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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 09/10/2026

I truly don't know, since the full staff directory isn't online anymore, how many Somali editors or journalists period does the Strib have right now?

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The whistle goblins spun back up so fast it was incredible to witness. We're churning out whistles and can get em to you too. linktr.ee/3dwhistles

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Just because you say "how do we talk about this without stigmatizing" a few grafs down does not at all mean you are writing about this "the right way."

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The number one rule of normie media is "never learn anything." Gee, I wonder if stigmatizing Somali kids will work out better than stigmatizing Hmong kids, Latino kids, Black kids, etc.? If only we have some prior experience with this sort of thing!

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So fucking predictable... Leave no dog whistle behind.

Strib headline: "A new kind of gang violence is rattling Twin Cities suburbs" Subhed: "Police say loosely organized gangs of Somali American youths are settling online disputes with gunfire, alarming residents and community leaders."

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I have been collecting the results after it's all done, but now that I am moving that to a Lambda, I'm in danger of hitting the 15-minute time limit just to get the results of the boto list_objects_v2 paginator for a few million records. And that makes me sad.

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And this is a batch process that runs a few times a year, not all the time.

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If you're running batches of Step Functions at ~50-100 transactions per second, and want to log the results into (eventually) a single data store (db, ndjson, csv, whatever) to the tune of about 5 million final records, what would your pipeline look like? Is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose right?

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Welp, I think I really like polars as a replacement for pandas. Way less memory-intensive for big joins, but I just plain like the syntax better too.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026

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last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...

courthousenews.com

ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him

The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.

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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is not fucking funny. And as the local media pivots from fraud to "Somali gangs" as the lazy axe to grind ... that's not fucking funny either.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wait, are fraternities bad? Who could possibly have guessed? Do we get to stop pretending we don't know this?

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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Halloween costume idea: Be an LLM by walking around the house shoving the host's stuff into a big sack. Then offer it back to them as a gift. It's not stealing if you don't leave the property! (This is not legal advice.)

Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting! Seems to have limitations familiar to anyone who is georefrencing Sanborns (grids that change, not always clear intersections), but worth a look.

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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This isn't some "it would be nice" thing, it was clearly illegal, and we should treat it as such.

Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Calling fans of ancient mountains (& the Piedmont that adjoins them)! We have North Carolina, West Virginia (@pedalingpastor.bsky.social) & Tennessee on the menu for You're Not From Here, Are You this month. Wednesday 7pm Free at the Black Hart. See you then! tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2026/10/your...

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

UPDATE: After deciding this weekend to block Politico from riding on Air Force One, White House staffers called numerous outlets to ask one to fill the primary print slot for the out-of-town pool rotation. Each of those outlets declined to step in. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

washingtonpost.com

White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement

President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.

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Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nice to see my boss, Tim Appenzeller, riding the reporter horse again and delivering this history-altering scoop about Rosalind Franklin and her famous photo 51 that helped unravel DNA's structure and function. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 05/10/2026

It’s fine to keep eyes on the polls on your normal travels through the ‘hood. Smile/wave placards that say Vote Today on corners (not too close to polling place tho). But if you haven’t taken a Democracy Defense training, remember your biggest E-Day work might be shooting down rumors & bad ideas.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

YES OF COURSE

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 28/09/2026

mukhtar ibrahim, founder of the sahan journal, and ubah ali, a former WCCO reporter, have just launched the somali brief, an independent media outlet where somali americans can tell their own stories www.thesomalibrief.com

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The Somali Brief

The Somali Brief is a digital-first media platform covering the stories shaping Somali American life.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.

Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.

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Otherwise you're gonna get bad takes like "many Black people have lived in DC therefore racial covenants had no effects," which is definitely not the case. But mark my words!

And part of what I mean is that I am not the one to speak on it! Definitely outside my expertise. And it's going to be so important that researchers who engage with this data do so with a lot of context.

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Washington DC's racial demographic history is complicated, so the story of the creation of these covenants and their legacies today are also not simple. There is so much in this dataset for researchers to dive into.

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Big big Mapping Prejudice data update today: We have updated our Washington DC racial covenants data to include 20,000+ covenants that were previously identified by our collaborators at Mapping Segregation DC. The combined DC dataset is now at 27,600 covenanted parcels (and counting!).

A map of racial covenants in Washington DC. Covenants, marked as green polygons, cover wide swaths of the District outside the central city, most densely to the north and northeast. Other large patches are present in the southwest and southeast portions of the district.

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