Jason Hill

It’s arrived!

Three weeks ago I was told my book would be featured in the university's newsletter and today I was told it would be "revisited" in a few months because they now require supervisor approval for any books related to AI. LMAO

Since October 2023, Israel’s infrastructure of displacement in Gaza has consisted of so-called ‘warnings’, ‘evacuation orders’, ‘safe corridors’, and ‘safe’ or ‘humanitarian zones’. FA’s research has revealed these to be little more than performative displays of compliance with long-standing humanitarian and legal norms. In practice, these mechanisms of forced displacement sow terror among the population of Gaza, as unreliable and often uncontradictory orders issued by the Israeli military leave civilians with impossible choices, and surrounded by danger, even after the ‘ceasefire’ of October 2025. In this narrative study, Forensic Architecture documents the story of Nadia* and Ahmad*, a young couple from Beit Hanoun whose experiences tell an individual story of how this ‘humanitarian violence’ unfolds.

Incredible project.

forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

The situation over Media, PA tonight. The photograph undersells what I observed.

This is really impressive. They invented racism.

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

YouTube video by ABC News Zohran Mamdani delivers victory speech

I just got out of D&D and am finally watching The Speech and I got as far as "these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power" before I burst into tears

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...

My prediction is that tonight marks the beginning of the end of Trumpism.

MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

How about that?

"The building served as office space for the first lady and her staff, including the White House social secretary, correspondence staff, and the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office" -Wikipedia

Arcticologies Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future   Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern Europea...

Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World –
@uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791358...

If you’re assigning articles you should have students download the link from the library instead of just posting a PDF to increase the author’s metrics and the journal’s as well.

Wait, what happened last time someone boosted something out of this joint?

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

Image of girl climbing out of a well from a VHS tapes in Ringu

If you were putting together a list of haunted media films, what would be on it?

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”

We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

the real innovation here seems to be in moving ai slop from a banal, low quality, and mostly stupid digital pollutant to something that's potentially very dangerous

(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way

YouTube video by American Masters PBS Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS

Oh cool! The Art Spiegelman episode of America Masters is now up for free on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwy...

The selected quote reads: I tell you this story because I think so often we encounter archives when we are liminal, when we are in between. When we are moving or searching for ourselves or for the truth in the past, sometimes in our own past. When we are looking for a way home. It turns out teetering towards fascism is beyond liminal. If a liminal space is a train station, we seem to all be collectively in limbo, unending uncertainty on the lip of hell. In a haze of epistemological dissonance we witness the shredding of the past through a looking glass so cracked that even the history repeating itself is unrecognizable.

sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...

The Bomber's View of the Past Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.

From spy planes to satellites, archaeology has long shared a sky with empire. What does that mean for the knowledge it produces?

Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.

People don’t never talk about how picture day can be a really hard time for Black girls. How our features and our hair are questioned by our teachers and classmates.

🔊 I share why in this an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from #TheDoubleTax audiobook.

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I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

The split diopter shot of Travolta and an owl from BLOW OUT

The only two witnesses to Giuliani’s car accident

What's the best movie about journalism where they get all the little procedural details correct?

The Paper and The Post are quite good in that respect

I know people usually answer All the President's Men or Spotlight, but i'm wondering if there are some less well known ones that I'm missing

For democracy to thrive, we need diverse perspectives from curious, critical, creative, informed thinkers, who actively participate in and contribute to our public discourse – that means you!

Students really loved getting a minicomic. And they were so excited to see this page addressing our current political situation. Very encouraging all around!