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This man is a fascist in his heart, whether or not he's accepted that he's one in his head

PhD student Fobazi Ettarh

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On behalf of our community, we send our condolences to her family and everyone who knew her.
 
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As an academic, I feel strongly that it’s unethical for me to sell subscription-only content in a newsletter. I am already being paid to do intellectual work and share it with the world. Asking people to pay me for my analysis would be a kind of embezzlement.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Screenshot of: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504376122

👀"Central estimates suggest that losses from climate change could already reach 12% of U.S. income. These estimates are comparable in magnitude to the estimated impact of proposed revisions to trade, monetary, and immigration policies"

Don't confuse decorum with democracy.

In which Texas A&M announces it is not a university

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

It is fitting that the US edition of concentration camps are going to be situated in disused warehouses (former data centres?): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If you give a single fucking penny to the DNC or any senator who hasn’t said “Abolish ICE” after their spectacular display of complicity with the forces that have invaded city after city, destroyed communities and families across the country, you are complicit. No quarter, no forgiveness.

So the Fugitive Slave Act again

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies

Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this

Lolololol who could have seen this coming except literally everyone who was not in the tight little airless anti-woke circle jerk?

Homeland Security wants to know who's anonymously posting about ICE

This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech.

This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.

This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

girl who keeps a light gas leak near her bed so she posts better

Scraping the scriptorium The Erfurt Latrine Disaster as inverted allegory

Scraping the scriptorium
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Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only modest gestures of care, Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...

O’Keefe was put into another vehicle with three agents. She says they started taunting and mocking her, and called her ugly. “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock that you could say that to one of her neighbors,” she said. They were brought to the Whipple Building and released after eight hours. They weren’t charged for a crime. Sigüenza said he was brought to a room with agents from the Department of Homeland Security and asked to provide the names of people he knows that are undocumented or the names of protest organizers in exchange for money or legal protection.

We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.

I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.

I look forward to SCOTUS explaining why Trump has legal immunity qua president, but foreign presidents like Maduro don’t

2025 was pretty good but I think if we really make an effort we can destroy the west completely in 2026

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I’m late to this, but I just saw a random post that referred to gen-AI fans as “botlickers” and that was enough to make this day a little better.

Compliance gets you nothing.

If the broader culture around citations hadn’t already been so poisoned by predatory journals and peer review becoming unworkable, this shit would be seen for what it should be: instantly disqualifying.

How climate breakdown is putting the world's food in peril - in maps and charts Experts have warned that the world’s ability to feed itself is under threat from the “chaos” of extreme weather caused by climate change. Crop yields have increased enormously over the past few decades. But early warning signs have arrived as...

How climate breakdown is putting the world's food in peril - in maps and charts
->The Guardian | #ClimateBreakdown #Food | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Several actively participated in genocide, one used nuclear weapons to obliterate innocent civilians, and a dozen owned other human beings. He is not an aberration, he is an evolution people much smarter than you have been accurately predicting for a very long time.