The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
WA it McClintock?
They all think they're moving to Mars or the moon
It’s an interesting academic exercise, not a “production-ready” compiler. But it raises a question: How much of it is a copyright-relevant copy of existing code? https://www.maffulli.net/2026/02/09/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler-ars-technica/
The "use case" for LLMs is: Spam. Everywhere.
📺 👏 Thank you to everyone who joined “Climate deception ‘on Air’”!
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🔜 Next webinar, 5 February: Who Is Most Vulnerable to AI-Generated Mis/Disinformation?
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< Note Kirstie Kimball 3d substack If you don't live in Minneapolis, I need you to know a few things about the occupation. -the helicopters don't stop -there are so many abductions from cars that we have a towing moratorium and there are constantly cars parked haphazardly in the street-these are often running or have their hazards on and they often have glass from broken windows by the wheels -even if you're stationary in one spot, you will likely see ICE multiple times a day -songs with honking or whistles on sports TVs in bars get people to stand up automatically -most restaurants, even those that aren't owned by immigrants, have locked their doors -there was a military style checkpoint by the execution site of Alex Pretti last night and people had to prove they live there with ID or mail to get into their neighborhood -whatever you see on the news or Instagram, it's worse
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
If you're willing to accept off the norm poems, e.e. cummings wrote one that started "she being brand new" that was exceptional
The letter in full reads: “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
This is the full text of the real, batshit insane letter Trump sent to the Norwegian Prime Minister.
We all know MAGA is a death cult, but if Congress & his Cabinet refuse to remove the mentally incontinent idiot from office, they’re guilty of risking the lives of every single person on the planet.
Super PhD opportunity.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
An interesting open position in @EclipseFdn for those into digital #ProductManagement and #opensource at #OpenVSX, the biggest open-source registry for VS Code extensions, used by platforms like #Windsurf. 😉😉 […]
It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision.
It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.
“We already have general intelligence in humans, and instead of attempting to replicate it artificially, we should focus on amplifying collective intelligence through AI-human feedback loops. The core challenge is not creating autonomous artificial minds but developing dynamic, adaptive systems […]
Next time you’re applying for a job, any job, be sure to mention you were able to pick out a giraffe during a regular dementia test.
Let’s see how it plays out.
#Brazil 🇧🇷 @indexoncensorship.org covers how Meta removed multiple Brazilian left-wing influencers from Instagram, with politicians calling the bans a “direct attack on freedom of speech” and on voices denouncing corruption and police violence.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
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"The contrast with Docker is striking: while the Docker container required 100% CPU to reach peak for the HTTP and HTTPS throughput, the FreeBSD jail delivered the same speed with ~60% of the CPU sitting idle. In terms of performance cost per request, Jails are drastically cheaper." […]
Security-Focused Guide for AI Code Assistant Instructions by OpenSSF. Worth reading, and worth contributing 😉
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NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Didn't have that on my bingo card....
"When one of the man's broken ribs punctured his skin and scratched an ICE agent's skin, he was charged with assault."
#OSPORADAR, to develop the technical tooling to enable Academic Open-Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) to efficiently archive, manage, and showcase their institutions' software productions.
Help needed on the stakeholder requirements deliverable:
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Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
