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U.S. citizen detained in San Pedro by masked federal agents during an observation patrol | Los Angeles | calonews.com
https://www.calonews.com/communities/los-angeles/u-s-citizen-detained-in-san-pedro-by-masked-federal-agents-during-an-observation-patrol/article_b70b7de3-356e-4800-9014-53a89ce0e96d.html

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.
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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

Russia detains Azerbaijani citizen over alleged Ukraine-linked 'terror' plot as Moscow-Baku tensions escalate: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/08/russia-detains-azerbaijani-citizen-over.html

Ron Deibert,
the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses,
is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community
and asking them to step up and join the ⭐️fight against authoritarianism. 
On Wednesday, Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas,
one of the largest gatherings of information security professionals of the year. 
Ahead of his talk, Deibert …

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

Lawsuit: ICE Agents Deported Citizen Children in Secret, Including 4-Year-Old on Chemo (Nicolae Viorel Butler/Migrant Insider)
https://migrantinsider.com/p/lawsuit-ice-agents-deported-citizen
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p137#a250807p137

Citizen-Go, rechtslastig und fragwürdig? In jedem Fall!
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/frauke-brosius-gersdorf-richterin-bundesverfassungsgericht-ngo-petition-citizengo-li.3290401

Citizen-Go: Wie groß der Einfluss der spanischen NGO im Fall Brosius-Gersdorf ist
Citizen-Go ist eine spanische NGO. Die Organisation mobilisiert gegen Abtreibung und LGBTQ-Rechte - auch in Deutschland.

*Today*, anarchists are legally barred from US naturalization.
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 405(b) of this Act, no person shall hereafter be naturalized as a citizen of the United States—
(1) who advocates or teaches, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches, opposition to all organized government; or
Think about that. Think about that for a minute. Today, in 2025, the US bars anarchists from becoming naturalized citizens.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1424

Pregnant US citizen detained by ICE nearly a month after agents raided her home – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/pregnant-us-citizen-speaks-out-ice-immigration/3761282/

Is it safe to seed #AnnasArchive torrents if someone you live with (in whose name your internet connection is registered) is on indefinite leave to remain in the UK rather than being an actual citizen?
#digitalpreservation

Last week, the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that
people who enter the country without authorization must be detained throughout their removal proceedings
-- a process that can take years.
The decision stems from the case of Jonathan Javier Yajure Hurtado,
a Venezuelan citizen who entered the United States in 2022.
In 2024, he was granted Temporary Protected Status, which expired in April;
He was subsequently arrested.
At…

DOJ Board Says Millions of Immigrants Can Be Jailed During Removal Proceedings
The ruling would force immigrants to litigate their cases — a process that could take years — while being detained.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Citizen Cope:
🎵 Sideways
#CitizenCope
https://captainmycaptain5.bandcamp.com/track/sideways-citizen-cope-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZixnWzzH1YxqBg9kLOPDy

#Drumpf political pressures see #WestPoint reneg on honoring #TomHanks as “outstanding citizen" as well as kill a planned parade for Sept. 25th.
Award now denied, is given to civilian who exemplifies the academy’s ideals…

U.S. citizen detained by ICE in L.A. says she wasn't given water for 24 hours
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-detained-ice-l-says-wasnt-water-24-hours-rcna224493

U.S. citizen detained by ICE in L.A. says she wasn't given water for 24 hours
A U.S. citizen who was detained by immigration agents and accused of obstructing an arrest, before her case was ultimately dismissed, said she is still traumatized by what happened.

