“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.“ Arundhati Roy
"When the erasure enthusiasts were done, they had deleted more than 400 pages from a textbook that originally had 667, a slew of examples about how women have experienced gender discrimination and almost all references to racism."
www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Two cactus wrens sitting atop a chollo.
I love the way these cactus wrens (photographed today) have a safe shelter inside a chollo catcus where they built their elaborate nest.
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The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson. So much wonder. ♥️
I love that feeling. Nothing in the world like it. ♥️
$1 BILLION a day for a war.
That same $1B could instead could in the US:
- Fund ~40% of the U.S. HIV treatment program
- Feed ~5.6 million people for a month through SNAP
- Equal ~¼ of the entire federal homelessness budget
Every. Single. Day.
You are stuck there forever. Enjoy.
Videos of the depositions of Michael McDonald, Adam Wolfson, and DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh are available in our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
It's a classic figure/ground illusion, old man/young woman
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
“going to blow the hell out of these people.”
“these people” … little school girls, musicians on a navy ship etc.
I pre-ordered Seasons of Glass and Iron last May. Can't wait. ♥️
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.
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Of course he did.
If you've paid attention in the field/world, you've known for years Pinker is an ethically awful, arrogant disappointment. Even if (like me) you fell in love with cog psych reading The Language Instinct. It's all so depressing.
New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."
The chapter about The Line. Damn, Melville.
Marked this as relevant in my current reading of MD as well.
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Our troops are being instructed that Trump is appointed by Jesus to attack Iran and hasten Armageddon. More on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
And more pressure on poor women whose insurance won't cover it. So fat becomes even more entrenched with all the negative bs.
Awe inspires diminished focus on the self, increased prosocial relationality and a heightened sense of meaning.
Awe arises in encounters with stimuli that are vast such as other people’s courage and kindness, nature, collective gatherings, the arts, spiritual practice, epiphanies, birth, and death…
Love this. I have a folder full of psych articles from the past decade on awe and its impact on learning, empathy, mental health. So much to explore. ♥️♥️
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
