Chris Brockett
Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science.
- Reposted by Chris BrockettExtremely cool to see another ICE / CBP agent rocking the Neo-Nazi accelerationist skullmask (Seattle, yesterday). Even more convincing evidence that I should totally just trust armed dudes in the exact same outfits as guys who tried to murder me, and do whatever they say because "DHS."
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettHeads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
- Reposted by Chris BrockettI've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- Reposted by Chris BrockettThis is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettNew work by my former PhD student, Boyang Li His team produced 500 stories of less than 100 words. LLMs were basically chance-level at answering binary questions about the stories arxiv.org/abs/2601.12410
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettThis cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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- This strikes me as being an extraordinarily dangerous state of affairs. If detainees' cases are delayed because there aren't enough govt lawyers to handle them, the crowding in concentration camps will get worse. People will die, from neglect, negligence, and abuse.
- Reposted by Chris BrockettThe Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
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- I am impressed with the clarity of argument presented by some of the judges in recent cases. Their styles should be examined in writing classes in other fields.
- Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Chris BrockettEven if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- I would remind the people trying to figure out plans B, C, and D in the event that he tries to rig the election: one way he can disrupt voting is to ban the Post Office from delivering blank ballots to voters. This would effectively make both mail-in and dropbox voting impossible.
- In Nature, eh? I guess that settles the matter. I had better find something else to do.
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettJudge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
- Reposted by Chris BrockettBREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- This gives off strong end-of-dynasty vibes.
- Introducing the interplanetary Grok Drive. Mel Brooks, you still have time to make another movie.
- Reposted by Chris BrockettA memo just went out to employees at two of Musk's companies: SpaceX has acquired xAI.
- Reposted by Chris BrockettProfessional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettI have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.
- As you read WSJ's piece on the super-secret abuse complaint about Tulsi Gabbard, remember that she tried unsuccessfully to wring counterintelligence function away from FBI last year. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
- Reposted by Chris BrockettBe careful out there Moltbot stans, the AI agent ecosystem is still in its wild west stage www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettDavid French: This is not a drill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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- Reposted by Chris Brockett“America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests." Garrett Graff www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- A reminder that Dachau and Bergen-Belsen were deadly because of disease. Anne Frank died of typhus. This is what concentration camps do.
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- Reposted by Chris Brockett1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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- Reposted by Chris Brockett#GVerse #Shit4Brains says he might sue the Epstein Estate for “political harm.” Read that again. The guy whose name keeps appearing 13,000 times in Epstein records now wants to sue the estate of a dead sex trafficker for damaging his reputation. You can’t parody this level of delusion.
- PSA: If I repost a lot on this platform, it's because there is no algorithm to boost the signal. Liking something alone is not enough. You have to repost to get the word out.
- Reposted by Chris Brockett“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
- 4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
- Reposted by Chris BrockettWhether it's Democrats wanting the federal government to release the names of people who raped children with Jeffrey Epstein or Republicans wanting state governments to release the names of people who voted Democrat in 2024, both sides are seeking names for retribution.
- Reposted by Chris BrockettTRUMP TODAY: There was an election in Texas? What? TRUMP YESTERDAY:
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- Reposted by Chris BrockettIn Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
- Oh noes. He's going to sue the DOJ for $10 billion. Maybe more!
- Reposted by Chris Brockettabsolute nazi shit. these are people who came here legally and are to be rendered criminals to populate concentration camps because of lies.
- Reposted by Chris BrockettI was only a few years out of my PhD, untenured, and Schank was a luminary in AI with a lot of sway at DARPA. In fact, the DARPA program manager was a former student of his. It was ill-advised for me to do this at my career stage and in that setting. I couldn’t stand the guy; couldn’t help myself.
- Reposted by Chris BrockettRoger Schank was a truly odious individual. I was unfortunate to have met him once. I am now very proud that my one interaction with him was to get into an argument with him in front of a DARPA program manager.
- The tangled web becomes even more tangled. Turns out frequent Epstein island guests were AI pioneers Marvin Minsky and Roger Shank. It's worse than that. Shank had closer ties to Epstein than just professional. He frequently defended this monster. slate.com/technology/2...
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