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TACO Tuesday!
Know anybody in Congress who can step in and stop him?
If hundreds of millions of people have used your products and AI is still polling below ICE and OpenAI is spending hundreds of millions on a podcast with 70k viewers because Altman explicitly thinks AI has a marketing problem… you know I think the products just aren’t great
Robert De Niro: All over the country in cities and towns and factories and on farms north, south, east, west, millions of us are coming together to declare No Kings. It is indeed a beautiful hopeful day in the United States of America, and you, Minnesota, are at the epicenter.
I heard the story but didn't realize it was you! Incredibly important battle for a basic civil right.
"ChatGPT, how does one spark the Kessler Syndrome?"
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."
Nekima on the Target boycott.
ICE Comes To Shakopee. This is what happens when governmental terror comes to Everytown, USA. For @rollingstone.com
archive.is/BBvVQ
Apple seriously enshittified Keynote. Which open source options should I use to replace it? It would need to handle vector graphics and my nitpicky design requirements...
roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
whoops
"Trump’s new order, inaugurated with his assault on USAID, is now corroding America’s influence and standing and leaving global leaders with little choice but to treat the United States as an erratic adversary rather than a stable ally." (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Looks like a mechanism for A/B testing of personas, perhaps in proprietary environments. I love that the OSS community did its thing and spotted it.
Autobots, roll out!
When you need to explain your rebranding… HOW MANY MONTHS LATER?… it’s maybe time to rebrand again. This time with a .com.
Even creepier to know it's a purchase and not a building rental. They have long-term plans for those camps.
Donald MacKenzie on visions of infinite scaling in tech: "AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve too." (NB Mackenzie seems to have taken the hint from Shapin and is now writing essays for LRB, hurrah!) #sts #envhums #envsoc
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
started getting instagram ads for mira's toddler-sized gas masks while putting together this article. also, at the same time, saw videos of that preschool getting tear gassed. no we will not be adding a section on the best gas mask for toddlers www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
You’re where?
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
In press materials providing topline findings and an overview of the study, the ADL notes Claude’s leading performance — but does not mention that Grok performed the worst of the bunch. When asked about why, Daniel Kelley, senior director of the ADL Center for Technology and Society, provided the following statement: “In our report and press release, we made a deliberate choice to highlight an AI model that demonstrated strong performance in detecting and countering antisemitism and extremism. We wanted to highlight strong performance to show what’s possible when companies invest in safeguards and take these risks seriously, rather than centering the narrative on worst-performing models. That doesn’t diminish the Grok findings—which are fully presented in the report—but reflects a deliberate choice to lead with a forward-looking, standards-setting story.”
The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...
Be brave, like Minneapolis.
Yes, please. And TAKE MY MONEY!
Damn proud of Minnesota.
The beauty of this is that Guttenfelder is covering these men the way they have always wanted: dripping in tacticool gear, in action, looking down their sites at an enemy which surrounds them. In doing so, he reveals who they are. They imagine themselves heroes; he shows they are villains.
@kenmartin.bsky.social this is how Democrats lose credibility. I thought you would know better and would have been on top of this a long time ago.
We don’t need the couch fucker back in Minneapolis.
