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I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

A poorly drawn gunnersuarus walking to emirates Stadium with the caption. Ah shit here we go again.

Tomorrow

Ralph Wiggem “I’m in danger” meme

*Academics in early August

Stuart Hall providing childcare at the Women’s Liberation Movement conference in 1970.

I will never not take the opportunity to share this image of Stuart Hall providing childcare at the Women’s Liberation Movement conference in 1970.

Kneecap: Police drop investigation into Glastonbury performance Police said there was "insufficient evidence" for a "realistic prospect of conviction of any offence".

new bullshit kneecap investigation getting dropped just dropped

Israeli attacks across Gaza killed 131 Palestinians on July 2 in strikes on tents, homes, and aid lines.

Poet Mosab Abu Toha documented every death by name and location. Entire families were wiped out in seconds: mothers, daughters, doctors, journalists. ⬇️

Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.

The world we know was built on mass killings, weaponised disease, sexual violence, cultural erasure, and slavery.

And genocide *always* went hand-in-hand with ecocide.

You won't understand what's happening globally today if you don't understand these basic facts.
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just say no to cable news

This feeling of dread is so familiar. All the lives that will be lost for nothing. Death and destruction all the way down.

Universities should be the places rapidly raising the alarm about AI, not adopting it

I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.

A page from Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, the chapter called "Violence" in Social Movements, page 111. Under the heading "They Will Call You Violent" the text reads: If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because violence is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, as long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to peaceful protest, they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.

"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I don’t know that I’d say well… as soon as I hit send I was looking for an edit button. Thanks!

It’s an old school R&B song tying remixes to tech in our ever-changing field. This is my guess, anyway.

Chart showing the market share of top companies who have invested in AI technology (eg., Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, etc)

This slide in @jsanofranchini.bsky.social keynote at #4C25 is all anyone should need to decide to drop generative AI like a hot potato. Stop making billionaires richer and make that 💩 whither and die.

Same!!!

“An Attack on Labor”: Washington Farmworker Organizer “Lelo” Detained in Trump Immigration Crackdown Longtime immigrant farmworker and organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino was pulled over last week by a plainclothes agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an unmarked car who broke...

"An Attack on Labor": Washington Farmworker Organizer "Lelo" Detained in Trump Immigration Crackdown

Every time I see debates re: the case uses for AI I’m imagining empty aquifers and collapsing grids.

Thank you! I swear, all my students support Real Madrid these days. It was Barcelona and Man U before that 😒. Will keep an eye out for you at Cs. I’m in the working class standing group—check out our panel or bus meeting if you have time :))

Hah, seriously! What year is it?!

It’s been such a weird season!

I bet you’re happy with the Liverpool result. I wish it mattered more, table-wise.

If they can come for graduate workers, if they can arrest, deport, expel, or imprison union leaders and activists for their protected political speech, then they can come for you. For your contract. For your paycheck. For your family. And for your rights.

Football does feel like half suffering, bold stats for a hobby. On your rivalries: that’s interesting! Whom we most loathe often speaks to the era we came up in/began watching. It’s always Spurs and Manchester United for me. Speaking of, time to go feel sorry for myself for a bit after that draw

Devastated to learn one of my favorite comp scholars supports Tottenham 😂

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics.

They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.

“Protecting women and girls” by giving rapists control over their lives and direct access to abuse them