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A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" (Official Music Video) [HD] YouTube video by DeLaSoulVEVO

Sunny day morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S5l...

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

@nytimes.com
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Senate Democrats led by Sen Raphael Warnock (D-GA) ask for an independent investigation into the double-tap missile strike on a girls' school in MInab. www.warnock.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

The tide turns back 🌈

I was not surprised to learn that I Georgetown, like most American colleges and universities, has succumbed to the pressure to appear part of the “AI” in-crowd (and to the temptation of the resources being made available to those in that crowd). But even though everything I have done in my professional life has been in some way based on the expectation that institutions will tend towards corruption, corrosion and capture, when I think about what this particular instance of that phenomenon signifies for you, the students of Georgetown, I feel very sad and angry. And I decided that the best thing to do with that sadness and anger would be to write to you all directly about why this decision by your university, which may seem on the surface to be an example of garden variety corporate thoughtlessness, should disturb you deeply, and provoke you to fight back.

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed.
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word.

"emotional labor" is particularly annoying because it has a specific, useful meaning that got swamped. an air stewardess smiling through a drunk passenger is emotional labor, going to your friend's birthday party isn't

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover.

The state capture of network television is almost complete.

Additional $200 billion for war (on top of $1 trillion). But USAID was too expensive.

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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"I'm standing here in front of you guys because an English professor ... read something that I wrote —it was the first assignment when I was 17 years old, my freshman year— and said 'Hey I think you should go to Hollywood and write screenplays.' Literally said that to me."

The humanities: weak, contemptible, ineffective, populated mainly by losers, graduates incapable of doing anything but menial service work.

Also the humanities: a dangerous, incomprehensibly powerful force whose total destruction is necessary if society is to continue, children are to be born, etc.

In Appreciation of Unique Intelligences "We" are definitely smarter than AI.

Every one of us possesses a unique intelligence far more interesting than what passes for intelligence with large lanugage models. One part of my unique intelligence is wrapped up in the 1984 Chicago Cubs. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

The humble PDF is becoming a problem for AI Researchers and developers working with large language models say these structural quirks introduce subtle but significant errors. An AI that reads lines strictly from left to right...

The humble PDF is becoming a problem for AI

PDFs are structurally hostile to large language models
flip.it/r6t5Ii bless their hearts:)

Also lol if Adobe, of all companies, breaks the eugenics plagiarism machine with their “structurally hostile” file format

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.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
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Welp.

This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

Emergency Archives: Investigating Rhetorical (Im) Possibility, Action, and the Impact of Precarious “Preservation” Under Crisis Published in Rhetoric Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New pub! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories:

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

From the interesting community on Reddit: Evolution of AI Explore this post and more from the interesting community

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College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

This is footage taken by some folks on their way to work this morning before the shooting. www.instagram.com/reel/DT5lGwI...