try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

DIY: D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine Collection at the University of Maryland College Park | Archives Deep Dive The mission at the D.C. punk and indie fanzine collection (DCPIFC) at the University of Maryland–College Park’s (UMCP) Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library is to collect, preserve and share self-pub...

And then, sometimes, you learn that one of your all-time favorite drummers is now a curator of Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of Maryland.

Rad story about how John Davis, formerly of Q and Not U, started & grew UMCP's robust punk / indie zine archive!

A landline, wall mounted telephone. It is in the shape of Ireland and is entirely green, with the exception of a dozen cities labeled in white.

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Irish Reunification Landline

there was a time last semester when my building on campus both had no heat and no working plumbing… for like a month 🫠

this is a very bold thing to say -- women can't do this -- about a technology that requires the ability to issue detailed natural language instructions to an immensely powerful but childlike simpleton

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?

Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.

Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?

Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

I can't believe a guy who doesn't believe in school would use a metaphor that doesn't make any sense

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

France’s extremely talented and extremely controversial ice dancers, explained The duo is favored to win Olympic gold on Wednesday, amid increasingly dark allegations.

for those of you who don’t know, the French team is made up of an emotional abuser and a woman who actively defends her rapist boyfriend

they are dreadful and nobody should celebrate this medal

Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled. Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.

Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."

Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if a generation of tech, science, and business reporters hadn't decided that the press release was the news

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.

The ugly side of the Brooklyn Peltz Beckham backlash The celebrity gossip to patriarchy pipeline.

You don’t need to care about celebrity news. But what you should know is that right-wing content creators have built a viral online pipeline that directs pop culture consumers—especially women—from celeb gossip to conservative news and commentary.
spitfirenews.com/p/brooklyn-b...

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti.

Mattia sips on an espresso during his.

Truly the heroes we need during these times.

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.

It's your birthday, Duane.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.

That was my first thought

Screenshot from a Hallmark movie wherein a website called "The Search Engine" is displayed with a textbox reading "attractive missing woman New England"

i love when people use search engines in movies but i love when people use search engines in hallmark movies most of all

Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...

Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What