Emir Akmeric

There was no mastermind or grand scheme, but there was a successful effort by wealthy men, including Epstein, to destroy a status quo that they feared was trending towards greater accountability.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Could you quickly check the turnout and the amount of votes each candidate received?:)

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Reading about this brought to mind a piece I wrote two years ago, inspired by one of my favourite authors.

Ursula K. Le Guin emphasized that there’s a big difference “between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” OpenAI’s AI-generated movie offers us nothing.

Something something Tower of Babylon

Many translators fear and lament what will be lost as their work gets automated. Many were never in it for the money, but for love of the work—of translating games, prose and art. They worry AI-generated output stands to flatten and collapse culture itself, our very ability to understand each other.

Igor the Assistant by Haus of Decline. Igor Pomoshnik, a small man with a large nose wearing a black cloak and white boots, surveys the deep green woods with his specially carved juniper branch.

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

Authority is very David Bowie/Philipp Jeffries yelling "Who do you think that is there?" vibes in Fire Walk With Me if that makes any sense

*laughs in gay*

You live in a society whose every production industry is based around a government-subsidized chemical feedstock. Corn is not a _food_. Corn is a _platform_.

YouTube video by Journey to the Microcosmos This Ciliate Is About to Die

@hankgreen.bsky.social had a bittersweet telling of the last minutes of a ciliate with a similar conclusion, while musing on different stages of death. I suppose death always will need a frame of reference for an outside observer, same for observing a "living thing".

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To play devil's advocate one doesn't often read books that are the embodiment of a reading conceptualization cage deathmatch

Global HIV Care Thrown Into Chaos by Trump: “I Will Be Sick and Maybe Die” In South Africa, a 36-year-old living with HIV since childhood fears she will lose access to treatment due to Trump’s policy.

“A lot of us, we do not have medical aid. Most are unemployed, which means most of the people are going to default and die.”

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

I feel my sense of self is kinda my entire body most of the time mostly because it feels tangible, the little guys have direct influence over it, and kinda parade it as a single guy

They are all their own little guys I feel, and probably not so aware of each other. Yet they are "fed" by whatever the others are churning out, and are giving them something to ponder in return. Many different languages, various handshakes, little guys all the way down.

Nicht geschockt sein.
Nicht traurig sein.
Nicht sprachlos sein.
Sondern laut.
Widerständig.
Klar.
Antifaschistisch.
Geht auf die Straßen, wenn es Demos gibt oder organisiert welche.
Organisiert euch!

Drei Erkenntnisse des heutigen Tages:
1. Das Wort der Union, der FDP oder eines Friedrich #Merz ist wertloser als ein Blatt Klopapier
2. Für Neonazis gibt es nun kein Halten mehr, breite Brust und noch mehr Nazi-Parolen
3. Organisiert euch. Jetzt. Wir sind die letzte Brandmauer.

🇨🇴 Colombian President Gustavo Petro reciprocates Trump’s tariffs with 50% tariffs on all US goods entering his country.

Mgs3 had this a bit!

The plan was always to flood the zone with shit.

Not everyone can respond to every outrage. That's on purpose. But no need to get mad at someone for focusing on stuff *you* don't think is important. Let everyone focus on what they want to focus on.

Really like this drawing

honestly a lot of my contempt for Dems comes from the fact I’ve spent a ton of time in academic environments, and I’m extremely familiar with how academics build prestige not with actual analysis but by deploying cliches in ways that impress their peers, which is exactly how elite Dem circles work

I had missed the google maps posers

Also, Nepal has had communists in government for over a decade now, and they have adhered to electoralism even