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes https://www.404media.co/citizen-is-using-ai-to-generate-crime-alerts-with-no-human-review-its-making-a-lot-of-mistakes/

Things I love about visiting the UK:
1. Seeing my family and old friends
2. Great bookshops, often featuring cake and tea
3. Pubs - especially the country ones
4. Good possibilities for outdoor activities like hiking and kayaking.
Things I dislike: all of this basically 👇
https://mastodon.social/@BylinesScotland/115116408717391541
BylinesScotland@mastodon.social - Having lived many years in the UK I got used to British standards in life; when back in Europe I realised that you can expect so much more | Tomasz Oryński
https://bylines.scot/news/world/take-a-deep-breath-citizen-we-got-it/?fsp_sid=1251

Evaluating Citizen Satisfaction with Saudi Arabia's E-Government Services: A Standards-Based, Theory-Informed Approach
Mohammed O. Alannsary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17912

Evaluating Citizen Satisfaction with Saudi Arabia's E-Government Services: A Standards-Based, Theory-Informed Approach
As digital government platforms become central to public service delivery, understanding citizen assessment is crucial for enhancing usability, trust, and inclusivity. This study investigates citizen satisfaction with the e-government services in Saudi Arabia through a quality-in-use framework based on ISO/IEC 25010 and ISO/IEC 25022 standards, interpreted through the lens of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). A structured questionnaire was administered to 500 citiz…

WTF? Sheriffs now!
#Australia …

Inside the fringe groups fighting a 'quasi civil war' with self-styled sheriffs and their own court
Wary of being labelled a cult, this 'sovereign citizen' group has never spoken to mainstream media. It made an exception for Four Corners.

Public Communication in Regime Change games
Georgy Lukyanov, Anastasia Makhmudova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04749 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04749

Public Communication in Regime Change games
We study a regime change game in which the state and an opposition leader both observe the regime's true strength and may engage in costly communication by manipulating the mean of citizens' private signals. Each citizen then decides whether to attack the regime. From the perspective of both the state and the opposition, the size of the attack is uncertain, as the number of committed partisans - those who always attack regardless of their signal - is not observed in advance. We show that a regi…

Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting
Italo Alberto do Nascimento Sousa, Jorge Machado, Jose Carlos Vaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19497

Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting
This research examines the role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting. In response to challenges like declining civic participation and increased societal polarization, the study explores how online political participation can strengthen democracy and promote social equity. By integrating Generative AI into public consultation platforms, the research aims to improve citizen proposal formulation and foster effective dialogue between…

Immigration officers were caught on video -- celebrating proudly -- after using chokeholds and a stun gun to arrest two undocumented immigrants in Florida.
The owner of the video,
an 18-year-old American citizen,
was threatened and charged
after he refused to delete the footage revealing the harsh tactics used by immigration authorities
to meet the Trump administration's mass deportation goals.
Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was on his way to work on the mor…

This U.S. citizen recorded an immigration arrest. Officers told him to delete it or face charges.
The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.

A gay school superintendent US citizen was detained and traumatized by CBP personnel at Houston airport returning from vacation.
#lgbtq #cbp #ice

Outrage after CBP detains gay VT superintendent for hours
Local officials and national lawmakers are expressing anger over U.S. citizen Wilmer Chavarria’s “deeply disturbing” encounter while returning from vacation with his husband.

DHS Responds to Arrest of U.S. Citizen That Attempted to Run Down CBP Agent (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/29/dhs-responds-arrest-us-citizen-attempted-run-down-cbp-agent
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p36#a250831p36

What else could slogans like “Globalise the #Intifada” possibly mean? #Manchester
It is nothing but heartbreaking to see that Europe has not sufficiently learnt from the darkest of times last century to become safe for Jews. This act of unsurpassable hatred, cynically committed on the ho…

Glad this did not turn into a Waco situation. In fact, it doesn't look like it was even close to that. But Didulo is obviously completely off her rocker and knows how to manipulate people for money and influence in whatever scheme she dreams up.
I'm glad she's essentially the face of the Sovereign Citizen movement... making it clear it’s not a place for responsible people.
#Cult #Canada #RomanaDidulo #QueenofCanada #SovereignCitizen #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/queen-of-canada-romana-didulo-cult-leader-bail-hearing-court-1.7627417

Upcoming special issue in Urban Planning (cogitatio): Citizen-Centric Urban Planning Through Participatory Sensing Data and Digital Tools
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/issue/futureissues#i530
Abstract submission deadline in December.

