"'The tail wagging the dog' is a popular metaphor for relationships in which a vendor winds up manipulating its customer. In the case of Palantir and the Army, the tail got inside the dog and has now burst out of its chest, like the xenomorph in Alien."
Analysis: US strikes mark a stunning demonstration of military might and presidential power
I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic
No such luck
The Minnesota shooter who killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t a lone wolf, insists a scholar of political violence.
And the myth of the isolated madman obscures the networked reality of far-right violence and makes it harder to prevent the next attack.
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For anyone who thinks I'm joking here (and it's funny, but no) rumor is that the National Guard deployed in LA was sent under a 29 day order to avoid housing allowances, which means they have to fully pay for their own shelter. In LA. Zero notice. Durable fascisms don't shortchange the muscle.
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A famous optical illusion known as the Rubin vase or “face-vase” illusion. The central dark blue shape resembles a symmetrical vase or goblet, while the negative white space on either side forms the profiles of two human faces looking at each other. The image demonstrates figure-ground perception, where viewers can alternate between seeing the vase as the main subject or the two faces, but not both simultaneously.
New study shows link between inactivity & pain. But what if people are moving less BECAUSE of pain? Whenever you see science news about a “link”, remember: you can always interpet it more than one way! Like a Rubin’s vase/face.
NEW POST, 1m: www.painscience.com/blog/people-...
Image of a pop-up message that appears over a journal article on Elsevier's website Science Direct. The article looks at conversational agents and is published in the Journal of Business Research. The pop-up says, "Chat with an article: Save up to 50% of your literature research time by asking your question to an article."
Folks, what are we doing here? Can we please make the AI crazy stop? The idea of being able to retrieve info from an article via query is one thing, but the anthropomorphization of is over-the-top. The fact that this article is about chatbots is (chef's kiss).
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Desperate Plea for Help!
(PM Post)
Hi! Mom of 14 yr old autistic son. Getting my doctorate & studying how parents used social media upon diagnosis. If you could take a few minutes & do a survey, that would be greatly appreciated! TY! #parentsky #edusky #academicsky
www.surveymonkey.com/r/MJVWJWQ
If generative AI were as great as the tech companies want us to believe, they wouldn't be pushing it so hard on us. They'd be charging for it, not forcing us to click away ten times a day from pop ups trying to convince us to use it.
Of course.
Special shoutout to my colleagues who thought "diversity had gone too far," especially the ones who pretended that diversity statements were oppression.
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
The disability justice gremlins are back! We left that Other Place and are making ourselves comfortable here.
The 2025 Including Disability Global Summit starts today! This is a **free** three-day virtual summit. Registration and program link in the comments.
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< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.
It’s an essential step in the process.
#handsoff in Cleveland, OH
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
New Philadelphia, Ohio
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Jackson, Mississippi
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If you missed this Business Insider article about the company tracking abortion pill prescriptions, fix that immediately. This is exactly the kind of reporting we need right now. www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...
Call for Papers (by 11 April) – Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism
Submit an abstract - join us & the SLSA at a 2-day online, free conference on 13/14 June!
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