Everyone talks about Nazi concentration camps. That's the really, obviously evil shit, right? That's where we all draw the line, isn't it?

Ok, well, we have those: they are ICE facilities, & people are dying in them. They've been abducted, imprisoned, & are being killed through abuse & neglect.

Is that enough yet?

Donc Wikipedia interdit l'usage d'IAG pour la rédaction parce que ça produit trop d'erreurs et que ça invente des sources.

Pendant ce temps, l'éducation nationale, qui a été si prompte pendant des années à dénigrer Wikipedia, pousse pour nous faire intégrer l'IAG dans nos préparations de cours voir dans le travail avec les élèves... 🤷

Revealed: #ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/15/ice-detention-miscarriages-pregnancy

> ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving basic prenatal care and screenings

It's fun to mock Canada, but any country that has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve (this is a real thing, look it up) clearly has a set of priorities that the rest of us can learn from.

Zenodo is buckling under the strain of AI bot traffic, the Open Science Framework (OSF) has gone into emergency maintenance mode due to AI crawlers and other high-value sites across the web are desperately erecting barriers to ward off traffic overload.

I've been wondering what "AI" progress will look like once the open information ecosystem it has been built on is destroyed. It looks like we will find out in the not so far away future.

Well, I made it through the environmental education guest lecture on the environmental costs of generative AI and the billionaire space race without crying. Though I got real close at the end when a student asked about how long humans can survive with all of these unhinged-from-reality AI data center builds happening.

There is always time to make the future less terrible, and that is the most important thing to focus on.

Simply removing most cars from central downtown streets in Ghent, Belgium has dramatically transformed and improved this beautiful city.

Pro tip: Any city anywhere can decide to do control where cars can go.

#bikeTooter #Belgium #cargobike #urbanism

humans are social animals and have an innate fear of ostracization (being turned into an ostrich)

Columbia University paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to pro-Israel organizations while cracking down on pro-Palestine activism on campus, according to an investigation by The Intercept based on the university’s financial filings.

During the fiscal year ending June 2024, Columbia paid $100,000 to the Israel on Campus Coalition, $75,000 to AIPAC’s charitable arm, and $450,000 to the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York.

Over the past decade, Columbia paid more than $250,000 to AIPAC’s charitable arm. No comparable payments to Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim organizations appeared in the filings reviewed by The Intercept.

The payments came as Columbia suspended Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, dismantled Gaza solidarity encampments, and brought police onto campus to arrest protesters.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #AIPAC #Palestinian

I had drafted this the other day with a different pop culture thing in mind, but it's also relevant today so:

I always find it strange that there seems to be a parallel tendency to provide a personal stamp of approval when (rightly) stating another community/gender/etc. than your own deserves human rights (e.g., "as the father of a daughter, I think women should have bodily autonomy" or "as the friend of a trans person, I think everyone should have access to gender-affirming care") but then to provide a personal criticism of someone's art when (also rightly) pointing out their horrid human rights views (e.g., "good riddance to them for not standing against genocide/transphobia, I think their music/books sucked anyway"). I know the intentions are good, but, like, we don't need to provide a personal justification for why we stand up for human rights. And cutting someone's art out of your life for moral reasons even though you loved it says much more than if you never liked it at all.

2 more polls out, Labour and the Nats are neck and neck, and NatACT First have a solid lead on LabGreens TPM. Opportunity are back above 5% in both;

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/labour-slumps-in-another-poll-but-still-ahead-of-national/HDUVF4SBJJHK3LYLGXLVLG3F7U/

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361079350/historic-major-party-slump-deepens-labour-edges-national-new-poll

(1/?)

#NZElection2026

@inquiline @lavaeolus Thank you for this, and I apologise but I had not seen this yet. I'm going to bookmark it because I'm not in a great state in a hospital on oxygen, but I will get to this as soon as I have the mental ability to give it attention. TY

@TheBreadmonkey @GoodCheerPixie That dog looks nothing like Christopher Walken, though.

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"Avec le projet « On a déjà essayé », sept médias locaux indépendants (Mediacités, Rue89 Bordeaux, Rue89 Lyon, Rue89 Strasbourg, Made in Perpignan, Le Poulpe et Marsactu) publient différents articles pour un premier bilan".

Les maires RN augmentent la Police et leurs propres émoluments, et cassent le social (transports scolaires, cantine, aides aux familles) et la Culture.

(Articles en accès libre)
https://lapresselibre.info/mediacites/on-a-deja-essaye-les-6-premiers-mois-des-mairies-rn-sous-la-loupe-de-medias-independants-locaux

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@personalescrito/117226992319208668

If you ever needed to understand what big tech priorities are look no further than their energy and water use.

@tusk81

Great. Popular artists it is time to take a stand. Are you a Macklemore or a Sheeran? Who's side are you on?

Fix something small that gets in your way. Sew on a button, clean a grimy keyboard.

@TheBreadmonkey @LoganFive @zygmyd @qgustavor @reay
"The wet bit next to the beach" is my mother's name. Call me "a sandy slut," please.