I barely recognise the company I used to have such admiration for.
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.
Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:
Read and share it.
I had the opportunity to attend FOSDEM 2026 virtually, and I spent almost all of my time in the Social Web track.
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
"In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a 'large deportation' promised by the president. To all appearances, and according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Vance #Haitians #Ohio #Springfield #EthnicCleansing #Nazis #ICE #WhiteSupremacy
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In late 2018, David Sparks and I announced that I was joining Mac Power Users as a host. Here’s what I wrote at the time: On this week’s episode, Katie announced that she is stepping away from the podcast almost ten years after the first episode. I will genuinely miss hearing her back and for...
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.
Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.
"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"
Author and Astrophysicist
And the third book is More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social https://freelanceastrophysicist.com/
Goes more deeply into the techbro culture/religion that seems to think that AI will save us all and that we have a duty to destroy our planet and go to the stars. (Also the best way I've ever heard to explain how hard it is to live on Mars: even if you lived on Earth the day that the dinosaur-extinction asteroid hit, you'd be better off than trying to live on Mars.) #ProfSamLectureTour
Yesterday was my first day ever at FOSDEM, a large conference about Free and open source software, held in Brussels.
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