH.' https://pro.eu…

#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!

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

Did Performance

Played two Loopy gigs

Just a tiny birthday party and in a camping field with friends.
This is probably about the target number really.
It's nice to play now and then but couldn't be monthly or anything even more frequent.
Didn't feel like either went great. Health issues affecting performance plus nerves
Just one with video of any kind.
Added a couple of great songs to the playlists, need to practise more really.
At the end of a Hoopla class and the end of
a self-organised group class.
They were good fun.
But having to book a course every eight weeks means constantly churning co-players and long gaps where I don't get around to it or it was all booked up.
Tried to get a more permanent group going...
Trying to get some sort of indie-group off
the group rather than just short runs of
classes with new people all the time.
We found a group an booked the room but didn't get most of the actual people to turn up. Need to presumably meet more people up for that sort of thing.
So there will be new improv class starting
in Jan.
A new show in March at least.

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.

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 …

Last year at GÉANT #SecurityDays 2025, 160 participants from 28 countries came together in Prague to share challenges, learn from each other, and talk openly about what security really looks like across the #Research &

grumbling about "carrying the team" in any group project is a sign of some immature (and privileged) Main Character syndrome
being an adult is nothing *but* a series of overlapping "group projects".
the people you call "freeloaders" are probably carrying *your* ass in one of the areas you can't see.
this is not *not* a post about stack ranking

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
VILA: I'm now in the inspection compartment. [V.O.] I am now depressurizing. I am now trying to open the hatch.
TARRANT: [V.O.suit comm] Use your delicate skillful touch.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/176 B7B4

Self-interest over ideology
as disparate inner circle shapes Trump foreign policy
Administration officials,
his family and even
Mar-a-Lago guests
wield outsized influence
on a mercurial president
“Trump is more accessible to a broader range of voices than any president in recent history,”
said Ian Bremmer,
president of the Eurasia Group.
“He’s on his phone constantly and people
– friends, business associates, media
– co…

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.

The fascist who killed Heather Heyer at Unite the Right helped turn the tides against the last Trump administration. He said there were "very fine people on both sides." The resistance grew, antifa doxxing fascists started getting those fash fired.
But some of those fash didn't stop. They kept organizing their terror cells. The fash who killed Heyer was with a group called Vanguard America. Patriot Front is a Nazi group that split off from Vanguard America. They started terrorizing people by loading up in box trucks and piling out for spontaneous marches.
That box truck tactic probably sounds familiar. Patriot Front basically disappeared at the same time that ICE started recruiting hard.
Let me make it more clear. The very same Nazis from UTR who killed Heather Heyer, who Trump called "very fine people," are now employees of DHS. They've been carrying out the ethnic cleansing they always dreamed of, and they're being paid by the government, *with your tax dollars*, to do it. And now, just like in Charlottesville, they've murdered an unarmed protestor.
This feels similar because it is. These are the same people killing daughters and mothers. Killing unarmed protestors, out of rage not fear, then lying and claiming self defense. This is the same tactic it's always been. This is the same thing they've always done.
It seems like we may have reached the Heather Heyer point of this administration early with Renee Good. Now would be a good time for everyone to get into the streets and stay there until this is over. Everyone turned the tides before, and now he's so much weaker.
This can all be over if we fight like hell to end it.
#USPol

Not a huge fan of David “LNG” Eby but I’m with him on this one. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eby-alberta-separatist-group-treason-9.7071107?cmp=rss

B.C. premier doubles down on calling Alberta separatist movement seeking U.S. support 'treason' | CBC News
Calgary-based data analyst John Santos warns that that kind of language could push people toward separatism.

Some photos from today's hike in the mountains. To escape the fog.
It was very very icy at the bottom. And I was super happy to have my micro spikes.
The way up was pretty calm. Right the #silentsunday I had desired. At the summit there were a bit too many people and I didn't see proper motives. So I just enjoyed the view and the really warm temperature.
On the wa…

At Falls Creek in the Victorian Alps, a backyard ultra is under way. 129 runners set off at 6pm last night as the temperature dropped to 5C and fog closed in. The rules: complete a lap of the course, 6.71km with 200m of climbing every hour. Stop when you can’t do another lap. #trailrunning #ultrarunning

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.

This video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.

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

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 ...

"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

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

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.

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.

Venezuela will be administered by "a group of people"?
I think he means oligarchs?
#uspol

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…

When we close streets to cars and open them up to people, we can't just leave them as-is for half a decade. We need to build infrastructure to ensure that cars *can't* come back. Otherwise, it's too tempting for drivers who see a pristine stretch of unclogged road to be like, "hey I could be breaking the speed limits or storing my car there for free!", lobby their local weak-spined politicians, and reclaim the road for SUVs.

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.

Fighting back is one piece; building the world we want is another. For The People will host an Open House on Feb. 19th for folks interested in strengthening their #libraries by getting involved in Friends of the Library & Foundation groups.

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.

I got more people to pose for the Guild of Visual Arts at Cornell than any other group at the club fair
#photo

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.

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".

