William Fitzgerald
@williamfitz.bsky.social
“Roberta A. Kaplan, a lawyer for Mr. Ahmed, said the speed of the judge’s response was telling. “The federal government can’t deport a green card holder like Imran Ahmed, with a wife and young child who are American, simply because it doesn’t like what he has to say,” Ms. Kaplan said.”
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
“Roberta A. Kaplan, a lawyer for Mr. Ahmed, said the speed of the judge’s response was telling. “The federal government can’t deport a green card holder like Imran Ahmed, with a wife and young child who are American, simply because it doesn’t like what he has to say,” Ms. Kaplan said.”
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I'm grateful for my brilliant students. One wrote about impacts of last weekend's debacle: "if we only talk about #Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." archive.ph/x6Iyq
San Francisco should learn from Waymo’s power outage debacle — and enact tech rollout standards
OPINION: “The weekend outage gave us a clear, non-theoretical glimpse of what happens when new systems meet old infrastructure,” Michael Redmond writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm grateful for my brilliant students. One wrote about impacts of last weekend's debacle: "if we only talk about #Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." archive.ph/x6Iyq
“She developed a deeply intimate relationship with the Pacific Ocean not by studying it or by looking at it, but by getting into it—again and again and again, on choppy days and gloriously calm days,” www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinio...
Today’s big local news story has been about a shark attack, but it’s really about loss.
A shark incident in Pacific Grove claims the life of Erica Fox, a beloved swimmer and ocean advocate. Community mourns the senseless loss.
www.montereycountynow.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“She developed a deeply intimate relationship with the Pacific Ocean not by studying it or by looking at it, but by getting into it—again and again and again, on choppy days and gloriously calm days,” www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinio...
“Oversight should begin before a single car is deployed. Companies should have to prove that their vehicles can handle power loss, communication failure and evacuation scenarios safely. That’s not anti-innovation; it’s basic public safety.”
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
San Francisco should learn from Waymo’s power outage debacle — and enact tech rollout standards
OPINION: “The weekend outage gave us a clear, non-theoretical glimpse of what happens when new systems meet old infrastructure,” Michael Redmond writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Oversight should begin before a single car is deployed. Companies should have to prove that their vehicles can handle power loss, communication failure and evacuation scenarios safely. That’s not anti-innovation; it’s basic public safety.”
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Streisand Effect versus Bari Weiss's billionaire appeasing attempts to censor the Trump regime's crimes.
Go internet! Go! 😆✊🙏
Go internet! Go! 😆✊🙏
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Streisand Effect versus Bari Weiss's billionaire appeasing attempts to censor the Trump regime's crimes.
Go internet! Go! 😆✊🙏
Go internet! Go! 😆✊🙏
PG&E has a contract with Palantir. Multi million dollar contract for predictive technology actually useless in a crisis.
Over 100,000 San Francisco customers are without power.
San Francisco plunged into darkness as power outages continue
Over 100,000 San Francisco customers are without power.
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
PG&E has a contract with Palantir. Multi million dollar contract for predictive technology actually useless in a crisis.
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Amazing what you can spiritually launder with money made tracking, policing, and deporting people.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp just paid a staggering $120 million for a 3,700-Acre Colorado monastery.
It's the most expensive residential property purchase in the area to date.
Karp reportedly owns 20 properties around the world, many in top skiing locations.
It's the most expensive residential property purchase in the area to date.
Karp reportedly owns 20 properties around the world, many in top skiing locations.
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Amazing what you can spiritually launder with money made tracking, policing, and deporting people.
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Reposted by William Fitzgerald
For @nymag.com I reported on 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was recently a victim of credit card fraud.
Among my findings:
The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years
Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign
Among my findings:
The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years
Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign
The Crime That Exposed a Congresswoman’s Decline
Is Eleanor Holmes Norton, 88, still fit for office? Is she even in charge?
nymag.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For @nymag.com I reported on 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was recently a victim of credit card fraud.
Among my findings:
The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years
Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign
Among my findings:
The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years
Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign
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"If we no longer bear the burden of saving a system broken beyond repair, there’s an opportunity to envision something new." Join us at the next Tesla Takedown rally on the Pike. Dec. 20, 11 am-noon, Rockville Tesla, 1300 Rockville Pike, MD.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/k5tvsvxr
#TeslaTakedown #Democracy
RSVP: tinyurl.com/k5tvsvxr
#TeslaTakedown #Democracy
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"If we no longer bear the burden of saving a system broken beyond repair, there’s an opportunity to envision something new." Join us at the next Tesla Takedown rally on the Pike. Dec. 20, 11 am-noon, Rockville Tesla, 1300 Rockville Pike, MD.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/k5tvsvxr
#TeslaTakedown #Democracy
RSVP: tinyurl.com/k5tvsvxr
#TeslaTakedown #Democracy
The work @jonathandryan.bsky.social
is doing to try protect kids detention centers is inspiring. During the first Trump administration, this treatment was front-page news. This time, kids are being treated even worse, but far fewer people are paying attention.
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
is doing to try protect kids detention centers is inspiring. During the first Trump administration, this treatment was front-page news. This time, kids are being treated even worse, but far fewer people are paying attention.
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Trump Keeps Changing Policies Toward Migrant Children. One San Antonio Lawyer Is Racing to Keep Up.
Jonathan Ryan now represents more than one hundred kids subject to a rapidly shifting system.
www.texasmonthly.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The work @jonathandryan.bsky.social
is doing to try protect kids detention centers is inspiring. During the first Trump administration, this treatment was front-page news. This time, kids are being treated even worse, but far fewer people are paying attention.
