Micah Corah
@micahcorah.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, CS@Mines
Director: @napplab.bsky.social
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns 💖💜💙
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
Director: @napplab.bsky.social
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns 💖💜💙
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
Pinned
The students I work with and people in my community are diverse and many, including my spouse, are not US citizens. All face varied risks and anxieties despite legal status.
If you are in Colorado, CORRN is one organization working to keep our community safe from CBP/ICE.
If you are in Colorado, CORRN is one organization working to keep our community safe from CBP/ICE.
I've half heartedly wanted a 3D printer since I had access to one in high school. This moment makes me feel so incredibly jealous of all these fellow nerds ♥️
Okay, look, I wanna say something about this, because I know a lot of people are like "oh look the weird nerds are having a Day" and yes, we are.
But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.
But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I've half heartedly wanted a 3D printer since I had access to one in high school. This moment makes me feel so incredibly jealous of all these fellow nerds ♥️
Reposted by Micah Corah
Okay, look, I wanna say something about this, because I know a lot of people are like "oh look the weird nerds are having a Day" and yes, we are.
But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.
But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.
![lena
@lenazun.bsky.social
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a little annoyed that 3d printer bfs [gender neutral] all over the country have been validated by the whistles. it's as if the revolution had suddenly needed all the weird cables they're holding onto. you know what i mean.
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dan sinker
@dansinker.com
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dan sinker
We're three days into February and have shipped almost 80,000 whistles to all comers, across the US, for free, because we all keep us safe. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiarny2sgn2o2lrsffs54ph2lmis2ayjx2etuo6hdxnr7f7zfz7lyy@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Okay, look, I wanna say something about this, because I know a lot of people are like "oh look the weird nerds are having a Day" and yes, we are.
But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.
But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.
Reposted by Micah Corah
Boulder’s Kimbal Musk — Elon’s brother — referenced more than 100 times in latest Epstein files release trib.al/heQyKfn
Boulder’s Kimbal Musk — Elon’s brother — referenced more than 100 times in latest Epstein files release
Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk and Boulder resident, is referenced at least 140 times in emails exchanged between Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, according to a new batch of documents the De…
trib.al
February 3, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Boulder’s Kimbal Musk — Elon’s brother — referenced more than 100 times in latest Epstein files release trib.al/heQyKfn
Reposted by Micah Corah
We've documented actions taken on hundreds of college campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students. Here's the latest: https://chroni.cl/4k9patI
Texas A&M Shutters Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Citing New Curricular Rules
We’ve documented actions taken on hundreds of campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid mounting political pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and re...
chroni.cl
February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
We've documented actions taken on hundreds of college campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students. Here's the latest: https://chroni.cl/4k9patI
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Looks like they have a crochet pattern for the hat too, which has been hard to find
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
January 31, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Looks like they have a crochet pattern for the hat too, which has been hard to find
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Drone journalism and generally obtaining footage like this increasingly faces restrictions in the US
* A recent NOTAM bans drone operation within 3000' of DHS assets (read vehicles)
* Restrictions on drone imports (esp DJI) will limit access to drones themselves
Will link some🧵below in a moment
* A recent NOTAM bans drone operation within 3000' of DHS assets (read vehicles)
* Restrictions on drone imports (esp DJI) will limit access to drones themselves
Will link some🧵below in a moment
HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a HUGE CROWD peacefully demonstrating in L.A. to protest the Trump administration and lCE
📍Los Angeles, California
#NationalStrike
📍Los Angeles, California
#NationalStrike
January 30, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Drone journalism and generally obtaining footage like this increasingly faces restrictions in the US
* A recent NOTAM bans drone operation within 3000' of DHS assets (read vehicles)
* Restrictions on drone imports (esp DJI) will limit access to drones themselves
Will link some🧵below in a moment
* A recent NOTAM bans drone operation within 3000' of DHS assets (read vehicles)
* Restrictions on drone imports (esp DJI) will limit access to drones themselves
Will link some🧵below in a moment
When Trump was re-elected, reflected on the different risks and threats I (and we) might face in opposing his regime... Things like financial risks and instabilities, costs to career up to loss of job and career opportunities, in worst cases threats of being detained, physically harmed, killed
"Detention center" is a technical term.
Qualitatively, DHS is building a massive system of concentration camps. They may not be visible yet for what they are, but they will be remembered as such, and this must be stopped.
Qualitatively, DHS is building a massive system of concentration camps. They may not be visible yet for what they are, but they will be remembered as such, and this must be stopped.
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
January 30, 2026 at 7:02 PM
When Trump was re-elected, reflected on the different risks and threats I (and we) might face in opposing his regime... Things like financial risks and instabilities, costs to career up to loss of job and career opportunities, in worst cases threats of being detained, physically harmed, killed
Reposted by Micah Corah
This is a targeted attack on science media.
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
January 30, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This is a targeted attack on science media.
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
"Detention center" is a technical term.
