Steven Francisco
@sfrancis.co
I'm a problem solver for social justice.
Also a Polymath, proud papa, polyamorous, prodigious with the puns, progress pundit, and occasional technologist.
Also a Polymath, proud papa, polyamorous, prodigious with the puns, progress pundit, and occasional technologist.
One of the most horrifying headlines I could have ever imagined for the lives of children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
One of the most horrifying headlines I could have ever imagined for the lives of children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
The bailout Argentina's right wing government ($40B) would have funded about 2 years of USAID globally at 2024 expense rates.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The bailout Argentina's right wing government ($40B) would have funded about 2 years of USAID globally at 2024 expense rates.
In the wake of Elon Musk securing a $1T incentive package, let's remember DOGE "savings" were somewhere between $1.4B (realistically) and $52B (self reported). So with anywhere from 0.14% to 5% of just his personal payout thay he set up firing ppl investigating Tesla.
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In the wake of Elon Musk securing a $1T incentive package, let's remember DOGE "savings" were somewhere between $1.4B (realistically) and $52B (self reported). So with anywhere from 0.14% to 5% of just his personal payout thay he set up firing ppl investigating Tesla.
Josh, you outdid yourself. This is comedy gold. No pun intended. @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
The Louvre Heist: A True Work of Art
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Josh, you outdid yourself. This is comedy gold. No pun intended. @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
I think Mamdani missed a chance to build bigger on his victory speech. It was late, he's young, but the campaign was not "against trump" but "for affordability". It's a powerful inversion that he should continue to wield, and he was at his best when he sung that tune.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I think Mamdani missed a chance to build bigger on his victory speech. It was late, he's young, but the campaign was not "against trump" but "for affordability". It's a powerful inversion that he should continue to wield, and he was at his best when he sung that tune.
I was held together today by an abstract journey into Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. It was a day that needed abstraction and difference because no writing could capture it, nor should it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I was held together today by an abstract journey into Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. It was a day that needed abstraction and difference because no writing could capture it, nor should it.
I did not let my kids play these platforms until age 13. At that time they saw the negative effects on their peers and said no. The closest were private Minecraft severs where I knew the kids and their parents. I don't think the responsibility is on the platforms, its up to us as parents to say no.
He Made a Friend on Roblox. Their Relationship Turned Sinister.
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September 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I did not let my kids play these platforms until age 13. At that time they saw the negative effects on their peers and said no. The closest were private Minecraft severs where I knew the kids and their parents. I don't think the responsibility is on the platforms, its up to us as parents to say no.
'We should not
have to live in a country where the Government can seize
anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our
constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
Sotomayor, September 8, 2025
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
have to live in a country where the Government can seize
anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our
constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
Sotomayor, September 8, 2025
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
'We should not
have to live in a country where the Government can seize
anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our
constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
Sotomayor, September 8, 2025
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
have to live in a country where the Government can seize
anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our
constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
Sotomayor, September 8, 2025
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Facts.
It will take decades to unfuckup this country.
September 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Facts.
This is your reminder that you don't need that item in your Amazon cart, you just need to Google "epstein files".
August 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is your reminder that you don't need that item in your Amazon cart, you just need to Google "epstein files".
Used to be people fleeing a communist dictatorship for the USA were lauded. Today we pay for their torture instead.
Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say | US immigration | The Guardian share.google/R9gGWOwg4ESy...
Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say | US immigration | The Guardian share.google/R9gGWOwg4ESy...
Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say
Venezuelans back home under Maduro-Trump deal tell of isolation, beatings and dirty water – ‘a living nightmare’
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July 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Used to be people fleeing a communist dictatorship for the USA were lauded. Today we pay for their torture instead.
Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say | US immigration | The Guardian share.google/R9gGWOwg4ESy...
Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say | US immigration | The Guardian share.google/R9gGWOwg4ESy...
The only thing more expensive than poverty is ignorance. Cutting NPR and CPB funding will only lead to more poverty and ignorance.
July 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The only thing more expensive than poverty is ignorance. Cutting NPR and CPB funding will only lead to more poverty and ignorance.
Tell me you're in the Epstein files without telling me you're in the Epstein files.
July 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tell me you're in the Epstein files without telling me you're in the Epstein files.
Some people think she's smaller than she is. Yet she grows bigger with each wave of immigrants she welcomes, with each batch of freedoms, of rights, of generation welcomed into the Middle class. Don't let them make her small, not on this July 4th.
July 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Some people think she's smaller than she is. Yet she grows bigger with each wave of immigrants she welcomes, with each batch of freedoms, of rights, of generation welcomed into the Middle class. Don't let them make her small, not on this July 4th.
Damn. When you put it that way.
Between A)doing the right thing and losing his seat or B)kissing the ring to stay in good favor, Thom was bold and chose to kiss the ring AND lose his seat, truly a visionary.
June 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Damn. When you put it that way.
Due process is not just for the innocent. It's how you prove you are innocent.
June 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Due process is not just for the innocent. It's how you prove you are innocent.
Palantir got a deal to build a vast database for a surveillance state.
This is Palantir: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This is Palantir: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Palantir's Predictive Policing Technology: A Case of algorithmic Bias and Lack of Transparency
PDF | This paper examines the ethical implications of predictive policing technology through a critical analysis of the New Orleans Police Department's... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Palantir got a deal to build a vast database for a surveillance state.
This is Palantir: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This is Palantir: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@owasow.bsky.social would be interesting to compare with William Gamson's Strategy of Social Protest.
A partial answer suggested by research on 1960s civil disobedience is that certain kinds of protests—particularly those met by state violence—can generate sympathy and redefine contours of majority.
One example from Taeku Lee’s work on constituency mail following Selma to Montgomery marches:
One example from Taeku Lee’s work on constituency mail following Selma to Montgomery marches:
May 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@owasow.bsky.social would be interesting to compare with William Gamson's Strategy of Social Protest.
Watched #Sinners. It's a Masterpiece. Did you know that vampires are a part of Xhosa and Zulu mythology? The impundulu were immortal demon like birds who drank blood.
They are a big part of Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy books.
They are a big part of Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy books.
May 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Watched #Sinners. It's a Masterpiece. Did you know that vampires are a part of Xhosa and Zulu mythology? The impundulu were immortal demon like birds who drank blood.
They are a big part of Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy books.
They are a big part of Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy books.
"No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued," provision in house bill.
May 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued," provision in house bill.
@owasow.bsky.social Omar, dropping a hello! 22 years ago you came to speak at an event in Harlem where a few of us undergrads were working to bring Columbia's resources to a community technology center in Harlem. Today, I'm in tech and you're in Academia!
May 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
@owasow.bsky.social Omar, dropping a hello! 22 years ago you came to speak at an event in Harlem where a few of us undergrads were working to bring Columbia's resources to a community technology center in Harlem. Today, I'm in tech and you're in Academia!
After some thought, let him have it. Let it be gilded and gaudy. Don't even inspect it for security. Fly it out of Newark. Set up Signal on every seat. Let it live on in his library for his personal use.
A perfect flying reminder of the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever seen.
A perfect flying reminder of the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever seen.
May 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
After some thought, let him have it. Let it be gilded and gaudy. Don't even inspect it for security. Fly it out of Newark. Set up Signal on every seat. Let it live on in his library for his personal use.
A perfect flying reminder of the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever seen.
A perfect flying reminder of the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever seen.