Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

An excerpt from the article describing how scientists are worried about retaliation from the Trump administration, and reporting that Acting Director Memoli has told everyone that any mRNA work/grants/collaborations must be reported up to RFK Jr. and to the White House.

Yet another extremely stupid and destructive move appears to be underway. Those people who advised me to calm down, that everything was actually going to work out fine, know what they can go do with themselves.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Businesses they care about (large ones) can spend hundreds of lawyer hours working out data licensing terms.

Small and medium businesses just have to take what they can get.

I thought it was about offering an easy conversation topic, “where have you traveled recently / where are you going next?”

You mean the rapid unscheduled disassembly (RUD).

Same, and I was like “ooh, which AI tool is doing good book recommendations?!”

We really do have a new influx of bots: a third of my new followers overnight are sus. Watch out in particular for "blue dot in a red state", they're grinding for followers. (A lot of Americans are mad about the election and don't think too hard before following someone with the right slogan.)

I don’t have time to follow the Geoff micro fiction narrative, but I’m loving the meta-commentary and social phenomenon.

I spent the first Trump term saying my elderly cat would be a better president. It’s probably still true, despite my cat having died and been cremated.

This morning using the Dunkin Donuts app I found myself wanting an RPAed API to it I could use through ChatGPT or similar.

“The particular pitfalls that come from operating in social cycles [circles?] where everyone wants something” is an excellent description of why sometimes visiting SF is unpleasant.

You can just run the first party client on a virtualized device and use AI to automate interaction with the client and present a consistent API.

n.b. “Fundable” doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

If it uses AI to keep up with the discourse, that’s probably fundable.

Unfortunately the only appropriate person to use that handle died in 2012.

I mean, if you are a fringe candidate for whom the national media won’t show up, and none of your staff know a better way, I guess you could try that.

Can we call them slash tags? Or slush tags?

Ironic for you to be one of the people unclear on the benefits of enforced brevity.

Big money donors practically select for it. Some GOP donors seem to make it a requirement. These traits make politicians more pliant and more valuable to own.

The Decemberist’s rendition of _Ben Franklin’s Song_ from Hamildrops is the only citation you need.

🎶Diplomacy happens at night🎶

https://youtu.be/rVmVVkbx3jE

Every “they refused to debate me” story

Would it really be unethical to support a civil war somewhere just to encourage into existence a new country with a .ts TLD?

For personal banking, Schwab cosplays a bank well.

Finally joined @aletta on Bluesky. No longer will she have to explain it to me like it’s a TV show I don’t watch.