Marquita

Timeless. Brilliant: "But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis"

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Hello friend

As corporations decide to rollback their performative investments in Black people & people of color it’s time WE begin the hard work of unraveling our addiction to them. Big box corporations killed the mom & pop store under the guise of lower cost & convenience—it’s time we see what it’s costing us!

US Secret Service approached South Side school, not ICE agents: officials The U.S. Secret Service told the I-Team they approached a South Side school Friday. Chicago Public Schools officials had initially said the agent or agents were from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor...

"We will not open our doors for ICE, and we are here to protect our children and make sure they have access to an excellent education," principal Natasha Ortega said. abc7chicago.com/post/us-immi...

Social media platforms are not built for this We have simultaneously too much and too little information.

Our big social media platforms have been *intentionally designed* to make it near impossible to find (and post) useful, timely information about disasters, as this article points out - this has been angering me for years.

We need “most recent” and functional search!

Which Bluesky provides.

Air pollution from AI could surpass that of all the cars in California Massive data centers power large language models but produce fine particles linked to asthma, cancers, and premature deaths.

Once again asking what problem this technology has solved or is expected to solve to force us to endure this. www.fastcompany.com/91253026/air...