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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 17h

Heaven forbid I ever see something like this happening, but if and when I do, I hope I can summon the courage in that moment to physically put myself in the way of the monsters trying to kidnap the child, to do the thing I always wonder why others do not

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 21h

TLDR: AI is currently only a fraction (~20%) of what Data centers do, and even if you look at total data center water usage it is nothing compared to what is used by things like agriculture and golf, and AI is arguably more useful than golf

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 21h

One of my least popular opinions on this site is that AI water use is actually not a big deal
andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

(and that the media manufactured this story for clicks and because they fear that AI threatens their already creaky business model)

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

andymasley.substack.com

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 21h

"You're only saying this because she's a *woman* mediocre, bigot, social-climber, fascist handmaiden," isn't the flex you think it is

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 22h

This "high-minded" inability to distinguish between viewpoint diversity and the goal of abusing liberal tolerance to destroy liberalism itself from within has proven to be one of the most corrosive aspects of Ivory Tower talking-head culture, far worse than any actual liberal intellectual rigidity

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 22h

OK, so universities are obliged to hire faculty who believe that the Holocaust was a hoax perpetrated by a Jewish conspiracy?

Because people who believe that it was actually Hitler and his followers murdering 6 million Jews should WANT their views challenged.

Let's also challenge heliocentrism

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 22h

I know it's off topic, but it's fascinating that "who is paying you?" is also the most common thing that housing advocates hear from left NIMBYs

"Who is paying you": the refrain of people whose mindsets don't allow them to imagine someone could look at the evidence and reach a different conclusion

Paul Rabin @rabinpw.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who protests regularly, the most common right wing heckling is “who is paying you?” Because they don’t understand doing anything without some personal remuneration.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

You know how we look back at things like the Great Leap Forward and the famines of the USSR and wonder, how could they let that happen?

Our country is letting that happen right now. If another pandemic comes along, millions may die needlessly. And the media will act like it was some inevitability

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

The perfect billionaire does not exist.

Notice how there were no ellipses or image after that.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

If it's a Trump flunky who made the mistake, they'll probably get a promotion for sticking it to that whole antifa justice system we got

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I just take a moment to be grateful for living in a time and place where this is what I get when I take a picture of the sky on most days

Cerulean is too often something we take for granted

A photo of a clear blue sky over Durant and Telegraph avenues in Berkeley CA

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. And the fact that questions like "Should illegal aliens get health care?" and "Should we let non-citizens die if they get suck in the US?" will both get a majority "NO" responses shows that many people don't even think deeply enough about policy for polling to be truly meaningful in many cases

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

Easily one of the most underrated YouTube series of all time.

I still relish inDEHpendahnce.

Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats spend millions measuring public sentiment; Republicans spend millions shaping it.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 3d

It feels like every day there's some dumb centrist or "never-Trump" Republican who slithers online or into a newspaper column to say "Well, actually, it's not technically fascism..."

And the Trump regime is like "God damn it! What did we miss?! WHAT WILL IT TAKE??"

Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 3d

𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 by Norman Frogwell

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 3d

I made stickers!

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 3d

Most mainstream media are allowing the obvious, shameless lies of the Trump regime to go virtually unchallenged

Journalism is utterly broken. Maybe it was never not broken (remember Satanic Panic?) and most people just let it go because leaders still had some sense of shame about telling lies

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't say they *wouldn't* see productivity gains. I'm just skeptical that they will be 5% compounding annually for multiple years. If you just meant that AI will create a 5% productivity gain and that it's it, then that seems like an easier case to make, but it's also not terribly revolutionary.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 4d

Widespread adoption of mobile robotics paired with AI is the real revolution

I'll join the hype train when robots are poised to start harvesting peaches and cleaning toilets in everyday settings

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 4d

I mean sure, if it does that it will be extremely impactful, but that requires a lot of assumptions about its ability to scale, take on new tasks, operate independently, and consistently deliver that level of productivity increase.

some jobs are years away from AI delivering such productivity

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 4d

AI companies: AI will revolutionize every aspect of your life tomorrow!

Extremely online leftists: AI is evil and must be destroyed.

Normies: Sometimes I use AI to help word stuff and make clip art for my PowerPoints and digital invitations.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 4d

Can we PLEASE get a Portlandia sketch where Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein reprise, like, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 recurring character from the show, but they're all gearing up for "war" in ridiculous ways, and then they run around being crazy in otherwise calm streets where people are just doing Portland things?

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