emskiwol
@emswolski.bsky.social
Lover of knowledge, food, humor, and want to learn everything about everything. I transcribe, cook, craft, lots o’ hobbies
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US telecom company trained an ai model to scan incarcerated people’s “calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.”
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
www.technologyreview.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
US telecom company trained an ai model to scan incarcerated people’s “calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.”
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Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now.
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now.
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
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one thing being lost in the U. of Oklahoma discussion: this has been a longterm project, going back decades (hey, even to the Scopes trial, and earlier) that gets at the fundamental tension in the existence of institutions of "higher learning" in fundamentalist Christian states like Oklahoma -
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
one thing being lost in the U. of Oklahoma discussion: this has been a longterm project, going back decades (hey, even to the Scopes trial, and earlier) that gets at the fundamental tension in the existence of institutions of "higher learning" in fundamentalist Christian states like Oklahoma -
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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For another, related, dimension to this, check out Cory Doctorow's essay on "surveillance infantilism": doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Become unoptimizable
Twiddle or be twiddled.
doctorow.medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For another, related, dimension to this, check out Cory Doctorow's essay on "surveillance infantilism": doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
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I covered this story today and it's pretty inspiring to see some 50,000 Germans show up at 6 am in the dark to try to keep a fascist youth convention from convening; if Germany hadn't called in cops from all around the country they probably would have pulled it off.
Mass protests in the central German town of Giessen against new AfD youth group
Mass protests against founding meeting of AfD youth organisation
Demonstrators have blocked roads at 16 points around Giessen, while the first AfD delegates arrive under police protection. Up to 50,000 participants are expected for the day. The situation in the morning.
www.euronews.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I covered this story today and it's pretty inspiring to see some 50,000 Germans show up at 6 am in the dark to try to keep a fascist youth convention from convening; if Germany hadn't called in cops from all around the country they probably would have pulled it off.
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Here's the video I did. Same story: Watch/like/subscribe.
Help boost it in the search. It's both fun and your good deed for the day. Because teen boys searching it may find this debunking instead.
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Whatever Podcast is radicalizing young men to the right
YouTube video by Salon
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November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here's the video I did. Same story: Watch/like/subscribe.
Help boost it in the search. It's both fun and your good deed for the day. Because teen boys searching it may find this debunking instead.
But only if it's getting traffic. So help boost it!
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Help boost it in the search. It's both fun and your good deed for the day. Because teen boys searching it may find this debunking instead.
But only if it's getting traffic. So help boost it!
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Thanks to the CBC for having me on to discuss my reportiong on the Whatever podcast and how it's radicalizing young men and teen boys.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thanks to the CBC for having me on to discuss my reportiong on the Whatever podcast and how it's radicalizing young men and teen boys.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Is it my inference or does the 'kind of' in there suggest that they were okay with deportations up to but not inluding their loved ones.
US Marine Staff Sergeant’s wife was grabbed by ICE at her green card interview
The same thing happened to the wife of a Navy vet
They served their country, brought their spouses over legally and were going through the process
Instead they watched the loves of their life be taken away in handcuffs
The same thing happened to the wife of a Navy vet
They served their country, brought their spouses over legally and were going through the process
Instead they watched the loves of their life be taken away in handcuffs
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Is it my inference or does the 'kind of' in there suggest that they were okay with deportations up to but not inluding their loved ones.
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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We forget sometimes, but the origin of the term "fake news" was a nexus of Macedonia-based websites pretending to be US news outlets, pumping out fake stories about Hillary Clinton in 2016 for the ad revenue. Same shit nearly a decade on.
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We forget sometimes, but the origin of the term "fake news" was a nexus of Macedonia-based websites pretending to be US news outlets, pumping out fake stories about Hillary Clinton in 2016 for the ad revenue. Same shit nearly a decade on.
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This is both fascinating and terrifying.
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is both fascinating and terrifying.
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In genocide, thoughts devour people.
Whoever doesn’t die from the bombing, the fire, the cold, the hunger, the humiliation of the tent, or illness… will be eaten alive by their own thoughts and die.
Whoever doesn’t die from the bombing, the fire, the cold, the hunger, the humiliation of the tent, or illness… will be eaten alive by their own thoughts and die.
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In genocide, thoughts devour people.
Whoever doesn’t die from the bombing, the fire, the cold, the hunger, the humiliation of the tent, or illness… will be eaten alive by their own thoughts and die.
Whoever doesn’t die from the bombing, the fire, the cold, the hunger, the humiliation of the tent, or illness… will be eaten alive by their own thoughts and die.
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New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation
Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation
Melissa Tran, a 44-year-old immigrant who built a family and a small business in Western Maryland, has been deported to Vietnam, a country she left as a child.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
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The Frontier can follow stories about immigration and other important issues because of our readers’ investment in independent journalism.
From the U.S.-Mexico border to Oklahoma’s backroads: Why deep reporting matters
The Frontier can follow stories about immigration and other important issues because of our readers’ investment in independent journalism.
www.readfrontier.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Frontier can follow stories about immigration and other important issues because of our readers’ investment in independent journalism.
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
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The misogyny and racism is in everything these fascists do.
I’m sorry that I don’t have anything intelligent to say right now because I am so fucking angry
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The misogyny and racism is in everything these fascists do.
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JEZEBEL: “On Thursday, we informed you more women than ever are interested in leaving the U.S. — On Friday, President Trump gave us, like, the 729th trillion reason why…” www.jezebel.com/nothing-says...
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
JEZEBEL: “On Thursday, we informed you more women than ever are interested in leaving the U.S. — On Friday, President Trump gave us, like, the 729th trillion reason why…” www.jezebel.com/nothing-says...
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
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Thinking of the ICE videos of workers at car washes, laborers at Home Depot, ag workers running in fields, having the means to buy an average priced home in Pasadena at 1.2 million plus.
FOX NEWS: Do you believe that the number of people who came into the country illegally is one of the major factors that drove up housing prices?
FED GOV STEPHAN MIRAN: I absolutely believe that's the case
FED GOV STEPHAN MIRAN: I absolutely believe that's the case
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thinking of the ICE videos of workers at car washes, laborers at Home Depot, ag workers running in fields, having the means to buy an average priced home in Pasadena at 1.2 million plus.
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Broadview.
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Broadview.
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Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.