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Stefan Zweig on borders is almost too much to bear

Black or bot? The long, sordid history of co-opting Blackness online Trolls and foreign agents love to exploit African-American culture for political gain.

“If you don’t interact with anybody from that group on a regular basis, then how would you be able to evaluate it?”

If this is day 10 of the hunger strike at Alligator Alcatraz, why is it day one of coverage showing up.

'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

“A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.”

White power propaganda and the implicit threat of overtly violent eugenics coming from official government channels is quickly becoming normalized as is the use of opaque language and “in group” jokes in a similar manner to non governmental far right propaganda efforts on social media in the past.

I love the constant reminder that they Can provide these things, but choose not to.

Children's liberation is a skeleton key to understanding so much of the ways our society is fucked up, from misogyny to racism to classism to transphobia, and beyond, because all of these things specifically target children in unique ways. That's why it must never, ever, ever be acknowledged

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

I see that, but I disagree. I think the architects of this understand what they’re doing.

Ignorance would not be achieving this so efficiently and effectively

Octopus Food Truck at 20th and Market is by some margin the best food truck I've ever eaten at.

finally watched Before Sunset for the first time and managed to catch it on the big screen. I've had such a mental block against that trilogy (super talky movies are often not my thing). but they're excellent. and Before Sunset esp. whizzes by. it's an 80 minute film but feels like a 40
minute film.

Frank McNally writing about Richard Ellmann writing about James Joyce. Excess with prudence - way to go.

For 15 years, I watched brilliant and caring people desperately attempt to avert the privacy and data security apocalypse that’s upon us - which has now been massively exacerbated by dumbass-enabling AI tools.

They did their best, not enough people listened, and now, well, God help us all.

Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid The internal U.S. government analysis challenges the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

This is one of the major talking points that I see from pro-Israeli government members of my family, now proven false: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

whenever stephen dedalus is not on the page all the other characters should be saying "where's stephen?"

Cool find advanced publishing copy #jackkerouac

Some things people don't know about me:

My major was English in college and I took some literature classes.

One of the assigned readings was Howl by Allen Ginsberg and it ran electric through my body. I can't explain it any other way but reading it, I felt like I understood what he felt.

Why did my reply go in the wrong place? I am very bad at Bluesky bsky.app/profile/suda...

Maybe one button makes a chimpanzee bring you a dozen helium balloons. Don’t you want that?

Purple dusk sky over Victoria Street

"Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries."
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Why School of Rock director Richard Linklater is obsessed with new wave cinema

📢 The US filmmaker who gave us Before Midnight, Slacker and School of Rock looks at a key moment in cinematic history in his latest project.

What a beautiful time to be alive, when every day we get to wake up and think “maybe today will be the day it happens”

A piece of plain white paper, with printed text that reads "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE SPITEFUL OR HORNY THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE ART"

We certainly agree on this!

Is "following rules" a stronger or weaker moral defense than "following orders"? I'm already bored with the question!

Welp, sources are telling me PBS News is not responsible for the actions of PBS. I am telling sources the actions of PBS sure make it hard for PBS News to sound credible when they say they’re acting “without fear”.