“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
I hope white people have plans on what they'll do when the Democrats retake power and do NOTHING about Trump, his administration, or all the people working for ICE
Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza.
A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.
In case you haven't noticed, Israel is occupying Lebanese territory with no signs of leaving. The Gazafication of southern Lebanon?
"Israel army says it established 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon, as in Gaza." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Tishman Auditorum theatre
@thenewschool.bsky.social is hosting our NYC premiere, Q&A feat. director @valerieveatch.bsky.social, @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social, @jessienyc.bsky.social, @mckenziewark.bsky.social
Free with registration! Come out NYC, will be maje!
Sat May 2nd, doors 6:30
event.newschool.edu/ghostinthema...
What I can say with a full throat, however, is that “AI” is a rhetorical, political tool and a set of ideologies built on specious claims. The technologies are almost incidental to those things, and are built to try to fulfill those claims, not the other way around.
I’m watching the new essential film, Ghosts in the Machine, featuring many esteemed colleagues of mine, and noting how many of the great men scientists making claims about the ability for machines to mimic humanity also denied the humanity of women in myriad ways.
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Thanks! Good to be connected here ❤️💪☮️
Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That's because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants.
Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.
first time? meme
country music lovers to sports fans realizing how insanely racist their faves are
In their wildest fantasies about Hunter Biden, Republicans didn't come up with anything half as corrupt as what Kushner is doing in front of our eyes every day. He's handling US foreign policy at the exact same time that he's taking billions from the Saudi dictator.
Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life
In retrospect it totally tracks why a guy who has no friends wouldn’t get why you need allies
Direct action or polite lobbying — what actually changes the law?
✊ Our next Milestones article explores why the fight for Trans+ rights may need both.
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Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.
hyper-individualism is really killing people.
If US democracy was functional, this would have led to an immediate impeachment and removal from office.
imagine you’re on a spaceship and then some random guy says that all the water and power on board should be used to generate fake sentences and ugly pics
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These magnificent marine mammals rule the ocean and are upwards of 200 tons. So this says it all
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#SheShed
I'll continue banging the drums about the fact that capitalism has deskilled us in detrimental ways. We need to skill up re: many things like conflict resolution, reproductive health, first aid, etc etc etc
Check out the trailer for GHOST IN THE MACHINE, coming soon to PBS and your screen!
This feature documentary features 40 generous and brilliant AI experts, historians, philosophers, sociologists, journalists and thinkers discussing their work with @valerieveatch.bsky.social.
We're ruled by apocalypse fans of varied faiths who are all subservient to Israel and declare it openly. I wrote this in 2021 and they've gotten more blatant since: bsky.app/profile/sara...
No war on Iran
No U.S. supremacist imperialism
No Zionist expansionism
Professor who teaches the gigantic introductory economics course at the leftist radicalizing factory at Harvard explains why under his preferred assumptions taxing billionaires would be a bad idea