Remember, using a native HTML `<fieldset>` / `<legend>` gets you better results in SRs than its ARIA equivalent:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-legend-and-fieldset.html
My post deals with the inverse of the others I shared — unstyling the nat…

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#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…

Proud of what our students do while studying at YDS. Case in point: first-year Divinity student OrLando Yarborough (2nd from left in photo), who was just re-elected President of the New Haven Board of Education! https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/01/13/school-b…

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/

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.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
GAN: Bounty hunters. They're going to sell us to the Federation.
BLAKE: But how did they get on board?
AVON: Gan?
VILA: It wasn't Gan's fault.
GAN: They used me and a voice synthesizer. It was very well planned.

Apparently (I wasn’t part of the group, got the report when I arrived on the scene) there was a caravan of multiple vehicles following ICE. Several ICE vehicles cut dangerously into the caravan and forced the observers’ cars to stop. That’s when they smashed the person’s window and took them.
It sounds like multiple people got video. I hope you don’t see it, for the safety of those whose faces might appear in the video. But I hope you believe me anyway. This is all really happening.

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…

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

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

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

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.

[installation and photo, Jenny Holzer, Times Square Marquees (1993)]

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…

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota -- one of the protest’s organizers -- shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting
“ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.”

DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
The U.S. Department of Justice says it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor. A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting “ICE out.” The protesters allege that one of the church’s pastors also leads the local ICE fiel…

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 ...

The Trump regime is part of a long project,
funded by an ever-changing group of filthy rich right-wing White people.
One of their first overt steps was taking control of SCOTUS.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828…

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…

> 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.

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DAYNA: Do you want us to wait?
TARRANT: No. I'll find you. [exits]
VILA: Don't forget Orac. [Avon exits]
CALLY: No need. I'll operate the teleport.
DAYNA: Aren't you coming with us?

A recently leaked DHS memo told immigration agents they have the authority to break into people's homes to conduct immigration operations,
The memo ignores parts of DHS training materials related to the Fourth Amendment,
according to David Kligerman,
the senior vice president and special counsel of Whistleblower Aid.
Kligerman discussed the memo with Adam Klasfeld on the "Legal AF" podcast on Sunday.
He said the "dangerous"
memo …

Leaked ICE memo reveals 'broader effort' of Trump's immigration regime: lawyer
A lawyer representing a group of whistleblowers who leaked a recent Department of Homeland Security memo said on Sunday that the document revealed the "broader effort" of President Donald Trump's immigration regime. Immigration has been the Trump administration's key issue during its second term. Th...

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.

Donald Trump On Race:
💥"And we just clean out that whole thing … I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.
– 👉Suggesting Palestinian displacement onboard Air Force One, 25 January 2025
💥"Then it’s a group w…

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.

Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-uphill-battle-selling-grok-busine…

Why xAI Has an Uphill Battle Selling Grok to Businesses
Elon Musk’s xAI wants companies around the world to buy its Grok AI models as it tries to build a moneymaking business. To get there, xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group over the past half-year that has expanded to more than a dozen people. But xAI’s lack of experience in selling to big ...

“This precedent could result in people facing terrorism charges for doing very simple mainstream activism.”
There is no doubt a police officer was shot at the Texas protest.
Prosecutors have brought charges against people they say helped the alleged shooter escape.
But the case has drawn considerable alarm because of the way that prosecutors have sought to create a criminal enterprise
– a “North Texas antifa cell”
– among a group of demonstrators who were uninv…

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

“I don’t think Jesus would ever ignore people being hurt,
-- especially by the federal government,”
said 17-year Ben Luhmann at the wheel, to a reporter in the back seat.
Sam, his 16-year old brother was pounding an energy drink with one hand,
scrolled through a lengthy list of group chats with the other,
scouring for reports of ICE and other federal immigration agents in their area.
Mornings like this have been typical in recent weeks for the Luhmann fam…

How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say is designed to protect immigrants in their neighborhoods and around Chicago.

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
—…

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

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

At least 6 reported killed
during widening protests in Iran
sparked by ailing economy
https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-economy-israel-us-nuclear-8533eacbc3c502ccc5f5339ae4384399

At least 6 reportedly killed as Iran protests widen
Protests over Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural areas, with at least three people killed. Authorities reported the fatalities on Wednesday and Thursday in cities home to Iran’s Lur ethnic group. The demonstrations are the largest since 2022 but haven't reached the intensity of those sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. In Lordegan, videos showed gunfire and debris on the streets. Iran's government media hasn't reported on the violence there. The protests began due to economic pressu…

Koons’s T-shirt featured half a rainbow pie, with the slogan:
“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
She said after some discussion,
the RCMP respectfully asked her to leave the town hall,
as well as two other women at the event that were also wearing T-shirts with slogans that some at the event didn’t like.
“I found it alarming,” Koons said.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with pe…

Woman alarmed after being asked to leave Conservative town hall over T-shirt - R.NF
Cowichan businesswoman Kristi Koons said she’s alarmed and concerned over the fact that she and another two women were asked to leave a town hall featuring federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on June 10 because of the T-shirts they were wearing. Koons said she was quiet and respectful at the town hall, which was held at Mellor Hall at the Cowichan Exhibition grounds and attracted more than 1,000 people, before a group of men and RCMP officers approached her and said she was not welco…