"Last August, Adam Thomas found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after a chatbot kept suggesting he mystically 'follow the pattern' of his own consciousness. Thomas was running on very little sleepāheād been talking to his chatbot around the clock for months by that point, asking it to help improve his life. Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl. Heād lost his job as a funeral director and was living out of a van, draining his savings, and now he found himself stranded in the desert."
slate.com/technology/2026/02/aā¦
Victims often lose their grip on realityābut an unexpected recovery movement is taking shape online.Tanya Chen (Slate)
OH FUCK WE'RE COOKED
THEY GOT OUR LEADER
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'Feds Identify āLeader of #Antifaā
Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local #ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow #protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news.
To the #DHS, āhe is the leader of Antifa in #Portland, #Oregon.ā'
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I was struck by this description about Christine Keeler and the 1963 Profumo affair. The related sex scandal forced Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, to resign:
"A shooting incident...caused the press to investigate her, revealing that her affairs could be threatening national security."
The agency seems reversed. Keeler wasn't the one threatening national security. That her lovers were, among others, a cabinet minister and a Russian agent were responsible for that.
Attached: 1 image KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems The KDE desktopās new login manager (PLM) in the upcoming Plasma 6.Hackaday (Mastodon)
At Aldi I'm browsing near a family with small kids and I hear "Katie get off the floor love"
Katie goes "I'm a penguin mum!", flops down on the floor and just kicks herself along the whole length of the aisle making penguin noises.
Katie, I hope one day you'll know the effort your parents made not to laugh out loud.
I think they're kinda proud.
RE: dragonscave.space/@Peiress/116ā¦
That's such an old unproven republican bullshit.
the department said the temporary ban (visa) will "remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people."
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Meanwhile?
A study published last week by the Cato Institute, found that "immigrants consumed about 24 percent less in welfare benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis ...
smh
cato.org/blog/immigrants-stillā¦
RE: flipboard.com/@marketwatch/reaā¦
At least he is buying in California, unlike his friend Larry who buys on the other coast!
Google billionaire Sergey Brin has been linked to two extravagant property purchases in neighboring statesāwith reports suggesting that the tech ā¦MarketWatch
Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."
George Carlin famously said that politics and economy are "a big club and you ain't in it."
The #Epstein files are showing how right he was, especially this one, in which Epstein cackles with his pal Peter Thiel about how #Brexit was "just the beginning" of their plans to destroy governments and institute a "return to tribalism."
They elected Trump knowing that he is a corrupt/evil imbecile who destroys anything he touches.
It's all about buying the dip justice.gov/epstein/files/Dataā¦
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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 201611:14 AM
To: Peter Thiel
Subject: Re:
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too high, and as i said in your office. =AO finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding =he next
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Peter Thiel apeter@thielcap4al.com <mailto:peter@thielcapital.comĀ» wrote:
Of what?
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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 3:17 AM
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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 201611:14 AM
To: Peter Thiel
Subject: Re:
return to tribalism . counter to globalization= amazing new alliances. you and I both agree= zero interest rates were
too high, and as i said in your office. =AO finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding =he next
bargain
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Peter Thiel apeter@thielcap4al.com <mailto:peter@thielcapital.comĀ» wrote:
Of what?
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By any measure, the F.B.I.ās search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary.
Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud,
but also to try to build a criminal case against those he believes wronged him.
What happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual, The New York Times has learned.
Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, met with some of the same F.B.I. agents,
members of the bureauās field office in Atlanta, which is conducting the election inquiry, three people with knowledge of the meeting said.
They could not say why Ms. Gabbard, who also appeared on site at the search, was there, but her continued presence has raised eyebrows given that her role overseeing the nationās intelligence agencies does not include on-site involvement in criminal investigative work.
Question for US legal things knowers RE Minneapolis and lawyering up.
My sister and spouse are actively helping vulnerable community members with things like rides etc. Sheās been told that if she is detained that sheāll need to give her specific lawyerās name and direct contact info, so sheās considering finding someone to have on retainer. Probably obviously, thatās not a straightforward thing to search for.
Does anyone with *specific and direct knowledge of these things* have any applicable information/guidance or local to MPLS recommendations that I can pass on?
Edit: Juneās advice linked here about the National Lawyer's Guild seems to be exactly what she needed. Thanks for boosting! mspsocial.net/@june/1160020958ā¦
@mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks the National Lawyer's Guild is the number people are using who don't have an existing relationship with a specific lawyer. They have been working on this specific situation and are expecting such calls.MSP Social.net
Jennifer Brooks: "An avalanche of outerwear poured in."
