K Morrell

Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

BREAKING: Last night, the Palo Alto City Council unanimously adopted an interim ordinance temporarily restricting the development of ICE detention facilities. 🧵⬇️

ICE ARREST CONFIRMED: ICE followed a vehicle leaving Elmwood jail in Milpitas and detained 2 people at Great Mall Pkwy & Thompson St, 10:45 PM. Our team was on site observing. Loved one detained? Call (408) 290-1144 for free emergency legal support, 24/7.

Folks who want to understand where the political project of AI is going might want to read this.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

This photo is AI-generated. It shows a fake ICE raid at the Chili's on El Camino Real in Santa Clara. Our team went to the scene and confirmed no ICE or other law enforcement presence. AI images like this are spreading across the Bay Area, so please verify before sharing.

Facts, not fear. Our team checked recent reports of ICE activity online, and most weren’t what they seemed. Here’s what we’re actually seeing in Santa Clara County and how we verify every report. ICE activity or need help? Call 24/7: 408-290-1144

Please help spread the word!! Let others know that the Silicon Valley Chinese Association endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 - so that people who receive their mailers know exactly what kind of candidates the SVCA endorses. Here was their rationale in 2024: svca.me/2024/10/15/v...

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

#NoKings across Wisconsin is here to remind you: early voting in person starts Tuesday!

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What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

The notion of "second-hand surveillance" (on analogy to second-smoke) seems powerful -- and more generally I really appreciate the idea of zones where one can be free of this. From @ajlunited.bsky.social www.offrecordzones.org >>

I missed this last week. The arXiv is rate-limiting submissions to two per month, with no more than three in moderation at a time, to deal with the deluge of submissions assisted by (or perhaps generated by) LLMs. Totally reasonable, imo. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Read the 🧵. I’ve lived w/Stage IV for 10 years, far beyond the norm. This stuff is profoundly upsetting. We want control but we are fed misinformation on one side while on the other are docs we can usually trust but who often just don’t know who will do well and who will not or why with hard meds

For the first time in more than a decade, Democrats have a shot at winning a trifecta and making real change. Voting rights. Fair maps. Union rights. All three are on the ballot this year.

Thank you to my incredible Assemblymember @gailpellerin.bsky.social for sponsoring AB 1267 to end child marriage in CA. With @governor.ca.gov signature today, CA became the 18th state to ban child marriage, protecting girls/boys from exploitation, forced marriage. pellerin.asmdc.org/press-releas...

Quite a remarkable map, table, and diagram from a 1971 report on launch-on-warning, showing the implications of Soviet submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) on detection, reaction, deliberation, and response time. All numbers are in SECONDS, which is what I find the most wild about it.

Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...

While I probably agree with most of this, I’m completely put off by the contrasting of science with engineering in such a way as to throw engineering disciplines under the bus. 🛑 it! Make your point without putting down other fields!

automation bias en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat...

the name is CHUMP THEORY mattweiner.net/On%20Chum%20...

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"When AI executives warn of a catastrophe, they are not describing a product that is “going rogue.” Rather, the product is using capabilities that they have created." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... @juliettekayyem.bsky.social on accountability for the AI titans

😭I hadn’t considered that aspect of these cursed IPOs

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

🫠 one thing seems clear - saying AI will kill us all brings more attention and $ than saying that’s unlikely

Gil Duran’s book has also been slightly difficult to get at local (SF Bay area) stores - often unavailable for pickup at B&N. But I found it at a different bookstore.

METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.

❤️ nice story and love the photos Free as a Bird: Rehabilitated Night Herons Released in Oakland www.coyotemedia.org/free-as-a-bi...

Really enjoyed this essay about games, play, and their value in our lives: www.ft.com/content/7b95...

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

This is such a great story ❤️ Birding started in my family with covid and massive playing time for Wingspan, as well as the Merlin app apple.news/A6QdQR150RHy...

Another Kavanaugh killing

New Nuclear Notebook for China is out. Prompted me to look for old forecasts and rationales on global # of weapons - current estimate of the # in China is consistent with estimates of growth in production referenced in 2022, fwiw thebulletin.org/premium/2026...

Trump fired all the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, which ensures voting access and security. His efforts to tamper with our elections undermine our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...

Platner was polling well behind where a generic Democrat would have in today's environment. The assumption he was lone salvation is part of the same broader fiction that bro-ey white dude is our savior and must be excused for all sins.

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

So the dude is a former cop (of course) and runs a private security firm here. Big yikes

Good story from my friend Mike -- the conduct that is alleged here is appalling paydayreport.com/platners-gur...

"Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys" www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...

This explains a lot. nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-sane-n...

Based on the NTSB preliminary report on N249CP, the evidence is fairly strong: this medevac plane probably wouldn't have crashed, and its 4 crew would still be alive, if the military hadn't been jamming GPS that night.

The writing of today's article about the protest took a wild turn when I discovered that the road the ICE detention center would be on was named after a slave-holding family from Missouri. Check it out ⤵️