For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.

Iftar, Day 19

“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza Two years ago this month, the world was gripped by a series of shocking recordings of a 6-year-old girl in Gaza pleading for help as she sat trapped in a car riddled with bullets alongside the bodies ...

"The Voice of Hind Rajab," nominated for best international film at this year's Oscars, uses the real audio of 6-year-old Hind Rajab as she begged rescuers for help following an attack by Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

"When you hear her voice, you can't unhear it," says director Kaouther Ben Hania.

A cartoon of a news report. The picture shows a government official doing a press conference flanked by goons. The headline reads “A man attacked federal bullets with his body” Underneath the picture is a quote saying “those bullets had families”

US government rn

Bluesky appears to also have some issues. I’m having trouble liking this post and others.

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

I have a piece out in @theguardian.com today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back with everything we have

Throwback to the co-founder of Palantir saying this is all about making money in June 2025:

" I'm really excited to invest in Iran if we can get this country to be some sort of republic and not run by crazy people, and that's a lot easier than doing that in Afghanistan..."

Alex Jones "Liberal Liberal Liberal." YouTube video by Everydavid

youtu.be/fcmItZf0dnY

A screenshot of a digital news article from The Sunday Times. ​Headline: "Trust me, taking testosterone as a woman is about more than sex". ​Subheader: "Most doctors only prescribe the hormone for low libido yet menopause campaigners say it has many other benefits too. So why is no one researching these claims?". ​Lead Image: A portrait of a woman, Rebecca Seal, wearing a blue sweater and smiling at the camera. ​Byline and Date: Written by Rebecca Seal; published Saturday, February 28, 2026.

Article on 'Black-Market' Hormones ​A screenshot of a digital news article from The Times. ​Headline: "Doctors fear young at risk from ‘black-market trans hormones’". ​Subheader: "Medics call for an urgent investigation into trans community groups offering support on accessing supplies for self-medication". ​Lead Image: A photo of a trans rights demonstration outside Holyrood in 2022, featuring individuals and large Transgender and Non-binary pride flags. ​Byline and Date: Written by Mary Wright; published Sunday, March 01, 2026.

Absolutely incredible.

Five alarm fire. The entire cable news ecosystem and the largest online outlets will all be center-right to full-on Nazi: 100% mobster/oligarch propaganda, lies, and censorship, and nothing else.

Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy.

Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

Let me re-introduce myself. And why our campaign is doing things differently.

Maybe he should have listened to my advice about privacy hygiene.

Sophie Wilson is an English computer scientist & trans woman whose work in designing the ARM1 computer chip was instrumental in the development of the smartphone 📱

Now, 99% of smartphones use a type of processor that derives from the one she helped design in 1983.

#LGBTQHistoryMonth

I personally don’t want that kind of power, you can keep it for now.

A screenshot from https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-8b-base-model-release/ showing a prompt: “Rising ocean temperatures driven by increased atmospheric CO2 have disrupted marine ecosystems, causing coral bleaching events and shifting the migration patterns of” An output: “fish species. This has led to a decline in fish populations and the degradation of marine habitats. Additionally, ocean acidification due to the absorption of CO2 is affecting shell-forming organisms such as mollusks and corals, impacting their ability to build and maintain skeletal structures. This could lead to significant consequences for fisheries and coastal communities that rely on these resources” And then a section called “training data attribution”. It attributed 26% to arXiv, 25% to Wikipedia, 17% to Nemotron (syn), 16% to Nemotron (real), 10% to PES2O, and 6% to FLAN.

www.guidelabs.ai/post/scaling...

This is extremely cool. Guide Labs have trained an LLM that can tell you what part of the prompt was most relevant to each part of the output, what concepts it ties to each part of the output, and what part of its training data influenced the output.

US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot

please…my stolen data…it’s been stolen www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

404 Media found multiple users of Zello, an app previously used by Jan. 6 insurrectionists, linked to ICE officials. An officer at the scene of an CBP official shooting a US citizen also used the app. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...

A defense motion in the “Broadview 6” case today says body cam footage from the scene shows Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh move away from the agents’s vehicle she was allegedly impeding, grab a megaphone and tell the crowd “that’s private property back there- come back.”

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."

-HowAboutNo- • 1h • Sweden That angle was pre-prepared by the Swedes. It's not a usual angle. The Canadians didn't know this angle existed. It's usually from the front where it's impossible to see a touch. The Swedes stated in the post-match interview that they made it into a big deal because the Canadians have done this before in other games. The refs never act and they wanted to force them to more actively rule the games. The Swedes can be heard during the game saying that "it's fine, Magnus is recording", refering to a guy from Swedish television operating the camera from that angle. This was pre-planned and expected. It's the reason why Oskar is so confident that it's on camera.

Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...