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Not to mention the fact that everything has gone up substantially BUT people's paychecks. Even if we bought the idea that better planning would protect people who rely on social services (which we absolutely do not), better planning cannot circumvent that!

If these [insert expletive] online don’t stop talking about “I was poor & you just have to plan ahead” I’m going to scream.

I’ve been poor & when you’re poor you can’t have an emergency plan bc THAT TAKES MONEY— & if you have the money you don’t need SNAP anyway.

Use some logic. Jesus.

Why hasn't HBO put this on Max? I've been dying to watch it again. One of the best TV watching experiences of my youth.

"Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data"

N Stevens, AL Doğan - Big Data & Society, 2025

Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, trans activists use data and data activism to advocate for and to protect our communities.

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Cover of Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade by Jennifer Tyburczy. The top half features the title in bold pink text against a black background. Below, a shirtless person with a serious expression stands against a dark backdrop, with their torso under magenta and blue lighting. They hold a large, dirty shovel in one hand and a vampire-like mask in the other. Their face is streaked with red paint resembling blood.

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The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.”

“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”

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I'm so glad we're talking about surveillance this week 😩.

I just read this as I plan for a discussion with colleagues about Sal Khan's book on AI and education. I have been in the ed tech space for decades and I continue to be stunned by the hubris and grandiose claims made by tech bros in education.

Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors.

Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC.

Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio.

The government has been shut down for 22 days.

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

“Inside a multistory office building in Manila’s financial district, around 60 young men and women monitored and controlled artificial intelligence robots restocking convenience store shelves in distant Japan.”

A student went out of her way to tell me about the AWS outage during class tonight.

It seems the lessons are getting through!

Hyde Square Task Force does excellent work teaching teens to formulate questions, design studies, gather data, and produce research to benefit community.

They got $1.65M for a skating rink from TD Garden by discovering they were in breach of obligations.

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Bless you!

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

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Sharing an email from our intake director:

As intake director, I don't typically write these emails, but I am writing today with urgency and clarity: PSAF must raise $50,000 immediately to stay open through the rest of the month into November.

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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May

Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

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Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels?

Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.

AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How. It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.

Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫

www.thenation.com/article/envi...

I would not survive this first term on the TT if I did not have such a supportive network of mentors. I am grateful for them every single day.

four headless and armless wooden marionettes, lying face down. three of the four have carved butt cheeks

a very important part of puppet design is deciding how cheeked up you want each puppet to be.

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Yseult: Tiny Desk Concert

"The French singer-songwriter Yseult blends chanson, R&B and pop with a punk-ish je ne sais quoi." 🎶🎼 #punk

MUSICIANS
Yseult: vocals
Darius Woodley: drums
Brandyn Porter: guitar
Evan Rainey: bass
Christian Almiron: keys
Livv, LennAsia, Jhetti Rose: background vocals

This is the obvious end point for any and all smart home security devices

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

Legion of Doom to partner with the Sinister Six.