Future Issues | Urban Planning
Urban Planning is a new international peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

Detaining US citizen upon returning to US in attempt to compromise student information in a school system, claiming they have no Constitutional rights, is ice this week.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/vermont-school-superintendent-detained-tri…

Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after...

Bridging Synthetic and Real-World Domains: A Human-in-the-Loop Weakly-Supervised Framework for Industrial Toxic Emission Segmentation
Yida Tao, Yen-Chia Hsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22002

Bridging Synthetic and Real-World Domains: A Human-in-the-Loop Weakly-Supervised Framework for Industrial Toxic Emission Segmentation
Industrial smoke segmentation is critical for air-quality monitoring and environmental protection but is often hampered by the high cost and scarcity of pixel-level annotations in real-world settings. We introduce CEDANet, a human-in-the-loop, class-aware domain adaptation framework that uniquely integrates weak, citizen-provided video-level labels with adversarial feature alignment. Specifically, we refine pseudo-labels generated by a source-trained segmentation model using citizen votes, and …

If you are a citizen of the EU and are concerned about government surveillance of our private chats, photographs and documents, it is important to take action before October. This tool: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ will easily enable you to draft an email to send to your MEPs.
Specifically,

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
-- Daniel Knowles
https://

Daniel Knowles (@dlknowles.bsky.social)
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

«The recent news concerning GigaScience’s owners, BGI, laying off the entire editorial, software and curation team in Hong Kong on short notice, has filled us with both surprise and deep disappointment.»
Indeed, GigaScience has always been a mainstay at BOSC and the larger intersection of life sciences & open source/science & citizen science.
https://www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2025-09-30-gigascience/

@… My wife found the information at https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refug

Efficient Item ID Generation for Large-Scale LLM-based Recommendation
Anushya Subbiah, Vikram Aggarwal, James Pine, Steffen Rendle, Krishna Sayana, Kun Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03746

Efficient Item ID Generation for Large-Scale LLM-based Recommendation
Integrating product catalogs and user behavior into LLMs can enhance recommendations with broad world knowledge, but the scale of real-world item catalogs, often containing millions of discrete item identifiers (Item IDs), poses a significant challenge. This contrasts with the smaller, tokenized text vocabularies typically used in LLMs. The predominant view within the LLM-based recommendation literature is that it is infeasible to treat item ids as a first class citizen in the LLM and instead s…

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Scarlett Raine, Tobias Fischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01878 https://

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Marine ecosystems face increasing pressure due to climate change, driving the need for scalable, AI-powered monitoring solutions. This paper examines the rapid emergence of underwater AI as a major research frontier and analyzes the factors that have transformed marine perception from a niche application into a catalyst for AI innovation. We identify three convergent drivers: environmental necessity for ecosystem-scale monitoring, democratization of underwater datasets through citizen science p…

Leaked Whistleblower Memo Shows the Trump Administration Illegally Terminated USAID Foreign Assistance Awards - Public Citizen
https://www.citizen.org/news/leaked-whistleblower-memo-shows-the-trump-administration-illegally-terminated-usaid-foreign-assistance-awards/

US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

Some non-citizen journalists working in the US are self-censoring, wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans, and more, fearing deportation (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/…

Foreign journalists in the U.S. are self-censoring to protect themselves from the Trump administration - Poynter
Non-citizen journalists working in the U.S. report wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans and pulling bylines.

spending a week in my time machine, dining out at SF vegan restaurants that no longer exist. Herbivore, Indochine, Source, Gracias Madre, Beach’n, Citizen Fox, Cafe Gratitude… maybe hop across the bay to Saturn Cafe

