"...we are inadvertently doing the industry’s work. We are explicitly saying, this product has so guaranteed a space in our institutions that we are mapping out sanctioned uses for it.

Relooted on Steam Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you...

That's essentially the premise of the game Relooted! Only it's stealing back African artifacts looted by colonizers and putting them in a public museum in Africa.

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good read on digital preservation, archives, culture, race, and music. 📚📜

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

My congressman is Andy Harris. If I can call him first thing in the morning to call him a warpig, you can, too.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Extra “kudos” to those who caved pre-emptively to this now defunct directive

Trump administration drops appeal of order blocking $1.2 billion UCLA settlement - Daily Bruin This post was updated Feb. 13 at 10:00 p.m. The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a decision Friday that blocked it from demanding a $1.2 billion settlement from UCLA.

Resist. Trump will keep losing. And his legal battles and Epstein are stretching the DOJ thin.

He has dropped his appeal of the $1.2B demand from UCLA.

This fight was not from tepid administrators or the faculty senate

It was from the DeFacto faculty union and the UAW.

More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.

Not sure the longterm stakes of synthetic imagery is being fully grasped as we recoil from convincing proxies of Hollywood clips.The notion of evidence (& truth) is being demolished & replaced by iterations of the plausible.This is drifting into social behaviour too.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...

In its ongoing war against higher ed—and law firms—the battles MAGA has won are those where the other side surrendered in advance. (The Columbia/UT Austin/Paul Weiss "strategy," vs the Harvard/UCLA/Perkins Coie/etc strategy.)

Resistance is not just braver but also smarter and more effective.

Cornelia Vismann's Files maybe?

News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media Book — Non-fiction. By Juan González and Joseph Torres. 2011. 256 pages. The history of media in the United States, through the lens of race.

I’ll never stop suggesting folks read News for All the People. Its dense but really illuminates how a large part of what journalism has always been was anout engendering hate for Black and Indigenous people www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ne...

Larry Krasner. America's Greatest City

if you're looking to learn about what are some of the lowest-hanging fruits in terms of local elections in places that directly help ICE, this is for you:

TEXT: I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal. Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera. It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well. Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.

TEXT: I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need. Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity. Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.

link unrelated www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-...

Philadelphia Sues Trump Administration Over Removal of Slavery Exhibits The city is pursuing legal action after artwork and panels about the history of slavery were removed from a historic park.

Philadelphia is suing the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service after officials removed artwork and panels about the history of slavery from Independence National Historical Park on Thursday.

WHO removing Us Flag

“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.”

@reuters.com

Just installed this for Firefox on the Mac, using the manual instructions. Tentatively excited! The little "A.i." symbol in the left hand toolbar is gone!

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic ...

uncpress.org/978146960978...

Black Photojournalism Black Photojournalism presents work by more than 40 photographers chronicling historic events and daily life in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campai...

carnegieart.org/exhibition/b...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Cove of When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World by Leigh Raiford.The cover features a silver iridescent couch on a hardwood floor surrounded by a gallery wall of framed artwork and photographs on a white wall. The art is arranged by color to create a rainbow. Above this the title appears in a bold sans serif all caps font aligned left in a gradient from purple to pink. In the upper right corner the subtitle appears in a black serif font. The author's name appears below in all caps in the same font.

In "When Home Is a Photograph," Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world through an exploration of the practices of Black American activists and artists. #BlackStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/lMkphrj

Richard Misrach on the Eerie Grandeur of Global Trade Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.

A great writer on a great photographer: Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social), Richard Misrach on the Eerie Grandeur of Global Trade (Aperture; #photography) aperture.org/editorial/ri...

Yes, i've lost sleep over this one. I could not believe what i was hearing. A historian boasting openly of his theft from university special collections.

What?