Alexander Heifler was planning to firebomb Nerdeen Kiswani's home. He is part of JDL 613 Brotherhood and was going to escape to Israel after. "That hate against Palestinians has been bolstered by public officials, by Zionist orgs, who are never held accountable. This is inevitable result of that.”

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

YES!!! SAME

me today

the first of a couple of pieces i've been working on about AI generation in music is now live: i contrast “instant” AI music generation with sampling and think through why AI risks erasing the history and human relationships that give music meaning.

But don’t talk about that here, it’s impolite: news.sky.com/video/gaza-t...

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i'm all over the place again this week. flagboy giz' "we outside" sent me down a new orleans wormhole, so i've been rediscovering the likes of toussaint, muhammad, and the meters. that plus my usual doses of weird electronic music and depressed guy metal.

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This clown ran 8yrs ago on “balancing the budget”. All he’s done since is decimate health care, education, and public services while giving handouts to his rich developer friends.

if you watch and support the new harry potter show you are funding trans genocide globally by the way

choose your own adventure! cis people are either: a) so fucking headempty they forgot they already fucking did this or b) so fetishistically devoted to transmisogyny that the abuse has precessed to a stage of baudrillardian fever ritual

CrimethInc made leaflets for the No Kings marches & unsurprisingly they have no critique of the liberal American nationalist framework of the organizers. CrimethInc still haven't caught up w/ the anarchist Charles Leigh James who in 1886 already mentioned the colonial/slavery foundations of America

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

‘Love Story’ Inspires Viewers To Half-Ass Flying Lessons https://theonion.com/love-story-inspires-viewers-to-half-ass-flying-lessons/

anyone ever license any material from Library and Archives Canada? there were forms to fill out when i was there physically, but i can't find how to engage in that process online...

session 1 tl;dr: we spent more time unraveling QUITE a messy marriage than we did dispatching a suit of armor that was trying to stop us from getting that hot goss

Palestine Action hunger strikers to sue prisons over alleged mistreatment https://aje.news/a6543g

At the same time, Ford is spending $1.3 billion to bailout developers by converting unsold condos to rental apartments — none of which will be rent controlled. These policies don't make housing truly affordable; they primarily benefit developers, landlords, and investors. That's just the truth.

“No, I tried making them over-hard that one time, and it ruined your whole day, remember?” said Lorraine Helm

while I will count this as a win, these platforms have never been about art, OpenAI just secured a $200 million contract with the department of defense

SORA BURN AND CRASHHHHH 🎉

i briefly did marketing/comms for a law firm in 2024, who insisted i use chatGPT to speed up my work. it ended up taking me longer to do that work "assisted" by the LLM because i had to correct and fact check it all again anyway.

it’s fucking abolish ICE not “put ICE somewhere you imagine they may do marginally less harm, bc of some shit you just made up”

still time to join this one - session 1 is THIS WEDNESDAY!

so when are we going to blast loud jet noises outside of doug ford's house

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650

It enrages me that the Iran fiasco had basically relegated Israel’s absolutely horrific assault on Lebanon to a sideshow which barely gets noticed. That alone should be a crisis that grips the urgent attention of the entire world and nobody even notices.

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What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

For any other authors who've been putting off their Anthropic settlement submission: it took me like 7 minutes. The only thing I needed to look up was my publisher's mailing address / contact info.

so if i have this correctly: we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran masterful gambit

remember this list of services slated to be gutted by the man who knows he only has to make a nice speech when the cameras are on. Elbows up and all that.

Labour For Palestine has successfully passed resolutions that empower workers to refuse to handle Israeli goods at provincial labour feds across Canada. In May, their resolution to declare Israeli goods 'hot cargo' + cut ties with the Israeli labour federation heads to the Canadian Labour Congress

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In this profile from @grahamericlatham.bsky.social, Montreal’s Egyptian Cotton Arkestra build from contingency through fearless expression, playfulness, and fury shaped by the moment they’re in, together. “What happens if we’re here, in the now?” www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.

TD bank is currently running an ad with the song "human" by the killers, which is already making me bonkers in a situation where I have full control over muting it. I don't think I would last very long being forced to contemplate "are we human or are we dancer" over and over

It is positively depraved to argue that the impact of saying “genocide” around Jews is the same as saying the “n-word” around Black people. Complete, cartoon-level moral bankruptcy. archive.is/71B11

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I despise when tech execs describe resistance to a new tech product or paradigm as "being scared" i.e. "I understand why musicians are scared but.." it's so condescending. being politically against something or exercising your right to opt out can come from many places other than "being scared"

ill just say ive been in radical organizing spaces for 11 years now and they’ve generally been no better on rape culture than wider society. it doesn’t magically go away bc you’re part of a social movement. you have to make countering it a top priority and even then it’s uphill bc it’s so ingrained

If you like puppets and pure silliness, do yourself a favour and watch this short film youtu.be/asKRgc-JlDE?...

BREAKING: Venezuela rallies in the final inning to beat the United States 3-2 for its first World Baseball Classic title.

Cuba's electrical grid has suffered a complete and total collapse. It’s the first nationwide blackout since the US blocked the flow of oil to Cuba. This was entirely caused by the US. The US is strangling Cuba to death so it can come in & take control of the country.

youtu.be/cJER6WtOkjk?... stop whatever you’re doing and watch this in its entirety right now