If you've been wondering where I've been, I've been writing power ballads about my Zoom AI Companion. Stay tuned!

Kim Gordon - "SQUARE JAW" (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Kim Gordon

I'm loving Kim Gordon's new album, PLAY ME. At first I thought it was light compared to the scariness of her previous album, THE COLLECTIVE. But its directness and simplicity is the point. This song is just two verses, but somehow encapsulates our current fucked-up moment: youtu.be/bGBKe_gK8zA?...

I'm thinking about downloading the Eat n' Park app. I think only then I will become a true Yinzer.

My take: our president sucks and doesn't know what he's doing, and is surrounded by staff and voters who suck and don't know what they're doing. FIN.

Times New Viking - "No Time, No Hope" YouTube video by Matador Records

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A month after Springdale police helped ICE detain resident, anxiety remains for local immigrants Soon after Springdale police signed a 287(g) agreement to cooperate with federal immigration and customs officials last year, Carlos and Judah Marroquin told TribLive they worried about what it could ...

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‘Your vote is crucial.’ Penn State faculty can vote in union election starting next month Ahead of the election, Penn State is accused of holding “anti-union” meetings.

Lets do this

Journalist Estefany Rodríguez free from ICE custody on bond - Nashville Banner Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez, in ICE custody for more than two weeks, is released on bond. Her legal battle for freedom continues.

Nashville reporter Estefany Rodríguez is free

I think health care is more important. Just as an example. Also: having a place to live.

The Business of Racism Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism IAN CARRILLO In The Business of Racism, Ian Carrillo employs a case study from Brazil’s sugarcane industry to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. As Carrillo recounts, in the mid-2000s, Brazil embarked on a state-led project to improve environmental and labor conditions in sugarcane production. He describes how, seeing increased government regulation of their worksite as a threat to their power, the elites of Brazil’s sugar-ethanol industry repurposed long-standing racial ideologies to undermine progressive institutions and elevate their own leaders. Carrillo’s extensive ethnographic fieldwork in mills and plantations, as well as interviews with federal labor regulators and sugar-ethanol industry elites in Brazil, weaves together an account of how Brazil’s labor and environmental regulations are forged through racial and class struggles at worksites and within the state. The Business of Racism contributes to ongoing sociological debates about race, development, and the environment while highlighting future pathways for achieving racial justice, labor equality, and climate sustainability. dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism May 2026 | 278 pages, 4 illustrations 978-1-4780-3315-8 | $29.95 paperback $20.96 with discount Special offer: Use coupon code E26CRLLO to save 30% when you order from dukeupress.edu.

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PA followers, or if you're just interested in labor in PA, @seankitchen.bsky.social has a good newsletter that I recommend subscribing to, the Keystone Labor Report. #labor #pennsylvania

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One of the comments says the lyrics are just titles of Spotify playlists. I'm not sure if it's true, but I can see it.

Kim Gordon - “PLAY ME” (Official Video) YouTube video by Kim Gordon

Love this new single and video from Kim Gordon. New album out tomorrow.
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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it’s never felt more stark to me, the way direct action, community defense, and a whole host of forms of refusal are being blunted by those see (and/or who want others to see) such actions as “disagreement with a policy” or “seeking policy change”

A question for housing history folks out there: Back when these kinds of things were built, how did say, rowhouses for the working class/poor people get built as opposed to fancy apartment buildings or houses? Any books, articles, etc. you'd recommend? #housinghistory #rowhouses #housingjustice

A black cat stares out a window into a couple of backyards in Pittsburgh. It just feels super yinzy.

A rough week: funeral for my partner's mom (on his birthday, nonetheless), war(s) (things are happening in Ecuador, too), and general exhaustion. I'm almost finish with my half of the Girl Scout cookies though. Here is Fergus while contemplating the backyard:

I need everyone to address him as "Marquan," and then say, when corrected, "I'm sorry. I just have trouble with ethnic names."

Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

You Have the Floor is a seven-day series of community town halls across the Greater Pittsburgh region. No speeches. No panels.

Just neighbors talking about what information they need, what feels overlooked and how journalism can better serve the public. Register today: buff.ly/kETj4ZV

Rich ordered 🍕 so I can only think about 🍕 right now

PS: Sorry if it seems like I'm saying @marisakabas.bsky.social is "just marketing"! She's a great and important journalist (duh). I'm just saying that it is just so hard to break away from what the Internet is now, and I admire people who are finding a way.

I know getting people's attention has been a thing since the printing press was invented, but now it feels like the only option for any creative outlet if you want to be even mildly successful.

...participating in the very things the program criticizes. How do you create digital culture without it just being marketing and trying to horde people's attention?

This is a related tangent to this comment, I think. I'm in a digital media certificate program at the U of Pittsburgh. I like that about half of the program is based in media criticism, visual culture, media history, etc. But the other more "practical" half is fully...

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead

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Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.