Ryne VanKrevelen
@rynevank.bsky.social
I teach statistics, watch birds, read books, listen to music, and enjoy baseball/basketball.
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Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained.
Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.
Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.
January 15, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained.
Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.
Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.
The number of these that end without any charges mean they are terrorizing people for the sake of terrorizing people. (Their violence would be excessive even when it leads to criminal charges)
Really excellent big-picture overview from CNN about the escalating and horrifying violence of ICE -- complete with an actually good use of "Snowfall"-style mixed media.
We (read: I) complain a lot about the lack of context and vision in political media. This ain't that. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
We (read: I) complain a lot about the lack of context and vision in political media. This ain't that. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
How DHS is turbocharging its immigration crackdown
www.cnn.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
The number of these that end without any charges mean they are terrorizing people for the sake of terrorizing people. (Their violence would be excessive even when it leads to criminal charges)
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
January 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.
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Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
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X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences
January 7, 2026 at 12:45 PM
X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things
What are we doing here
What are we doing here
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
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January 2, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things
What are we doing here
What are we doing here
Some of my favorite albums released in 2025 were (not really in order):
Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight
Attention Bird Utopia - Best of Kings
Sacred Paws - Jump into Life
Dead Pioneers - Po$t American
Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit
S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs
Geckøs - Geckøs
Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight
Attention Bird Utopia - Best of Kings
Sacred Paws - Jump into Life
Dead Pioneers - Po$t American
Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit
S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs
Geckøs - Geckøs
My favorite albums from this year:
Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow
Restorations - S/t
Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind / See You Free
Yasmin Williams - Acadia
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol
Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky...
DUNUMS - I Wasn't That Thought
The Anti-Queens - Disenchanted
Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow
Restorations - S/t
Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind / See You Free
Yasmin Williams - Acadia
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol
Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky...
DUNUMS - I Wasn't That Thought
The Anti-Queens - Disenchanted
January 1, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Some of my favorite albums released in 2025 were (not really in order):
Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight
Attention Bird Utopia - Best of Kings
Sacred Paws - Jump into Life
Dead Pioneers - Po$t American
Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit
S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs
Geckøs - Geckøs
Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight
Attention Bird Utopia - Best of Kings
Sacred Paws - Jump into Life
Dead Pioneers - Po$t American
Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit
S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs
Geckøs - Geckøs
These were my favorite books I read in 2025. Like in 2024, the top row stood out above the others, but all of these were really great reads. The authors and titles are in the alt text if the image is to hard to read.
January 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM
These were my favorite books I read in 2025. Like in 2024, the top row stood out above the others, but all of these were really great reads. The authors and titles are in the alt text if the image is to hard to read.
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the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
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This is so gross. Anyone who has lived in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul specifically) will tell you that the Somali population there is among the kindest and hardest-working people you'll ever meet.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is so gross. Anyone who has lived in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul specifically) will tell you that the Somali population there is among the kindest and hardest-working people you'll ever meet.
Absolutely this. But taking the easy way out does such a disservice to our students and undermines the point of education.
One is that teaching university students *well* requires much more work (and frankly, compassion) now than it did when I started nine years ago. 2/
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Absolutely this. But taking the easy way out does such a disservice to our students and undermines the point of education.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
There are few places I feel better spending my money than a worker owned site that produces deeply researched and important articles alongside deeply silly ones. It’s a bargain at full price and you’re supporting the people doing the work instead of a CEO’s fourth yacht.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There are few places I feel better spending my money than a worker owned site that produces deeply researched and important articles alongside deeply silly ones. It’s a bargain at full price and you’re supporting the people doing the work instead of a CEO’s fourth yacht.
I just started reading The AI Con by Emily Bender & Alex Hanna. Highly recommend it based on what I’ve read so far.
August 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I just started reading The AI Con by Emily Bender & Alex Hanna. Highly recommend it based on what I’ve read so far.
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I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.
It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools
Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
August 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.
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I went through the trouble to make this image for the above caption but then I saw the bowl of kibble by itself and that just seemed funnier to me as a “meme a dog would make“
June 10, 2024 at 10:42 AM
I went through the trouble to make this image for the above caption but then I saw the bowl of kibble by itself and that just seemed funnier to me as a “meme a dog would make“
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I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
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August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
In a world of terrible royalty payments from platforms like Spotify, @bandcamp.com Friday is a great way to support artists. Attention Bird Utopia (check them out if you like Wilco) and Sincere Engineer (catchy pop punk from Chicago) were my picks today.
It's Bandcamp Friday!!! This is the magical day when artists get *100 percent* of the profit from anything you purchase on Bandcamp. That's right, it all goes to the artists. It's a wonderful day to buy some music and I just spent (checks notes) a small fortune.
Here are some recommendations!
Here are some recommendations!
August 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In a world of terrible royalty payments from platforms like Spotify, @bandcamp.com Friday is a great way to support artists. Attention Bird Utopia (check them out if you like Wilco) and Sincere Engineer (catchy pop punk from Chicago) were my picks today.
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Does the training begin "everything these tools were built on was stolen, this is fledgling tech and anything it produces has the potential to be catastrophically wrong, and using it is destructive to the environment and to our ability to reason. Here's why we're gonna do this anyway"?
Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Does the training begin "everything these tools were built on was stolen, this is fledgling tech and anything it produces has the potential to be catastrophically wrong, and using it is destructive to the environment and to our ability to reason. Here's why we're gonna do this anyway"?
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I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.
July 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.
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In Feb. on Velshi I said Trump won due to racial anxiety not economic anxiety, as evidence by his policies. The bill Republicans passed is the proof. Months of stoking racial fears through anti-DEI mandates, ICE raids, to push through a bill that takes food and healthcare from struggling Americans.
July 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In Feb. on Velshi I said Trump won due to racial anxiety not economic anxiety, as evidence by his policies. The bill Republicans passed is the proof. Months of stoking racial fears through anti-DEI mandates, ICE raids, to push through a bill that takes food and healthcare from struggling Americans.
Apropos of nothing, the best book I've read so far this year was "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad
The cafe, one of the few businesses to continue operating during the 20-month war, was a gathering spot for residents seeking internet access and a place to charge their phones.
74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food
The cafe, one of the few businesses to continue operating during the 20-month war, was a gathering spot for residents seeking internet access and a place to charge their phones.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Apropos of nothing, the best book I've read so far this year was "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad