Oscar James

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too

Beautiful:
Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too
Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/a...

John Henry but dying after writing an essay faster than ChatGPT

Two things the Epstein Files show us:

1) Billionaires must be taxed out of existence.

2) Money must be severely regulated in politics.

The Spook Who Sat By The Door, a novel by Sam Greenlee

If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Care at Scale Bodies, agency, and infrastructure.

I write and talk about energy and borders and that our collective infrastructure is how we take care of one another, and I like to point out that I’m just one of so many fellow travelers saying it in different ways. Today is a good demonstration of that. 😍💡

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I find that Base44 ad (“it’s app to you”) so fascinating.

Normies don’t WANT to build apps! You’re selling a vision of the future that remarkably few people want to inhabit!

For anyone keeping track, that's another recently discontinued BBC service (defunct since 2023) brought back as an emergency lifeline. Does this kind of firing and rehiring save money on the whole or is it just driving up costs?

Trump is not attending because he will be booed, as his vice president was at the Olympics.

We are winning.

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

Trump Administration Doesn't Want Us to Call Medgar Evers' Racist Assassin a 'Racist' Continuing the tradition of whitewashing history, the National Park Service is editing brochures at Medgar Evers' home to remove the word "racist" in a description of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith.

Trump Administration Doesn't Want Us to Call Medgar Evers' Racist Assassin a 'Racist'

Really important questions.

I laid this out a year ago, 2 months into the 47’s administration after Black academics were telling me they were losing funding and opportunities and were seeking closed spaces to organize.

I waited a year. 47’s administration started killing citizens in broad daylight.

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

You know i signed this real quick

IN. BUSINESS. TOGETHER.

Amazing, the Starmerites who have squandered a majority in Parliament with such exquisite incompetence think a left Labour government would be the real disaster

Israel spraying pesticide (that are banned in the EU) over south Lebanon as part of its ongoing campaign of ecocide. The goal is simple: to make sure that life itself is rendered impossible.

This remains rarely reported in the news despite them doing so for years.

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From the start, the focus of the Trump administration's approach to Ukraine has been on US enrichment, friendly relations with Russia, and getting everyone else to treat Russia like a great power. The survival of Ukraine and European security are entirely irrelevant.

this was the first thing I thought of when people were pushing the ban. So many disabled children (and adults) rely on social media for connection community and more.

One person dead from Nipah virus in Bangladesh, WHO says The case in Bangladesh, where Nipah cases are reported almost every year, follows two Nipah virus cases identified in neighbouring India

Nipah is an infection that spreads mainly through products contaminated by infected bats, such as fruit. It can be fatal in up to 75% of cases, but it does not spread easily between people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Vegas will take anyone but they won't take this nazi.

And here’s what a lot of folks aren’t ready to hear.

THIS is why the US is becoming a fascist state. There’s fascists in every country. But what allows them to take hold here is that we don’t have an opposition party.

If we don’t refuse to vote for these people anymore, this won’t end.

There's an AI angle here. One possible outcome of "computers will perform activity X much better than human can" is that activity X will get much cheaper, and there will no longer be much profit to be made from selling it.

"If you are uncomfortable with what the Border Patrol is doing in Minneapolis, you are uncomfortable with the Border Patrol, full stop."

turns out that Labour Together was the front for Labour Friends of Epstein, and for the right wing takeover of the Labour Party.

the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.

portraying epstein as a "foreign agent" of [fill in the country] is satisfying but lets the US off the hook for creating the network enabling him, and misunderstands his business model as hierarchical links with foreign spies instead of a node in a global network of converging interests

Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics Donald Trump’s former adviser told Epstein in 2019 that he was ‘focused on raising money for Le Pen and Salvini’ before European elections

Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

if connery were a racist asshole

they’re lucky to have you.

hope you heal up quickly

I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing