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LA people, Critical Resistance is offering a “We Keep Us Safe” workshop on protecting the community from ICE on Monday at 6:30. Register: criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click

Newark Airport Had 3 Controllers on Duty When the Goal Is 14

It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.

Who becomes a trustee? At Columbia there are 21, all of them from business, law and technology, with the exception of a former journalist. Although they are in charge of an academic institution, none of them is an academic. None as ever led a classroom or a lab meeting or medical rounds with interns. None has gone through the process of tenure, where their teaching, publication record and service are rigorously assessed by colleagues in the field both from within the institution and outside it. None as ever had their work peer-reviewed by anonymous readers or panels of experts. None has ever published in academic or scientific journals or presses and had their ideas debated in the public sphere. None has ever framed a hypothesis and tested it on the basis of evidence they have collected. None, in short, has sought truth and had their search confirmed by objective scholars and scientists.

Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock on boards of trustees: “Who actually runs Columbia University?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Navigation queues | Navigation cues A web-essay written by Domitille Debret, designed and developed by F451 for The HTML Review Issue 04, Spring 2025.

A scrolling essay about scrolling, textual navigation, and interface design: "The scroll bar faded away, almost like a ghost of its former self, replaced by an emphasis on continuous motion instead of clear indicators." navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio?ref=thebrows...

YouTube video by SXSW The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️

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Writing Prompt: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong Notes On A Restless Form

@alexanderchee.bsky.social: "What were some of the forms that interested you in the process of composing the book?"

Ocean Vuong: "...I wanted to pursue a restlessness of form.

A: "A restless form?"

O: "Yes. Where every poem was trying on different clothes."

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

My desire for tech ethics is not to be the convenient idiots. Trotted out to play the foil for the tech bros, applauded and snapped by the public, only to be shelved until the next appropriate moment where the veneer of accountability is required.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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YouTube video by What Now? with Trevor Noah RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast

Loved every second of this podcast @ruha9.bsky.social !!! It was affirming listening to this!!! Thank you!

This is an important listen for CS educators and students.

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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive Language English Item Size 98.5G An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

I downloaded a bulk of HIV-related science communication material from the CDC YouTube channel, but I don't have the bandwidth to clean it. Is that something anybody wants?

Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...

Last night, Musk's staff were stopped trying to enter USAID's HQ. They threatened to call U.S. Marshals.

@cnn.com: Sources say they wanted access to security systems and personnel files and to access classified information.

Today, the USAID Director of Security and his deputy were put on leave.

Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungurrayi Granites paints the great Warlpiri story of 7 Sisters Dreaming, about the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster Pleiades #womensart

An illustrated circuit diagram?

An assemblage of illustrated objects — a switchboard or cubby-holed desk in various degrees of abstraction, various computational devices

An exhibition storyboard showing a family on vacation

An illustration of how a computer handles route planning — depicting layered maps, a set of levers, a printer

Sketches from the Eameses’ IBM exhibition files at the LoC

Bonus Episode: Toni Morrison’s “Goodness” with Saeed Jones — The Stacks | Traci Thomas — The Stacks | Traci Thomas

"...we’re offering some counterprogramming to the inauguration with a discussion of Toni Morrison’s lecture, “Goodness: Altruism +d the Literary Imagination.” Saeed Jones joins us to explore Morrison’s thoughts on how goodness sustains itself in the face of evil..."

Message with an intended audience of one. Very similar message/strategy to a video that TikTok served me, from their official account, featuring their CEO, last night. Isn’t this what Harris explained on the debate stage? Flattery as foreign policy.

One thing the TikTok ban discourse has not included is that many TikTok creators privately do not like TikTok, which of course they’re not saying because none of us want it banned.

It’s a brutal creative ecosystem that extracts from creators until they burnout and then they are replaced.

The rabbit hole every platform is going down sucks. It’s like a drug dealer pushing harder stuff. I just came here for the weed

Googling “YouTube disable shorts”

hockeyguyfieri nailed it

This piece has resonated throughout the week. And now that I think about it, a thing I wrote a few years ago about lichen — alternating vitality + dormancy across multiple timescales, chipping away, incrementally, at the seemingly intractable for the longue durée — seems relevant, too

They're making the yuletide gay, obviously 💁🏼‍♂️🎅🏼

A screenshot of Google Tasks showing one task “Take out the trash” in a category called “NOW” that was to be completed 135 weeks ago.

People: What productivity software do you use?

Me:

LimeWire Wrapped 1. sistem_of_a_dowm_Zelda_song.flac 2. Nirvana - Glycerine.flv 3. track_8_(1)_(1)c.mp3 4. weird_al_Bert_and_Big_Bird_smoking_weed_FUNNY(parody).wav 5. jay-z_the-blueprint_FULL ALBUM_REAL.mp3.exe

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

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