Humza K
@humza.bsky.social
One part immigration attorney, one part TTRPG nerd. She/they.
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Humza K
@humza.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Ok. I think I gotta cut down my time on this place - the world is on fire, and being continually reminded of exactly HOW on fire it is, is doing a number on my being able to actually work towards helping in whatever way I can.
Much love to y'all.
Much love to y'all.
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people think “no ceiling” means “lets the rich keep getting richer” because it’s an idea taken from a venture capitalist by a party that has shown no stomach for reining in the worst excesses of 21st century capitalism. It’s not that people don’t know what it means. It’s that they do.
I think people are negatively reacting to the "no ceiling" part as shorthand for "let the rich get richer," though I don't think that's what's meant at all. It's an aspirational claim that *can* resonate with plenty of people. It's about opening up opportunity for everyone, which is good?
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
people think “no ceiling” means “lets the rich keep getting richer” because it’s an idea taken from a venture capitalist by a party that has shown no stomach for reining in the worst excesses of 21st century capitalism. It’s not that people don’t know what it means. It’s that they do.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
The thing is that Doing What Must Be Done is genuinely really hard and requires extraordinary political will! Biden tried to at least make a stab at it, but fell way short.
There's SO much inertia in favor of "ignore it and hope it goes away"
There's SO much inertia in favor of "ignore it and hope it goes away"
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
OK so dummy question time.
I get why the various tech companies are trying to go in on LLM stuff. But why are the venture capital firms backing them on this?
(Like ofc venture capital will be evil, but this also seems very shortsighted? Like Wile E Coyote about-to-rebound-on-self levels?)
I get why the various tech companies are trying to go in on LLM stuff. But why are the venture capital firms backing them on this?
(Like ofc venture capital will be evil, but this also seems very shortsighted? Like Wile E Coyote about-to-rebound-on-self levels?)
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
OK so dummy question time.
I get why the various tech companies are trying to go in on LLM stuff. But why are the venture capital firms backing them on this?
(Like ofc venture capital will be evil, but this also seems very shortsighted? Like Wile E Coyote about-to-rebound-on-self levels?)
I get why the various tech companies are trying to go in on LLM stuff. But why are the venture capital firms backing them on this?
(Like ofc venture capital will be evil, but this also seems very shortsighted? Like Wile E Coyote about-to-rebound-on-self levels?)
Attention @kutalik.bsky.social , the pointcrawl has escaped containment
Thank you for attending my stream.
I'm glad we can all agree, once and for all, that pointcrawls are better than hexcrawls.
I'm glad we can all agree, once and for all, that pointcrawls are better than hexcrawls.
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Attention @kutalik.bsky.social , the pointcrawl has escaped containment
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More to the point, you probably don’t remember the name of either man because they received far less coverage in the national media and relatively little attention from the Trump regime.
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
More to the point, you probably don’t remember the name of either man because they received far less coverage in the national media and relatively little attention from the Trump regime.
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It's notable that this comes, over the widespread opposition of their own faculty, after Trump's support has dropped like a rock and a bunch of the administration's other power grabs are losing momentum even on the legal front.
The gentry running NU are doing this because they want to.
The gentry running NU are doing this because they want to.
Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.
www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's notable that this comes, over the widespread opposition of their own faculty, after Trump's support has dropped like a rock and a bunch of the administration's other power grabs are losing momentum even on the legal front.
The gentry running NU are doing this because they want to.
The gentry running NU are doing this because they want to.
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Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
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I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
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On international students:
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
On international students:
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Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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It's also worth noting that romanticizing the rule of law means adopting a wholly false perspective around what the law is, who it targets, who it privileges, and how it functions—or I suppose it could just be an embrace of that hierarchy, which is also... a problem.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It's also worth noting that romanticizing the rule of law means adopting a wholly false perspective around what the law is, who it targets, who it privileges, and how it functions—or I suppose it could just be an embrace of that hierarchy, which is also... a problem.
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The law is not now, nor has it ever been, a moral instrument.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The law is not now, nor has it ever been, a moral instrument.
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By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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What is infuriating about this and so many other immigration policy changes was how preventable they were.
If Congress hadn’t been using immigrants as a political bargaining chip for decades and actually passed something these folks wouldn’t be vulnerable to this admin.
If Congress hadn’t been using immigrants as a political bargaining chip for decades and actually passed something these folks wouldn’t be vulnerable to this admin.
Some DACA recipients are being arrested in the new immigration crackdown, despite having clean records and years of background checks. The policy reality is shifting fast.
Read: www.clickorlando.com/news/politic...
Read: www.clickorlando.com/news/politic...
DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection
An organization is tracking the growing number of arrests among people with temporary deportation protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
www.clickorlando.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
What is infuriating about this and so many other immigration policy changes was how preventable they were.
If Congress hadn’t been using immigrants as a political bargaining chip for decades and actually passed something these folks wouldn’t be vulnerable to this admin.
If Congress hadn’t been using immigrants as a political bargaining chip for decades and actually passed something these folks wouldn’t be vulnerable to this admin.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Via @caias.bsky.social :
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
On why the "poverty threshold" that's applied to the US economy is so fundamentally misleading.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
On why the "poverty threshold" that's applied to the US economy is so fundamentally misleading.
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Via @caias.bsky.social :
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
On why the "poverty threshold" that's applied to the US economy is so fundamentally misleading.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
On why the "poverty threshold" that's applied to the US economy is so fundamentally misleading.