Jessica Kant
@jessdkant.bsky.social
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Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ jessk.org/blog
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The upshot of the breathtaking speed of our descent is there's no illusion that if we concede a little now, we save anything down the road. The second we caved on trans care and immigration, we caved on abortion, gay marriage, social security, and vaccines. No caving thus far has slowed us one bit.
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Horror movies have sort of lost their luster this year as inevitably at the denouement some voice in the back of my head always whispers “honestly this feels so much more manageable right now”
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"a test"? you mean...a violation?
AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
jessdkant.bsky.social
Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!
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As we all know, the right to protest is foundational to a functioning democracy. This is why my administration vigorously supports your right to do it quietly in your own home where no one can see it.
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Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.
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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street. 

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore. 

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new 
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”
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The illusory power of overconfidence is what gives users a warped feeling of certainty over subject matter neither they nor the LLM actually understand. This is why people keep sending you screenshots of Gemini summaries as if they’re the final word on any disagreement.
There's also the tricky issue of Al as a tool for profit. Experts say that users roundly prefer confident LLMs to ones that admit when they can't find data or deliver an accurate answer - even when that information is totally made up. If a company like ChatGPT were to stamp out sloppy hallucinations for good, it would scare off users in droves.
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“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.
futurism.com
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My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
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Freedom of speech and truth are not enemies, and it’s bizarre you think they are.
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It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.
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Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.
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These are crimes against children which would mean prison time for anyone without a badge.
In May, another teenager, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, was arrested by ICE in Milford. He was detained for six days at the agency's field office in Burlington before being released.
He said during the six days in custody, he was surrounded by adult men, and he was uncomfortable using the bathroom in front of others. He slept on concrete floors using a mylar blanket.
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On the one hand, yes, demand answers as to why this happened. But release him now independent of the answer — there is no justification for this. No society that hasn’t hopelessly devolved past the point of return does this to kids. I don’t care whatever they can possibly cook up as an excuse.
Boston judge orders release of 13-year-old from ICE custody
The federal court ruled the boy must be freed unless immigration officials can justify detaining a juvenile with adult detainees at the Burlington facility.
www.masslive.com
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And for more than half of them it can come with free, albeit involuntary, lodging at the Hague
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It’s a fair question. Gotta say SiriusXM proved that point pretty well to anyone who had the misfortune of getting a free trial with purchase
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I’d consider investing in an update that does that to anyone who bought a Tesla
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I am cackling. Tesla owners are reacting to the fact that ads are being pushed inside the car now as part of an “update”

electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...
"Oh good, advertisements are making it in my car."
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Wait for real? So they’re already mobile billboards *inside the vehicle*?
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No, I can see how that’s confusing but I also feel like it’s worth explicating that the only reason toys don’t cost $5000 dollars is because of the country he’s trying to bully