A Columbia University graduate student and greencard holder faces deportation simply for organizing a protest against Israel's Gaza campaign. ICE is aggressively moving to revoke his permanent residency based solely on his peaceful protest. Even more disturbing, Trump has threatened to strip citizenship from others. This outrageous assault on fundamental rights should terrify anyone who values free speech in America!

The attacks on free speech should terrify us all

+ Pipe Rock Theory, Beta babies, the toy collectible boom, re-buttonification, a Portnoy memoir, and Ye Squad vs the Bruzz House

This tell all book about Facebook/Meta looks both entertaining and insightful in to the ways that having a large centralized platform dominating social media is fundamentally a threat to an open pluralistic society. I’m looking forward to reading the whole book, CARELESS PEOPLE: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams https://archive.is/JiMua

Watching the Breaking the Bird documentary is super surreal and makes me feel really nostalgic. So far they’re doing a good job. 22 minutes in. It’s a 4 part series. Once a week. https://turnerlive.warnermediacdn.com/hls/live/586495/cnngo/cnn_slate/VIDEO_4_1064000.m3u8

So the CNN Twitter documentary aires tomorrow. Well the first of 4 parts.

New CNN Original Series Reveals Story of “Twitter: Breaking The Bird”

Twitter: Breaking the Bird will premiere on Sunday, March 9 at 10pm ET/PT. The series will air on Sundays at 10pm ET/PT.

Here’s some trailers and clips: The Twitter Origin Story, in 60 seconds: The story of the hastag creation, also in 60 seconds: A 15 second trailer: And a 30 second trailer that actually has some footage of me, not just my voice: And i’m supposed to be on CNN live talking about it at 7:35 pm ET… I’ve never done a live cable news interview, so hopefully it’s not a disaster.

I’ve never used one of these bitcoin atm’s. Wouldn’t it be a slow error prone process or enter your btc wallet address?

Anybody got alternatives to uBlock Origin now that Chrome has banned it? The idea of using a web browser without an ad/scam blocker is out of the question. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/uBlock%20Origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

Welcome to the club of hating the IMF! I got arrested for protesting the IMF all the back in 2000! They’re shit. View quoted note →

Interesting, there’s a project to make a group chat like app on top of bluesky’s atprotocol… of course we’ve had this for years on Nostr. It’ll be interesting to see if it’s even possible. They punted on the idea of encrypted DM’s.

GitHub

GitHub - muni-town/roomy: Gardenable group chat made with AT Protocol and Leaf.

Gardenable group chat made with AT Protocol and Leaf. - muni-town/roomy

This is the official White House bio of the new official head DOGE, Amy Gleason from when she served in the Obama administration. It just feels like they picked a random maybe believable person from USDS (the agency that got renamed to DOGE).

The White House

Amy gleason

See the President

Amazing sunrise this morning

I bought this giant inflatable car suit last month and I’ve taken it to a few parties. It’s been really fascinating to see how people interact with it. Lots of people laugh and want to give it hugs. Some punch it. Women tend to poke it in the butt. Some want to dance with it. One guy got on the ground and crawled between its legs. I think it’s the weird way a stuffed animal looking cat becomes big and real. It’s 2.6 meters (8ft) tall. Lots of people thought it was robot or “AI” and didn’t believe that I as a person was inside.

GN

Care about tech and human rights? Follow along what’s happening at #RightsCon the next couple of days. View quoted note →

While the news of the world is stressing everybody out, i want you to know that it’s major news in New Zealand that some passengers were not told their baggage would arrive late on a domestic flight. They had to wait half an hour for an announcement and it caused the passengers distress. https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/18/jetstar-passengers-luggage-left-behind-on-dunedin-flight/

AI might help you create real software without knowing how to code, but it won’t help you with the basics of software engineering. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkGX0VsXcAAvHnO?format=jpg&name=small

Lists lists lists! We’ve got lists in @nos! Check out the new release of nos.social. View quoted note →

This is kind of crazy. The service station near my house in New Zealand is stocked as if it were in Uruguay.

Words to live by.

Making it a holiday to celebrate the birthday of the head of state is some authoritarian bullshit. And that is as much true of the proposal to do it in the US as the already existing holidays for the king’s birthday in commonwealth countries. View quoted note →

Good reminder of where we are with #nostr from @The Nostr Review View quoted note →