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Tfw the most clearly sophisticated yet weirdly disrespected iteration of the new Star Wars stuff gets backfilled with two dozen hours of the best storytelling in recent memory

How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.

They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.

It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.

This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

"Cruelty is the central tenet of right wing ideology. It is at the heart of everything they do. They are now quite willing to lose money or their lives in order to make the world a crueller place, and AI is a part of this"

newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

SignalGate Isn’t About Signal The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.

www.wired.com/story/signal...

The Trump regime’s secret police continue to kidnap people across the US. Here they kidnapped a PHD Student Rumeysa Ozturk in broad daylight for publishing an article last year, critical of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.

People across the US have reportedly been tortured by the regime.

Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants.

History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
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The Skynet fear will not come as robotic skeletons with millitary grade weapons.

this sort of "language use" is what the "AI is amazing" crowd would point out as evidence of "AI creativity"

Mahmoud Khalil’s story, told in his own words, from an upcoming film:👇🏼

Yes!

Lady Gaga - Killah (Live at SNL) YouTube video by Home Cinema

Holy shit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfrl...

War crimes have gone woke

The Israeli Military Is One of Microsoft's Top AI Customers, Leaked Documents Reveal Microsoft is a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence for the Israeli military, according to internal documents.

The truth has finally come to the surface: leaked docs from January confirm a clear partnership b/t Microsoft + Israel’s military ops throughout the latters’ assault on Gaza.

https://tinyurl.com/nt8vcaku

CON TEMPORARY ART

Study: Second-hand and clothes repair services are denting fast fashion sales

incm.pub/4kj7f3q

But inter-cultural sharing is much more marketable than sovereignty.

All eggs are Fabergé now.

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The Data Rescue Tracker We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

Insurgent Ecologies | Columbia University Press We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social and eco... | CUP

New from Fernwood Publishing! INSURGENT ECOLOGIES takes readers on an inspiring journey across key sites of ecological crisis and contestation, showing how revolutionary politics can emerge from the convergences between place-based, often disconnected struggles.

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them The workers, whose agency oversees the nation’s nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

It's genuinely amazing (derogatory) how scared shitless these companies are of the Trump admin

The Washinaton Times NEWS ALERT MONDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2025 NEWS ALERT Google axes DEl, progressive-backed markers from its calendar Google Calendar will no longer tells users about Black History Month or Women's History Month. Read More >

Today's Google Doodle: Josef Mengele!

An extraordinary image of the striped mackerel snapped by underwater photographer, Alex Mustard. This fish swims with its mouth open, using its gill rakers like a net to filter its food from the ocean. It almost looks like a glorious concertina built of iridescent silver taffeta.