If you needed a twitter thread to learn that Palantir is a fascist company, that's okay with me, but you could also have read Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social already last year
inthesetimes.com/article/pala...
I expected more from someone so knowledgeable about groceries.
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
Meta removes ads from its platforms targeting attorneys who recruit plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits. The move follows recent courtroom defeats in New Mexico and Los Angeles that challenge Section 230 protections. Meta cites competitive interests for the removals.
“Looking forward to its next conquest”
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
This is excellent: a fifty year history of muscle cars, mass cruising, and sideshows in Oakland.
On a minor note one of my favorite things about Oakland is that Oakland rap fans listen to Oakland rap.
I had a whole unit on TP supply chains! And a great final project from a student who collected and analyzed memes about the Ever Given.
Leading candidates for new AG:
-- Alex Murdaugh
-- That Nazi ICE prosecutor in Texas
-- Aaron Schlossberg
-- Kevin Lomax
-- Some lady lawyer Trump finds attractive
-- The corpse of A. Mitchell Palmer
-- Nicki Minaj
-- Inspector Javert
-- Alan Dershowitz
adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class
The first sentence is
"I am beginning to worry that geographers might be some of the nicest people in the world."
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Pure AAG spirit @geographers.bsky.social
a threads post from pmccallion Judith Butler every day watching people use the word "performative" to mean "fake in a bad way" a photo of cillian murphy as robert oppenheimer looking distressed
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If this wasn’t such a tragedy there’d be a funny movie with whoever the Iranian Seth Rogen is where he’s the guy who picks up the ringing phone and becomes the accidental head of Iran in communication with the Trump admin
Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.
BREAKING: Federal Court Finds Columbia U May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy – in Violation of the First Amendment
www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...
How will Liam's classmates ever feel safe in a country where the government can replace a friend with an empty chair?
"people are starving but THE ECONOMY is doing great"
hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY
masterful gambit to make shipping costs go up higher by artificially reducing the supply of truck drivers in the middle of the biggest energy crisis in 50 years
Once again, a self-professed champion of "Western Civilization" shows disdain for its basic concepts, such as "the unexamined life is not worth living," attributed to Socrates, who is not exactly "modern."
Garrett Haake @GarrettHaake New: Federal Judge quashes subpoenas sent to Fed/Powell: "There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the President or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will" & no evidence to contrary 3:06 PM · Mar 13, 2026 · 955 Views
Jerome Powell sunglasses DEAL WITH IT meme
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
Life in rural America: our sheriff installing flock cameras, local defense drone companies testing their optical tracking tech on our towns, govt agencies scrubbing us down with viewshed software for violations, conservation org volunteers driving around to photograph our homes for violations.
I have a new open access article in Geoforum, looking at how abrasive online “finfluencers” promise riches through buying cheap properties to rent to Housing Choice Voucher (“Section 8”) holders, using outdated spatial arbitrage strategies and AI automation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
people.com/trump-says-i...
I think this is probably true of AI for most professions: effective for those who already have the expertise to discern quality and accuracy, otherwise it just multiplies the amount of garbage production.
The war on Iran & the war on immigrants aren’t different stories— wars justify investments in technologies of violence, create a foreign threat that manufactures consent for the abrogation of domestic rights.
See: “War on Terror” that killed millions & in whose shadow DHS was formed.
Screenshot of a New York Times update about importers getting refunds on tariffs highlighting that "companies are not likely to issue refunds, or lower prices" for consumers.
Oh.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court: