Allison C (she/her)

- Rosa Luxemburg, 1915

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Gift link, because I want everyone to read this whole column:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a...

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades.

In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

shame is back on the menu boys

I got that email from Amazon this morning and didn't know what to make of it. Thank you @404media.co for breaking it down. I am currently deleting all public lists.

Video doorbell owners learning to their shock and disappointment that they were all of them deceived- there is only one lord of the Rings, and he does not share power.

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

DC is actually being treated thoroughly as occupied territory. Tearing down monuments/media institutions, hostile takeover of its core economic engine and industry, suppression of its local municipal government and security forces

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin

ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin

This is why we had Jim Crow instead of truth and reconciliation after slavery ended. People are so quick to absolve anyone who pays lip service to changing their mind about human rights violations instead of letting them live with the social consequences of their words

There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism.

As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot.

Block/mute this argument, it's an op.

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

State control of historical memory is a classic hallmark of authoritarian regimes, just FYI.

Let's be clear (and I'm not being cute): this is DHS trying to get ahead of the inevitable moment when they shoot a baby.

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

thinking a lot lately about our surprise when the victim of state violence is white, a citizen, a priest, a veteran, some category viewed as exempt from that violence. it’s time to understand you aren’t. no one is. whiteness isn’t the color of your skin it is a conditional privilege you can lose.

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished.

I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy.

Time to melt ICE.

humans have the capacity to do anything you can think of. your fucking doomerism minimizes the work of billions of people to improve things for everyone and everything. please go be a narrow minded narcissist somewhere the rest of us don't need to hear it. I'm so fucking sick of it

Starbucks seems obsessed with spending millions boosting CEO pay, executive bonuses, and more money for shareholders, but they’re failing the baristas who make all their profits possible. RT if you agree!

Why We Can't Stop Naming Our Pets After Japanese Rice Cakes What's behind the Bay Area's collective interest in naming pets after Japanese food?

because sometimes it's fun digging into our weird little cultural habits... I've been wondering why I kept running into dogs named Mochi in the Bay Area, so I asked about a dozen local pet owners why they chose that name! click thru for so many pet pix!! www.coyotemedia.org/why-we-cant-...

you wanna see a dead body

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:

they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

you ever read a book so bad you wanna go back to mesopotamia and uninvent writing

That Tom Gauld meme of the two opposing nations perfectly mirrored, but edited to be between archives and museums.

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums