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Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.

“Their motivation is to get a hold of our videos and the ability to create AI likenesses.”

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

I'm sorry, I can't take your article about climate change seriously since you used AN AI GENERATED 'IMAGE' TO START IT. 🤮

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

gonna be great when it's "hey, remember AI being shoved into everything?"

While NJ librarians were convening in Atlantic City at the joint NJLA/NJASL conference, Sen. Andy Kim was in Asbury Park thanking them for being “great pillars and models for protecting free speech” @njasl.bsky.social @ilovenjlibraries.bsky.social @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social @kim.senate.gov

I forgot that every LLM's logo was a butthole

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

So this so-called Board of Peace is just a colonial and fascist ponzi scheme, right?

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Y'all aren't fucking mad enough

NJ panel advances bills to strengthen immigrant protections, target ICE newjerseymonitor.com/2026/02/19/n...

History made in Chattanooga 💥🎆🎉

someone in the chat suggested that I was out of touch when it comes to AI and my counter to that is no I'm not

If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©

Grad school is hard enough without a supremacist government kidnapping you for weeks & then trying to deport you for months. A heroic accomplishment! Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk! 🥳

Workers have begun restoring the slavery exhibit in Philadelphia that was removed by the Trump administration

On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed, forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. #DayofRemembrance Among the internees were individuals who embraced photography as an important means of artistic expression in the 1920s and 1930s.

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I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia. But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

Why?

Mr. Fukuyama, it's time to end history for real this time. There is only so much breaking news that I can take per hour.

and oddly my university just eliminated our committees and worsing on our websites.....

Every administrator, every board of trustees, every president, chancellor who bent the knee to Trump and his cronies should immediately be stripped of their position and driven from their institutions.

who’s watching the corgis. are the corgis okay. do they need a foster home

I wonder if Jack Posobiec will specify what part of this show is White Culture? Is it this incest? The oppression of the poor? Or the royal backstabbing to stay on top? I want to make clear that I have watched GoT and will start reading the series.

I will never forget how wealthy elite universities like Northwestern took the opportunity to squash DEI and public school districts largely reliant on federal funds told Trump to go fuck himself and kept doing DEI (and won)

Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.

It's the weirdest thing. Say these things work (they do not): Isn't the pitch that these things do shit for you while you enjoy life? But these men do not want to (or are unable to) enjoy life. They want another hit from the slop machine. They are addicts and need help.

Americans are more likely to say AI will have a mostly negative effect on the economy than to say its effect will be mostly positive. (Economist / @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260218

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

this whole thread is fucking amazing. just folks doing so much more than every federally elected official. there’s a link in there to help fund this for people who aren’t in the whistletown, USA area. that’ll make sense if you read the thread. so…read the thread.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Rather than ascribing agency to machines that are built by other humans getting rich off of doing that, we should ascribe the agency to those humans and talk about what they're doing via their companies: stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor, and deceiving the public.

Man. Remember when Sarah Palin said Obamacare would empower "death panels"

The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

SCOOP: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

This is Flambo. He's using his talking dog buttons to accuse his small foster brother of being a cat. Nothing can convince him otherwise. 13/10 for both (IG: flambothedog)

of course they knew. IT WAS THEIR POLICY.

One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.