Caroline Seydel

FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie

FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie

Hey you know what - you’re in luck. They just updated their “citizenship by descent” policy so congratulations, you’re a Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦

www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

corporations will put out ads saying "join us all in the panopticon" and all your neighbors will drag themselves and you into it gormlessly and gleefully

Great piece. I cannot believe this needs to be explained to people, but here we are.

I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody.

Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, boosting the effect

A big challenge for CRISPR gene editing 🧬 is altering a high enough proportion of target cells in the body 🧪

So @doudna-lab.bsky.social have developed editors that can amplify themselves by spreading from cell to cell

Comment from @gaetanburgio.bsky.social

www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

There are worse places to live, for sure. I’m not ruling it out, although I have no plans to move, and I hope and expect the US will turn a corner soon.

As a Canadian immigrant to the US, I can tell you, nobody is as defensive as a Canadian. My parents were proud of Canada, but also loved living in the USA, and rolled their eyes at how many Canadians define their identity simply as “NOT American!“ They felt much as you describe. Sibling nations.

National Guard troops were quietly withdrawn from some U.S. cities The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks that stymied President Donald Trump’s show of force in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

WAPO: ".. The Trump administration has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from U.S. cities, after its repeated attempts to surge forces into Democrat-run states encountered judicial roadblocks."

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[leftistly] "trump doesn't care about the law! he can do anything!! we've already lost!!!"

meanwhile

Takes me back

World's end 2026 A.D.? Urbana, IL -- Scientists at the University of Illinois have set the date for the end of the world at 2026 A.D. By mathematical calculation they have reached the conclusion that the human population will then have expanded so far as to reach infinity and it will thus automatically annihilate itself. Man will not die of starvation, radiation, disease or act of God. In the words of Dr. Heinz von Foerster, physicist in the university's Mechanical Engineering Department, "he will just be squeezed to death." -- Reuter --Evening Sentinel, 4 Nov 1960

A prediction from 1960

Post a banger that isn’t in English

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Chat we’re cooked

there's no "get out of human rights" card where special historical circumstances that allow you to do blood and soil ethnonationalism. landback is bad because it's predicated on a lockean/libertarian absolutist theory of property that's stupid and impracticable

I was waiting for this part of resistance: Where antifascists arranged themselves in a circular firing squad and did the least useful thing possible.

After the Pretti shooting, one of those guys straight-up suckerpunched me for “filming faces”… as I filmed him and fully-masked friends lighting fires directly in front of the dozens of gathered press crews. Nonsensical; just dudes wanting someone to give them a reason. Not that different from ICE.

A young Fred Korematsu

A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu

Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

I live to serve

Cartoon aardvark in a pink dress (“ICE”) standing in front of a sign reading Ecuadorian Consulate and saying “That sign won’t stop me because I can’t read”)

I like to think this was the intention

I think it goes beyond just “being conservative,” it’s a special breed of excessively-online culture warrior that can’t comprehend this. Any member of a church in a region that has natural disasters knows how to whip up a “mobile supply depot” on short notice.

Still can't believe they immediately put the officers who killed Pretti back in the field. Even if the shooting had been justified (it wasn't), it's just incredibly callous and reckless -- to the public, but also to the officers themselves. Just a sociopathic dearth of humanity.

Inside the Helix Nebula: JWST image shows thousands of creepy fingers around a dying star Plus: My 200th article for Scientific American

JWST has taken a lot of cool images, but this one is near the top of my list: thousands (!) of creepy fingers point toward a dying star in the Helix Nebula.

The close-up is… well, just look for yourself.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/inside-the...

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The key to the far right’s recent ascendence is the realization that if they simply go on traditional or social media and describe things that are completely false but they’d prefer to be true, many people will treat this fictitious reality as, at least, a competing theory that must be dignified.

-[2nd amendment freaks spend 50 years insisting everyone should be allowed to carry guns to resist tyranny]

-ah, well, no, not like that

A deadly standoff in 1992 changed federal use-of-force rules. Here's why it matters An encounter with white separatists decades ago led to new deadly force policies for some federal law enforcement. Minneapolis is raising questions about whether it's again time to revisit the issue.

An encounter with white separatists decades ago led to new deadly force policies for some federal law enforcement. Minneapolis is raising questions about whether it's again time to revisit the issue.

I'll say it again: Minneapolis will be their Gettysburg

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."