@fdrubio1977
Prof @ UCSD Wrote 'Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art museum’ 2020 Co-edited, Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair, 2025 Working on a new book "The Promise of Facts"
“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”
They’re stealing our jobs!
"We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics".
A prayer for Trump in the White House.
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot instructed man to kill himself
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.
Buffalo Police have opened a homicide investigation after Border Patrol agents abandoned a blind refugee miles from his home.
If confirmed, Border Patrol will have accounted for 33% of Buffalo's homicides this year.
Trump claims he ended a war between "Kosovo and Servia"
The golden age of imbecility
Maternal mortality in Louisiana is literally 40x Greenland (41.9/100k to 1.0/100k). They should send hospital boat to Louisiana.
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables
ok, that's enough 2026 for today
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"Finance, paranoïa et radicalisation de la valeur" - Fabian Muniesa - Multitudes - 101 - 2026 shs.cairn.info/tap-1e50d8y7...
It really doesn't show
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
A few hours after Bad Bunny sings among electrical poles maintainers, our conversation with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social is out.
Coincidence? I think not.
(Thank you both!)
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Fabian Muniesa - 'Finance, technology, and fascism today' @ UC Berkeley 26/02/2026 besi.berkeley.edu/event/financ...
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
Despite the ongoing death and suffering in Gaza, it's fallen out of the news. So today, @thenation.com is devoting its full website to stories from Gaza, written by reporters who have been there. Very proud of the magazine today.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.
slowly preparing the way
“De-escalation”
Chart of US measles cases by year
US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
The only reason Homan replaced Bovino as the face of the occupation is because his lies are more polished and he doesn’t dress like a member of the Third Reich in public. But the policies and the state instigated violence remain unchanged.
Trump on drug prices: "This is like hundreds of percent, depending on how you want to calculate it. You could say it's an 80% reduction or you could say it's a 1,000% reduction. You could say whatever you want."