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
is doing to try protect kids detention centers is inspiring. During the first Trump administration, this treatment was front-page news. This time, kids are being treated even worse, but far fewer people are paying attention.
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Blocking Authoritarianism: Steps Nonprofits and Foundations Must Take nonprofitquarterly.org/blocking-aut...
@saqibbhatti.bsky.social #nonprofitsky
@saqibbhatti.bsky.social #nonprofitsky
Blocking Authoritarianism: Steps Nonprofits and Foundations Must Take | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
These are not normal times. But too often philanthropy and nonprofits act otherwise. Here’s how justice-oriented nonprofits and foundations can truly “meet the moment.”
nonprofitquarterly.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Blocking Authoritarianism: Steps Nonprofits and Foundations Must Take nonprofitquarterly.org/blocking-aut...
@saqibbhatti.bsky.social #nonprofitsky
@saqibbhatti.bsky.social #nonprofitsky
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In an industry buffeted by seemingly endless layoffs and controversial emerging technologies, what is the purpose of #GamingDevelopersConference? ✏️ @humblepopstar.bsky.social
Turbulence around Gaming Developers Conference rebrand reflects changing industry - 48 hills
Mega-event becomes 'festival' and offers luxe ticket packages amid AI boom and bust of industry layoffs.
48hills.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In an industry buffeted by seemingly endless layoffs and controversial emerging technologies, what is the purpose of #GamingDevelopersConference? ✏️ @humblepopstar.bsky.social
“The US’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every Maga voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“The US’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every Maga voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
alex karp gets more pathetic every day
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
alex karp gets more pathetic every day
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Reposted by William Fitzgerald
Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AAUP Press Conference: Why is the ED Contracting with Palantir?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are convening a press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement in the ...
bit.ly
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
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Sam Altman's assertion that he needs ChatGPT to raise his child was widely ridiculed, but the timing of Altman’s Jimmy Fallon interview coupled with a lack of viewership for the full segment (which has 2x more thumbs-down reactions than thumbs-up reactions on YouTube) also don't bode well for OpenAI
Sam Altman's Disastrous Interview With Jimmy Fallon, an AI Chatbot in the Flesh
Altman apparently needs ChatGPT to navigate parenthood, but his viral remarks weren’t the most concerning aspect of his late night debut.
www.hardresetmedia.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Sam Altman's assertion that he needs ChatGPT to raise his child was widely ridiculed, but the timing of Altman’s Jimmy Fallon interview coupled with a lack of viewership for the full segment (which has 2x more thumbs-down reactions than thumbs-up reactions on YouTube) also don't bode well for OpenAI
“Who are the people that can pick up the phone, call the governor, and know that, nine times out of ten, he will do whatever they ask?... Answering this question is the first step in building a power analysis based in reality instead of mythology."
nonprofitquarterly.org/blocking-aut...
nonprofitquarterly.org/blocking-aut...
Blocking Authoritarianism: Steps Nonprofits and Foundations Must Take | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
These are not normal times. But too often philanthropy and nonprofits act otherwise. Here’s how justice-oriented nonprofits and foundations can truly “meet the moment.”
nonprofitquarterly.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“Who are the people that can pick up the phone, call the governor, and know that, nine times out of ten, he will do whatever they ask?... Answering this question is the first step in building a power analysis based in reality instead of mythology."
nonprofitquarterly.org/blocking-aut...
nonprofitquarterly.org/blocking-aut...
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Hell yes @rebackermann.bsky.social:
"If we don’t want to live alongside other city residents, why do we live in this city at all?"
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
"If we don’t want to live alongside other city residents, why do we live in this city at all?"
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
Why Waymo can't compete with the bus
Public infrastructure deserves to win out over private convenience.
www.sfexaminer.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hell yes @rebackermann.bsky.social:
"If we don’t want to live alongside other city residents, why do we live in this city at all?"
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
"If we don’t want to live alongside other city residents, why do we live in this city at all?"
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
"As a parent, I’m deeply concerned about the message that kids are getting that a vehicle without a person in it is safer than one with. While human interactions do come with risks, the approach to keeping our kids and ourselves safe should be education..." www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
Why Waymo can't compete with the bus
Public infrastructure deserves to win out over private convenience.
www.sfexaminer.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"As a parent, I’m deeply concerned about the message that kids are getting that a vehicle without a person in it is safer than one with. While human interactions do come with risks, the approach to keeping our kids and ourselves safe should be education..." www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
hey sf parents, you don't want your kid getting a waymo back and forth to school.
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
Why Waymo can't compete with the bus
Public infrastructure deserves to win out over private convenience.
www.sfexaminer.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
hey sf parents, you don't want your kid getting a waymo back and forth to school.
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
www.sfexaminer.com/forum/waymo-...
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Think this is first time we've been featured in @techmeme.com
What an honor.
Go team! @byjacobward.bsky.social @alexshultz.bsky.social @aristeinhorn.bsky.social @elirosenberg.bsky.social
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-presid...
What an honor.
Go team! @byjacobward.bsky.social @alexshultz.bsky.social @aristeinhorn.bsky.social @elirosenberg.bsky.social
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-presid...
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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“Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I am increasingly persuaded that we are underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room.”
Quite the statement coming from Edward Luce, FT US editor and columnist:
www.ft.com/content/bb8e...
Quite the statement coming from Edward Luce, FT US editor and columnist:
www.ft.com/content/bb8e...
Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’
Acolytes of the broligarchs have a grip on key nodes of Washington’s power ministries
www.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I am increasingly persuaded that we are underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room.”
Quite the statement coming from Edward Luce, FT US editor and columnist:
www.ft.com/content/bb8e...
Quite the statement coming from Edward Luce, FT US editor and columnist:
www.ft.com/content/bb8e...