@katestrasdin.bsky.social? @fourredshoes.bsky.social?

“It will not succeed in cowing faculty and academic workers, in sowing division, or in keeping us from supporting our neighbors in need,” the professors said in the statement. “We will continue to fight for the colleges, universities, and communities we deserve.” — @ncaaup.bsky.social

Everything "Smart" spies on you. It has to be constantly listening or it doesn't know when you need it or what you need. And then of course there's all that sweet, sweet data on you to send to its corporate overlord to sell on the open market. Any company that tells you otherwise is lying.

So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

If you give me a smart home device as a gift you should know I am going to hit it with a hammer

First, obviously, fuck Rumble. It’s a site by assholes for assholes. But this technique of impersonating famous people to con their fans is rampant online, and social features have to be designed to combat it. “Ke Huy Quan” just sent me a DM on TikTok yesterday, for example.

It’s all rainbows in Coral City 🌈🦜🐟🪸🌆 #rainbowparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #mohawk #closeup #glowup #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

I wondered what he was up to

The White House doesn’t offer a plausible legal rationale because the orders are illegal. Various lawyers wouldn’t sign off on it because the orders are illegal. Trump flipped out at veterans saying don’t follow illegal orders because he’s giving illegal orders. Real Occam’s razor situation here.

And good news also for those looking for UK theses: "interim, metadata-only version of EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) in early 2026" with links to repositories & further worked planned. 👍

I've always admired Brian Eno for his attempt at designing music that stayed far enough in the background that one could listen to it all day, every day, without psychic pain.

This sounds very nice and all that but what incrementalism will not do is destroy the fascist-tech bros & the xian nationalist oligarchs who are deforming state politics. Ditto neoliberalism, conservatism, or any centrism that seeks to maintain our status quo that favors the totalitarians.

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

Jamal Khashoggi came from a prominent Saudi family but fled his country in June, 2017, after he'd become increasingly critical of his government. The Saudi journalist was murdered in 2018. n.pr/43JW7WJ

"That great thud was the sound of White House reporters’ jaws hitting the floor of the Oval Office. That shredding noise was the sound of Republican strategists destroying their playbook to demonise Mamdani as the Marxist face of the Democrats." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

I liked the part where the president suddenly sang, "Because I knew you...I have been changed for good."

just great

She's still really upset that the defectors were mean to her too. Reminds me of Ann Freedman, who in the Netflix documentary about the Knoedler forgery scandal was still genuinely outraged that one of her colleagues reported the gallery for selling forged paintings, even though it 100% totally was.

Boy, Nancy Salzman's complaint that people blamed her just because the spiritual teacher whose "technology" she built her entire philosophy and organization around ran turned out to be running an anorexic sex slave cult out of it at the same time does not come off as particularly.......credible.

GUESS WHO WON😂

He’s in love!

They found a frame where Mamdani has his eyebrows up, can't help but feel that choice of photo is racialized. I prefer this one bsky.app/profile/moll...

If you’ll be my bodyguard I can be your long-lost pal I can call you Fascist And Fascist, when you call me You can call me Al

Love this

Narrative: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrdoKeHn/

DHS lies from top to bottom. Pay attention to which news sources state "ICE was mistaken" or related nonsense. "Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney offered to drive the teen back to school, but ICE agents surrounded his car and demanded they exit the vehicle. They reportedly threatened to ... 1/

The story, with @bethreinhard.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com Naftali Bendavid, Luis Melgar, Tucker Harris: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... And our look at the top 20 billionaire donors (Elon Musk is not #1!) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Well, we know who the traitors are.

Why do they give? “If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” John Catsimatidis told @bethreinhard.bsky.social. “I worry about America and the way of life we have.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.

This is what is happening.

TONIGHT’S new-ish book in the #UrbanismBookClub is an important one — “Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities” by @veronicaodavis.bsky.social via @islandpress.bsky.social (2023). Foreword by @tamikabutler.bsky.social, cover art by @martyn.bsky.social. Great read. 2/

SOMETHING NEW: Since SO MANY great new books on cities, city-building & urbanism have been published since I did my “Top 100” List back in 2013, on 100 (non-consecutive) days I’ll profile 100 NEWER BOOKS for the #UrbanismBookClub in THIS thread! Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/

Gib dollar pls

not good www.wired.com/story/senato...

Two fans of show tunes! They were bound to hit it off.

Charismatic individual knows how to handle old man with dementia is about what it boils down to.

Eh, Trump has no loyalty to anything or anyone but himself. He doesn't actually care about the Republicans or their ideals. He looks at Mamdani as the winner Trump's also easily swayed, all it takes is a few compliments. Mamdani is charismatic and could easily run circles around him.

The Fox website doesn't yet have anything up on the summit, but this story is still high on the home page. Taking a few minutes to shift gears

Ok yeah Mamdani seems to have nailed it. If in the following weeks he looks like he actually UNDERSTANDS what he did, then the Dems might finally have a person who understands the concept of main and supporting objectives, and knows how to attack multiple objectives simultaneously.

Yes, you can be a fighter and still occasionally meet with the people you're fighting. It happened in WW2, it's happening in Ukraine today. I think Mamdani might be smart enough to navigate it and figure out how to use it advantageously. I can't say the same for most Dems.

Mamdani just got millions upon millions of dollars worth of free advertising and a brand glow-up for the DSA, and now he can just go back to NYC and work on exactly the same policies he was always going to work on, and some people are complaining about this. Incredible stuff.

If we cannot replace @schumer.senate.gov with a negotiator like Mamdani, then let's force him to retire.

Hahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 they look so lost, they are going to short circuit on live tv 😂

The Rhodes Scholar is baffled…