Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
new dataset tracking every ICE detention death since 2003 uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
@NYCSamKay Steve Daines: "The flood of Mexican meth...20 years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown." (Video still cc: “meth was homemade, it was homegrown,”)
There is nothing more unserious than US drug policy
We used to make things
In-custody deaths will remain until we do not have people in custody. This is the truth no one wants to talk about.
At least 10 people have died in Los Angeles County Jails this year (2 months). An unpleasant reminder that in-custody deaths are common AND very few people do anything about it.
abc7.com/post/los-ang...
1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
Unironically love my opposing counsel, who called me back after a meet and confer today because he forgot to ask how my family in Israel is doing (which reminded me to ask about his extended family in Iran). He's wrong about EVERYTHING substantive, of course, but just a good human being
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
So proud of my hub @jaydaronson.bsky.social who spoke today at #StandupforScience
"They are coming for all of us.
And we have to defend one another."
@standupforscience.bsky.social @pgh-health-science.bsky.social @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
Fucking burn it down
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
INBOX: data from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migrations show that in the most recent three months, every single one of the 1,651 refugees accepted into the United States were of (white) South African origin.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
"Mainline conservatism is dying. In the US and UK at least, it is dead.This has been destabilizing to be sure, but let us not waste too much sympathy on it. It caused many harms and ignored many more. We should not fight for a creed that could not fight for itself."
The expanding war in Iran brought to the fore questions about the role of technology in armed conflict, including the controversial use of new artificial intelligence technologies. Tech Policy Press invited perspectives from experts on what they are watching for as the situation unfolds.
Given the billions being spent on war these days, it's a good time to read this @bmj.com series on the (h)arms industry!
"the arms industry should be seen as a commercial determinant of health"
Even as people are being killed, this industry is making billions in profit
www.bmj.com/collections/...
Not a lawyer, but it seems like Hegseth's explicit order to relax rules of engagement, thereby deliberately endangering civilians, would make this a war crime for which he is responsible. He should he prosecuted as a monstrous war criminal at the earliest opportunity. His order killed 165 children.
"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026
I assume, broadly, we'll see very similar reporting eventually on Claude and target generation in Trump's Iran War
This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
Good discussion here. I think an important part of what Mina’s getting at is that you won’t get out what you didn’t ask, and often when you’re doing research or prep, you find the key question isn’t the one you started with.
On @pablo.show I talked about the limits of generative AI, and why the brainstorming process—which LLMs mostly eliminate, imo—is fundamental to doing *good* work.
But honestly, you are making 2026 look positively delightful! How can a year so horrible look so charming when represented by tiny adorable needlepoint icons?
The bed on the DHS plane.
There is such an easy route that Uni's are failing to take. Lead with culture change. Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process.
I’m in @theguardian.com, talking about the struggle between acknowledging that increased criticism of Israel is completely justified, and also that some people are using that to mainstream antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There are a lot of legitimate questions to ask about Israel's role in lobbying the US to fight this war in Iran, and also a lot of antisemitic conspiracies about the "Zionist-occupied government" going around. I wrote about sorting through those fuzzy lines here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse
newrepublic.com/article/1793...
