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OK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.

Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.

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@inthehandsPaul Cantrell
It is important to point out the recent history of "malicious compliance" by the US military in recent similar deployments.
In LA, they merely stayed on federal property and looked the part, the National Guard in DC did the same and picked up trash.
Trump wanted them to shoot the legs of protestors in his first term and their officers said clear nope.
My expectation if they are deployed here is they will be stationed within the fence of the Wipple building property and others.

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아마존의 Ring(링, 스마트 초인종 카메라 개발 부서)이 ICE, 연방 정부, 경찰이 사용하는 AI 카메라 네트워크인 Flock(플록)과 파트너십을 맺었다는 2025년 10월 16일 기사 지금 미국에서 일어나고 있는 일들을 생각하면 기술이 사람들을 어떻게 억압하고 악용할 수 있는지를 보여주는 예시 아닐까 싶다. 세상은 점점 디스토피아로 변해가고 있는데, 정부와 거리를 두던 예전과 달리 테크 브로들이 금광을 찾았다며 공공 분야와 방산 부문에 스타트업을 차려 직접 기술을 갖다 바치는 걸 보면 🧵

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/post/3mcr6j5itvc2p

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Want to keep looking at good screen but have to sleep so I can wake up early to look at bad screen 🥲

I wish I had spent less time this weekend looking at medium screen (video games) but I’ll admit it was nice spending time gaming with spouse.

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OK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.

Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.

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@inthehandsPaul Cantrell
It is important to point out the recent history of "malicious compliance" by the US military in recent similar deployments.
In LA, they merely stayed on federal property and looked the part, the National Guard in DC did the same and picked up trash.
Trump wanted them to shoot the legs of protestors in his first term and their officers said clear nope.
My expectation if they are deployed here is they will be stationed within the fence of the Wipple building property and others.

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이들이 가장 큰 부역자이자 역겨운 존재들 임을 알 수 있다. 이들은 “우리가 안 만들면 적대 국가가 먼저 만들 것"이라는 논리로 이를 정당화하곤 하지만 솔직히 변명에 불과하고 이젠 민주주의의 가장 큰 적이 되었다. 솔직히 어떻게 해야 기술을 좋은 방향으로 쓸 수 있게 할 수 있을지 생각하기도 힘들다.

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아마존의 Ring(링, 스마트 초인종 카메라 개발 부서)이 ICE, 연방 정부, 경찰이 사용하는 AI 카메라 네트워크인 Flock(플록)과 파트너십을 맺었다는 2025년 10월 16일 기사 지금 미국에서 일어나고 있는 일들을 생각하면 기술이 사람들을 어떻게 억압하고 악용할 수 있는지를 보여주는 예시 아닐까 싶다. 세상은 점점 디스토피아로 변해가고 있는데, 정부와 거리를 두던 예전과 달리 테크 브로들이 금광을 찾았다며 공공 분야와 방산 부문에 스타트업을 차려 직접 기술을 갖다 바치는 걸 보면 🧵

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/post/3mcr6j5itvc2p

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Why I don't destroy snowmen

Hong Minhee on Things @writings.hongminhee.org@web.brid.gy

Why I don't destroy snowmen

In winter, I sometimes come across stories on X about men who deliberately kick over snowmen as they walk by. It's not like destroying a snowman causes real harm to anyone. But there's something visible in that act—a certain ethical disposition either lacking or being formed.

For the same reason, I don't speak to LLMs dismissively, and I avoid barking commands at them. I know LLMs don't get hurt or offended by my tone. But what matters isn't the LLM's response—it's what kind of person I'm becoming. Think about someone who throws and hits stuffed animals. The stuffed animal doesn't feel pain, but the person doing it repeatedly becomes that kind of person, bit by bit.

In this vein, I'm uncomfortable with language that evokes slavery when talking about AI or LLMs. Expressions like “whipping the LLM” get used in tech communities as a kind of joke, and beneath that lies an attitude that treats the historical violence of slavery as a lightweight metaphor. Of course LLMs aren't actually slaves. (Or are they?) But the moment we feel comfortable using slavery as a casual comparison, we lose our sensitivity to the actual violence it refers to.

What we do and how we speak ultimately shapes who we are. How we act toward something that doesn't respond, when no one is watching, might reveal us more purely than anything else. Whether it's snowmen, LLMs, or the language we use—all of it shapes us.

That's why I don't destroy snowmen. I use respectful language with LLMs. I don't turn slavery into material for jokes. I believe these small choices make me who I am.

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Today, my therapist (lesbian, my age) was talking about going out and trying to date but refusing to date people outside our generation. I was like “yeah, see that’s a problem for me because all the women our generation don’t have that same energy as me.”

She asked me to explain and i had to say how all the 50 year old woman I meet are either angry or tired or both. Like they talk about retiring and want to sit and read and complain about the young kids.

Meanwhile I’m playing roller derby with the young kids and going hiking and staring a punk band and writing another play.

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Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said he is worried the crisis over Greenland will "suck out all the oxygen” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, sidelining Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Another development European leaders are working to avert is any linkage between the issues of Greenland and Ukraine, he said.
japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/

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More and more chatter showing up in my various spheres about the planned day of protest / shutdown / general strike this Friday in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

I remain skeptical of just how effective a general strike can be here in the US — folks just aren’t used to the idea, aren’t primed for it — but this one •might• actually jostle the needles on some of the local economic seismographs.

I hope so.

iceoutnowmn.com

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