they draw a direct link between Cuban foreign policy and the "modern BLM movement". I've seen this foreign influence playbook somewhere else. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

David Jekel@davidjekel.myatproto.social · 2w ago

The new anti-Cuba report from the state department charts connections with third-worldism, opposition to US imperialism, Black organizing, and all kind of leftist organizing. It is a blueprint to crack down on all dissent as "foreign influence." www.state.gov/cuba-the-cap...

Please y'all, check my pinned and help make it viral. I'm trying everything to get donations moving. Last one was 3 days ago and we need to raise at least 4k soon

President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for Washington, providing federal disaster assistance through FEMA.

Trump approves emergency declaration for Spokane wildfires

seattletimes.com

The entirety of the NHS, from inception, was made possible thanks to non-white immigrants. Every accusation is a confession. They don’t want talented people regardless of skin colour. They just want white people regardless of skills.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2d ago

"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Another death in ICE custody, this time at Delaney Hall in New Jersey. This makes 54 deaths since Trump took office; 1 every 8 days in 2026. Read Free/NY Times Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...

Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say (Gift Article)

The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.

nytimes.com

Not a flower, but how about a chubby swallowtail caterpillar munching on some dill?

Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

bloomberg.com

From a Fox Poll out 7/31: Talarico-Paxton is the marquee race down here but check out the dead heat btw Abbott and Hinojosa for governor. This contest isn't even on the radar for the national Dems, AFAIK. She's has $3m cash on hand--Abbott has *$67m*. Some more highlights from the poll... /1

A message for our European friends: "People & organizers in Europe have real leverage in slowing down #Palantir —maybe even more than we have in the US—because their success depends on their ability to grow across European govts. Slowing down and stopping that is a huge success." #purgepalantir

netzpolitik.org@netzpolitik.org · 3d ago

Software von #Palantir ist bei der US-Regierung im Einsatz, beim US-Militär, bei der Abschiebebehörde ICE. Wir sprechen mit Aktivisten von @purgepalantir.bsky.social über den Widerstand gegen den Konzern netzpolitik.org/2026/protest...

Yes, the result itself is very interesting (more on this below). From a skim, I agree with Noah that the paper is not well-written. Am I happy to see LLMs invade TCS? No, it's terrible. Is this the most impactful LLM result about lattices this week? Unclear. 1/

Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · 4d ago

(same thing for @huckbennett.bsky.social and @noahsd.bsky.social , regarding the CVP one... If you have the time and energy of course!)

World media is reporting breathlessly on the situation in Cueta (which was handled in 48 hours) as if they have no understanding of geography/ geopolitics in Europe. Cueta is a Spanish enclave bordered by MOROCCO. There's a whole sea between it & Spain/Europe. THOSE PEOPLE NEVER LEFT NORTH AFRICA.

Fascists will gleefully take from you your ability to accurately describe a thing as experienced. They will poison your language so you cannot talk about your experience in general and of their violence in specific. Given this, why would I comply by accepting their poisoned meaning of words?

"I am basically reviewing slop papers at gunpoint. It feels like living in some weird level of hell."

Anirvan Chatterjee@chatterjee.net · 4d ago

"Five of these had hallucinated authors and/or entire papers in their bibliography…One of the NeurIPS papers had so much hallucinated/nonsensical jargon (53 pages of it) that there wasn’t any point in going through the bibliography."

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4d ago

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

Video from the concentration camp known as the Adelanto ICE Processing Center with live worms/larvae/parasites moving in the drinking water. In a video call from the Southern California facility where he is deta... #democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism 👉 Vote 'em Out!

Video shows worm-like creatures in drinking water at ICE detention center

A federal court judge ordered sweeping changes at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Southern California two weeks ago. But some detainees say issues persist.

latimes.com

Imperialism story: 1st c. CE, a Celtic (Catuvellauni) chieftain named probably Karadeg (Recorded as Caratacus) resisted the Romans for almost a decade, was ultimately defeated was dragged to Rome where he said: "You who have got such possessions & so many of them, still covet our poor huts?"

Accumulating the most knowledge is often different from accumulating the most profit. Academics know this from experience and some of them accept it. Tech CEOs, on the other hand, seem to repeatedly forget it.

If the companies succeed in replacing most mathematicians’ jobs, they will eventually lose the audience that can verify and even care about their math results. Not that they care, because it is a means to the end of getting a lot of government funding.

David Jekel@davidjekel.myatproto.social · 4d ago

AI companies want to gain prestige by solving mathematical problems, because mathematics is permeated with the myth of genius. Society attaches inordinate glory to mathematics because its inaccessibility, and mathematicians overhype particular problems, making them an ideal target for AI promotion.

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

Eating blueberries from a grocery store & wondering what difference it makes if I think about the "labor chain" that brought them from the field to my kitchen, rather than the "supply chain." A big difference, I suspect.

Better headline: Why Does Spain Still Have a Colony in Africa? apnews.com/video/why-is...

Why is the Spanish territory of Ceuta a flashpoint for migration from Africa?

Between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the frontier from Morocco to the Spanish territory earlier this week.

apnews.com

AI companies want to gain prestige by solving mathematical problems, because mathematics is permeated with the myth of genius. Society attaches inordinate glory to mathematics because its inaccessibility, and mathematicians overhype particular problems, making them an ideal target for AI promotion.

Sure you made a bad decision and you didn't know they actively promote Nazis www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f... That's fine. Mistakes happen. There are lots of other platforms that will host your newsletter instead.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

theguardian.com

today i used my traditional chinese readings skills and knowledge of antiquarian books to identify the printing block for two pages of a korean classic first written around the late 17th/early 18th century. i feel slightly like a literary detective lol

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

buff.ly

It is important not to overlook the psychic and physiological costs of the right-wing culture war on peoples’ histories and identities. To be told “you do not exist,” ”you are illegal,” or “your history is invalid“ enacts a toll on people that can seriously damage their well-being and life chances.

One of the groundbreaking parts of Minnesota’s new law is that it opens the door to lawsuits against the platforms (like X) that allow users to nudify images. For the most part, other regulations of online behavior have punished users, not platforms. This is one to watch.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Minnesota in May became the first state in the nation to pass legislation banning the practice of using AI to digitally remove clothing from a pictured individual.” www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...