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alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:
From last night at the ICE facility in Portland.. Bureau of Prisons??
Don’t think I’ve ever seen this before here
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
I’m quoted in this Toronto Star opinion piece in which the writer advocates for reviving Radio Canada International, partly as a response to the silencing of the Voice of America. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/canada-needs-to-make-its-voice-heard-around-the-world-heres-one-clear-way-to/article%5F211842ba-4c5d-443b-8e65-221ee8ac9974.html?utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fcampaign=user-share
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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:
Setting up i3, Chris's new life with Vim, and can you really sell multi-pack cans separately?
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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:
I made a #podcast with my friends Jenny and Max about the Dunk and Egg trailer and what we hope to see in the series.
Also we find out Max knows a surprising amount about the Amish.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“credible estimates converge around 5–7 million total demonstrators, spread over roughly 2,700 locations, marking a record-breaking mobilization in modern U.S. protest history.”
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RonSupportsYou wrote:
Jon Favreau: (Republicans in) "Our government spent the week calling its critics extremists and terrorists who hate America.
In response, about 7 million Americans turned out for an entirely peaceful day of protest - the biggest the country’s ever seen.
Not too shabby."
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #politics copy: @renewedresistance
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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:
AUSSIE BIRD COUNT STARTS TODAY! https://aussiebirdcount.org.au
Spend 20 minutes counting the birds you encounter. Log them. Repeat as many times as you like. Proper science! There are also prizes.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I finally looked at the infamous ‘King shitting on the demonstrations’ video, and I think Trump’s minions may have actually given his opponents still more visual ammunition
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/donald-trump-ai-video-brown-liquid-b2848072.html
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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:
Nearly one in five Russian drivers encountered empty gas stations, while 74% report price hikes since August - Ukraine's refinery strikes reaching the pump
Prices jumped 10% since January, with stations selling fuel so poor it's breaking Chinese cars
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
I decided to call bullshit. Claude apologized profusely, in the typical way I've seen from accounts of LLMs caught lying.
This is one point where LLMs differ from human mathematicians. We make lots of mistakes, but we very rarely just make shit up.
(6/n)
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MissGayle@urbanists.social ("Miss Gayle") wrote:
@Nshrubs @librarymonster @DemocracyMattersALot
Pandora music customer service...
Fun with chatbots, I guess. Transcript in Alt Text truncated a bit to fit the character limit, but conveys the idea.
They do not, in fact, "understand your concerns."
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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents or imposters.
In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.“He’s bleeding,” one caller said about a person he saw yanked from a car wash lot and beaten.
“They dumped him into a white van. It doesn’t say ICE.”
One woman’s voice shook as she asked,
“What kind of police go around without license plates?”
And then this from another:
“Should we just run from them?”During a tense public meeting days later, Mayor Valerie Amezcua and the City Council asked their police chief whether there was anything they could do to rein in the federal agents
— even if only to ban the use of masks.
The answer was a resounding no.
Plus, filing complaints with the Department of Homeland Security was likely to go nowhere
because the office that once handled them had been dismantled.
There was little chance of holding individual agents accountable for alleged abuses because, among other hurdles,
there was no way to reliably learn their identities.Since then, Amezcua, 58, said she has reluctantly accepted the reality:
There are virtually no limits on what federal agents can do to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations.
Santa Ana has proven to be a template for much larger raids and even more violent arrests in Chicago and elsewhere.
“It’s almost like he tries it out in this county and says, ‘It worked there, so now let me send them there,’” Amezcua said.Current and former national security officials share the mayor’s concerns.
They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president
as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
The transformation, the officials say, unfolded rapidly and in plain sight.
Trump’s DHS appointees swiftly dismantled civil rights guardrails,
encouraged agents to wear masks,
threatened groups and state governments that stood in their way,
and then made so many arrests that the influx overwhelmed lawyers trying to defend immigrants taken out of state or out of the country.And although they are reluctant to predict the future,
the current and former officials worry that this force assembled from federal agents across the country could eventually be turned against any groups the administration labels a threat.(1/N)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
@aram that is probably one of the very few times NYT was correct. We all should stop paying attention to every inconsequential stunt Trump does. It's not policy. We're not learning anything new about him here.
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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:
🙄
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Because we need good news: Gary Larson is drawing again (he bought a tablet, taught himself how to use it, and suddenly drawing was fun again): https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
They like to eat things that are bigger than they are.
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Waitnwallflower@beige.party ("Wallflower 🌺") wrote:
Happy Light engaged.
Enjoy your Sunday.
❤️🔥
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:
#retrocomputing I've put up a website at https://8087.martypc.net where you can inspect and zoom into the 8087 microcode ROM.
Circles indicate a large transistor, large squares a medium transistor, and smaller rectangles a small transistor.
To the upper left of each classification shape is the transistor's logical index.
If you spot a bug, you can report the index for a quick fix!
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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:
And here's a thread with my grandfather's old sheep pictures.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3lobo6fbor22q
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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:
These sheep are not just cute, but they are also very curious.#Iceland #sheep #icelandicsheep #nature #landscape #sea
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:
Instead of Caturday, I'm doing sheep Saturday in honour of my grandfather, who loved taking pictures of sheep.#Iceland #sheep #icelandicsheep #nature #landscape #sea
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
disgusting abuse of State power
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
magnificent
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/los-angeles-confederate-monuments
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the Supreme Court has blood on it’s hands. reinterpreting the 2nd Amendment has left us uncontrollably awash in deadly firearms.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
not A Good Sign
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:
I’m sorry, but we simply cannot be friends if you’re a fan of Fargo (1996) but still haven’t seen Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014).
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The war is over”… right. as ever, Little Donnie fails to accomplish anything beyond an exchange of prisoners
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BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:
Another gem from yesterday.
#NoKings
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montrak@norden.social wrote:
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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:
Why does it matter than ~7 million people stood up today?
There are millions of Americans who voted Republican in 2024 because they didn’t bother to inform themselves. Now, they can’t get tacos because the shop is closed. Their autistic kid’s support at school got defunded. Their friend can’t find work. Their health insurance went up. Food budget sucks. Tax refund didn’t arrive. They are grumpy now, and 7 million people said “that’s OK, you too can say fuck this guy!”.