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G's mom being on JFK tarmac now for 3 hours because there is apparently no flight plan + his aunt's Amtrak to Boston being sent back to Penn station bc of downed power lines– she's Ubering with strangers to boston rn...is witnessing late-stage capitalism and infrastructure failure in real time right

Immigration Crackdowns Are Booming. So Is the Digital Resistance Fighting Them. As immigrants face threats under Trump 2.0, a scrappy movement of techies is creating real-time tools to resist.

second, I wrote about the myriad digital platforms immigrant advocates have been coding and launching to notify their neighbors of ICE raids, with a special focus on @joshua.stealingheather.com's new ICEBlock app: slate.com/technology/2...

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When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

Insane Tricks with Citi Bikes | Diaries: Citi Bike Boyz YouTube video by HYPEBEAST

Jerome Peel from Citibike Boys!! Check out the other tricks he gets up to if you like this haha
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Why Elon Musk Is Attacking a Website That Used to Adore Him The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

I wrote about a major moderation change that Reddit announced last week, its immediate effect on the site's already-suppressed discussions around Luigi Mangione, and the backstory that involves Elon Musk, anti-Palestinian conspiracies, and right-wing tech media: slate.com/technology/2...

yesterday was a tough day for us. please send all love, support, and job opportunities to @methsaxon.bsky.social, @hashtagkatie.bsky.social, and @natalieshut.bsky.social, all of whom deserved so much better than this.

i don't regularly check here so i'm just seeing this but thank you!! I also almost had a conniption 🤝

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also everyone knows when the AI bubble pops it will pop where AI has been shoehorned in right??

Google Quietly Installed A.I. to My Workspace. Getting Rid of It Was Creepy. Opting out should not be a premium feature. It’s a basic right.

taking my first plunge on bluesky to plug the piece I wrote for @slate.bsky.social about my spooky first hand experience trying to opt out of Google's AI for my company and the dangerous precedent it sets by big tech companies presuming user consent 😤
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