āA couple of weeks ago, I was at Whipple, seeing if there was anything I could do,ā said Rachel Gerdes, whose Instagram account now directs her 40,000 followers to Haven Watch and other mutual aid groups who are raising funds and supplies for people who are too afraid to leave their homes to shop, work or go to school.
Suddenly, she said, āThey released someone in front of the Whipple Building in no winter clothes. It was freezing cold. She was just out in the cold.ā
Gerdes approached the shivering woman and asked if she needed help. The woman said she had no way to get home. The light-rail station is half a mile from Whipple. A long way to walk without a coat in January.
Volunteers step up for ICE detainees who need winter coats
By Jennifer Brooks
The Minnesota Star Tribune
startribune.com/stepping-up-foā¦
#Minnesota #WinterClothing #MutualAid #resist #WhippleBuilding
On a turnout of 53%, 93% of Resident Doctors have voted to continue their campaign of industrial action for another six months.... suggesting the absence of trust in Wes Streeting continues.
The Q. will now be whether the BMA can continue to (broadly) win the public argument on doctors pay - having navigated through the 'winter crisis' they may be able to keep people on side... but equally may have undermined the perception of their importance to the NHS?
#NHS #doctors
theguardian.com/society/2026/fā¦
British Medical Association members back further action as unionās chair says āa deal is there to be doneāDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
These professionals are being employed more and more, many working beyond their scope, eg. in GP, seeing undifferentiated patients (against the Leng recommendations). Patients have died due to PAs working above their competencies.38 Degrees
And this week's key political Q. is likely to be:
How much did Keir Starmer know & when, about Peter Mandelson's links with Jeffery Epstein?
Whatever he did or didn't know this is unlikely to play well for Starmer, who should have been a little more sceptical about Mandelson's desire to return to politics for the third time!
Pushing for trade, preparing for war: A document reveals Vietnam's dual approach toward the US
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-us-war-planning-china-115c4f9bc69d91e7afe6b4dba7dc460f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia @asia-AssociatedPress
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āWe would have won with Andy Burnham, but I know activists from my constituency donāt exactly feel inspired to go and campaign there now,ā says one Labour MPDavid Maddox (The Independent)
Is #izzyondroid down?
I love how the #UK is speedrunning Canada and the United States right now, where the shit-tier centrist underwear stains are more terrified of the Left winning and just completely replacing them than they are of the country going open fascist.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/poliā¦
āWe would have won with Andy Burnham, but I know activists from my constituency donāt exactly feel inspired to go and campaign there now,ā says one Labour MPDavid Maddox (The Independent)
Video Montage: Portland Gas Attacks - January 31 and February 1, 2026 | 1:54
Horrendous gas attacks are being unleashed in Portland OR.
Here is a collection of video clips from the Portland gas attacks that took place over the last couple days.
Video clips posted to Mastodon by independent journalist Alissa Azar @alissaazar on Jan 30 and Feb 1, 2026
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Hansenās disease (leprosy) is treatable today in large part because of the work of Alice Ball, a 23-year-old chemist whose breakthrough turned a toxic folk remedy into the worldās first effective treatment.
Her science saved lives ā but her legacy was nearly erased.
theconversation.com/a-young-blā¦
#BlackHistoryMonth
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ballās legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.The Conversation
Report: A Minnesotan man was treated for a shattered skull after an encounter with ICE agents.
The agents said he had āpurposefully ran headfirst into a brick wallā while trying to escape their custody.
But nurses who treated him said, "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall, [given] the sheer number of skull fractures... & internal bleeding".
truthout.org/articles/minneapoā¦
#USPol #ICE #EUPol #CdnPoli #racism #press #Minnesota .
Nurses are raising red flags about a man who was treated for a shattered skull after an encounter with ICE agents.Brad Reed (Truthout)
Report: At the present rate, urgent medical evacuations from Gaza would take a year.
"More than 1,000 Palestinians have died waiting for medical evacuation".
~James Smith, emergency doctor
aje.news/48xd9d?update=4283619
#GazaGenocide #USPol #EUPol #CdnPoli #BDS #palestine #DisplacementReplacement #GazaMedicalEvacuation #Press .
Very few patients have left Gaza on the first day of opening, as critics say āno information, no promisesā from Israel.Edna Mohamed (Al Jazeera)
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