“Yale admits roughly 2,300 students a year. SUNY’s 64-campus system serves nearly 400,000.”

Looking forward to it!

Nothing to do with the DoD. They are seeing staff and students downloading to build virtual assistants and the losing files and/or having them revised & corrupted in inexplicable ways.

Just finished writing a book on Borges (and Gombrowicz) that might be relevant -- particularly around "La biblioteca de Babel" + "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote" + LLMs/AI. It will be publicized soon, but if you ever feel like chatting about the course further down the road, let me know.

The slop analysis of the metrics measuring the slop traffic of slopbots scraping slopsites on the now mostly slopnet.

Seeds are going to be the new currency.

Defendants’ Mass Termination also violated the Equal Protection component of the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, because the Defendants selected grants to terminate based on blatantly discriminatory criteria relating to race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and other individual characteristics. For instance, Defendant Fox slated grants for termination because their description contained words such as “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant.” Finally, the Mass Termination was carried out by Defendant DOGE and employees, specifically Defendants Cavanaugh, and Fox, who lack statutory authority to terminate NEH grants or make other institutional decisions of NEH.

Plaintiffs say:

Defendant Fox [of DOGE] slated grants for termination because their description contained words such as “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant.

That's from the Second Amended Complaint.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"They are not following norms, merely imitating them"

31 | 2025 Deuil et mémoire en Amérique latine Revue spécialisée dans l’étude de la mémoire et de l’identité des territoires d’Amérique

Here is the full issue of Amerika, with a dossier of related essays by Daniel Cecchini, Horacio Convertini, Roberto Oltramonti, Sven Pötting, Soledad Quereilhac, Rosendo Ruiz, and Sabine Schlickers. A great resource for anyone interested in El #eternauta. journals.openedition.org/amerika/21904

Time Travel in El eternauta The first version of Héctor Germán Osterheld’s El eternauta (illustrated by Francisco Solano López) appeared, serially, in the magazine Hora Cero Semanal between 1957 and 1959. Season one of the Ne...

New essay on El eternauta (the 2025 Netflix show + the comic)!

Featuring: algorithmic anxieties of influence, #AI, alien invasions, and doubled digital monsters.

journals.openedition.org/amerika/21993

Many thanks to the editor, Néstor Ponce!
(Link to the full #Eleternauta dossier in comments)

And here's the first page...

The cover of Macedonio's book 'Teorías,' which uses an image made of three superimposed high-contrast red and white photos of the author's face.

Sure / the essay is pretty long but it is found in this book:

www.abebooks.com/book-search/...

He was into the revolution of opening up the limits of the self + being, and so the jokes he loved used contradictions + playful paradoxes /// but his theory is a great tool for asking: where is the pleasure + where is the surprise for the people laughing? (Without requiring that I join in.)

The theory of humor that I've always liked was by Macedonio Fernández -- he wrote that laughter was produced by a combination of surprise and pleasure. But this really left open a lot of difference in terms of what different groups found pleasurable / and also how the surprise was structured...

Amazing!

... in terms of delivering to the people who are laughing a feeling of punching up + challenging powerful structures of authority... but the charge is sparking a different kind of revolution.

I feel you. For me though, when I see people laugh at those jokes (that I don't like and don't laugh at), I conclude that the jokes are funny. Just, not to me. Those people feel the psychic charge, feel an upward punch... a joke about elitist professors + 'gender ideology' maybe feels similar...

I'm always a bit suspicious of big theories of laughter that don't include jokes that are racist/sexist/vile... the question always returns: who determines if something is frightening ? Or which order needs to be upturned / which revolution calls out to be joined?

Similar to many examples of iconoclasm. See Finbarr Flood.
www.collegeart.org/pdf/artbulle...

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street.

If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

Minneapolis turning into a war zone

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Absolute monstrousness.

Irish man risks US retaliation for unmasking thousands of Ice officers online Dominick Skinner started publishing identities last year and is assisted by over 500 volunteers across America

An Irish man responsible for leaking the identities of thousands of US immigration enforcement officers has said he will continue his work until the Trump administration stops targeting immigrant communities.

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

Sent you a note! Thanks for doing this.

Super interesting. Thank you.