Amelia McNamara

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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

CMS Quietly Releases Medicaid State Improper Payment Rates for 2025: How Did Minnesota Do? With little fanfare, CMS earlier this month released a Fact Sheet on improper payments in Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the Marketplaces in 2025. With even less fanfare, CMS this week posted Medicaid ...

Minnesota has a Medicaid fraud rate that is almost 1/3 the national average. A federal court should throw out this decision in 30 minutes

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

It’s disorienting how fast the country moved on. In Minnesota, families are still living with raids, detentions, and federal force in their neighborhoods. The cameras left. The headlines faded. The fear didn’t.

This post motivated me to go look in my lockbox and find a matured savings bond 😅

Sizing chaos The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

Brilliant visualization of women’s clothing sizes and how they change, and how they do or don’t work for various sizes of women

pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...

Via @howtoreadthisch.art

I’m going to say again, infecting your allies with a potentially debilitating and deadly illness is extremely foolish behavior in any kind of movement. You’re doing work for the other guys.

Frustration, pass it on.

Lots of us used a pronoun labeler on here that has gone away, but there's a new pronoun labeler people are using.

Labelers can be confusing if you haven't used them before (& even if you have). They can be used in different ways.

This thread shows you how to use the pronoun labeler. 🧵

Chart showing the countries with the most and fewest non-working holidays in 2026. The chart is based on a Pew Research Center analysis of information from Time and Date, as well as national labor codes, government publications and regional news sources.

The US will have 11 non-working holidays this year, including Presidents Day on Monday. That's below the global average of 13. If you want a lot of time off, consider moving to Sri Lanka, which grants a public holiday every time there's a full moon. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python Python reigns, but R and Perl are creeping up the TIOBE Index. Is it a niche revival or just maintenance noise? Dive into the shifting dev landscape.

Python reigns, but R and Perl are creeping up the TIOBE Index. Is it a niche revival or just maintenance noise? Dive into the shifting dev landscape.

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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Two Tinker Fellows will develop innovations in AI Two Tinker Fellows will develop innovations in AI to support critical thinking and study learners’ inquiry moves.

I'm excited to bring my AI-skepticism to this fellowship with The Concord Consortium, and hopefully do some research about how (and whether) AI can be used to help with accessibility and teacher professional development.

concord.org/blog/two-tin...

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

I forgot to turn off my eBay saved search once I finished my collection, so I just got notice about this inexpensive copy of Tukey's collected works volume III, Philosophy and Principles of Data Analysis 1949-1964. www.ebay.com/itm/16812758...

I think that one came out around 2018 or 2019? That's when I remember hearing about him.

Spent a moment pondering this and have come to the conclusion that must be your dog's name, and this has nothing to do with the senator from Vermont.

You can't have a democratic society when the people with power or their violent enforcers have data privacy but the citizens have no data privacy protections.

ICE’s surveillance technology goes beyond facial recognition Federal immigration agencies are using a vast surveillance network in Minnesota – from facial recognition technology to ‘stingrays’ that collect data by impersonating cell phone towers.

Creepy deep dive into ICE technology. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

we’re right about ai too

the only thing missing from the minnesota flag is our new motto
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It is imperitive that weiner dogs be provided access to look out windows.

With much respect to the people who have posted "Parable of the Sower", I give you a different take on surviving disasters as a Minnesotan community: @naomikritzer.bsky.social's The Year Without Sunshine

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

I was at my neighborhood vigil on Saturday night, kicking myself for not reviewing Singing the Living Tradition so I could lead a song.

A small brown dog looks at the camera, with snow on his muzzle. A person's snow boots are visible in the background and the rest of the photo is snow.

Here's Bentley. He was interrupted on his snow walk for a photo, which isn't as fun as sniffing things through the snow.

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting.

More accurate terms:
- observers
- witnesses
- volunteers
- neighbors
- residents
- people