For those not familiar with "destructive scanning", this means Anthropic would buy up millions of physical books, use “hydraulic powered cutting machines” to chop them up, scan the pages on “high speed, high quality, production level scanners,” then send the pages to recycling companies!!!

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Subscribing to Aftermath is never a mistake

UKY colleagues, I'm hiring a federal work-study student to support design and comms for the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment! Key info: * $16-$18 * Some previous experience required (personal, volunteer, and coursework projects count) * Deadline 2/26 Please share!

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

omg can someone ban the US from using teams too

I wonder if it has occurred to anyone at the Atlantic in this moment, that perhaps spending the past decade creating false equivalency between the avowed fascist movement on the right, and the college kids protesting fascists on college campuses was a mistake?

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The guy was being held down on the ground by like 6 scumbags and he was shot point blank while doubled over on his knees after the piece of shit pistol whipped him several times. Now you don’t have to watch.

Here we go.

Thank you autocorrect I did in fact mean to type "Barely Lyndon"

i do think that when you find yourself having to pivot from defending kidnapping a five year old to defending kidnapping a TWO YEAR OLD then it’s for sure time to curl up where you stand and slowly transform into a dried husk which will remain in place for centuries as a warning to others

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

When Big Tech tells you that they aren't keeping your data to sell you things, never, ever believe them.

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

hey you know what's a kitchen table issue: people getting murdered and/or disappeared and NOT GETTING TO SIT AT THEIR KITCHEN TABLES ANY MORE FFS

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

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I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

gold rush could falter without more people dislocating their lives to pan for gold

www.freeheirloomseeds.org/index.html Did you all know you could get some free heirloom seeds (they do ask for a tiny donation but it’s not required).

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And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class. If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class. Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.

Critic's Pick: "Concert documentary 'You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine' considers the beloved late songwriter in a new light."

I’m updated the list of resources for my Video Games as Literature course for the first time since 2023 and it’s making me realize anew how much the landscape has changed.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

It me

Isuroon is direct support to the Somali community www.givemn.org/donate/Isuro...

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

loving Game Poems, a new "online playable magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames" www.gamepoems.com

Hey psst www.decayedorbitbooks.com

Teaching Video Games as Literature again this semester. This time around, doing Secret of Monkey Island, Celeste (always), and Citizen Sleeper as the three main games for the course. For quick, partial in-class playthroughs, thinking about Q-UP, Despelote, and Venba among others!

On today's podcast, @anetv.bsky.social on AI literacy: "Every time I use the term, it hurts my soul a little bit.” Annette and I talk about "AI literacy," computational literacy via vibe coding, what students want you to know about AI, and more! intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...

Twin Peaks: A Varied Thrush from the opening titles.

Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location. Download, mirror, and reshare. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Hey #teamrhetoric: I'm part of a team submitting a proposal to RSQ for a special issue on conspiracy theories. If you're doing work on conspiracy rhetoric outside of the US or using a feminist/queer/trans or BIPOC lens, I want to know about it! Please reach out or share with a friend!

Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...

It was good to see a lot of people in Nashville turn out this evening for a vigil for Renee Nicole Good and many others who were killed by ICE and law enforcement. Lots of good inspiring speakers, and a crowd that wants a better, more just world. www.newschannel5.com/news/watch-l...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

It's been a rough week already, but on Tuesday before class I recorded a brief introduction to my Intro to Literary Studies course, giving some local context and intellectual framing for why I think the serious study of games, game-writing, game criticism, & more is worth trying.