Big investigation about a very secretive institution

April 18, 1959: Students Petition and March for Integrated Schools 26,000 high school and college students came to Washington, D.C. to demand the end of segregated schools.

#tdih 1959, 26,000 high school and college students came from all over U.S. to D.C. to demand 1954 Brown v. Board implementation.

Speakers included Daisy Bates, Harry Belafonte, A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, Rev. Martin L. King, & Roy Wilkins. 🧵
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Concerns about Mythos lie in its ‘purposely vague language’ – AI expert As concerns have been raised about Anthropic’s new AI model Mythos, we spoke to Dr Heidy Khlaaf, chief Artificial Intelligence scientist at the AI Now Institute.

On @channel4news.bsky.social @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social explains the stakes of Anthropic’s Mythos and its impact on security. We lack the evidence and independent expertise needed to verify the claims around the security tool - especially problematic given the risks posed by LLMs.

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Covid will miraculously go away

Immigrant Workers in Colorado Lead “Historic Strike” at JBS, Largest U.S. Meat Processor More than 3,000 meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, have been on strike since mid-March, the first major labor strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry since 1985. Workers at JBS USA, the U.S. su...

"The strike is mostly led by immigrant workers," union leader Kim Kordova says of the historic JBS strike in Colorado. "This workforce is made up of workers that speak around 57 different languages from all over the world, doing this really important work, feeding our communities."

Photo of a chess board with models of household goods such as a stove, lamp and chair for chess pieces

Chess Set, 2005 by Rachel Whiteread #WomensArt

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Picture of a perfect little yellow fluffy dog seen from above and looking up at the camera smiling with her pink tongue out. She looks like a happy meringue with a fox face. She is sitting outside in front of stone steps with small dark pink petals from flowering spring trees accumulated behind her.

joy to all those out today to say we won't be governed this way

Handmade sign on cardboard reading "ALL THE FASCISTS ARE BOUND TO LOSE!" against a colorful, glowy, out of focus background of marchers with their signs.

hell yeah

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Painting of a tree lined shoreline with turquoise sea and blue sky

'Northern Coast, 2021 a painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

It’s good to see people in the US taking to the streets today.

Silence is a friend of dictators.

My take on today’s protests is we need as many people as possible expressing their political opposition to this violence. Thank you for reading.

Pakistan's solar revolution: from 0% to 25% in a decade.

2021: 4%
2022: 7%
2023: 10%
2024: 14%
2025: 25%

Solar is now Pakistan's #1 electricity source. Not driven by policy — driven by consumers.

What Tech Calls Governing, out August 18 from Stanford University Press

Coming in August!!!

this was very moving.

March 20, 2003: Iraq War Invasion It’s worth pausing to note how profoundly corporate textbooks mis-educate our students on the years of warfare in Iraq.

#tdih 2003, U.S. invaded Iraq.

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Corporate textbooks‘ narrative on U.S. war against Iraq doesn’t prepare students for current spin on U.S. war against Iran.

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Children cheer as volunteers prepare food parcels and Eid sweets for displaced families living in a public university turned into a shelter after Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

June Jordan noted how much was spent on war and wanted money—lots of it—to instead be spent on “housing and drug rehabilitation and books in the public schools and hospital care and all of that good stuff.” To transfer “aggregate resources from death to life.” Save lives, not money. And no war.

"Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable"

Regular reminder that the power of the purse is the ultimate war power.

Congress has leverage if it is willing to use it.

having a potluck this Saturday. I "welcome, encourage, and even demand" your RSVP. Also I have you down for bringing casserole and plates. thanks and be blessed.

Omer Bartov: Academic Silence, Gaza, and the Costs of Speaking YouTube video by Not to Forgive, but to Understand

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I wrote a little song I sing when I am watching the news sometimes. 🎶they don’t talk about the middle class because they don’t intend to have one 🎶

"There were no books." Sent me to the fucking moon.

“Educational institutions are like beekeepers,” according to the report. “While their principal aim is to provide education and raise people’s earnings, in the process they create an array of external benefits...society indirectly benefits, just as orchard owners indirectly benefit from beekeepers.”

UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“

This lawless war has to stop.

We actually need more people who didn’t come from the working class to be pro-working class policies. This is a politically good thing but too many people treat it as a reason for a gotcha that often only serves elite interests—who want us to think class politics are congenital or can’t move left.