“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪
Great news!
All you fascists bound to lose.
Brilliant
All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans.
For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
Gendered burdens
Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court.
DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses!
DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations."
DOJ blames ICE (page 2)
Here's a quick convo about my book Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal from LaborOnline: lawcha.org/2026/03/11/j... The book works great in classes on historical method, Labor or Immigration history, etc.. LMK if you'd like me to join a class using the book, via Zoom!
depressingly accurate analysis of the situation
Map of the ME showing the two straits
Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.
Killing is fun.
Pete Hegseth is responsible for killing 175 schoolkids in Iran because he gutted the group responsible for making sure the military doesn't hit civilian targets. Hegseth may be correct that the US doesn't knowingly target civilians, but in this case, gross negligence is not an excuse for a massacre.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
USA never met a war it didn’t like.
March 20, 9am-6pm - A Symposium on Indigenous Philosophy across the Americas: Epistemologies and Ontologies outside the Settler Colonial Hegemony, with a keynote by Dr. James Maffie.
Find out more and RSVP using the QR codes on the poster!
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/indig...
Eisenhower
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Do I have any friends here who know Vancouver BC and could recommend a good real estate agent?
Great story.
He can’t define it, because whiteness is created to be invisible. It’s about domination over others, pure and simple.
Damn, yeah.
Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present.
The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.
Up first is the Arts & Media essay "The Cost of Compliance" by @rachaelvm454.bsky.social which analyzes Apple TV+’s Severance as a critique of how corporate culture strip workers of autonomy and identity while masking exploitation behind the language of purpose and growth. doi.org/10.1215/1547...
My article on the occupational sterilizations at a chemical factory in West Virginia has escaped the containment of the paywall.
A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:
"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."
and
"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."
Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Every elected official who swore to uphold the constitution needs to understand that we’re in the middle of an unconstitutional authoritarian takeover of the US and it’s time to take a side.
