very cool! did not know about it!

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did my own yesterday, for the first time ever! terrifying

Actually it’s just a direct copy! From the 1920 silent film.

ok just realizing it’s a reference to old silent movie posters

why the quote marks??

Independent Study Program (ISP) Director | Whitney Museum of American Art — New York City, New York - Calibre Careers Founded in 1968, the ISP is an academic year, non-degree granting program. The participants accepted annually pursue independent research and, as importantly, participate in twice weekly seminars led ...

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extremely popular as a symbol of political revolution in the US? I was asking about how it’s being used politically, not in pop culture

From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance From Nepal and Jakarta to Paris and New York, the grinning skeletal image of the Jolly Roger of the Straw Hat Pirates has been a transnational emblem of rebellion.

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From the vexillology community on Reddit: What’s this flag I saw at yesterday’s No Kings Day protest in DC? Explore this post and more from the vexillology community

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Straw Hat Pirates' Jolly Roger - Wikipedia

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‘A symbol of liberation’: how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia’s gen Z protest movement Carried by a band of pirates that stand up to corrupt and repressive rulers, the meaning of the One Piece flag has resonated across borders

so apparently this symbol from a Japanese manga called One Piece has become the flag of the Gen Z protests? has it been seen in the US at all?
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more like, we’ll lock you up

it’s like taking a rotting trump steak out of the garbage and wiping it off with a 1997 think different press release and putting it out there like it’s gonna generate 100 billion

is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state: No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders. All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed. Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names. Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed. Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures. The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

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the president of the university resigned, the dean, the dept head, and the professor have all been fired or put on leave, meanwhile, there’s no law in TX that gender can’t be taught in a classroom

Essential resource.

Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

unfathomable
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A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

extra space in the new seal, too

U.S. shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.

this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market
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exactly, as they defund the NSF and NIH and anything else that might possibly enable innovation

thank you!

exactly what I was wondering too. maybe there’s a hint of US War Production Board, but none of it makes any sense. it looks like they spent 2 minutes on it, at most

‘Our story’: A day in the life of a handwritten newspaper in Bangladesh Hasan and his team of reporters juggle day jobs as labourers and seamstresses to report on their remote community.

I love this story of a handwritten community newspaper and how its founder manages to keep it going
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1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here.

Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws.

For adults, some increases in risk.

Nationwide risk remains extreme.

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of course, all of that. but at the top of my list is criticality, and that’s becoming more and more challenging to teach. students want AI literacy, and I want AI criticality. how to do both?