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Our current budget is approximately $100 Million an hour.

It is kind of suspicious that the only people I see actively defending LLMs as morally neutral seem to have very specific career incentives to do so. Especially in the academy!

The number of people killed in five days of US‑Israeli attacks on Iran has topped 1,000, state media says, as the conflict engulfs the region.

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Gemini told him to commit an act of terrorism at the Miami airport to intercept a delivery of a large humanoid robot body for it, telling him to "to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses"

Signed? How ‘bout you?

We are excited to invite you to hear Erica Moiah James, Assoc Prof @univmiami.bsky.social present "Haptic Archives & the Critical Work of Tenderness in #GlobalCaribbeanArt" as part of the #ArtHistorySpeakerSeries @elonuniversity.bsky.social. Big thanks 🎉 to @kringelberg.bsky.social for organizing!

An Evening with Michael Twitty: Recipes from the American South Join Award-winning author Michael W. Twitty and moderator Sam Chapple-Sokol for an evening discussing Recipes from the American South. ABOUT THE COOKBOOKA home cook’s guide to one of America’s most di...

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Kansas and the History of State Identification as Administrative Violence w/ Cassius Adair (03/03/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence

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Persian miniature painting of children in school with their teacher engaging in normal school activities of their day and time like kids do everyday. The painting illustrates the site where Laila and Majnun fall in love

Persian, made in Shiraz, Iran
Laila and Majnun at School, ca. 1570
From a copy of the manuscript Khamsa (Quintet) by the poet Nizami (1141-1209)
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Why the arts still matter at DePaul Economic constraints that suffocate creative expression and access to artistic skill and imagination are now at the front door of DePaul University.

This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

“While the East was cold, for locations with long term records like NYC, DC, Philly & Boston, winter 2025-26 only ranked in the range of a top 25-50 coldest — it just seemed particularly brutal because of global warming and the trend toward milder winters in recent decades.” — @wxmanms1.bsky.social

Nested thread:

Anti-ICE protest outside Whipple Building declared unlawful An anti-ICE protest outside the Whipple Federal Building was declared unlawful on Sunday, resulting in multiple arrests.

An anti-ICE protest outside the Whipple Federal Building was declared unlawful on Sunday, resulting in multiple arrests.

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

Jan. 18, 1968: Eartha Kitt Spoke Truth at the White House When asked at a White House luncheon about “juvenile delinquency,” Eartha Kitt responded by talking about the root causes of rebellion, including the Vietnam War and the draft.

Already under CIA observiation for her community activism, Eartha Kitt was blacklisted in the U.S. for nearly a decade (1968–1978) after publicly criticizing the Vietnam War at a 1968 White House luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson.

Kitt was forced to work in Europe and Asia during that time.

The last-minute campaign spending by Phil Berger is absolutely off the charts.

Just through February 15, Phil Berger has spent $2.36 million on his campaign, while Sam Page for NC Senate has spent just $54,000 - a 43:1 ratio.

all of you fucking losers using Claude, this is what you got us

you fucking loser fucks

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas Stolen Relations seeks to recover stories of Indigenous slavery in the Americas. The website has a database as well as a map, timeline, interviews, and curricular materials.

It is weird that a far more robust digital database was launched at Brown University last year, but somehow didn't get a mention in the piece. See stolenrelations.org

h/t @ladyhistorian.bsky.social

Can't miss a golden opportunity to kill more children

Uptick in 3pers at the racist transphobic bro-wery yesterday and now that has me wondering

In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves.

She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

#MuseumsAreNotNeutral

Rest in power, Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

After a year in custody, Border Patrol released a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee who was legally blind and didn't speak English at a donut shop. On February 25, he was found dead. He had a right for care, dignity, and safety. We demand answers and accountability.

In closing its museum, which exhibited the work of scores of Chicago and underrepresented artist and stands as an important part of art and art historical training, DePaul University shows its lack of commitment to the full range of the arts.

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We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes!

Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal.

Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.

How to register to vote in North Carolina and check your registration status Ahead of the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in North Carolina.

Eligible voters of North Carolina:

3 P.M. ET TODAY is the deadline for registering to vote in the statewide primary election at early voting sites, where you can register & cast a ballot on the same day.

You can find the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote

And this was true before yesterday.