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.

Wow. AI is following the material and becoming just as threatening as unhinged humans. Which should surprise no one.

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

This was a 2023 experiment. It shows the radicalised racialised owner is getting an ideological impact for his $$$$ In principle, those opposed to racism & Trumpism would think strategically about any options to reduce its reach over time. The UK Labour govt doesn't see that as its goal/role

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

New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.” Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.

For the last few days, our lift has been out of order because it made a very scary noise. We are pleased to report that we are once again fully flat access to all galleries with a lift in full working order. It turned out, the lift needed lube. The moral of the story is lube is IMPORTANT.

Accusing activists of having links to terrorism has led to non-profit funds being frozen and local climate projects being delayed or scrapped.

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

every British historian rn frantically trying to find examples of British royals being arrested that don’t end with their execution

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

A detainee died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody reut.rs/4aY1wgH

oh you think white people don't have culture? what about this sickly family of incestuous warlords from a book i didn't read?

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

This is a very interesting new paper in Nature about the role that feed algorithms on X play in influencing political attitudes. No paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

‘Well, look, if I’m going to import the cars anyway, then I’d rather import less oil. We may as well import the one that cleans up local air quality and is cheaper to buy.’ The Great Story of the Extraordinary EV boom in Ethiopia www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Lovers (mid 20thc) by Remedios Varo, Catalan-Mexican para-surrealist painter and anarchist #WomensArt

There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Trauma recovery is about confronting our programming around needing to be "perfect"-- because that perfectionism sh*t is almost always powerfully tied to internalized shame & coercion. "Nobody's perfect" is not just a cute platitude. We need to take that conditioning seriously.

We are deeply concerned by reports that #HamdanBallal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, has been attacked in the #WestBank by the same settlers who targeted him following last year’s Oscar win. Those responsible must be brought to justice.

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Würden die anderen Filmschaffenden nur ein wenig Rückgrat haben, würden sie sich aus der #Berlinale zurückziehen bis ihre Kollegen aus dem Sudan ein Visum erhalten haben. Das ist eigtl. das Minimum an polit. Positionierung. Nicht mitzumachen an Event, zu dem nicht alle dürfen

Crossroads. Midnight. Stake. Heart.

New scandal at #Berlinale. After Wim Wenders refused to comment on Israel/Palestine and requested the Berlinale to stay out of politics, now foreign office added next scandal, refusing visas for Sudanese filmmakers. A #Berlinale in Fortress Europe is not possible www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim...

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Solar on the rise in gas-rich Pennsylvania reut.rs/4kHtQaw

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

Fascinating paper. Even as LLMs get better and better at choosing what to do in different medical scenarios, when used by members of the public the performance is no better than in a control group. So either we need better humans, or we need to think about deployment! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BELIEVE THE WOMEN

what this story demonstrates is that even someone "just" using LLMs like ChatGPT for writing/research etc is still vulnerable to being sucked into a whirlpool of dangerous lies and delusions. So, once again, WHY are schools and universities telling students, staff and faculty to use this?

FBI won’t provide Minnesota investigators with evidence in Alex Pretti killing, state says minnesotareformer.com/briefs/fbi-w...

Millions of men and women from every corner of the globe and professing every faith fought for for freedom in World War Two. Here is a picture of Sikh infantry from the 13th Frontier Force Rifles fighting in France. They also best Nazis back from Egypt to Tunisian & helped to liberate Italy!

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

Africa has 11 percent of the world’s population and 24 percent of the global disease burden, yet only 3 percent of the world’s health workers and less than 1 percent of global health expenditure.

It doesn't matter how. It doesn't matter who. It doesn't matter where. It doesn't matter why. Torture is never acceptable and always illegal.

These pictures show Free Italians, Morrocans, Poles and South Africans helping to liberate Italy from the fascist scum. Don't fall for the propaganda coming from the White House. It took a global order of peoples to beat the Nazis. Only together can we win.

US Southern Command sinks new boat, kills 3 near Venezuela

Real life scenario: Guy tells his significant other - “future is inevitable, we’ll be together, we share so much history, we are practically one person, so for that - I need you to change your appearance, get rid of your friends, close doors and windows, be with me, on my terms” Message of unity?

Rubio speech at MSC—in short: US sees global trade, diplomacy, migration, immigration, global institutions and global affairs in general as a “foolish post-WWII mistake” and invites Europe “so save itself by each protecting sovereignty, closed borders, and Christianity” alike Trump’s America.

Turkey: Unusual footage shows water buffaloes soaking in hot springs

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...