The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
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The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
Kyle Shideler, the government's "expert" witness in a case against Texas antifascist activists, said he provided language and research to support the indictment. He's a staffer at the deeply Islamophobic Center for Security Policy. theintercept.com/2026/03/09/p...
Here's an example of his work.
Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social
NEW: In the first appeals court hearing over one of the subpoenas it sent to gender-affirming care providers, Trump's DOJ advanced legal arguments that cast an ominous shadow over the future of access to medications the administration doesn't approve of, including abortion pills.
NEW LAWSUIT: We’re suing DOJ and ICE for records on DOJ’s collection of sensitive voter data from states and how that info is being accessed or used by ICE.
Americans deserve to know how their data is being used, and if their rights are at risk.
americanoversight.org/american-ove...
New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online
This weekend @prismreports.org and our friends at the Movement Media Alliance learned that journalist Logan Hullinger died of an overdose. Logan was very open about his struggle and would have wanted people to know what happened. baltimorebeat.com/in-memory-of...
Today on Assigned: @piperbomb.bsky.social went to a showing of Heightened Scrutiny!
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Post Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table. 4:19 PM • Mar 8, 2026 CEverybody can reply 276 reposts 699 quotes 685 likes 36 saves 184 ① 975 685
This is an irresponsible, misleading post that misrepresents what Leavitt said. There's enough awful stuff happening. Don't confuse people.
move slow and repair things
There's a difference between sometimes needing some mindless fluff and stalwartly refusing to ever engage with text that asks something of the reader, and I worry that too many people are increasingly in the latter camp. I mean gods know we all need escapism these days, but...
Divide funded? Fully funded.
Re: PTO, we used to not have separate sick, but I think the union negotiated that recently.
I don’t go to anything I don’t get divide funded for, but my company doesn’t usually pay.
I don’t have to use PTO, though.
NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.
openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
🚨Are you at #NICAR26 today? Don't miss the Data Journalism Podcast live recording at 5pm with @propublica.org plus @kleinmatic.bsky.social, @albertocairo.com and me!
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DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
me: I don’t have anything on my calendar and idk what to do
my wife, from her job: thats rough im sorry
NEW: A Mississippi bill criminalizing mail-order abortion pills as "drug trafficking" is headed to the Missisisppi governor's desk after passing both the House and Senate.
@heatherharrison.bsky.social reports: www.mississippifreepress.org/bill-crimina...
A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.
Estefany Rodríguez, a Nashville journalist for a Spanish-language outlet, was covering immigration raids. The next day, agents arrested her without a warrant. www.cjr.org/analysis/est...
is pillion just a dianese ad
a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average
US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way
Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧵
news moratorium. dog photos only
necessary psa
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
"omg did you see Rotta the Hutt? He's Jabba's son and he is going to fight the Mandalorian and Gr-"
You bolt awake in the hills of Burbank. It is 1976 AD. You are Marcia Lucas, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Star Wars must match George's original vision
Late last year I covered the case of QueerDoc, a small, telehealth gender-affirming care practice that received a subpoena from Trump's DOJ. The subpoena was blocked by a federal judge, but the DOJ appealed, and the 9th Circuit is hearing oral arguments today.
hello, support, i would like to return this item? i do not think i ordered it
