Courtney Wilburn
@cjwilburn.engineering
(she/her) Engineering leader, powerlifter, pun maker, wife, dog mom, lifelong Prince fan. Cautiously optimistic -> near cynic.
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Courtney Wilburn
@cjwilburn.engineering
· May 18
Hello please look at my handsome dog son who is a great model and also perfect.
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This is a pogrom
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:19 AM
This is a pogrom
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Maybe take seriously the idea that the people at the levers of implementation will try it even if it's *not actually any good*.
www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...
www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...
February 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Maybe take seriously the idea that the people at the levers of implementation will try it even if it's *not actually any good*.
www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...
www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Now ask yourself how many bots contributed to that 6.1 million lol
Bad Bunny halftime show: 128.2 milion viewers
Kid Rock halftime show: 6.1 million viewers
"Culture war" may be a misnomer, honestly.
Kid Rock halftime show: 6.1 million viewers
"Culture war" may be a misnomer, honestly.
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Now ask yourself how many bots contributed to that 6.1 million lol
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I don't even think kids need to be taught gay like it just intuitively comes along with explaining love and romance. What bigots are really asking is "how do I explain gay to my kids in a way that doesn't make them think it's okay for THEM to be gay?"
February 11, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I don't even think kids need to be taught gay like it just intuitively comes along with explaining love and romance. What bigots are really asking is "how do I explain gay to my kids in a way that doesn't make them think it's okay for THEM to be gay?"
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When you see unhoused people asking for money what you should see is a fracturing of the social contract where an issue (housing) that should be addressed on a municipal or statuary level is instead foisted on individuals in a way designed o put callouses on their souls
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
February 8, 2026 at 5:29 AM
When you see unhoused people asking for money what you should see is a fracturing of the social contract where an issue (housing) that should be addressed on a municipal or statuary level is instead foisted on individuals in a way designed o put callouses on their souls
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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It has been so lovely to wake up and playing Bad Bunny to do some cleaning up/gardening and knowing so many of my people are doing the same. Like a little refuge in the middle of todo esto. I love y’all. I love y’all so much it makes me tear up. Hope your morning dance time is just as great.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
It has been so lovely to wake up and playing Bad Bunny to do some cleaning up/gardening and knowing so many of my people are doing the same. Like a little refuge in the middle of todo esto. I love y’all. I love y’all so much it makes me tear up. Hope your morning dance time is just as great.
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FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
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Central Park is so iconic that folks all over the world, know and visit it when they come to NYC.
What most don't know, is that it is built on Seneca Village, a thriving free Black community that was lied about and seized, in order to create it.
Happy Black History Month✊🏽
youtu.be/HdsWYOZ8iqM?...
What most don't know, is that it is built on Seneca Village, a thriving free Black community that was lied about and seized, in order to create it.
Happy Black History Month✊🏽
youtu.be/HdsWYOZ8iqM?...
The lost neighborhood under New York's Central Park
YouTube video by Vox
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Central Park is so iconic that folks all over the world, know and visit it when they come to NYC.
What most don't know, is that it is built on Seneca Village, a thriving free Black community that was lied about and seized, in order to create it.
Happy Black History Month✊🏽
youtu.be/HdsWYOZ8iqM?...
What most don't know, is that it is built on Seneca Village, a thriving free Black community that was lied about and seized, in order to create it.
Happy Black History Month✊🏽
youtu.be/HdsWYOZ8iqM?...
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You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970).
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
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www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Feb. 8, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre
Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.
www.zinnedproject.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970).
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
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You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
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Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.
February 7, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.
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With Trump once again blaming Black cities for "voter fraud," it's worth revisiting our piece about why this is a playbook as old as the nation --- and how it makes these accusations more believable to Whites:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
With Trump once again blaming Black cities for "voter fraud," it's worth revisiting our piece about why this is a playbook as old as the nation --- and how it makes these accusations more believable to Whites:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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I know that everybody is absolutely overwhelmed by the need right now, but I want to let folks know about Zion Community Commons. They’ve been feeding our neighbors in Saint Paul and across the region for years, and right now they’re getting food to thousands of families who can’t leave their homes.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I know that everybody is absolutely overwhelmed by the need right now, but I want to let folks know about Zion Community Commons. They’ve been feeding our neighbors in Saint Paul and across the region for years, and right now they’re getting food to thousands of families who can’t leave their homes.
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
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mRNA vaccines are a marvel of modern science that took decades of research. it will be infuriating if these losers take them away on account of completely unfounded conspiracy bullshit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:05 AM
mRNA vaccines are a marvel of modern science that took decades of research. it will be infuriating if these losers take them away on account of completely unfounded conspiracy bullshit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
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One thing that has been consistent on this site since the early days is folks being weird to Black people, so it tracks.
Rudy's BEEN pushing this protocol and website forward since day one.
Rudy's BEEN pushing this protocol and website forward since day one.
Lots of secret hostility.
- Rudy is a hack
- Blacksky is a semi-proprietary ethnocentric social network just “popping up”
- Blacksky is masquerading as fully open source
would you all like me to still speak at #AtmosphereConf this year?
I don’t have to.
- Rudy is a hack
- Blacksky is a semi-proprietary ethnocentric social network just “popping up”
- Blacksky is masquerading as fully open source
would you all like me to still speak at #AtmosphereConf this year?
I don’t have to.
February 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
One thing that has been consistent on this site since the early days is folks being weird to Black people, so it tracks.
Rudy's BEEN pushing this protocol and website forward since day one.
Rudy's BEEN pushing this protocol and website forward since day one.
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Thank you for this beautiful post about my late mother. ❤️
Before SC, Patricia S. Due held a "jail-in" in Fla.
Due’s refusal to post bail "gave CRM a new tactic in struggle for equality. It was a tactical breakthrough that filled the jails & put pressure on the gov't." — Paul Ortiz
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@tananarivedue.bsky.social
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Due’s refusal to post bail "gave CRM a new tactic in struggle for equality. It was a tactical breakthrough that filled the jails & put pressure on the gov't." — Paul Ortiz
More ⬇️cc
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pa...
Feb. 20, 1960: Patricia Stephens Due Called for “Jail, No Bail”
#tdih On Feb. 20, 1960, Patricia Stephens Due was fined and arrested for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Tallahassee, Florida. Due refused to pay a fine and chose to stay in j...
www.zinnedproject.org
February 7, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Thank you for this beautiful post about my late mother. ❤️
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HELL yea
Byhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker Says
A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, Sen. Roger Wicker says.
www.mississippifreepress.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:13 AM
HELL yea
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Learning close reading to read Shakespeare will really teach you how to READ
But hearing Shakespeare performed well?
That's when the significance seeps into your bones (at least for me)
But hearing Shakespeare performed well?
That's when the significance seeps into your bones (at least for me)
February 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Learning close reading to read Shakespeare will really teach you how to READ
But hearing Shakespeare performed well?
That's when the significance seeps into your bones (at least for me)
But hearing Shakespeare performed well?
That's when the significance seeps into your bones (at least for me)