I'm reminded of how drug sniffing dogs are mainly there to let officers stall for time and generate probable cause for invasive searches through false positives
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I'm reminded of how drug sniffing dogs are mainly there to let officers stall for time and generate probable cause for invasive searches through false positives
kids these days just want to CUMass and never to C U at Mass 😭
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
kids these days just want to CUMass and never to C U at Mass 😭
back in 2016 the most damning insult you could say to someone was "You're like Jeb! if he had a comma"
February 3, 2026 at 1:37 AM
back in 2016 the most damning insult you could say to someone was "You're like Jeb! if he had a comma"
a plague on all the fear-mongerers who led these poor people into this situation.
January 28, 2026 at 7:26 AM
a plague on all the fear-mongerers who led these poor people into this situation.
January 26, 2026 at 5:30 AM
homonationalism is still going strong, Jasbir Puar remains undefeated
my politics are
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
homonationalism is still going strong, Jasbir Puar remains undefeated
I think we actually reached peak cyberpunk here (1911 telephone operator)
January 23, 2026 at 6:58 AM
I think we actually reached peak cyberpunk here (1911 telephone operator)
I have a trans friend who's really into Boston public transit.
She's T4theT
She's T4theT
I have a trans friend who's really into gossip.
She's T4Tea
She's T4Tea
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 AM
I have a trans friend who's really into Boston public transit.
She's T4theT
She's T4theT
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The deep sea runs on mucus...
Marine snow, larvacean houses, feeding nets, even snail armor...slime is infrastructure down there.
Marine snow, larvacean houses, feeding nets, even snail armor...slime is infrastructure down there.
January 22, 2026 at 4:15 PM
The deep sea runs on mucus...
Marine snow, larvacean houses, feeding nets, even snail armor...slime is infrastructure down there.
Marine snow, larvacean houses, feeding nets, even snail armor...slime is infrastructure down there.
I think the bigger issue here is that when people review papers, they won't check references, unless it's a paper they're already familiar with. It's easy to say "prior literature says <blah>" and cite real papers that don't actually say <blah>.
NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune
An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.
fortune.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I think the bigger issue here is that when people review papers, they won't check references, unless it's a paper they're already familiar with. It's easy to say "prior literature says <blah>" and cite real papers that don't actually say <blah>.
from @charliejane.bsky.social 's newest:
"Mae came home with a beach tote full of sex toys from Grand Opening, plus a few books with titles like 'The Great Big Book of Super Hot Lesbian Sex for Lesbians'"
"Mae came home with a beach tote full of sex toys from Grand Opening, plus a few books with titles like 'The Great Big Book of Super Hot Lesbian Sex for Lesbians'"
pick up the nearest book. turn to page 42, post the second sentence
“But did my first oyster fresh from the bassin in twenty-eight years do it for me? Did it transport me immediately to some culinary version of Elysian Fields, as i’d hoped?”
from “A Cook’s Tour”, by Anthony Bourdain.
“But did my first oyster fresh from the bassin in twenty-eight years do it for me? Did it transport me immediately to some culinary version of Elysian Fields, as i’d hoped?”
from “A Cook’s Tour”, by Anthony Bourdain.
January 22, 2026 at 4:41 AM
from @charliejane.bsky.social 's newest:
"Mae came home with a beach tote full of sex toys from Grand Opening, plus a few books with titles like 'The Great Big Book of Super Hot Lesbian Sex for Lesbians'"
"Mae came home with a beach tote full of sex toys from Grand Opening, plus a few books with titles like 'The Great Big Book of Super Hot Lesbian Sex for Lesbians'"
lot of excitement for what's clearly Trump making an excuse so he doesn't need to attend the function.
January 21, 2026 at 6:27 AM
lot of excitement for what's clearly Trump making an excuse so he doesn't need to attend the function.
United Automobile, Aerospace, Agricultural Implement, and ART Workers ✊
Historic Win: Staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UAW, with about 76% voting in favor after years of organizing. https://seiu.co/4qw2qq3
Met Museum Employees Vote to Unionize
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:40 AM
United Automobile, Aerospace, Agricultural Implement, and ART Workers ✊
we need to start making versions of those colorblindness diagrams to let us communicate behind men's backs
The scientific reason behind why women can see the difference between all four pictures and why men can't.
Spoiler alert: It's estrogen.
Spoiler alert: It's estrogen.
January 20, 2026 at 8:42 PM
we need to start making versions of those colorblindness diagrams to let us communicate behind men's backs
Free think piece title if anyone wants:
The Guillotine-agers: How the ideology of revolution is taking root in America's young adults
The Guillotine-agers: How the ideology of revolution is taking root in America's young adults
January 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Free think piece title if anyone wants:
The Guillotine-agers: How the ideology of revolution is taking root in America's young adults
The Guillotine-agers: How the ideology of revolution is taking root in America's young adults
I feel like the addendum to this is that not only is it your responsibility to vote, it's also your responsibility to organize your community to come together and protect each other as you vote, to the extent you're able to do so.
so the "leftist" position here is that if the ICE thug tries to intimidate you, you walk away with your head down like charlie brown? is that it?
January 15, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I feel like the addendum to this is that not only is it your responsibility to vote, it's also your responsibility to organize your community to come together and protect each other as you vote, to the extent you're able to do so.
I go for a quality over quantity approach to likes
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I go for a quality over quantity approach to likes
wow he really is the Katie Wilson of NYC
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Saturday announced an initiative to install more public bathrooms across the city.
January 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
wow he really is the Katie Wilson of NYC
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a lot of people do mistake length for quality
January 9, 2026 at 10:51 PM
a lot of people do mistake length for quality
not to flex but I think my tiny dubious gay world is more dubious and more gay than yours
January 1, 2026 at 9:50 PM
not to flex but I think my tiny dubious gay world is more dubious and more gay than yours
if The Devil Wears Prada was about soil erosion in European cities they'd probably call it "The Vitava Wears (away at) Praha"
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
if The Devil Wears Prada was about soil erosion in European cities they'd probably call it "The Vitava Wears (away at) Praha"
does anyone know what gives or what it takes?
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
does anyone know what gives or what it takes?
I would be on top of the world if I weren't being betrayed by my mind and body 😭
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I would be on top of the world if I weren't being betrayed by my mind and body 😭
they should've never let me have a brain for this kind of thing
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
they should've never let me have a brain for this kind of thing