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It is one thing for professors to resist AI in education; it is far more powerful when students do. Only a coalition between the two groups of students and teachers —and not the antagonistic one between “cheaters” and “cops”—will be powerful enough to create a movement.

would be cool if they committed some fine arts

Anyway, I say all of this to underline my praise of people who act in the face of repression. There is nothing automatic or guaranteed about this. It is noteworthy, impressive, and laudable — and we should also examine what inspires or facilitates it, bc repression alone ain't the formula.

Beavis as cornholio in the pose of the angel of history

Klee’s Angelus Novus, the real angel of history

who wore it better

I’ll also be here this week.

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Same publication btw that when I pitched writing about the possibility of Danielle Deadwyler, Saint Omer, and The Woman King getting shutout due to systemic misogynoir shot me down because in their eyes none of them had ever been real contenders in their categories.

I hate an enlightenment scold. Forty years of mass self-help religiosity and here we are living with techno fascism. Maybe someone should meditate a collective movement.

Beyond that, for the news organizations, you’re helping to engineer a dystopia where human life is openly bet on. Whether there’s war, how many will die, and so on. You’re supplying the foundation for the bleakest reduction of human life to commodity and entertainment. It’s so evil.

Oil painting of three gentlemen wearing silks, gold, ruffs, and holding hats and spears. Made by the native Ecuadorian artist Andrés Sánchez Gallque in Quito in 1599, the painting is now held in the Museo de América in Madrid and part of the permanent collection of El Prado. It is the oldest known signed and dated paining from the Americas.

This 1599 portrait is Don Francisco de Arobe & his sons who ruled an independent settlement of self liberated Africans on Ecuador's coast. Like settlements of the self-liberated in Panama, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, Suriname, Guyana & Florida, the state recognized it as an autonomous town.

Fascist #slopaganda isn't about seducing anyone. They're aware that their nostalgic images are ugly & fake, and that their promise to return to an imaginary past is a fraud. They're proud of the shallowness of their nostalgia, because their real promise is to legitimize cruelty against others

Francisco Boix - Wikipedia

TIL about Francisco Boix, an antifascist who lived a short but heroic life. He fought against fascism in the Spanish civil war. Nuremberg trials used photos he made & secretly saved in a Nazi death camp to convict. If you're looking inspiration, today, here it is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...

This is, to be clear, not a case for optimism about Jewish Studies as a whole. The funding will only go to token Jews who agree to play Court Jews to the American right, while those who don't will have an even harder time winning support. But we need to be clear-eyed about what is happening.

White supremacy, in concrete terms, strives for only white people to have nice lives.

Non-whites who feel deserving of too much must be punished accordingly.

My mom’s boss said something to her back in ‘92 about the nature of American bigots: “They can’t stand to see other people (as in non-whites) living well.”

I realized only recently that this is another way of understanding “cruelty is the point.”

truman responded to robeson's white vigilantism by rebuffing him with the claim that the us and great Britain represented the last refuge of freedom i. the world, to which Robeson exploded "The British Empire is one of the greatest enslaved of human beings " and added if the American government would not protect them, Black People 'would have to protect themselves " taking robeson's words as a threat, truman brusquely adjourned the meeting

truman was a little bitch in the presence of Paul Robeson

also, woke up this mornin and had them Statesboro blues

they defied the landlords / they defied the laws / they were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs

deport the court, DHS

you know you want to

Being gay is much a small thing to have in common with someone else. For example, I’m gay. He’s gay. I’m… me. He’s a fascist loser. Ain’t that something?

At this point in my life my only requirement for any companion in any endeavor is that they have a wheelbarrow

I can supply the shovels but they’ll need to show up with their own wheelbarrow

(First day as drivers Ed teacher)

me: we are going to cover some sensitive and uncomfortable topics in this course. I expect you all to be adults about it.

class: [general whispering]

me: “ok first topic, why is it not allowed to park in the bike lane even for a minute?”

class: [general outrage]

They can do whatever they want, destroy everything, flatten cities, make business deals for our mass graves. I'll still keep talking about Palestine, Artsakh, Kashmir, Ukraine, Western Sahara, and all the inconvenient people standing in the face of their racist, authoritarian projects

Happening with brands and organizations trying to do World Cup legacy programs as we speak. Everyone wants big campaign activations and cool shit that shows up on the social or looks good on video. No one wants to make the sport cheaper.

Polyphemus was better

For the record, every time I have been vaccinated against Covid I have died a painful death

So like when they say the vaccines have killed a million people, I’m probably being counted six or seven times. They should adjust the death toll accordingly

Tom
Waits
For
No man

may rufo protect me from divisive concepts

MN Unions Vow Largest Rent Strike in 100 Years Amid ICE-Fueled Eviction Crisis Nearly 26,000 workers pledge to withhold rent if Gov. Tim Walz does not issue an eviction moratorium by March 1.

MN Unions Vow Largest Rent Strike in 100 Years Amid ICE-Fueled Eviction Crisis | Truthout truthout.org/articles/mn-...