This man has a decades-long record of lying for profit and personal gain. Any politician who said he'd keep his word was just doing the same thing themselves.

… shouldn’t puppy killer Noem be fired instead for losing her own blanket …

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

I always have the warning of German poet Heinrich Heine in my mind: "Where they burn books, in the end they will burn people."

And digitization is hardly a mechanically automatic process. Primary source materials can contain so much more information pertaining to the circumstances of their creation than can be gleaned from a scan of the “characters.” Archives contain *artifacts.*

i wish i could believe that our sociolegal practices for enforcing accountability were evolving to meet this moment where capitalism wants to automate even more aspects of human life, but instead of respecting the distinction between agent and automaton we’re being told the automata *are* agents

N.Y.C. Officials Reinstate Pride Flag at Stonewall After Federal Removal

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

Olympic chiefs have got it badly wrong over Heraskevych ban and owe him an apology | Lizzy Yarnold As athletes we try to focus on our event and the task at hand, but our lives do not take place in a vacuum

Olympic chiefs have got it badly wrong over Heraskevych ban and owe him an apology | Lizzy Yarnold

Russia brings back 'pseudo-historian' Medinsky to head peace talks, reversing shift toward 'constructive' diplomacy The next round of talks is set to take place in Geneva on Feb. 17–18.

⚡️ Russia brings back 'pseudo-historian' Medinsky to head peace talks, reversing shift toward 'constructive' diplomacy.

The next round of talks is set to take place in Geneva on Feb. 17–18.

It says something really awful (and obvious) about capitalism if the only global market that matters for making adequate profit to actually create life-saving medications is the United States.

The front page of today's Chicago Tribune. Read the e-edition here: trib.al/5OXbGpw

To further put this in perspective:

- our scan studio digitized 1.100 works last year - a record bsky.app/profile/svan....
- when we worked with google books, we digitized 80.000 volumes in three years.
- we have 1.5 million volumes.
- we are a mid-sized European heritage library.

GIFT LINK:

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I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

How I feel about AI

The Dragnet Era of Home Security Cameras The devices come with a trade-off: When companies store our footage, we don’t always have control over how it’s used or shared.

“And in October, Siminoff told us, ‘There are thousands of people missing with dementia all the time, so you can imagine looking for them.’”

As someone from Massachusetts, who got her library degree in Seattle, I love every part of this story. "We are always on the same team in supporting the freedom to read!" 🥹

Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet “This is the price of our dignity,” Heraskevych said, in response to the International Olympic Committee's decision.

Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet Depicting War Dead: ‘The Price of Our Dignity’
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… feeling rather too like Jo from Bleak House …

Fossil fuel, gas turbines, nuclear, fission... the real energy source for data centre expansion is none of these, it's fear. The techno-patriarchy everywhere fears the loss of unquestioned mastery. Better to accelerate the burn than admit fragility or allow others to have a say.

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

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Canada shooting: 10 dead including suspect in attack on Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and residence, police say More than 25 people are injured, including two with life-threatening injuries, after the shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School * Latest updates: ‘devastating’ shooting hits remote town of Tumbler Ridge A shooting at a school and residence in British Columbia has left ten people dead including the suspect, Canadian authorities said on Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said more than 25 people were injured, including two with life-threatening injuries, after the shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Continue reading...

Canada shooting: 10 dead including suspect in attack on Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and residence, police say

Opinion | EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law.

If you were holding out hopes that the collapse of the Washington Post into right-wing talking points was temporary, this despicable editorial should shatter that hope.

"EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach"

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It's jarring to see how much money is going to ICE instead of education, healthcare, public transportation, international aid, green energy infrastructure, and the arts, but I guess that's the point.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

A.I. model "selfhood" is just another way rich companies try to stay the hand of their opponents. It's a lie.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

This one is in Longfellow

"All I'm asking is for clarification, who are you and why am I being detained," recalled Romero, who said the men responded: "I'm gonna [expletive] blow your head off"

"They kicked me, they punched me, they stepped on me," she said.