📌Just in case a MAGA in your life is lecturing you about respecting Lindsey Graham and the dead. Have a good day, everybody.

More of this. “According to Rachel Keith’s reporting for WHQR Public Media, the Upperman family viewed moving the scholarship as the best way to preserve the donor’s original intent while continuing to support Black student achievement.” hbcugameday.com/2026/07/08/p...

this fuckin pos

CHECK THIS OUT Symone Sanders spills the tea on how “Graham Platner was served up on a platter” for Maine. What happens when outside political players prioritize a candidate who fits their narrative, instead of doing rigorous, local vetting. 📌Folks think his campaign was grassroots but it wasn’t.

it's not a secret that @marisakabas.bsky.social is talented — but this in particular captures something important about the misogyny on the left. www.thehandbasket.co/p/graham-pla...

Queens Public Library is providing FREE lunches for kids and teens! You don't need to register—just come to one of our participating QPL branches from 1PM-2PM, Monday through Friday. Learn More about #FreeSummerMeals. queenslibrary.org/programs-act...

One of the best things that NYC does during the summer is to offer free Summer Meals to anyone 18 & under. No registration needed: www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/... - meals can be accessed at schools, parks, pools and libraries - through September 4 (breakfast and lunch).

If you’re concerned about the loss of digital historical materials over time, you can write a letter to your dean or president about the necessity of funding and sustaining archival labor. There are people who work towards mitigating digital ephemerality and they’re being laid off left and right.

always hearing terrible news about that platner guy. at this point i wouldn't be surprised if it came out that he had an actual nazi tattoo on his chest. i bet everyone would immediately cease supporting him to avoid embarrassing themselves, if that happened

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black man, went out with a group of people to Horn Island off the coast of Mississippi for a July 4th party. The people he went with returned. He did not. His body was found on the island yesterday.

god this is perfect for how to deal with administrators at universities

“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow

On why prioritizing shareholders above all else (including values and mission) is a losing strategy. www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tec...

the ideological through line here, btw, is that “racism is true”

under Alito’s jurisprudence, the “equal protection of the laws” means that racial subordination is constitutionally protected and ending racial subordination is constitutionally suspect

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

Read it!!!

Out today. it means a lot for this to be published on Juneteenth and before Father’s Day. classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/jav...

There are 116 data centres in the Greater Dublin area. www.datacentermap.com/ireland/dubl...

Pete Hegseth chose to allow Iran to defeat the our armed forces in order to demonstrate America’s Christ-like humility. by Ross Douthat

everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.

As Archbishop Tutu said about apartheid with regards to the Truth and Reconciliation hearings: "Those who claimed they did not know cannot very well say so now. They know.” Except we have internet. We have social media. People know now. We know. We cannot claim otherwise.

It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.

What's happening with Platner is why you hop off the bus at "he has a nazi tattoo"

how could anyone have known that the hotchkiss kid turned blackwater merc pretending to be working class was something other than what he appeared

What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?

even saying "tricked" is kind of generous. The hackers simply asked, and the chatbot gave them access.

This is a splendid essay by Dr. Stephanie Wong. 🍲

To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. AI has a revenue ceiling and an economic mismatch with its customer base.

There is no decision any city can make more catastrophically stupid than running a f'ing interstate right through the middle of itself. It's just one of the fatefully stupid decisions Seattle has made, but it might be the worst.

The left: The Homeric epics are really important and we should fund the humanities and everyone should study literature. But hey, did you know other people three thousand years ago also told stories? The right: Black woman movie bad The Atlantic: I can't believe the left did this.

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The AAACC is proud to announce the launch of our brand-new Kristina Chew Paper Prize! Please share widely within your networks and encourage your students and colleagues to submit!

Happy Mother's Day

Climate change is costing working people thousands of dollars a year, and if we had people in the party that were doing the work to break it out, we would be better off.

"The Faculty Senate Chair deviated from the remarks he had shared before the ceremony. The Chair’s comments were inappropriate and do not represent our institutional position. Nor do they represent the diversity of views across our entire faculty." -UM president president.umich.edu/news-communi...

I understand why the lawyers settled for it but $1.5 billion from Anthropic was not enough It should have been in the several billions and now every company knows that the cost of perpetual plagiarism (among problems) is a fixed amount of $1.5 billion

"...there’s a small problem with this spin. It’s that the Iranians were already negotiating with Trump before the war started." Iranians also negotiated a deal in 2015 that included the demand that they abandon their nuclear weapons programs. Fun fact: It didnt require any war costs to accomplish.

Hideous concentration camps. In America.

Oh, word? Copilot is for entertainment purposes only? So it was several billion dollars and multiple cross-sector privacy and consent violations all for a gag, then? Neat-o, Microsoft. Real keen.

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Sky drama

Did you know that there is one group of Americans who are not entitled to birthright citizenship? People born American Samoa are classified instead simply as “U.S. nationals” — and as a result they cannot vote or run for office anywhere else in the country. Much more here, for anyone curious:

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

ANTHROPIC IS USING AI TO FUCK UP OUR CLAIMS ABOUT THE USE OF AI???? okay I feel like we should sue again for this

Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

1. I think it's time for us to accept the bitter truth. We are going to pay, and continue paying for a long time to come, for the president’s war of choice against Iran. Such are the consequences of politics. Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.