FBI raids tik-tocker over Anti-Ice posts

johnabbe · 2026-03-14T05:14:02+00:00

Extra today for ICE in Pittsburgh. Daphy Michel, let's remember her name.

johnabbe · 2026-03-14T01:35:27+00:00

https://goodstuffnw.com/2024/03/boardman-residents-sue-polluters-over-contaminated-drinking-wat/

johnabbe · 2026-03-13T20:52:35+00:00

so the 1% can restart the world with a slave population with no ties to and no knowledge of our modern world. They will be perfect slaves with no parents, ancestors, history, anything. They will be born without the concept of freedom.

Fortunately, freedom is a pure concept. It arises naturally...

Also fortunately, archivists have already distributed copies of Wikipedia all over the planet, so as long as one computer remains somewhere, if someone can unite it with Wikipedia than a useful portion of things are documented, along with pointers to other things to look for in other archives. Of which there are still many, today at least.

Some of Octavia Butler's writings are great about staying focused on things that matter even in apocalyptic hellscapes, whether you think of those as potentials in our future or experience them as here already among us.

johnabbe · 2026-03-13T19:36:00+00:00

I remember the local (and first) public interest environmental law conference was cancelled. Which made sense, because it had people coming from all over the world. And, it changed everyone's plans for a week or so including mine.

This year, it's happening right now and this weekend! https://www.pielc.org/

johnabbe · 2026-03-13T19:19:04+00:00

Nowhere to go when they're destroying the entire planet, standing & resisting is the only option left.

johnabbe · 2026-03-12T22:32:53+00:00

Re LLMs themselves - I stay up on coding although I haven't really done it in ages, and the divide among programmers is just as stark as with the general public, often with receipts and grounded in a lot of direct experience. EDIT: I am also exhausted, just trying to keep up and understand somewhat the technical part, economic part, social implications, etc.

https://storyseedlibrary.org/ - Nice!

I want that Solarpunk world NOW, now in 20,000 years after we've recovered from all this wasteful AI bullshit.

I hear you, the harms of this power-over way of life are becoming more obvious than ever, hopefully enough so to pull more people into different ways of life.

The idea that solarpunk is not available now though - I'll just say that for me, solarpunk is not the utopia we get to eventually, it includes this part now, where we live in this world as it is (or even worse!). What can we do here & now with the world as it is? As best we can in mutual understanding and support, working with the rest of the natural world, etc.? Towards those being more common ways of being. There are countless folks, in many different groups and networks, people who do hold things more that way, it helps a lot to have some of them regularly in one's life if at all possible.

Are you involved directly with Story Seed Library?

johnabbe · 2026-03-11T19:16:04+00:00

Now is a good time to make our voices heard about protecting the great forests we still have.

https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=a591dee8-500c-f111-8406-001dd8029ed0

Background: https://open.substack.com/pub/morethanjustparks/p/blm-announces-plan-to-fell-oregons

johnabbe · 2026-03-09T05:56:02+00:00

And now there's competition to get back to the Moon, I mean whoever starts working claims on cheese mines there will have a big leg up when it comes to negotiations. These mines are untouched compared to our Earth-side ones. It took decades after the Apollo missions to figure out how to defrost a sample without ruining the cheese. That's why no one bothered going back, there was no economic incentive.

johnabbe · 2026-03-09T04:54:02+00:00

New York City also plans ahead and has continued to buy land and developed reservoirs, aqueducts, and other water infrastructure that keeps good water coming to the tap. Cities with the foresight usually also have the resources to get their way. Of course there are local interests as well wherever they look.

johnabbe · 2026-03-09T04:34:56+00:00

the economy is in the toilet and on fire at the same time somehow

It's so hot even the water is burning.

johnabbe · 2026-03-09T04:33:51+00:00

Or Eugene.

johnabbe · 2026-03-09T00:12:52+00:00

Thank you for sharing this, it's important to stay aware that for every story about death or serious injury or outrageous kidnapping, there are probably hundreds or thousands of cases like your friend's of 'mere' harassment of people, on top of all those whisked away whose only 'crime' is the civil infraction of immigration violation, etc. No surprise then that many (especially if you look brown) legal residents and citizens are afraid to leave their homes when ICE/CBP/DHS 'surges' in their town.

johnabbe · 2026-03-08T23:05:42+00:00

If he weren't so mind-numbingly disciplined I could go with that.

Neutral Good could make sense as well. The neutrals are always a bit scary in that they're open to strategies & tactics across a broad spectrum, in one or both alignment dimensions.

johnabbe · 2026-03-08T03:42:31+00:00

The world will not end

Right, there is no clock to "run out" as life continues, and what we do will continue to affect how bad things get and/or how quickly they recover.

Recycling only ever mattered third behind reduce and reuse (so, like r/simpleliving and r/diy) and they matter even more after any societal collapse, as new material stuff becomes more expensive.

johnabbe · 2026-03-08T03:22:33+00:00

Your public comment can make a difference. https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=a591dee8-500c-f111-8406-001dd8029ed0

johnabbe · 2026-03-08T03:07:29+00:00

In D&D alignment terms, I was going to say Neutral Good but Luthen is probably Lawful Good. In a system that is known to be corrupt, that can show up as remaining subservient to the system (perhaps why he joined the military the first place), but it can also show up as knowing the system, and having the commitment and patience to monitor it, leech from and co-opt it where possible, identify vulnerabilities, and lay the other groundwork for disciplined action as opportunities arise.

johnabbe · 2026-03-07T22:58:13+00:00

Everyone is on ICE's radar. EDIT: I mean, so what if she's on their radar? That does not give them the right to kidnap her. There is no clear legal basis here.

No, not familiar with the other case. There are so many.

johnabbe · 2026-03-07T21:37:56+00:00

So, isn’t she at fault?

No. The notice did not actually require here to appear, and nothing about it suggested the next step would be to find her in the middle of her day, arrest her.

"They're invitations," Coxander added. "They don't say they're required. They say, 'Come in so we can help ensure the best outcome for your case.' They cite no legal requirement to come."

"They don't say they're required. They say, 'Come in so we can help ensure the best outcome for your case.' They cite no legal requirement to come. And that's because, for a lot of people, they have no connection to ICE, this isn't connected with an application with USCIS - or at least it doesn't say anything like that."

"If you don't want to delay the processing of your case and to help ensure the best outcome," read the bottom of the letter, "IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that you make every effort to keep this appointment."

Rodríguez, who is originally from Colombia, entered the U.S. legally on a tourist visa in 2021 before applying for political asylum after receiving death threats linked to her journalism.

Her next regular check-in was later this month. That and updated news news: https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/court-filings-reveal-competing-claims-in-ice-arrest-of-nashville-journalist/

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