Marcus
@marcusjmerritt.com
(He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit.
Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.
Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt
Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.
Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt
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Marcus
@marcusjmerritt.com
· Jul 15
Here's an updated thread of the prints of Power Lines Drawings that are currently for sale in my store, starting with:
Power Lines Drawing #107 (Chicago, Pilsen)
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
(🧵1/22)
Power Lines Drawing #107 (Chicago, Pilsen)
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
(🧵1/22)
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As a parent, it's nearly impossible to read these stories without breaking down.
It's on all of us to make sure these kids and their families come home.
The people who did this, and those that enabled it, must be held to full account.
It's on all of us to make sure these kids and their families come home.
The people who did this, and those that enabled it, must be held to full account.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
As a parent, it's nearly impossible to read these stories without breaking down.
It's on all of us to make sure these kids and their families come home.
The people who did this, and those that enabled it, must be held to full account.
It's on all of us to make sure these kids and their families come home.
The people who did this, and those that enabled it, must be held to full account.
This is the bridge Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know about
The Gordie Howe Bridge shining a strip of light in the clouds over the Detroit River
February 10, 2026 at 4:14 PM
This is the bridge Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know about
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All of this refuse will be lost like tears in rain
February 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
All of this refuse will be lost like tears in rain
It is above freezing outside!
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
It is above freezing outside!
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This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body
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However lawless you think the immigration agencies have become, it's worse than you think.
NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
How the Trump administration skirts — and defies — court rulings on ICE detentions
A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.
www.politico.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
However lawless you think the immigration agencies have become, it's worse than you think.
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In retrospect I sometimes wish we had named the cat McNichols, which was two blocks from the liquor store where he was found.
It would have been an incredible bit to put McNichols on all his paperwork and only ever refer to him as Six Mile
It would have been an incredible bit to put McNichols on all his paperwork and only ever refer to him as Six Mile
February 10, 2026 at 8:07 AM
In retrospect I sometimes wish we had named the cat McNichols, which was two blocks from the liquor store where he was found.
It would have been an incredible bit to put McNichols on all his paperwork and only ever refer to him as Six Mile
It would have been an incredible bit to put McNichols on all his paperwork and only ever refer to him as Six Mile
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Grain elevators
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Grain elevators
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I'm actually reading the Preface for the City of Detroit Code of Ordinances, in hopes that it will help me make a little better sense of things. It explains that that code is laid out in alphabetical order by topic. Then I go to look. Chapter 1. General Provisions. Chapter 2. Administration.
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I'm actually reading the Preface for the City of Detroit Code of Ordinances, in hopes that it will help me make a little better sense of things. It explains that that code is laid out in alphabetical order by topic. Then I go to look. Chapter 1. General Provisions. Chapter 2. Administration.
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Are you really doing serious tasks with a black box algorithm that is demonstrably racist, sexist, filled with outdated information, trained by psychopaths, and completely hallucinates almost a third of the time and then say it doesn’t poison your work?
I think a subtle reframing might help people understand what it means to use LLMs for a task. Instead of “I had Claude scan and organize a folder of documents by keyword” say “I asked Hitler to scan and organize a folder of documents by keyword.” Not feeling so good about it now, are you?
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Are you really doing serious tasks with a black box algorithm that is demonstrably racist, sexist, filled with outdated information, trained by psychopaths, and completely hallucinates almost a third of the time and then say it doesn’t poison your work?
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Hours later I suddenly realized what this reminds me of. It’s a crypto “Diamond Hands, hodl forever” message.
February 10, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Hours later I suddenly realized what this reminds me of. It’s a crypto “Diamond Hands, hodl forever” message.
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The ability to edit your profile's pronouns are now available on the blacksky.community web app. Reload the tab/page to see the update.
Pronouns are visible when viewing a user's profile and also as you reply to their posts. Thank you @thisismissem.social for your contributions.
Pronouns are visible when viewing a user's profile and also as you reply to their posts. Thank you @thisismissem.social for your contributions.
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The ability to edit your profile's pronouns are now available on the blacksky.community web app. Reload the tab/page to see the update.
Pronouns are visible when viewing a user's profile and also as you reply to their posts. Thank you @thisismissem.social for your contributions.
Pronouns are visible when viewing a user's profile and also as you reply to their posts. Thank you @thisismissem.social for your contributions.
Oh
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Oh
🎧
Sentimental, Sedimentary, by Dialect
from the album Under ~ Between
dialect-trax.bandcamp.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
May 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
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And five 737s from Avelo.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
And five 737s from Avelo.
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Wind power generation in Texas is double solar power generation
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Wind power generation in Texas is double solar power generation
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
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it is hard to plan any trips to the US for conferences or to see friends knowing how many detention camps exist and are being built right now to house an increasingly large number of people, including young children
February 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
it is hard to plan any trips to the US for conferences or to see friends knowing how many detention camps exist and are being built right now to house an increasingly large number of people, including young children
I haven't really been worried about the Timberwolves this season and I'm not worried yet. My level of worry is: I think they'll end up with a lower seed going into the playoffs than they could have if they hadn't lost some games they should've won, and that could make the playoffs harder for them
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I haven't really been worried about the Timberwolves this season and I'm not worried yet. My level of worry is: I think they'll end up with a lower seed going into the playoffs than they could have if they hadn't lost some games they should've won, and that could make the playoffs harder for them
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For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/
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Abolish ICE. Shut down Dilley. Defund and shut down CoreCivic.
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Abolish ICE. Shut down Dilley. Defund and shut down CoreCivic.
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