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Damn right: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Damn right: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

This isn’t the first time #ICE has killed someone. This is actually the ninth such shooting by an ICE agent since September, every single one of which involved an ICE agent blatantly violating policy by firing into a vehicle. This is at least the second outright murder, as opposed to attempted murder.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Damn right: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted

"There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted

"There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted

"There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted

"There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted

"There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

"What you see on the video it is a federal agent demanding Good get out of the car, at which point she starts driving her SUV forward at about five miles per hour. That’s when an ICE agent near the front of her car fires multiple shots into Good’s vehicle, killing her."

~ Lisa Needham

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #MaskedThugs #Minneapolis
/11

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

"What you see on the video it is a federal agent demanding Good get out of the car, at which point she starts driving her SUV forward at about five miles per hour. That’s when an ICE agent near the front of her car fires multiple shots into Good’s vehicle, killing her."

~ Lisa Needham

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #MaskedThugs #Minneapolis
/11

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted

"There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted

"There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good-ice-agent-prosecuted

After ICE's execution of a motorist yesterday in Minnesota, @davidallengreen argues that in many ways, we are not so much all Greenlanders right now, but rather are all Christopher Isherwood.

While there is a need to record this brutality & lawlessness, there is also a sense that off-camera (out of sight) things are even worse.

As 2026 begins to look like the 1930s, we seem to have (as then) a political class who are wilfully averting their eyes!

#politics #fascism

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

Personal Blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching-the-scenes-in-the-berlin-street-below-from-our-apartment-window-above/

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above

Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity

By me

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

Personal Blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching-the-scenes-in-the-berlin-street-below-from-our-apartment-window-above/

After ICE's execution of a motorist yesterday in Minnesota, @davidallengreen argues that in many ways, we are not so much all Greenlanders right now, but rather are all Christopher Isherwood.

While there is a need to record this brutality & lawlessness, there is also a sense that off-camera (out of sight) things are even worse.

As 2026 begins to look like the 1930s, we seem to have (as then) a political class who are wilfully averting their eyes!

#politics #fascism

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above

Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity

By me

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

Personal Blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching-the-scenes-in-the-berlin-street-below-from-our-apartment-window-above/

After ICE's execution of a motorist yesterday in Minnesota, @davidallengreen argues that in many ways, we are not so much all Greenlanders right now, but rather are all Christopher Isherwood.

While there is a need to record this brutality & lawlessness, there is also a sense that off-camera (out of sight) things are even worse.

As 2026 begins to look like the 1930s, we seem to have (as then) a political class who are wilfully averting their eyes!

#politics #fascism

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

After ICE's execution of a motorist yesterday in Minnesota, @davidallengreen argues that in many ways, we are not so much all Greenlanders right now, but rather are all Christopher Isherwood.

While there is a need to record this brutality & lawlessness, there is also a sense that off-camera (out of sight) things are even worse.

As 2026 begins to look like the 1930s, we seem to have (as then) a political class who are wilfully averting their eyes!

#politics #fascism

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above

Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity

By me

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

Personal Blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching-the-scenes-in-the-berlin-street-below-from-our-apartment-window-above/

After ICE's execution of a motorist yesterday in Minnesota, @davidallengreen argues that in many ways, we are not so much all Greenlanders right now, but rather are all Christopher Isherwood.

While there is a need to record this brutality & lawlessness, there is also a sense that off-camera (out of sight) things are even worse.

As 2026 begins to look like the 1930s, we seem to have (as then) a political class who are wilfully averting their eyes!

#politics #fascism

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above

Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity

By me

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching

Personal Blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-are-christopher-isherwood-watching-the-scenes-in-the-berlin-street-below-from-our-apartment-window-above/

#AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

AI coding assistants are getting worse?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

#ai

AI coding assistants are getting worse?: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036

🔒🤖 Oh no, the #AI #overlords are too busy taking a nap behind the "403 Forbidden" sign to help you code today. Maybe next time they'll remember that their job isn't to reenact a Varnish cache server error! 🙄💾
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades #VarnishCache #CodingHumor #TechFails #403Forbidden #HackerNews #ngated

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

#ai

Si entrenas con mierda, sacas mierda. Sorpresón.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036

Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036

AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
L: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036
posted on 2026.01.08 at 10:20:15 (c=3, p=14)

AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
#ycombinator #coding #llms

"Before last year, if you were a mom, with a glovebox full of stuffed animals, driving your SUV through a peaceful residential street, eager to see your six-year-old child at the end of the day — a wife with no criminal record who had committed no federal crimes, not being sought by any authorities anywhere — a poet who cared about your neighbors —" (continued in /41)

~ Garrett M. Graff

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #fascism
/40

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

"Before last year, if you were a mom, with a glovebox full of stuffed animals, driving your SUV through a peaceful residential street, eager to see your six-year-old child at the end of the day — a wife with no criminal record who had committed no federal crimes, not being sought by any authorities anywhere — a poet who cared about your neighbors —" (continued in /41)

~ Garrett M. Graff

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #fascism
/40

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

"Before last year, if you were a mom, with a glovebox full of stuffed animals, driving your SUV through a peaceful residential street, eager to see your six-year-old child at the end of the day — a wife with no criminal record who had committed no federal crimes, not being sought by any authorities anywhere — a poet who cared about your neighbors —" (continued in /41)

