“The general public has grown extremely tired of the fact that every single thing they do, within their own homes, outside of their homes, is being collected and cataloged and cross-referenced to potentially be used against them at some point.”
We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.
I share Steve’s concerns. An observation:
The Court’s immense power, such as it is, is contingent upon its at least plausibly appearing to do law. This may seem like an academic debate, but it’s literally over whether the Court is doing law or something else. That matters.
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?
@kerrijmalloy.bsky.social on the DT regime's directives to remove certain material from National Parks: 'If material is challenged, the burden should be to show factual error, not to claim that accurate history is too political or insufficiently uplifting.' calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Stained glass window with image of a peacock with tail open facing forwards
East window, St. John, Honiley, Warks, UK 1924 by Theodora Salusbury, English artist in the Arts & Crafts style, the peacock was her signature #WomensArt
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman reminding everyone that the damage AI use does to your brain is a feature, not a bug: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter".
The Israeli 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon raises fears that a temporary military zone could become a longer-term occupation
The Israeli 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon raises fears that a temporary military zone could become a longer-term occupation https://aje.news/d2aqmr
this small thread is a quenching chaser to the Palantir thread (& it’d be better if members of Congress were saying it)
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
If this hasn’t crossed your feed yet, take a second to enjoy this certified banger
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
27 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
The expected: 17th C Papal stuff, Ge'ez liturgy, classics. Less common: Inquisition reports, Venetian chronicles, Apocalypse commentary, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!
Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.
The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points
The fact of the matter is that your racist uncle who hates Woke Studies ever since he heard about it on the drive back from the supermarket and the governing board that oversees your research institution are converging, and the results are exactly as monstrous and as stupid as you would have guessed
“Mr. Mamdani, 34, grew up a child of the Manhattan elite, his mother an Oscar-nominated movie director, his father a tenured Columbia professor. But his tax returns show no signs of his parents' success filtering down to his bank account just yet.
Apart from having a warped sense of what culture workers & professors make, WTF does the NYTimes mean by this “just yet” in the reporting on Mamdani’s taxes? “don’t worry we’re still digging because those brown ppl are up to something? We’ll get back to you when they die?
there is such a magic to sitting on a tiny island in the boundary waters, seeing more stars than you could have imagined were up there, hearing the loons
i hope we do not rob future generations of experiencing it
An egg salad sandwiche ys the perfecte foode for when you are feelinge downe. An egg salad sandwiche wil not make you feele bettir, but synce it ys a sandwiche that doth looke a litel depressed itself it wil be goode companye and be able to sympathyze.
Friends! My university is hiring an Asst Professor of Biology and an Asst Professor of History and American Indian Studies. Our students are wonderful, my colleagues are great, we do good work. Please share! Happy to answer questions :)
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A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.
i was thinking about going up to Columbia to see the Michael Sorkin exhibit but now I see any non-Columbia ID holder on campus has to be approved no later than 5 pm the previous day! that is an insane policy for a giant urban university to have.
The ultimate taske of Gen AI ys to insult the human heart, soul, brayne, memorye, libido, and will to lyve
The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.
A Win for Democracy! Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Will Stay Open After Journalism Nonprofit Purchases It | The newspaper dates its history to 1786, and if it had been closed, it would have left Pittsburgh as the nation’s largest community without a city-based newspaper.
This is a picture of me I made that I thought makes me look like a policeman.
FC St. Pauli presents the Peace Prize in the US for the first time. The award honors individuals and initiatives that stand for solidarity, participation, and respectful coexistence. The first recipient is Wes Burdine, owner of the Black Hart of Saint Paul in Minnesota.
#fcsp