Qualitatively, DHS is building a massive system of concentration camps. They may not be visible yet for what they are, but they will be remembered as such, and this must be stopped.
Qualitatively, DHS is building a massive system of concentration camps. They may not be visible yet for what they are, but they will be remembered as such, and this must be stopped.
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:24 PM
"Detention center" is a technical term.
Qualitatively, DHS is building a massive system of concentration camps. They may not be visible yet for what they are, but they will be remembered as such, and this must be stopped.
Qualitatively, DHS is building a massive system of concentration camps. They may not be visible yet for what they are, but they will be remembered as such, and this must be stopped.
Reposted by Micah Corah
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:47 PM
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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“What if someone adds a bad actor in disguise to the Signal chat” is a *social* problem that *literally cannot be solved by any messaging app*.
i can confirm the chats I’m in which include renowned security specialists - people who actually advise on how to protect your comms from authoritarian dictators for a living - also think this outburst of paranoia about Signal is really weird and unwarranted
every Signal chat of laypeople is losing their minds over the wildest opsec advice imaginable and every Signal chat of security professionals is like “dude wtf”
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
January 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM
“What if someone adds a bad actor in disguise to the Signal chat” is a *social* problem that *literally cannot be solved by any messaging app*.
Also creating various new AI jobs and initiatives of dubious import while allowing critical positions that *could not / should not* be performed by a computer to be left unfilled.
Most media headlines right now are like "We are laying off 2/3 of our staff and also the president is our ombudsman now" but somehow David Brooks got two new jobs in one day
January 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Also creating various new AI jobs and initiatives of dubious import while allowing critical positions that *could not / should not* be performed by a computer to be left unfilled.
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Reposted by Micah Corah
we've got Schumer calling for Miller's head, folks
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
Schumer calls for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to be removed from their jobs.
January 28, 2026 at 7:26 PM
we've got Schumer calling for Miller's head, folks
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
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My colleague @sristovska.bsky.social provides significant analysis regarding the laws and interpretation of video evidence, in the context of recent state violence, at Scientific American.
Video evidence and eyewitness accounts: The science behind why people see different things
Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain
www.scientificamerican.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:32 PM
My colleague @sristovska.bsky.social provides significant analysis regarding the laws and interpretation of video evidence, in the context of recent state violence, at Scientific American.
Abolish ICE and CBP. This cannot atop at Bovino
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Abolish ICE and CBP. This cannot atop at Bovino
Canning Bovino is good news.
Noem and Miller must follow. ICE and CBP roving raids must stop, and the organizations must be defunded and abolished.
Noem and Miller must follow. ICE and CBP roving raids must stop, and the organizations must be defunded and abolished.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Canning Bovino is good news.
Noem and Miller must follow. ICE and CBP roving raids must stop, and the organizations must be defunded and abolished.
Noem and Miller must follow. ICE and CBP roving raids must stop, and the organizations must be defunded and abolished.
Reposted by Micah Corah
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Micah Corah
SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:11 PM
SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Reposted by Micah Corah
these banners are printed with the coolest giant banner system ever, developed by @laborcamp on IG
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
these banners are printed with the coolest giant banner system ever, developed by @laborcamp on IG
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
Reposted by Micah Corah
signal group chats are roughly as secure as the least secure device anyone in the group chat is running
this makes a smallish signal group chat pretty good and a 1000+ person signal group chat secure until the feds collar one of the people in it
it is much better than alternatives
this makes a smallish signal group chat pretty good and a 1000+ person signal group chat secure until the feds collar one of the people in it
it is much better than alternatives
I think it is *incredibly* irresponsible for someone like @stonekettle.bsky.social, with a huge following, to claim that Signal is just as insecure as texts or other public social media.
This is a classic “making perfect the enemy of the good” error.
This is a classic “making perfect the enemy of the good” error.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
signal group chats are roughly as secure as the least secure device anyone in the group chat is running
this makes a smallish signal group chat pretty good and a 1000+ person signal group chat secure until the feds collar one of the people in it
it is much better than alternatives
this makes a smallish signal group chat pretty good and a 1000+ person signal group chat secure until the feds collar one of the people in it
it is much better than alternatives
Reposted by Micah Corah
if the USG wanted to expend the effort to get into your signal you were already turbofucked regardless
this is not true for 99.9999% of people
this is not true for 99.9999% of people
I think it is *incredibly* irresponsible for someone like @stonekettle.bsky.social, with a huge following, to claim that Signal is just as insecure as texts or other public social media.
This is a classic “making perfect the enemy of the good” error.
This is a classic “making perfect the enemy of the good” error.
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 PM
if the USG wanted to expend the effort to get into your signal you were already turbofucked regardless
this is not true for 99.9999% of people
this is not true for 99.9999% of people
Reposted by Micah Corah
On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:51 PM
On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.
Reposted by Micah Corah
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
January 25, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
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My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!
January 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!