An extreme cold weather watch is in effect tomorrow Friday Jan 23 in the Twin Cities and Minnesota, where a general strike is planned. "ICE out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom" asks people not to work except for emergency services, not to shop, and not to attend school, with a march scheduled for 2 p.m. Central Time.

Part II looks back at a different approach to using AI for research; a collaborative AI tool we designed at my startup Thicket in 2015. At the time, we called the character designer dashboard.

Synthetic research is officially here to weird up the research game. In my view, generative AI as a field is not currently transparent, unbiased, or reliably accurate, making the data that comes from these platforms generally not yet strong enough to support synthetic research. However, it can be useful in specific applied situations.

The Trump Administration has brought in two planeloads of White South Africans known as Afrikaners to resettle in the US, flying into cities in the South, where White colonizers — both slave owners and land owners — have historically settled.

Seeking feedback on a newly developed set of Anti-Authoritarian Grantmaking Guidelines.

Any opinions on this Pro-Democracy Consumer Vetting Checklist? Is it helpful, useful, too much work for an individual? Any and all thoughts welcome.

We spent under $100 and grew the mailing list with no discount, giveaway, or incentive.

It’s official: ✷ Tiny Little Cosmos has a home of its own. TLC has been a long time in the making. It’s my one-person creative studio for moments of transformation: the pivots, the expansions, the new beginnings that don’t quite have a name yet.