The latest sad effect of Ohio Senate Bill 1’s attack on higher education

WE DID IT!

Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

I went on @therealnews.com to discuss Black anarchist history and US politics, among other things. It was great to have this exchange with former Black Panther elder Mansa Musa on ‘Rattling the Bars.’

Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.

Cisco, IBM, and the data center lobby is trying to kill an *already existing* right to repair law in Colorado by massively fearmongering lawmakers into exempting their tech under the guise of "security" of "critical infrastructure"

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“Republicans say they’re concerned about birth rates, but we’re going to make it so you can actually afford to raise a child.” Feels like the most obvious move in the world right now to me.

Florida's Wildlife Cops Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of conservation police to work directly with ICE.

New: Florida's wildlife police are giving ICE access to Flock from thousands of cameras around the country & performed dozens of lookups for immigration enforcement per month. Shows ICE is still accessing and also shows that access often comes from unexpected places:

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Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!

55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Cincinnati drone cops now cover nearly all the city. How they work Cincinnati's $4.8 million police drone program continues to grow, now covering nearly all the city and responding before officers do most of the time.

I can see no way that this trend is a bad sign for people’s civil liberties.

AI can't fix accessibility. At least not yet. Many articles have been written about how AI *can* help your workflow, but what all of them agree on is that AI still cannot replace human knowledge in accessibility.

Learn accessibility. It is well worth it to invest in your professional growth.

When they were murdering journalists in Gaza, they claimed they were Hamas. Now they’re murdering journalists in Lebanon, they’re claiming they are Hezbollah.

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ...

“I was so confused. I had no idea what was happening. I’d seen typewriters in movies, but they don’t tell you how a typewriter works." -- 19-year-old Cornell student

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ht @davepell.bsky.social

A bike is leaning against a large fence post with the sentence, "Trans rights are human rights," written across the wooden board.

Trans gun owners didn't feel safe at the range. So they built their own. Inside a barn in Ohio, queer gun owners are building power — and protection.

More in from Ohio via the @thebuckeyeflame.com — Trans gun owners didn't feel safe at the range. So they built their own. 19thnews.org/2026/03/tran...

U.S. Votes No as UN Calls Slave Trade ‘Gravest Crime’ and Backs Reparations Global leaders are moving toward reparations, but U.S. opposition leaves Black Americans fighting that battle largely on their own.

The United States joined Israel and Argentina on Thursday in voting against a Ghana-led resolution that declared the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans the “gravest crime against humanity” and urged countries to pursue reparations.
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The real reason behind ICE deployment to CLE airport, which has not experienced security delays. From an anonymous Plain Dealer reader.

“It begins to normalize their presence in non-ICE situations and places. Beware their deployment at polling places.”

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Trump Called My Neighbors “Paid Agitators.” This is Who They Really Are. After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbo...

Each of the people I photographed scoffed at the idea that they were paid agitators, or led in their efforts by state or city officials.

Here’s my full story about my neighbors, in their city, in their own words.

Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.

My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives?

So I picked up my camera 👇

Ultimately they would rather have a smaller audience of brainwormed cultists than a larger audience of anyone else. The problem with letting billionaires exist is they can afford to lose money to transform society in their image and short of that destroy everything that opposes them.

US, Israeli Attacks Have Damaged Nearly 500 Schools, 300 Health Centers in Iran Over 82,000 civilian structures have been damaged by U.S. and Israeli bombardments, the Red Crescent says.

The U.S. and Israeli bombardments of Iran have devastated tens of thousands of civilian facilities, the Iranian Red Crescent Society says, killing over a thousand civilians so far and damaging infrastructure considered completely off limits in war time like schools and hospitals.

ICE Is Paying the Salaries of This Town’s Entire Police Force Under a Homeland Security program, police departments around the US are signing up to assist in immigration enforcement. The cops of Carroll, New Hampshire, are going all in—and they’re likely not alo...

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that the salaries of a small NH town’s while police department are paid by ICE as part of its 287(g) program. @sammysussman.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Why an NFL 18-Game Regular Season Is Coming Sooner Than Players Think | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

What the NFLPA’s deeply suspicious election means for the NFL — and why fans should care more than they realize. Featuring the long-awaited return of @profootballtalk.bsky.social 💩 youtu.be/gaZdhv_pDug?...

Lessons From A March Madness Game About Climate Change Oppressive heat disrupted the game and fan experience at a March Madness game yesterday in Iowa. There is a broader lesson about climate and resiliency.

My article on the oppressive heat gripping much of the U.S., and how it is shattering records. I discuss how it impacted March Madness games Iowa vs Virginia and Iowa vs Fairleigh in Iowa City. You won't believe what temperatures were on the court.
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'You would not believe the number of AI games in our inbox' says Tunic's publisher 'I am tired of seeing it' CEO Rebekah Saltsman is tired of seeing AI pitches for AI games and she'd rather see developers pitch a publisher like Finji with "programmer art" than generative AI.

Angry middle aged woman yells about shit that pisses her off at GDC, an article:

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University challenges: how students changed one Ohio town – in pictures Rich-Joseph Facun photographed college life in Athens to examine the stresses and strains that come from being a progressive enclave in a conservative landscape

Athens, Ohio Mentioned!

the lighting was so important to the craft of this game that i wrote about it! gah!

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

hitting up a rando is probably better for your mental health than any chatbot www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

AI style yassification aside, I just can't get behind the idea that greater photorealism is immediately better or should be the goal. Intentional style will always end up looking, and aging better.