Jeff Miccolis

@miccolis
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310 Posts
Ardent bicyclist & sometimes software engineer.
LocationWashington, D.C.
Githubhttps://github.com/miccolis/
Bloghttps://jeff.miccolis.net/
Jeff MiccolisMar 14
Peter MurrayMar 14
🔖 Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud: Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud #BookmarkShare
Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

The Guardian
Jeff MiccolisMar 11
LukefromDCMar 11

Heads up DC and Baltimore drivers! AVOID the GW Parkway, Clara Barton Parkway, and Baltimore-Washington Parkway due to Park Police working with ICE to check licenses.

A review of court records found at least 10 kidnappings by ICE that involved Park Police in DC. This is believed in turn to be only the tip of the ICEberg.

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/how-the-park-police-are-helping-ice-carry-out-deportation-efforts/

#DC #Parkways #ICE

How the Park Police are helping ICE carry out deportation efforts

On national parkways – including the Baltimore-Washington, Clara Barton and George Washington Memorial – immigration agents are arresting drivers at “routine” traffic stops.

Baltimore Fishbowl
Jeff MiccolisMar 1
★ Amy Star ★Mar 1

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"

Jeff MiccolisFeb 28
Anil DashFeb 28
Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a-cookie-for-dario/
A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash
Jeff MiccolisFeb 18
Andrea Junker Feb 18
I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you believe you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.
Jeff MiccolisFeb 12
Show threadjwzFeb 12

@davidho Cars are a disease, and our cities, countries and civilization must fight them, but continuing to frame this as "individual choice" and "raising awareness" and "personal carbon footprint" when it is now well known that "carbon footprint" was invented by BP's advertising agency in 2004 is somewhere between journalistic malpractice and intentional deception.

Collective problems do not have individual solutions. I can't spin up my share of a subway or bus route in the Libertarian utopia.

Jeff MiccolisFeb 6
AnarchoNinaWritesFeb 6

Learning that white people in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars, to make ICE waste their time pulling them over (instead of migrants.)

This is a very cool thing, and precisely the kind of "total oppositional" thinking people need to be doing right now to meaningfully disrupt the fascist project in whatever ways they can. Obviously you're not toppling Hitler by putting a flag on your car, but we need to be thinking about ways to make doing fascism COST more, everywhere.

Jeff MiccolisFeb 4
Show threadAnarchoNinaWritesFeb 4

Here - this is from a far right researcher trying to put some of the pieces together. I don't even know that I agree with all his conclusions, but this is some of the work I think people aren't really doing yet because they're still shocked their thing, whatever it is, links back tot he Epstein stuff.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Here's how Epstein broke the internet

His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

Garbage Day
Jeff MiccolisFeb 4

I'd already given up on the #WashingtonPost, but it's still sad to watch the decline. The paper that broke watergate has fallen so far.

I can't recommend #The51st enough ...and I just wish they could absorb the 300 people the Post let go today.

Jeff MiccolisFeb 4
Dare ObasanjoFeb 4

What a time to lose a third of their staff. Democracy dies in darkness, indeed.

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/washington-post-layoffs-sports-books-metro/

The Washington Post lays off a third of its staff - Poynter

The cuts affected nearly all corners of the newsroom and include the closures of the sports and books desks and several foreign bureaus

Poynter