Just some random weirdo
@susanvp.bsky.social
*vague disgruntled screeching* | she/her | Minneapolis | chinga la migra
notoai.org for a comprehensive list on how to disable intrusive AI across devices, platforms, and apps. Created by a librarian so you know it's good!
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Last week, I conducted oversight at a Minnesota ICE facility with @repilhan.bsky.social. We saw people in leg restraints and vans taking people to deportation flights. ICE was defensive and unable to answer questions. This agency should not exist as it exists. Disband ICE.
Congress members visit Whipple Federal Building: "I was shocked to see that everyone in here has leg restraints"
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been taking people they detain in Minnesota to the Whipple Federal Building for processing. On Friday, members of Congress were there for an oversight visit.
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A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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idk but a simple explanation that fits the known facts is, “those who give him a pass share his project.”
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last wk."If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
wired.com
I have presided over the traditional Massacre of the Tabs
Is Anything At All Actually Necessary?: An Inquiry.
Pretty nice out right now, by which I mean it doesn't feel like I'm going to die *immediately* when I go outside
HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.
I'm a bit late but it's crazy they remade "O Brother Where Art Thou" in an ancient Greece setting
"The big question should not be how to preserve a highway while making its harms more tolerable. The big question should be what becomes possible when we stop treating those harms as permanent." @yeswaydrjose.bsky.social for @startribune.com 🎁🔗: www.startribune.com/rethinking-i...
Opinion | As Minnesota chokes on smoke, it’s time to reconsider urban highways
When we discuss the future of Interstate 94 and other urban highways, the public conversation often collapses into one anxious question: How will I get from one place to another? I want us to think bi...
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This has never happened in past FDA committee votes😳 Bringing in a block of new heavily conflicted appointees who provide 100% of the “yes” votes to approve the unproven therapies they profit off of is sickening 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
ICE agent who shot man in Biddeford reportedly in protective custody
ICE agent who shot man in Biddeford reportedly in protective custody
The biological father of David Brouillette's stepdaughter said in court records that Brouillette told him he and his wife are in protective government custody, following threats.
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If you put “Meta uses Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ in an ad about AI” into a work of parody you’d be considered to be laying it on a little thick:
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com
"I miss my mom, I miss my dad," Sophie Hortman said through tears. "I miss believing in the goodness of humanity." Man, she is completely justified in that; and I hope that some day she knows that that goodness is being upheld by so many people who see it in her mom & dad.
Live: Judge gives Vance Boelter two life sentences plus 40 years for lawmaker attacks
Hortman family members and the Hoffmans gathered at the hearing, where lawmakers delivered emotional remarks.
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Photos from 6 months ago today: Smashed up ICE vehicles, utility pole signs, ICE agents filming protesters at Whipple, thousands march through Downtown Minneapolis in one of the largest marches in state history. 18 hours later Alex Pretti was disarmed by federal agents and shot to death.
There’s a lot in the CNN report that brought me back to the rage I felt 24/7 earlier this year. But the quote about Bovino targeting schools to try and piss us off made my blood boil. I saw it. They parked two blocks away from my kids’ elementary school and waited until drop off to scare kids. Evil.
Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2w agoCNN report: Federal immigration agents lied to prosecutors during Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/23/c...
Minnesotans believe everyone deserves care & that people who commit fraud should be held accountable. But the Trump admin is exploiting fraud to justify cuts to Medicaid they wanted all along. 📣 Taking away your healthcare to give billionaires another tax break. www.startribune.com/rfk-jr-dr-oz...
Federal officials withhold $199 million in Medicaid funds to Minnesota
Officials said a review of claims in 14-high risk Medicaid programs in Minnesota prompted the pause in federal funding.
startribune.com
#OnThisDay July 23 1851: The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux forces bands of the Dakota Nation to cede 24M acres of the Upper Midwest to the US government. Deceptive parts of the treaty and delayed compensation leave the Dakota starving, directly fueling the US-Dakota War of 1862.
I hope E. Jean Carroll is smoking the kindest buds that have ever existed from a one million dollar bong handblown & inlaid with precious gems & minerals by some guy who lives on in a mountainside cabin and has a theory about the moon
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoThe president cannot accept the reality that he lost. And that he still owes her $83.3 million. trib.al/3dYvNPu
All the American communists still alive could fit in a Denny's with tables to spare.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump says communists are trying to blow up Mount Rushmore