Today is the deadline for my car and I'm incredibly worried and scared ♥️
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Today is the deadline for my car and I'm incredibly worried and scared ♥️
All of Alastair Reynold's books are brain-breaking-ly technical, but they stick with you like a space opera should. The Inhibitor Trilogy is fantastic.
Please share and give what you can. Donations are down and need is up. The terror is unabating.
"What you've got is people baptizing their partisanship and calling that Christianity" - 9:44
Banger of a line
#teamrhetoric
“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”
Remember this history as we remember this man.
This is why we need art.
Also don't watch if you need to look presentable in the next ten minutes.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
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Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“Deporting these people means condemning them to death”
www.latintimes.com/four-haitian...
Much of the prepper discourse is explicitly centered on this fantasy of an apocalyptic wasteland as the building grounds for a more masculine society where everyone 'knows their place' and masculine violence is praised as 'protection'. See @surplusenjoyment.bsky.social 's work for more
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Hudson Valley 177 RACHEL'S REVOLUTION: THE CUMULATIVE POWER OF INDIVIDUAL ACTS As the long War of American Independence approached its end in Dutchess County, New York, a slave named Rachel resolved to free herself from bond-age. In 1781, she ran away from her master. He accused her of stealing his property by taking the clothing on her back. Rachel was outraged by the charge of theft. They were her clothes. Probably she had made them. A week later she came back, set fire to her master's house, and escaped to British lines in New York City. Then she disapeared and probably took a new identity. Rachel was not alone. Many slaves acted independently to free them…
As an aside, Rachel is a legend. (From Fischer’s “African Founders”)
Need $720 today. Don’t think I’ll make it, but I didnmt think I’d make that $280 over the last couple of days either. I just want me, my wife, and my poodle to not have to worry about this anymore for this month. We already have enough to worry about. Grateful for any help. 💕💸
🚨"My mom is being arrested for documenting what happened at City Church—this is wrong. This goes against her first amendment right. She is not a protester, she is not an activist, she is a mom working to provide for her children,"-daughter of arrested journalist @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social
"Luther runs a unsanctioned library out of a broom closet, for which his fellow prisoners pay him $5 a week from a mutual aid fund of their own money. He logs every book ... and writes short reviews on index cards to help people decide what to read next."
Has anyone written about @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's "elite capture" and how it manifests in specific academic fields? I can think of anecdotal examples of how some in rhet/comp have taken up language that emerges from specific labor abuses of grad students and WPAs... Would like to read more
Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
rise and grind, taxpayers, it's time to help our neighbors under threat of summary execution
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
A teenage boy with dark hair and a black and gold football jersey holds his helmet, standing on the side line of a green football field
I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens
All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
Wow 👏👏👏 RIP
Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf Christian Gläßel Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.
Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
