Karl Jacoby

Not a Cormac McCarthy fan at all, but his passage is infinitely better than the derivative AI version.

New sign inside all Columbia University apartment buildings

YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH
youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...

Make himself his name?

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These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.

To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes. (1/3)

Changing altogether what it means for a flower to be white . . . .

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Funding of these projects was awarded after a rigorous vetting process involving layers of scholarship. An NEH award is difficult to get, and @nehgov.bsky.social funding was less than 0.01% of federal budget. The "DOGE" boys, with no expertise and AI, destroyed the integrity of a 50-year-old agency.

Los Angeles Women’s Landmarks Project - LA Conservancy Preserving the historic places that make L.A. County unique

“Of the 1,300 places in Los Angeles designated as Historic-Cultural Monuments, only about two percent represent women’s history.”

The Los Angeles Women’s Landmarks Project -> www.laconservancy.org/save-places/...

#InternationalWomensDay

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

"It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it."

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

I read an early draft. It’s really well done.

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Here’s a piece I wrote in 2007 about how an over-reliance on militarized drug war tactics has basically thinned out the herd and ensured only the most efficient and adaptive operations survived. We’ve been selectively breeding highly evolved supertraffickers for decades. Sit this one out, Stephen.

Worker standing in a palm date orchard after getting to the work site but before getting suited up

"Daniel" is about to suit up to remove thorns from the date. The fronds are lined w/2-6 inch needle-sharp thorns - sharp enough to puncture tractor tires. Workers wear thick, puncture resistant gloves & eye protection as thorns can cause severe injury or infections. #WeFeedYou

Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling? When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover. If new species don’t replace old ones, they say, ecosystems may have less flexibility to respond to habitat loss and climate change.

Scientists have long predicted ecosystems would shift in response to warming, with some species moving out and others moving in. But a major new study has found the rate of turnover is declining, suggesting nature may be losing its ability to self-repair.

Measles meets ICE detention. What could possibly go wrong?

Counterpoint: far from being "radical communists," narcos represent capitalism in its purest, uncut form.

EFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant EFF, along with the national ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit urging the court to requir...

EFF has joined up with @aclu.org to once again tell a federal appellate court that evidence cannot be derived from warrantless searches of electronic devices at airports and the border.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

the fifa peace prize used to mean something

"They are toast," "I liken the Iranian military to a football team," "POTUS got him twice" (sunk the Soleimani), "we are fighting to win," "minus Paul Bremer and the nation-building" "sure, Iran will still be able to launch some missiles" (at civilians, embassies, he says)...

We must have accountability for all federal officials who have broken the law.

bsky.app/profile/mexi...

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting "Come on! Go!"

“The Google-owned Waymo told outlets that it would not be providing a statement.”

BOTD Mr Ponzi