Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

The biggest challenge is convincing people that things could be different and that their actions matter.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
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Average of 10 fastest men's marathon times by country so far this year:
world 2:03:48
KEN 2:04:14
ETH 2:04:43
JPN 2:06:08
ERI 2:07:58
MAR 2:08:28
USA 2:08:31
UGA 2:08:53
CHN 2:09:50
GER 2:10:05
ISR 2:11:28
CAN 2:11:51
FRA 2:12:02
ESP 2:12:02
GBR 2:12:15
RSA 2:13:23
RUS 2:13:45

Average of 10 fastest women's marathon times by country so far this year:
world 2:17:25
ETH 2:18:02
KEN 2:18:59
JPN 2:23:43
USA 2:25:05
BRN 2:26:27
CHN 2:27:10
MAR 2:27:40
GBR 2:28:43
GER 2:29:09
PRK 2:29:12
FRA 2:32:42
RUS 2:33:33
AUS 2:33:53
ESP 2:33:53
KOR 2:35:20
CAN 2:35:40

… and maybe PGP

The US at one time had export restrictions on encryption- RSA, and maybe

The relationship between writing and thinking is a fundamental one and getting more attention given that we can (presumably) offload our writing to AI systems.
I often find that we don't really understand things sufficiently well if we can't write it in ways that others understand.

The Club (2015 film) - Wikipedia

This has always stuck with me:

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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. | Great Lakes Now The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.

Story by @propublica.org: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/05/mill...

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:

“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

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YouTube video by Face the Nation Full interview: Former FDA official Dr. Peter Marks on measles outbreak

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The History of Political Authority
existentialcomics.com/comic/595

Some people seem to think of freedom of speech as freedom for them to say things that offend others, rather than as freedom for others to say things that offend them.

Resident Philosopher for AI Ethics
existentialcomics.com/comic/588

I don't think I have a high IQ (I'm terrible at test-taking), and, judging by the behaviour of folk who claim to have one, I wouldn't want one.

We can still get out of the climate Hellocene and into the clear | Aeon Essays Despite decades of inaction we can avert the climate Hellocene and restore the atmosphere to keep our world habitable

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Fake Jobs and Fake Facts By Misrepresenting Constitutional Law, Muskawamy Prove Brandolini's Law

This is the best description of DOGE - what it is likely to be (an oligarchic project) and what it is unlikely to be (an actual government department) that I have yet read

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions…

Judge Andrew Oldham sounded frustrated by the UnitedHealthcare lawyer arguing 15-year-old Emily Dwyer no longer needed residential treatment.

United’s approach, the judge said, essentially boiled down to “We’ll just gamble with her life.”

By @deldeib.bsky.social & @mayatmiller.bsky.social

Tip for novice runners: You do not need to carry/drink water on most of your runs.

As long as you're hydrated going in, you'll be fine. You don't need water on a 60min run.

Save lugging around hydration stuff for long runs.

The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin - really good!

Do you think you're sitting still right now?

- You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s

- That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s

- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.

Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km.

Cover of the book mutual aid: a factor of evolution by kroptkin showing two humans working together

We'd all be better off if in addition to Darwin we were also taught Kropotkin. Darwin talked a lot about evolutionary pressures selecting for certain traits. Kropokin talked about how animals acting cooperatively allowed for survival.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

A cartoon for today. buff.ly/2lX1kc8