First New College, then Hampshire College. We're coming to the end of the attempt to make higher education something other than hackwork, slavish devotion to job training for working and middle class, pre-wealth studies for the "elite." How fucking dull are these times of ours.
Synthetic Propaganda- Tracing an AI-Driven Political Operation with Effie Webb, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Bellingcat Stage Talk Thursday 4/16 , 5pm CEST/11am EDT discord.com/invite/bellingcat
How was an AI-generated rapper used in a far-right political campaign?
We're discussing the rise of AI-generated content in politics with @tbij.bsky.social's @efwebb.bsky.social this Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT and how you can investigate it. Join us live: discord.gg/qS6TJjr6?eve...
People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”
MAGA is convulsing on the floor over Orban’s loss, not because they care about Hungary, a place most of them couldn’t find on a map, but because it reminds them their own wannabe authoritarian can be voted out too, and that their movement will end up in the trash bin of history
Yes!!!
can’t help but equate the material destruction in that CA warehouse with the tossing of tea into the Boston harbor 200 + years ago
Orban got Vanced.
Orban's regime isn't just a Trump ally--he's the model for Trump's regime.
Orban created a hybrid regime with the appearance of democracy, rampant corruption, stealing of elections, and the absence of the rule of law.
His loss would be a setback for the project of authoritarianism worldwide.
I genuinely struggle to imagine the minds of people who could live through the last year and a half and somehow still believe that liberal arts professors are the primary problem facing 2026 America - I struggle with that more than I do with imagining what it’s like to be an octopus.
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
will always remember my video 1 prof, a super smart queer man, questioning why someone who knew they were dying of AIDS didn’t just go for it and take Reagan out
where are the politicians holding hunger strikes and sit ins in response to trump’s vile and dangerous words? know that history and the world are watching you too.
Oh no!!!
Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca
LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"
inspired by this tweet to remind myself how hard the protest verses of This Land Is Your Land go
The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces. 2 It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces. 3 It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces. 4 It should use less energy than the one it replaces. 5 If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body. 6 It should be repairable by a person of ordinary intelligence, provided that he or she has the necessary tools. 7 It should be purchasable and repairable as near to home as possible. 8 It should come from a small, privately owned shop or store that will take it back for maintenance and repair. 9 It should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists, and this includes family and community relationships.
finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
Someone remind me how many trans people are in the Epstein files
Even if Trump and his gang of thieves and knaves are removed from office soon, the US is blithely committing suicide and the unholy tech/fossil fuel alliance will lock that in. It’s just a question of when complacency and arrogance turns to panic and bargaining 4/x
This sounds amazing!!
librarian/artist combo: I just shushed someone at the Biennial
Bless everyone out there marching for NO KINGS DAY!
there's something very surreal about doing something you've done literally thousands of times over 20 years and knowing that it's the last time you're ever gonna do it
#librarylife #RIPBarker
extremely excited that google has suggested « bad bunny » as the auto complete for my search for « bard college ». Proud lagomorph alum.
what makes me deeply uncomfortable is that, if you object to your taxes being used to fund the government that does this, you're immediately told that you're committing a hate crime and denying Jewish self-determination, and there's not even the faintest effort to convincingly deny the act itself…
You’d think expensive oil would make our government focus on solar and wind energy, you would of course be wrong
OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...
who up feeling crushed by the horrors of this country
