“The new tech will track 29 body parts of each player as they move across the court — although which specific body parts and exactly how they will be tracked, AWS did not say.” Granular tracking of Black athletes’ “body parts” and the likely betting markets is a bit too on the nose for this moment

we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible

We need to figure out how to take a hard turn away from policing students. They didn't create this problem. Educators didn't create this problem. All attention on control and stricture is wasted, while further entrenching and legitimizing industry extraction. Let students live. Change your pedagogy.

There is nothing more likely to send me into a rage than hardware problems. I know, but that's my work that just became inaccessible, my god. First my drive failed, then in the process of troubleshooting, my BIOS demanded an update, now my HDMI out is broken too. Whyyyyy. Don't answer that.

There's no more money on the money tree. Venture Capitalists have run out. OpenAl threatens the future of available capital for the entire tech industry.

As someone currently on probation at Princeton, what also stands out here is the sham faculty governance on display: Faculty panel reviews all the evidence n decides there is no grounds for suspension. Admin overrules their decision n Provost Kavita Bala calls for significant disciplinary action.

History 2: Electric Boogaloo

christ on tiny little crackers, climateworld, we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action

Gods, yes. Tensions are so high right now, every little opportunity for levity can help. Pleeeeeeease.

I remember when I was a school kid with grandparents at home who'd lived through WWII, wondering what it was like for German school kids, what they learned in school, how they lived with the shame. I think our kids are about to find out.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Gotta say, the Miramar M.A.S. air show currently happening right over our heads hits different under the current political conditions. I used to like the Blue Angels as much as anyone, but sonic booms right over grad housing feel oppressive and bad now.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Me at my tenth rodeo: Okay, I think I've probably been to enough of these. Thanks

Did you... understand the episode you're riffing from? Not really? Huh.

good work, @merriam-webster.com

Liberals deepest fantasy is that at the end of their public life there will be a trophy ceremony for The Most Reasonable. Voted on, of course, by conservatives.

This is a signal to start hoarding Tylenol and get your MMR sorted, I figure. I have no other response to his weird, frantic, murderous chest-bearing.

Comey will play well to an NYT editorial board sort of audience. They love white guy moral theater. Sometimes they even treat it as participatory

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

It's nauseating what's happening to the neighborhood I left behind. I wish I could be there. I'm looking out for ways to help, but omfg this is just depraved.

I know you know this, but. It's to mock us. It's a dominance play. It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth. They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

In case you're wondering how it's going, I was just told that taking off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is discriminating against Christian opposing counsel.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at [email protected].

Social media was once positioned as the great connecting force that would improve our world. If it ever did that, it certainly isn’t now. We must rein in these platforms, and deceptive narratives aimed at stopped regulation isn’t helping. Age restrictions are an experiment worth trying.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Labor unions, faculty and students in the University of California education system sued President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday over the freezing of federal funds and other actions that they say aim to stifle academic freedom.

As someone who grew up in a state like this, I have to tell you: the *real* secret police is always your friends and coworkers, the professionals mostly sit back and watch people eat each other's faces.

We have Kirk’s killers own words about why he engraved the bullets, he said, “The fuckin messages are mostly a big meme, if I see "notices bulge uwu" on fox knew I might have a stroke.” He was trolling the media.

We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the receipts to prove it. www.eff.org/pages/our-s...

Oof. Like many of you, I grew up in a household where my mother was so enamored by Robert Redford that he felt like a faraway but somehow still present member of the family. She was right to idolize him, I think: he was such a good human. R.I.P., beautiful boy.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: 1. Getting caught in summer rain 2. Driving through a forest at golden hour 3. Coming back from travel to a tidy house 4. A perfectly cold, expertly poured pint 5. Late night convenience store buddies

Action alert! 🚨 Tell the Regents and UC that you do not want them to capitulate to Trump's demands. Submit a public comment today. LA Times reported on the demands today. See thread below. cucfa.org/sos-coalitio...

Some of the most toxic men I've ever met have been leftists, but I'm going to take a wild, wild guess that's not who's doing the "scolding" and "finger-wagging" he's talking about.

“Butler said they were told that the university’s normal procedures for handling complaints had been suspended, which has seemingly stripped faculty of their rights to respond to claims or get basic information about the inquiries”

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

What an expertly called shot

LOL

“I’m scared of what they’re gonna do in response to this” is beaten kid logic and it makes me sad for the people posting it today. They’re already doing fascism. It’s already here.

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Orem, Utah was not on my bingo card for this possibility.

Harvard can't use someone's race to decide if they are going to be a student, but ICE can use a student's race to decide if they are going to detain/incarcerate them. According to the Supreme Court, race can only be a factor if you want hurt, not help, someone.

ICE is in retreat. The Chicago Police Department is standing firm with their city. Chicago belongs to its people.