Danielle Shroyer

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.

My latest for @globalvoices.org :
Israel’s recent demolition of Palestine’s last seed bank in Hebron is not just destruction, it’s a colonial act of erasure.

My least favorite is when they turn the books around so all you see is the page leafing. They don’t even get identities anymore.

“selling books by the meter to fill shelves” 🤢

We should tell them the book readers know when the books are props and not treasured possessions

Or, stay with me here, this is just what shelves look like in homes where people…read books?

New Substack post up at
DanielleShroyer.Substack.com

Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? The basilar ganglia does not exist.

NEW: Google dubbed an error from its healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine.
www.theverge.com/health/71804...

Thank God.

I’m curious to see the antithesis. A university with no AI. Only pen, paper, and discussion. I’d put my money on those graduates than those graduating from “A.I.-native universities”

He has still yet to have an original idea.

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

A New Yorker cartoon where a guy asks ChatGPT why his energy bills are spiking

🚨🚨Holy Shit!! Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is not fucking around with this fiery speech on the Senate floor.💥🔥💥We need this from every Democrat if we are going to push back on fascism and save our fragile Democracy!! More of this please!! Bravo Senator Booker!!

I have started watching The Last of Us and I feel both deeply depressed and deeply moved

Literally nothing better than outdoor worship! And in Michigan summer?! 😍

"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew." - Grace Lee Boggs

Headline 1, "Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life.'" Headline 2, "The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they're on the verge of a huge tax cut."

The United States summed up in two headlines.

I’d suggest a backpack long before I’d suggest a duffel bag. Super easy to walk through streets (especially ones that are not modern smooth) unlike roller bags but far easier on the back than a duffel

Photo of the screen of the ticket booth for the metro station. It displays the choice between “add value” or “add time”

Existential crisis at the metro station

Us:
💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores
💰 pays local taxes
🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores
🌎 certified B-Corp

Them:
❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes
❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business
❌ harmful to the environment

“The German churches learned too late…it is not enough to resist with confession, we must confess with resistance”

Rev. William Sloane Coffin

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

I’m barely keeping up with the number of Israeli strikes in my own country of Lebanon because I’m too focused on the Israeli genocide in Gaza - and that’s apparently just life now.

May none of you ever have to find out what it’s like to have Israel as your neighbour.

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

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Again, from @timothysnyder.bsky.social

I miss Mbappe but PSG is still so fun to watch.

This Club World Cup has ended up being pretty great

I’m just too mad to talk about it or write about it

❤️☮️🐳🐳 #BelugaGrads

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

Of the nearly 100,000 people ICE has kidnapped since January, 8% had violent criminal convictions. More than 60% had no criminal history at all.

Out of almost 100,000 people.

An unexpected green roof benefit: purging urban rainfall of practically all microplastics In a laboratory-scale study, green roof mockups kept 97.5 percent of microplastic particles out of runoff

“Green roofs can capture nearly all the microplastic particles that contaminate rainwater in modern cities, according to a new study”

Via Anthropocene Magazine