~ Garrett M. Graff

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #fascism
/40

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

Feeling heavy and drained simply by existing in the USA? Garrett Graff says it could be the weight of the shift from "zero to non-zero." "There are so many aspects of our daily life that we’d never had to weigh before; so many new possible horrors that we have to carry in our minds each day." Here's his piece for his Doomsday Scenario newsletter.

https://flip.it/qXZgxo

#News #Politics #Trump #TrumpAdministration #USA #USNews

"Before last year, if you were a mom, with a glovebox full of stuffed animals, driving your SUV through a peaceful residential street, eager to see your six-year-old child at the end of the day — a wife with no criminal record who had committed no federal crimes, not being sought by any authorities anywhere — a poet who cared about your neighbors —" (continued in /41)

~ Garrett M. Graff

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #fascism
/40

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

"Before last year, if you were a mom, with a glovebox full of stuffed animals, driving your SUV through a peaceful residential street, eager to see your six-year-old child at the end of the day — a wife with no criminal record who had committed no federal crimes, not being sought by any authorities anywhere — a poet who cared about your neighbors —" (continued in /41)

~ Garrett M. Graff

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #fascism
/40

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #fascism
/40

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

I honestly don't know how any of us in the U.S. who understand what's happening (and don't approve of it!) are functioning day-to-day. The weight of everything going on is overwhelming and smothering. This article by Garrett Graff does a good job of capturing the feeling.
#DoomsdayScenario #GarrettGraff #politics #USPol #fascism
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

@vermontgmg on all that has changed in the #US in 353 days: If you were a fully documented legal US citizen, there was effectively a zero % chance a masked, armed federal officer would accost you, demand papers & arrest you. It's happened to 170 people! https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physical-weight-of-trumpism

I remember over a decade ago, when I was working on my master's thesis, I read James Scott's Seeing Like a State. It opens with a description of Prussian forestry, which championed replacing natural forests with optimized monoculture tree plantations. This is the approach we see everywhere in Finland today.

Now that approach has left forests vulnerable to destruction and led to the collapse of our carbon sinks. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe

Now that approach has left forests vulnerable to destruction and led to the collapse of our carbon sinks. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe

this is more about monoculture plantations - if there were real #forests, they wouldn't be in so much trouble ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe

#science #ecology #biodiversity #climateCatastrophe

Guardian: Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe

Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe #Germany #TreesAndForests #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Europe #Environment #WorldNews

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe

Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Monocultures are far more vulnerable than biodiverse forests – not only to drought, but also to outbreaks of disease, bark beetle and wildfires, all of which are eating away at the world’s carbon sinks
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe

Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe #Germany #TreesAndForests #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Europe #Environment #WorldNews

Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/germany-forests-bark-beetle-spruce-co2-carbon-sink-monoculture-aoe #Germany #TreesAndForests #Conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Europe #Environment #WorldNews

https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/
http://www.techmeme.com/260109/p5#a260109p5

https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/
http://www.techmeme.com/260109/p5#a260109p5

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
L: https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549661
posted on 2026.01.08 at 22:11:40 (c=1, p=4)

https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/

Very kind article via Jennifer Swann, particularly regarding insights from Jessa Lingel. (I need some way to remind people that the revenue stuff citation is totally sus.)

"It’s a utopian vision of a much earlier, far more earnest internet."

https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/

Very kind article via Jennifer Swann, particularly regarding insights from Jessa Lingel. (I need some way to remind people that the revenue stuff citation is totally sus.)

"It’s a utopian vision of a much earlier, far more earnest internet."

https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement - Ars Technica

That's cool, but Eric Schmidt is still a douche.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement - https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ more billionaires should be using their dosh thusly

The now decades-old #Hubble_Space_Telescope is getting a privately funded replacement.

#SpaceNews #TechnologyNews #Hubble #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Astronomy

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement

Former Google CEO #EricSchmidt plans to singlehandedly fund a #Hubble #telescope replacement
A major investment in not just one telescope, but four. Each of these new telescopes brings a novel capability online; however, the most intriguing new instrument is a #space-based telescope named #Lazuli. This #spacecraft, if successfully launched and deployed, would offer astronomers a more capable and modern version of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is now three decades old.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/

Eric Schmidt will massively invest in private telescopes, including Hubble replacement... #space https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement https://arstechni.ca/8ADR #ericschmitt #telescopes #Space #space

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ #tech

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement - https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ more billionaires should be using their dosh thusly

"This is a very significant contribution to #astronomy"

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/
#space #telescope #philantropy

New weeknotes! Weeknote 1982 https://rknight.me/blog/weeknote-1982/

Loads of links, a new "outtakes" section inspired by @latte, and a sketch of something @jasonsantamaria wrote last year.

@robb Weeknote #1982

So much cool stuff.

https://rknight.me/blog/weeknote-1982/

New weeknotes! Weeknote 1982 https://rknight.me/blog/weeknote-1982/

Loads of links, a new "outtakes" section inspired by @latte, and a sketch of something @jasonsantamaria wrote last year.