ICE
Stop Work Order
Minnesota workers are participating in one of the first city-wide general strikes the United States has seen in many decades
Weekly Roundup
SAVE US, VERONIKA.
Environment
xAI has been powering their massive Memphis data center with illegal gas turbines. Local activists didn't back down.
Tech
Apple's flagship mixed reality headset faces a very non-mixed, very real, reality
AI
After weeks of worldwide outrage over a Grok feature that allowed Twitter users to request AI-generated "revealing images" of basically anyone, Twitter has promised they Super Totally Fixed It
United States
A country is using lethal force against civilians protesting the current regime. One of those countries is cheering on the civilians of the other.
ICE
A woman is dead after an ICE agent shot her point-blank in her car. The US government has already called her a terrorist.
War
I feel like it goes without saying, but Stuff Still Happened.
Weekly Roundup
Another year comes to a close, and nobody took the time to warn me
Entertainment
Disney is working overtime to set the standard for treating fans like garbage
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"The most transparent administration" had to be bound by law to release documents they said didn't exist, but not before redacting them to hell and back
Trump announced that US Military service members will receive a check for $1,776. Unfortunately for the military, Trump is a perennial bankruptee.
The US Immigration efforts are going about as expected, but at least we can balance that out with a fresh round of terrible AI-generated commercials
The Game Awards happened, and with it a bunch of announcements. There were awards too, if you were the developers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, at least.
THEY MADE THIS FOR YOU AND YOU WERE SO UNGRATEFUL
A US judge ordered Abrego Garcia's release. He's home, but the saga is far from over.
Dotted around the country are a network of federal and state run facilities where US agents are brutalizing detainees
Pete Hegseth's war crime denial, Netflix's new angle, Twitter's hard lesson, and more
Edmonton's police service is trying out "near-real-time" facial recognition in police worn cameras
The EU issued a fine to Twitter after a warning last July about Twitter's lack of transparency and verification
Netflix and Warner Bros want to merge, but the Ellison family may have something to say about that
Not the only thing Hegseth seems to love that abbreviates to "SS"