You think there might be a self-sustaining snobbery fission chain reaction?

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

DHS sent hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord demanding identities of anonymous accounts tracking ICE operations.

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/14/dhs-subpoenas-google-meta-unmask-ice-critics-social-media-xcxwbn/

That implies posts that:

• Warn people of raids in real time
• Help people avoid ICE
• Coordinate responses to ICE presence

We should look for accounts that have a history like this:

• “ICE spotted at [location] right now”
• “Agents are at [apartment complex/business]”
• “Avoid [street/intersection]—ICE checkpoint”

Alternatively, it could also be something like this (though perhaps less likely):

• “Here’s how to avoid ICE checkpoints”
• “What to do if ICE shows up: …”
• “Don’t open the door unless…”

… or even aggregate statistics like this:

• “ICE has been operating in these neighborhoods this week”
• Maps or logs of sightings

…

I can’t imagine that they’re targeting this user for a reason too far off from why they targeted IceBlock, too.

Ideally, we can create a list of most probable users to have been targeted. Then we can warn them.

The Reddit user probably:

• Regularly posted ICE sightings or raid warnings
• Had a local or regional focus
• Was followed or relied on by others

That would corroborate with this passage:

ICE tried to identify the user for over a month and failed then escalated to a grand jury

That level of effort implies:

• The account was persistent
• The content was ongoing and impactful
• Likely high visibility or trusted by a community

Edit: found someone who shared the full article here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1shj6zn/a_redditor_criticized_ice_trump_is_trying_to/

The story of how Reddit became ensnared in an ICE-related grand jury began early last month, when the company received a request to turn over the name, address, phone number, and other data associated with an account belonging to a user identified in court records as John Doe.

… In the John Doe case, Reddit received an initial request on March 4 from an ICE agent in Fairfax, Virginia.

… the social media company alerted John Doe of the federal request for information. Based in the Pacific Northwest, the Reddit user obtained representation from the Oregon-based Civil Liberties Defense Center

… There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.

In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find.

You bring up quite a good point that I hadn’t considered or heard yet. Part of the working reason for which Iranians were suppressed in their ability on the world stage was, in fact, because of their leadership. Leadership with a curated history of relations with the US, which made them more reluctant. The US has now killed that leadership, leaving us with a more adversarial version of the former Iran and now it appears they’ll have a larger say in international affairs moving forward. It’s ironic that killing the leadership was seen as an attempt to undermine the regime, when put this way it seems to have achieved the exact opposite. Isn’t that such an astoundingly idiotic overplay of the hand you’re holding.

I hope all of this leads to a huge swing in popular opinion that data surveillance has the same potential as home surveillance, meaning that by monitoring the data of the average person across platforms — you can reach the same conclusions as you would by taking tenancy in their home to monitor their livelihoods. Then, I hope we revisit the constitutional amendments and ask ourselves whether a modern interpretation of the 3rd would yield that protection of the house (I.e., “no soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner”) translates to protection of the data. Then I hope that we can interpret Engblom v. Carey to mean “soldier” applies to any executive authority. Finally, I hope we can all start paying a lot more attention to Larry Ellison — the man who is consolidating a whole lot of private healthcare data and top-secret defense contracts right now while the world remains focused on the Iran war.

I know, I am asking for a lot.

I keep dual boot with Windows available for my wife. About a year ago my Fedora install was stuck in a boot loop and I hadn’t used my PC in a good while, nor updated anything the last time I had used it. The only conclusion I can think of is either bitflips corrupted the boot process, or Windows fucked with my Fedora install at some point while — perhaps my wife’s activity allowed a Windows update through, I don’t know. They’re on separate drives though, so… I recovered my data and reinstalled, kept Windows but I am now extremely sensitive to any shenanigans from that drive. Reading this news has me considering to tell my wife she will have to use Windows from a VM on my PC.