In what Public Citizen called
"the greatest corruption in presidential history,"
Donald Trumpand his family added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes this Labor Day
as his new cryptocurrency was opened to the public market.
The currency, known as WLFI,
is owned by World Liberty Financial,
a company founded by the president's sons, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump.
A Trump business entity owns 60% of the company and is entitled to 75% …

'Greatest Corruption in Presidential History': Trump Family Reaps $5 Billion More in Crypto Profits | Common Dreams
In what Public Citizen called "the greatest corruption in presidential history," US President Donald Trump and his family added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes this Labor Day as his new cryptocurrency was opened to the public market.

"Rewilding group to assess possible return of white storks to London"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #Rewilding

"Citizen science in libraries worldwide: A systematic review" #CitizenScience

> one in three service users cannot access online support without help – a figure that rises to more than six in ten for some benefits.
https://www.publictechnology.net/2025/09/29/society-and-welfare…

One in three cannot access online benefits without help, DWP study finds
Government’s welfare department has published the latest version of a major citizen study which finds that, for some benefit lines, more than three in five cannot use internet services unassisted A Department for Work and Pensions study of thousands of citizens has found that one in three ser

Cool, der @… lässt im gesamten Stadtgebiet den Verkehr von Privatpersonen automatisiert zählen. Die Daten stehen dann öffentlich zur Verfügung.
https://berlin.adfc.de/artikel/berlin-

Citizen Science-Projekt des ADFC Berlin: Berlin zählt Mobilität
Berliner:innen schaffen Wissen: Mit dem Projekt „Berlin zählt Mobilität“ erfassen Menschen in Berlin mittels Zählgeräte den Verkehr auf den Straßen der Hauptstadt. Der ADFC Berlin lädt ein, sich der Zählung anzuschließen.

Citizen Centered Climate Intelligence: Operationalizing Open Tree Data for Urban Cooling and Eco-Routing in Indian Cities
Kaushik Ravi, Andreas Br\"uck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17648

Citizen Centered Climate Intelligence: Operationalizing Open Tree Data for Urban Cooling and Eco-Routing in Indian Cities
Urban climate resilience requires more than high-resolution data; it demands systems that embed data collection, interpretation, and action within the daily lives of citizens. This chapter presents a scalable, citizen-centric framework that reimagines environmental infrastructure through participatory sensing, open analytics, and prescriptive urban planning tools. Applied in Pune, India, the framework comprises three interlinked modules: (1) a smartphone-based measurement toolkit enhanced by AI…

Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration. https://wapo.st/46ZIHIt

Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration.
The case of Dahud Hanid Ortíz, a U.S.-Venezuelan citizen brought home in Trump’s prisoner swap, has upset U.S. allies and sown division in the State Department.

Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU: Harnessing Citizen Science and AI to Advance Open Science Catalogues
Eleni Vardoulaki, Hongming Tang, Micah Bowles, Gary Segal, Soheb Mandhai, Emma L. Alexander, Wendy Williams, Yan Luo, Lawrence Rudnick, Andrew M. Hopkins, O. Ivy Wong, Stanislav S. Shabala, the RGZ EMU collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19787…

Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU: Harnessing Citizen Science and AI to Advance Open Science Catalogues
Over the past decades, significant efforts have been devoted to developing sophisticated algorithms for automatically identifying and classifying radio sources in large surveys. However, even the most advanced methods face challenges in recognising complex radio structures and accurately associating radio emission with their host galaxies. Leveraging data from the ASKAP telescope and the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey, Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU (RGZ EMU) was created to generate high-q…

U.S. citizen detained by federal agents during anti-immigrant raids of construction sites
✅has filed a class action suit against the Trump administration on behalf of “all those who stand in his shoes”
— U.S. citizens or those otherwise lawfully present in the United States who are working on construction sites in the Southern District of Alabama.
Leo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent, was born in 1999 in Florida, and moved with his family to Alabama when he…

Elderly US Citizen Brutalized By ICE Files $50M Lawsuit - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/elderly-us-citizen-brutalized-by-ice-files-50m-lawsuit/

Alright folx I got my @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social card, what I’ve heard called the Zetrocard. I got it by being an engaged citizen and investing in the future of #NYC I want. Try it yourself. Gets you out and about. https://www.zohran…

It's #GrindayFriday, and this week is local Phoenix, Arizona grind/powerviolence duo LAW ABIDING CITIZEN and their 2024 EP 'For the Culture' via No Time Records. The separate tracks of the EP have all been merged into one here-- just over 10 minutes total. Great riffs, brutality, insanity, a few samples that actually still crack me up (Carrey and Farley). A lot to dig on this one.

sometimes, the misaddressed msgs for MEPs in the parltrack inbox are truly wtf. today some young citizen schleiming around and asking for:
> I would be extremely grateful if it would be possible to receive a small
autograph from you or perhaps a small gift or souvenir related to the
European Parliament. Such a gesture would mean a lot to me as someone who is eager to learn more about European institutions and democracy.

Indian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Alien Smuggling (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/indian-citizen-pleads-guilty-alien-smuggling
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p96#a250820p96

At a conference yesterday, one speaker mentioned that he naturalized as a #Singapore citizen for "personal reasons" and gave up his US passport.
Sounded strange, so I looked him up and, of course, those "reasons" were tax evasion.
Wished I could have asked him what he thinks about all the migrant workers in Singapore who, despite paying taxes and building the econo…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/9]:
- Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participat...
Italo Alberto do Nascimento Sousa, Jorge Machado, Jose Carlos Vaz

Looks like I am officially a senior citizen. Old age security cheque arrived for the first time.

If you are a US citizen holding a #HamRadio license, please add your name to #AmateurRadio antennas with bills in both the house and senate,…

As federal immigration agents attacked a U.S. citizen, they warned him:
“You’ve got no rights here.”
What began as a simple traffic stop for Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old Floridian, in May,
turned into a traumatizing arrest when U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrived at the scene.
Alongside his mother and two undocumented male companions,
Laynez-Ambrosio was laughed at, ridiculed, and violently detained by a group of officers,
according to vide…

Immigration Agents Laugh at U.S. Citizen as He Records His Own Arrest
Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, turned on his camera as immigration agents arrested him—after he told them he’s a U.S. citizen.

I've just updated my 'Palestine' t-shirt/hoodie/sticker design. The update doesn't make you any less likely to be arrested, but should hopefully make it easier to argue your case in court.
Feel free to download, copy and use. Any profits you make please donate to an authentic #Palestinian charity.
Any fine or prison sentence you incur for displaying it you should tr…

Finding Inter-species Associations on Large Citizen Science Datasets
Jacob Deutsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14259 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14259…

Finding Inter-species Associations on Large Citizen Science Datasets
Determining associations among different species from citizen science databases is challenging due to observer behavior and intrinsic density variations that give rise to correlations that do not imply species associations. This paper introduces a method that can efficiently analyze large datasets to extract likely species associations. It tiles space into small blocks chosen to be of the accuracy of the data coordinates, and reduces observations to presence/absence per tile, in order to comput…

The Ongoing Decline in Activity of Comet 103P/Hartley 2
Ariel Graykowski, Guillaume Langin, David Chiron, Bruno Guillet, Franck Marchis, Nicolas Biver, G\'erard Arlic, Bernard Baudouin, Etienne Bertrand, Randall Blake, Cyrille Bosquet, John K. Bradley, Isabelle Brocard, Christophe Cac, Alain Cagna, Nicolas Castel, Eric Chariot, Olivier Clerget, Tom Coarrase, Lucas Cogniaux, Julien Collot, Christophe Cot\'e, Michel Deconinck, Jean-Paul Desgrees, Josselin Desmars, Giuseppe Di Tom…

