Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

The only reason to require a FOIA for what are functionally press releases hosted by a third party is the erasure of history.

This was the textbook with the image that read "Of Nerniacular Latin to An Evoolitun on Nance Langusages"

Does anyone have statistics on extortion payouts for leak-but-not-encrypt extortion?

#Hair of the week The Combat Zone, Boston by Jerry Berndt (1970)

There's...a lot going on here.

Are we, as a species, done with Dubai chocolate?

New: Trump's administration tonight told a Boston judge that his proposal that it issue a student visa to a Babson College student it deported to Honduras in violation of a court order is "unfeasible" and said ICE declines to facilitate her return. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Would love for people with ME/CFS to check this out—as well as any researchers or healthcare providers who’ve ever worked with someone with ME/CFS! #Medsky

Technically, he is a White House staffer.

So stupid. This doesn’t hurt Harvard. It does hurt the military by denying promising officers the ability to further their education and expand their horizons.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Werner Herzog

so uh what’s going on with socialist reddit

THIS IS INSANE. (both headlines are at the NYT site right now)

Giannis is bad now. We are done with Giannis.

Kenworthy's handwriting urinating in the snow is better than my actual handwriting, and I'm not sure what to do with that.

Two more photos from today's student protests, both from The Tribune's Rick Egan. Read about the protests here: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

I‘ve never heard of an intelligence tactic that was not military grade. There isn’t a junior varsity intelligence squad.

Kenworthy's handwriting urinating in the snow is better than my actual handwriting, and I'm not sure what to do with that.

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Did rideshare just break?

In other words, platform liability 👇

The most interesting part about this has been watching people ask if the lyrics are real and go through increasingly tortured efforts to research it without having to listen to the song.

The only way DEI would be responsible for an energy outage is if White people made better fuel.

It's weird that Miller never breaks out the big guns in these cases - threatening to wear Air Force 1s consistently in public until Nike settles.

Howard Cosell was fired for referring to an athlete as a monkey nearly 25 years ago. This isn’t a woke norm. This is just a norm.

Triumph of the Wilco.

I've been saying this for ages! Has anyone ever actually seen sex!? I mean, I for one have nev - *aide urgently whispers something in my ear* - huh. Really? Ok, not sure about that, Velocci.

Noam Chomsky puts a lot of people in a weird position. Chomsky was never the intellect his name was shorthand for, but Manufacturing Consent is pretty foundational. If he was a fiction writer, you could boycott the book. But to not teach MC would be to give him ownership a literal swath of reality.

oh well done

Death Camp For Cutie over here

US taxpayer “slush fund to get MAGA-style things going” & “fund European organisations to undermine government policies”, says Reform UK source. www.ft.com/content/f869...

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

There’s a pretty big delta between the long term benefit and the short term yikes of this. In the short term, open source software isn’t staffed to fix dozens of vulns at a time. If Claude will be public, so will a lot of problems that projects won’t have the bandwidth to fix right away.

Our courts are not staging grounds for federal immigration enforcement. These actions make it more difficult, and in some cases impossible, to get victims and witnesses to come to court to testify. www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...

It's been a rough week. Here's the Mr. Rogers breakdancing video.

This is actually real. And it's very illustrative of what DOJ has done. The document in question has redaction boxes over the face of every femme-looking person (including the Mona Lisa). It's clearly done using some sort of AI-assisted process.

If anyone wants to make me a venture capitalist, I promise it will be really interesting. Won't be profitable, but I still think you'll get your money's worth.

Dan Olsen made a video about a decade ago that I think is pretty instructive on the Helen of Troy debate.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Rage Against The Dying Of The Light" Pin. Bezos is dismantling the Washington Post, the government is covering up ICE crimes, and the ultra rich are trying to bury the Epstein files. We're gonna need more rage, and lots of it. collabs.shop/bvpqrk

I have accomplished nothing today and now I'm going to eat lunch.

If anyone wants to make me a venture capitalist, I promise it will be really interesting. Won't be profitable, but I still think you'll get your money's worth.

They're a requirement

I count at least two hills in this not to die on. It's a rolling countryside.

Imagine, for a second, how many people it would take to surround a single polling place. As of January 4, ICE had 22,000 agents. Georgia has 2,300 polling places. Was your number greater than 10?

If you're nervous about the midterms, channel that energy into helping secure them.

Noam Chomsky puts a lot of people in a weird position. Chomsky was never the intellect his name was shorthand for, but Manufacturing Consent is pretty foundational. If he was a fiction writer, you could boycott the book. But to not teach MC would be to give him ownership a literal swath of reality.

Noam Chomsky is the Harry Potter of Howard Zinns.