Julian Lucas

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.

A publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.

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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What happened at the ICE facility today?

Well the brownshirts got mad at a group of axolotls doing the hokey pokey, who were then relieved by a set of fluorescent macaws who spent the night dancing the collected works of Martha Graham.

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

For now, her greatest hope — and that of the majority of Venezuelans, who are opposed to the regime — lies in Trump and his desire to ensure Maduro’s political demise. “I totally support his strategy,” Machado told me. “And I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary.” But attacking a speedboat? Killing 11 citizens? “I’m in favour of the US dismantling this criminal structure.”

yeah uh not sure this Nobel Peace Prize is the anti-Trump dunk so many people seem to believe it is www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening

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Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas A ‘stray bullet’ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.

america, baby: someone shot the internet

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Good night and good luck everyone.

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

“Google Translate, for instance, says the Fulfulde word for January means June, while ChatGPT says it’s August or September.”

AI-translated Wikipedia articles are putting small languages in a “linguistic doom loop.” Great!

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

By inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee unleashed everything from A.I. slop to tech monopolies. Can the 70-year-old computer scientist rescue his creation from the forces that now dominate it?

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

As announced in @newyorker.com, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will receive the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

I profiled Sir Tim, the mild-mannered Pandora who invented the Web, and asked about his plans to save us from Big Tech. (They involve a trustworthy chatbot named “Charlie.”) Read to find out what went wrong between dot-com utopianism and “MechaHitler”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NYT Adams professional obit

Perfect, 10/10

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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prince, the legendary musician, is center in frame around an autumnal paradise of orange hued trees. his glare pierces through the camera as he stands in front of a vintage maroon colored car. it’s one of my favorite photos.

happy autumn equinox from me and prince rogers nelson.

Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

The new Monroe Doctrine.

Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click.

New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Meet Elizabeth Catlett in 11 Facts | The Art Institute of Chicago For Elizabeth Catlett, art was activism. 

Chicago folks, the Art Institute's exhibition of Elizabeth Catlett's work is open and I highly encourage you to visit. I saw the exhibition 3 times when it was at the Brooklyn Museum. You will thank me later. www.artic.edu/articles/121...

Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go? After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into a unshakeable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elit...

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about the significance of Bari Weiss's reportedly imminent role steering CBS News. Her publication, The Free Press, has often been the Trump administration's de facto ally in its war against liberal institutions.

Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism? The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.

a really wonderfully considered piece from @nymag.com.

cultural criticism is the heartbeat of american cultural production and its history. the form gives tangibility to how we remember and how critique brings us to a place of societal betterment…. there is no life worth living without it.

Excerpt from poem: "In the grey vertical forest of the hurricane season, when the dirty sea returns the wreaths of the dead, all the village could do was listen to the gods in session,..."

Derek Walcott on storm season, reminding me that we're in the thick of it

An example of how we’ve let LLM companies dictate the terms of this conversation. using this Image that implies machines and LLMs are capable of feelings and then using this term “slur” to describe insulting…a complicated search algorithm.