The Ongoing Decline in Activity of Comet 103P/Hartley 2
We report photometric observations of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 during its 2023 apparition. Our campaign, conducted from August through December 2023, combined data from a global network of citizen astronomers coordinated by Unistellar and the Association Française d'Astronomie. Photometry was derived using an automated pipeline for eVscope observations in partnership with the SETI Institute and aperture photometry via AstroLab Stellar. We find that the comet's peak reduced brightness, measured at …

Where we're at.
#fuckice

I donated to https://theguardian.org/
"To advance and inform public discourse and citizen participation around the most pressing issues of our time through the support of independent journalism and journalistic projects at the Guardian."
The Washington Post has given up on what they used to stan…

From Dogwood
Zain Haq, was deported to Pakistan seven months ago for nonviolent climate activism. Mark Carney’s Immigration Minister, Lena Metlege Diab, has the power to reunite Zain and his wife Sophie with a single e-mail.
Sophie has launched an official House of Commons petition, sponsored by Elizabeth May, to publicly pressure the Minister in the lead-up to Parliament resuming on Monday, September 15. You must be a Canadian citizen or resident to sign.

But as much as my mother would bemoan their antics. My aunt… oh my aunt.
She was the most intellectual, the most proud, and the most outspoken person I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing.
My aunt would give them a proper earful about what it meant to live in a society, about how their antics would lead to the entire west looking down on Poland, about how they were letting down their fellow citizen by running such scams.
I miss my aunt. She was a rock star and a role mode …

RAD@home discovery of extragalactic radio rings and odd radio circles: clues to their origins
Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado, Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01999

RAD@home discovery of extragalactic radio rings and odd radio circles: clues to their origins
We present three rare and striking extragalactic radio sources discovered through visual inspection of low-frequency continuum maps from LoTSS DR2 and TGSS by the RAD@home citizen-science collaboratory. The first, RAD J131346.9+500320, is the first clear Odd Radio Circle (ORC) identified in LoTSS. At photometric $z \sim$ 0.94, it hosts a pair of intersecting rings of ~300 kpc diameter, embedded in diffuse emission extending over ~800 kpc, making it both the most distant and most powerful ORC re…

JD Vance Knows Who Belongs (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/jd-vance-claremont-american-citizen.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p29#a250723p29

"Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access"
#microsoft

Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
Company admits under oath that American authorities can demand European citizen information despite security promises.

Feds improperly arrested US citizen twice — and refused to accept his papers: lawsuit - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/alabama-immigration-lawsuit/

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/9]:
- Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participat...
Italo Alberto do Nascimento Sousa, Jorge Machado, Jose Carlos Vaz

Video footage captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men, two of whom are undocumented.
They appear to use a stun gun on one man,
put another in a chokehold
and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio:
“You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.”
Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests,
calling the stun gun use “f…

Outrage after border agents subject detained gay Vermont superintendent to hours of 'psychological terror' (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/news/vermont-gay-citizen-detained-cbp
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p148#a250723p148

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) described Trump's latest $5 billion windfall as
"blatantly corrupt and a brazen abuse of power."
"The current occupant of the White House," she said, "is putting personal profit above the people,
using his power to illegally line the pockets of his family and billionaire friends
while hanging everyday families out to dry
by ripping away their healthcare, food assistance, raising the cost of consumer good…

'Greatest Corruption in Presidential History': Trump Family Reaps $5 Billion More in Crypto Profits | Common Dreams
In what Public Citizen called "the greatest corruption in presidential history," US President Donald Trump and his family added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes this Labor Day as his new cryptocurrency was opened to the public market.

