it's weird that the counter-argument to "why are you on twitter, which is an engineered nazi-indoctrination machine owned by Elon Musk" is "bluesky too cringe"
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it's weird that the counter-argument to "why are you on twitter, which is an engineered nazi-indoctrination machine owned by Elon Musk" is "bluesky too cringe"
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
The @atbw.bsky.social Freedom School 2026 Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is dedicated to strengthening digital literacy, advancing archival practices, and safeguarding the web as a vital site of cultural memory. Register for the spring sessions: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/
Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.
NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.
Air travel has become a lot riskier for certain racialized (regardless of citizenship status) groups and I don't think we understand the extent of it.
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
Maybe people will wake up to the fact that the AI push has been about paying workers even less and taking away job security.
Less "prompt engineering" and more labor organizing.
There are two blocks of flights that leave East Africa for the Gulf. One leaves in the mid morning, usually ferrying holiday makers on their way from their safaris or on their way to Dubai, people returning home using the cheaper ticket. They walk through the airport confidently.
My Condoleezonances to all the zoomers about to learn this name
Cue Missy Elliott dancing...
Color illustration from "The Delafield Affair" featuring a man and woman on horseback in the American West, with the caption "It had come, this question she had not meant to let him ask."
Cover for "Adele Doring on a Ranch" by Grace May North, featuring a woman wearing a cowboy hat riding on a horse with cacti in the background.
Cover for "The Biography of a Prairie Girl" by Eleanor Gates, featuring a white flower and green leaves.
Cover for "The Giants" by Mrs. Fremont Older, featuring an oil rig with flames coming out of the top.
In honor of Women's History Month, we are highlighting materials from the Nina Baym Western Women Writers Collection, which includes Western novels (many of which feature female protagonists), memoirs, and scholarship on women in the American West.
Oh my! I took an English course with Dr. Nina Baym years ago. She was wonderful.
(sorry, only making the connection with you and her now, and am so delighted to see her memory honored this way)
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
A bunch of white men start an illegal and ill advised war but then decide that white bodies are far too precious to be risked at the front line so they find nefarious ways of enabling brown people to fight each other on their behalf.
The racism of it all.
We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.
It's absolutely surreal how no one is talking about the Iran war in daily life. No one is discussing it and they seem oblivious. This conflict is spiraling and deteriorating in a way that it will substantially disrupt daily life for most of the world for the first time in decades.
Love the new Poster House digitized collections now available for browsing, like these very fab Air India posters from the '60s and '70s:
collection.posterhouse.org/collection/?...
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we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.
You know, there's the joke ("joke") that universities are real estate ventures with a side hustle in education. Turns out that the reality of that claim is even more horrifying because of whom they're selling their real estate to. /6
The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets?
And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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"Every woman who crosses an ocean for her work carries rebellion in her suitcase. Mine is lined with lesson plans, stories of my girls from my school and the slums, and a stubborn belief that my worth does not depend on how well I maintain other people's comfort."
"But every question you ask teaches it who you are. Every vulnerability you share becomes a data point. Every decision you process out loud becomes a record of how you think.
"The oracle isn’t neutral. The oracle is taking notes."
thelocalstack.eu/posts/ai-cha...
"I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI."
thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...
"Count them. 17 companies. 16 in the United States. 1 in Canada. Zero in the EU. Let that sink in. You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies."
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"I came for a badge. I stayed as training data." — Rogi
(h/t @copystar.bsky.social )
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