Jaime Rodríguez Matos

Timing couldn’t be better for a documentary about Devo.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Dump Spotify!

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MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

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Slightly diminish a band:

Cypress Mound

waiting for something good to happen

The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City “We understand these are our last days.”

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

Book cover. Blue and black stripes outlining a heart over and over. Joshua Clover. Roadrunner.

#NowReading

Bookplate with a series of six images illustrating a stick figure from the purchase of their first book to their books being unceremoniously tossed after death. Text reads "EX LIBRIS KNUD SCHØNBERG"

Are YOU the most depressing book plate ever? YES, You ARE!

Truth is the most dangerous fantasy our species ever invented | Manuel Delaflor

"Every philosophical position—materialism, idealism, dualism, even scepticism—starts by assuming there's a clear relation between our models and an external thing they model, and so they all play the same rigged game: arguing about which map matches their assumed territory."

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Huge congratulations to Jeff, one of our hugely accomplished #ColossiveCartographiesCrew

Wild Twin really is a remarkable book about time, memory, place and family (as is its precursor, Ghost Town)

(And Jeff’s cartography, Ghost Radio is still available for just £2! Bit.ly/Colossive33 )

Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social‬

AJones on one of the recent Epstein rants.

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever.

This is the intentional destruction of public higher education by a far right authoritarian party at war with knowledge, science, research, evidence, & the citizenry. Incredibly sad & dangerous.

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

“There are some hanging on form; there are some hanging in emptiness.”
Dōgen, Shōbōgenzō

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

snap cuts, growing to 35% by 2034

chip and medicaid cuts growing to 12-14% by 2034

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out

It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts

This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Derek Bailey 12-21-01 Tonic, NYC

fierce & immaculate. not a moment wasted!

do u guys remember tonic? I loved seeing shows there. I saw susie ibarra play there once

📹: Robert O'Haire

*bullet points* The songs moves between the tonic and the predominant then it goes to the dominant before a turn around back to the tonic. Hope this was to your satisfaction!

AI will summarize the song for you.

Memorial for George Floyd at the Say Their Names cemetery

George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today.

The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

In case you were asleep in grade school history/social studies/civics.

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’

shocked to hear that “...AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation" based on a study of 25,000 workers at 7000 companies by the National Bureau of Economic Research
www.nber.org/papers/w33777
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