Everybody in a blue state needs to watch this
#USpol #BlueWall #trifecta

Anchor Light Publications (@anchorlightpublications)
This smart informed citizen dispenses more structure and planning in 4 minutes than the Democratic Party has since Trump was elected! Lead Gentlemen. Time is of the essence! Help us help you! @GavinNewsom @PeteButtigieg @JoshShapiroPA @DNC

Vietnam, Panama governments suffer incidents leaking citizen data https://therecord.media/vietnam-cic-panama-finance-ministry-cyberattacks

A Data-Driven Framework for Digital Transformation in Smart Cities: Integrating AI, Dashboards, and IoT Readiness
\'Angel Lloret, Jes\'us Peral, Antonio Ferr\'andez, Mar\'ia Auladell, Rafael Mu\~noz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22721

A Data-Driven Framework for Digital Transformation in Smart Cities: Integrating AI, Dashboards, and IoT Readiness
Digital transformation (DT) has become a strategic priority for public administrations, particularly due to the need to deliver more efficient and citizen-centered services and respond to societal expectations, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). In this context, the main objective of this study is to propose an innovative methodology to automatically evaluate the level of digital transformation (DT) in public sec…

American killed in Syria amid growing sectarian violence, State Department says (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/state-department-confirms-us-citizen-hosam-sarayas-killed/story?id=123953299
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p78#a250722p78

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
Prakash Apoorva, Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, P. K. Navaneeth, Dhruv Nayak, Arundhati Purohit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09518

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
We report the RAD@home citizen science discovery of two rare spiral-host radio galaxies (NGC 3898 and WISEA J221656.57-132042434.1 or RAD-"Thumbs up" galaxy), both exhibiting asymmetric radio lobes extending over 30 to 220 kiloparsec scales. We present a multi-wavelength image analysis of these two sources using radio, optical, and ultraviolet data. Both host galaxies are young, star-forming systems with asymmetric or distorted stellar disks. These disks show similarities to those in galaxies u…

This U.S. Citizen Recorded an Immigration Arrest. Officers Told Him To Delete It or Face Charges.
The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.
https://youtu.be/nX7I4znDOKk

How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
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#uspol #democracy

US Citizen beaten to death by mob of Israeli #settlers in #Gaza violence . Family said in a statement Saif Musallat "was brutally beaten to death by Israeli settlers while he was protecting his family’s land from settlers who were attempting to steal it...We demand justice.”
The US State Department said "…

Assimilation and Its Discontents -- We should expect anyone who wishes to be a citizen ... (Andrew Beck/The American Mind)
https://americanmind.org/features/assimilation-and-its-discontents/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p155#a250730p155

"What @Sec_Noem isn't telling you is that this guy in the video is a U.S. citizen named Joe Botello. They smashed in the doors, dragged him and his roommates out in handcuffs, then posted a video online suggesting he was a criminal"
'OMG!' Expert torches DHS for trashing innocent US citizen as 'criminal illegal alien' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-raid/

The Trump administration is planning to change the visa system for skilled foreign workers,
a program at the center of a dispute between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders,
said the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Joseph Edlow, the director of U.S.C.I.S., said the test to become a U.S. citizen was "too easy" and should change.
“The test as it’s laid out right now, it’s not very difficult,”
Mr. Edlow said on Thur…

Trump Administration Plans Changes to H-1B Visas and U.S. Citizenship Tests
In an interview with The New York Times, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy.

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story (Conor Friedersdorf/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/george-retes-ice-detained-us-citizen/684152/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p102#a250910p102

Podcast: The Underground Trade of Car Hacking Tech https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-underground-trade-of-car-hacking-tech/

Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during Camarillo immigration raid, family says (Josh Haskell/ABC7)
https://abc7.com/post/disabled-veteran-is-us-citizen-was-taken-during-camarillo-immigration-raid-family-says/17072476/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p93#a250711p93

“The billionaire agenda,
the corruption we’re seeing,
is changing the way government is functioning.
It’s leading to real-time and impactful ramifications for regular people,”
said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen.
“The gutting of Medicaid,
all the firings we’ve seen of federal workers,
the ravaging of families through Ice raids.
It’s just all coming together to cause people to stand up and say,
‘we are the people of this c…