Yeah, I agree morally. From the perspective of understanding how humans reason about matters, it’s interesting too because it sheds more light on how easily we can misplace our good intentions too. Surely lethal injection was introduced as a more humane option, yet, here we are. The species is one that I am sure aliens will find instructive, perhaps in how not to live.

This is really cool. Is the process for profiling a codebase like this automated? I’d love to get a similar video, step-through, and similar docs for existing projects of mine.

I’m quite doubtful that you’re aware of the situations nuance, either. Is your best argument “what’s more likely?” Because, actually, I think it’s quite likely that China would have been instructive toward how their citizens should act abroad. I think it’s quite likely that China favors its own sovereignty over an individual’s sovereignty. If you’d try to convince me that there was no intimidation going on, I’d think you’re the one not applying critical thinking. Do you have any reason I should believe you over a much larger consensus between news organizations and reports from Chinese individuals? Anything that would demonstrate the opposite and more benevolent intentions of Chinese state efforts, as you’ve so claimed? Or are you just here to pose baseless claims and talk shit?

I feel like they do more work to protect the viewers from having to clutch their pearls, than they do the executed. We know a bullet moves fast enough to render a man dead before they can perceive what happened — problem solved. We don’t know whether anesthetics actually stop the pain, or if it simply stops reaction and memory formation. Yet, despite what we don’t know, we choose the option which looks/seems more humane. It’s rather interesting.

China sets up fake police offices in the US to harass Chinese citizens living there. If that doesn’t blow up your mind…

They are so familiar with these tactics because these are their tactics. What’s the phrase about taking one to know one? Except… they’re just diluting the sense of truth in our society, because nothing they say is actually defensible.

I would argue that’s empirically true but not fundamentally true. Actually, I’d argue that my point is the fundamental truth here. Computers still cannot generate random output. They simulate the process, and it’s not truly random. It’s just good enough to fool us at the surface level.

I feel like this has been tried before, though, in the 1900s. What makes this time different? Would we have a better strategy, now?

I think you’re right about that, but it is artificial nondeterminism in the sense that it’s relying on several algorithmic factors and, more subtly, device differences. The system itself is a complex yet deterministic function.

While I understand your point, deterministic with a billion variables is beyond human ability to process, let alone the multi-billion parameter models in general circulation today.

Fair enough. There’s a significant difference in complexity between the surface implication of what I said versus reality. Yes, it’s deterministic, but it’s also complex enough that something more should be said… though, we need to be careful here. Our language is not mature enough to scaffold the precise concepts we need here, and attempting to do so regardless carries the risk of smuggling in many concepts we did not intend to smuggle in. Concepts like intent, for example. I agree with you, but cautiously.

At what point does deterministic descend into random?

It shouldn’t at any point. Instead, we’re discussing a system that’s similar to the double pendulum or three body problem. It’s deterministic, though computationally irreducible. That’s chaotic, but it is not random. It’s extremely sensitive to initial conditions.

LLMs don’t try anything. They are deterministic tools.

It’s not news, it’s infotainment.

It’s not a lottery, it’s sweepstakes.

It’s not a media company, it’s a technology company.

…

It’s fucking crazy how we write laws to govern entities, but we miraculously ignore any potential for legal criteria to define what constitutes each entity. At minimum, enough so that those entities can reclassify themselves with a wave of the hand to avoid the regulation.

Fucking word games. That’s what our legal system has succumbed to. The same kind of shit your parents used to yell at you for.

I’m getting this weird fucking modal popup for the ad it just displayed. It sticks around in the bottom left corner of the screen after the ad ends, displaying throughout the duration of the actual video and blocking out like 20% of the screen (until I explicitly close the damn modal).

Classes need coherency and leverage in order to make demands, which is typically done by coordinating leadership. We have leverage, but how are we supposed to realize any of it without class coherency? If you can’t, then it sounds more like you’re aiming to create a new political party… right?

In another world, the government would help curate a coherent working class by strengthening and encouraging workers unions and coalitions between them.

The answer lies in the stupid shit economic, social, and political systems which allowed AI to become what it is rather than what it could have been. Not just AI.