Vintage classroom TV setup

I wanna watch the Artemis landing on this.

Guest House by Rumi, I believe translated by Coleman Banks. There’s a great recording of him on Coldplay’s “Kaleidoscope” that I recommend.

Loss is just so weird. Haven’t seen an old friend in 16 years, and learned he passed today.

When we were young, I remember feeling that — beside him — I could be more. Not more in any quantifiable metric we define a thing. But a permission to be more. I enjoyed it.

Thinking of him as I read this.

10/10 no notes

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

How Civil Society Is Fighting to Protect Digital Rights Amid Global Crisis Renewed commitment from allies and philanthropies is crucial, write Vita-Activa’s Luisa Ortiz Pérez and IFEX’s Rachael Kay.

Sharing this quite late as I was off work for the past two months, but here's a recap of an important discussion I took part in at MozFest back in November: www.techpolicy.press/how-civil-so...

I miss the age of fan films. I used to spend time on TheForce.net where every year there would be some kind of competition for Star Wars fan films -- and I loved watching them. They seem kind of cringe, now, but I remember always wanting to make one.

Happy 10 year anniversary

Tracker Newsletter: ICE in Focus As federal agents carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation, this limited-series newsletter will track what’s happening and what’s coming next.

It can be hard to keep up with EVERYTHING that the Trump admins is doing—and planning to do—right now with ICE and Border Patrol around the US

So @wired.com created the ICE Tracker newsletter to ensure you know exactly what's happening....and it's FREE

Sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...

ICE Watch Digital Security | Digital Security Checklists for Activists Digital security checklist for anyone doing ICE watch, rapid response foot patrols, or accompaniment

🌱🌱🌱🌱 New checklist: ICE Watch Digital security. For anyone working to hold ICE accountable through filming, foot patrols, adopt-a-corner, or rapid response.

→ activistchecklist.org/ice

Designed with a lot of feedback from folks on the frontlines (Minneapolis and elsewhere).

Boston-Area Civic Tech Meetup! Join fellow civic technologists and public interest technologists for an informal social session. Hosted by Matt Marino with support from Technologists for the Public Good, this is a space for folks p...

Calling all #Boston #CivicTech folks!

Come be in community together. Join TPG on Feb 17th at 6pm inside Bow Market.

This is a space for folks passionate about using technology for the public benefit to find peers, swap stories, and build community.

RSVP at www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Meanwhile streamer Hasan Piker was live on Twitch last night walking around a Somali business community, talking with Omar Fateh.

The bar is underground for legacy media, and they can’t even reach that.

Demand Massachusetts lawmakers pass urgent reforms to rein in ICE.

Our lawmakers have a responsibility to do everything in their power to rein in ICE. The abuses won't stop without our collective action. Silence is complicity.

Demand that Massachusetts lawmakers take a stand and pass urgent reforms to rein in ICE.

www.aclum.org/ICE

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Despite being pulled, the CBS 60 Minutes segment on CECOT aired in Canada, was recorded, and uploaded to the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/60mi...

Massachusetts drivers are being tracked and their data is being shared nationwide — thanks to police using license plate readers (LPRs) made by Flock and other tech companies.

Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...

How does Artificial Intelligence impact our society?

Join Laura Bates, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity @nasser.wiki and moderator Alice Wroe XR Lead, Atlantic Institute to explore AI’s ethical, social and equity risks.

📅 Nov 17 2025
🕰️ 3pm GMT
💻 Zoom Live Event: www.eventbrite.com/e/being-huma...

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Algorithms optimize for people’s appetite for that content. Even obvious fakes get shared because the trope gratifies bias. “AI” labels just give a “just joking” shield while the engagement racks up. And that’s for those who even notice.

Saying there’s “no demand” for fake EBT clips ignores centuries of profitable anti-Black caricature. The audience isn’t duped… they’re served.

Ran the Cambridge half marathon today with the red line!

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Yeah on this I agree. It’s found its way into language.

What did the person you’re replying to, say? They blocked me.

I do think it is very American to qualify what kind of American you are. You’re right to point that out.

Not exclusive to Indians of course but as I am an ABCD I felt okay pointing that out

I don’t know if this is universally true but it is interesting that we say “Indian Americans” and also “British Indians.” Why is the order flipped?

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevit...

All of this on the heels of reporting from @404media.co @josephcox.bsky.social that ICE had access to Flock’s nationwide network. www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...