Of the People, By the Algorithm: How AI Transforms Democratic Representation
Yuval Rymon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19036 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19036

Of the People, By the Algorithm: How AI Transforms Democratic Representation
This review examines how AI technologies are transforming democratic representation, focusing on citizen participation and algorithmic decision-making. The analysis reveals that AI technologies are reshaping democratic processes in fundamental ways: enabling mass-scale deliberation, changing how citizens access and engage with political information, and transforming how representatives make and implement decisions. While AI offers unprecedented opportunities for enhancing democratic participati…

Not surprisingly, after spending weeks chasing innocent people around, a horny drunk armed U.S. #BorderPatrol Officer assaulted a female in a #SouthernCalifornia parking lot earlier this week...
Apptly this man's service to #MAGA

Border Patrol Agent Who Arrested U.S. Citizen In Pico Rivera Charged With Drunkenly Assaulting L.B. Cop ~ L.A. TACO
“No one is above the law, regardless of their position or badge. Law enforcement officers have a responsibility to always conduct themselves with integrity and professionalism. Our office will pursue prosecution accordingly to ensure justice is served.”

Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn -- morphological classifications for over 41,000 galaxies in the Euclid Deep Field North from the Hawaii Two-0 Cosmic Dawn survey
James Pearson, Hugh Dickinson, Stephen Serjeant, Mike Walmsley, Lucy Fortson, Sandor Kruk, Karen L. Masters, Brooke D. Simmons, R. J. Smethurst, Chris Lintott, Lukas Zalesky, Conor McPartland, John R. Weaver, Sune Toft, Dave Sanders, Nima Chartab, Henry Joy McCracken, Bahram Mobasher, Istvan Szapudi, Noah East, Wynne Turner, Matthew M…

Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn -- morphological classifications for over 41,000 galaxies in the Euclid Deep Field North from the Hawaii Two-0 Cosmic Dawn survey
We present morphological classifications of over 41,000 galaxies out to $z_{\rm phot}\sim2.5$ across six square degrees of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN) from the Hawaii Twenty Square Degree (H20) survey, a part of the wider Cosmic Dawn survey. Galaxy Zoo citizen scientists play a crucial role in the examination of large astronomical data sets through crowdsourced data mining of extragalactic imaging. This iteration, Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn (GZCD), saw tens of thousands of volunteers and th…

ICE arrests chiropractor outside his kid’s Beaverton preschool
The man is married to a U.S. citizen
and has completed his green card application.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/07/16/ice-imm…

ICE arrests chiropractor outside his kid’s Beaverton preschool
Federal immigration officers arrested a 38-year old Iranian man outside his child’s preschool in Beaverton on Tuesday, according to school and law enforcement officials. The man is married to a U.S. citizen and completed his green card application.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.' He secretly recorded his brutal arrest (Clare Considine/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p74#a250725p74

BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-israeli-settlers-kill-american

U.S. citizen who works for Commerce Dept. ensnared in Chinese exit ban (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/20/china-exit-ban-commerce-department-trump-xi/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p62#a250720p62

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon explicitly declared the other day that ICE officers will be employed during the 2026 midterm elections in large numbers to monitor voting booths,
again floating undocumented voters as the bullshit pretext to justify it.
Bannon is not in a position to compel this, of course, but it’s clear the MAGA movement now sees Trump’s militarization of cities as a precursor to the use of law enforcement and/or the military to intimidate voters in large num…

Steve Bannon says ICE agents will be near polling places: "If you don't have an ID — if you're not a citizen — you're not voting"

Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone (Olga R. Rodriguez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/us-army-veteran-immigration-raid-53cb22251a01599a0c4d1a8d5650d050
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p3#a250717p3

BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-israeli-settlers-kill-american
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p111#a250711p111