As to the argument the left should take AI hype seriously: Nah. It’s pretty straightforward to hold that AI hype is broadly a scam, and also believe capitalists will be delighted to replace human workers w/a cheaper and worse alternative. Entirely compatible, arguably even complementary ideas.

Spoke to @theguardian.com about moody synth music soundtracking gay porn in the ‘80s forgotten artists like Patrick Cowley, Man Parrish, Spider Taylor and Brandy Dalton www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

minor point of order since it keeps coming up, it's "Woke 2" and not "Woke 2.0". we're leaving tech industry bullshit behind too

Le then says she was told not to put any flight information in filings because protestors might show up at the airport. Judge Blackwell says, "This doesn't add up, I was told the airline raised the safety issue."

The original design featured Toussaint L'ouverture but the IOC rejected it claiming it was "too political". The new design features a riderless horse and the word Haiti. (Wow, damn!) The look created for women also has gold hoop earrings and a Haitian tignon which women were once forced to wear. 🇭🇹🥇

For 4Columns, I wrote about the Wilfredo Lam show at MoMA. He was the first Cuban artist to enter the collection, but his masterpiece, The Jungle, hung near the coatcheck for years. It’s a great show about an artist who saw his practice as an act of decolonization. 4columns.org/d-souza-arun...

In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:

Emergency Question answered? @herring1967.bsky.social

pissful protest

THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.

firm believer that 75% of posts should not be big important thoughts. countrymen lend me your housekeeping tasks, your handicrafts, your sandwich posts

Yeah, this MF needs to stop worrying about immigrants and start worrying about Gargamel stepping on his hometown

⚡ALL BILLS📝 🦋HAVE PASSED!!!🌈 Together WE cleared the hurdles needed to push for more. We aren't going anywhere. Our opposition has every resource available: the president, private prison corporations, and billions upon billions of $$$. What do we have? Each other. www.njaij.org/support

Everyone living it and being honest about it is an example to is all. I traveled to Chicago and DC last month and was deeply, deeply affected by casual bar conversations with locals about what they were seeing. It was scary, but hearing from them helped me calibrate to what's happening in new ways.

i love the idea that he was living ‘rent-free’ i dare you to try to charge him rent lol

Been thinking quite a lot this week about one of the very first cases I tracked of ICE detaining a U.S. citizen A year ago, ICE agents detained a 20 YO they said swerved his car at them But local Utah police checked security footage. And it wasn’t true ksltv.com/local-news/u...

oh fuck it, free to read www.patreon.com/posts/alrigh...

My phone died on NYE and I was able to switch to a new one just by popping in the physical SIM. If I'd had an ESIM I would have been stuck going to the T-Mobile store on NYE 🫠

NEW: One year after we lost our home in the Eaton Fire, I tell the exhausting story of our surreal and soul-crushing struggle...against our mortgage company and its cheerfully unhelpful minions. Please subscribe if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/147584...

I am now in love with this genre that I never knew existed before today.

Alvin Ailey #BornOnThisDay

We spoke with @jamesrball.com about the state of "anti-disinformation" research and journalism, which... ain't as good as it once was, to say the least. Orgs have shuttered, funders have pulled back, and governments have grown hostile. Where did things go so wrong? www.patreon.com/posts/068-ho...

FIRE HORSE YEAR LFG

zohran mamdani, mr mayor, can you get my stolen swords back or at least implement a sword distribution system

Learning now that by opening a Waymo’s door as you walk past it you can take it out commission AND create $20 of profit for a gig worker. Sounds like a win-win

Today's Gender.

Tomorrow is the last day of this holiday toy drive for Chicago families impacted by ICE. 41 of the 60 kids who were registered have had a present purchased. Organizers are hoping every child and family can receive a gift. Let's help them reach their goal! Venmo: KHPWtoydrive

Same, all it took was one skeet handful of almonds + butter + Tajin chili lime seasoning + roast function in air fryer 🥜🌶🍋‍🟩

Just thinking about this thread again for no reason

what is the "pushback" here exactly lol. "oh yeah, well i don't want to talk to you either"? yeah that's fine

Actual psychologist here, and there are 2 things I would like to point out: 1. This sort of "we tried our best / we weren't so bad" is very much a classic move of the awful authoritarian and/or narcissistic parent, they've always done this and social media has allowed them more reach 🧵

Here’s my #poem “Poem in which I Say Nice Things to Myself” as it appears in latest issue of Route 7 Review. Check out the full issue: www.r7review.com/copy-of-subm... #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Good news: after organizing a 16-month rent strike, tenants across 5 buildings in East Harlem have won 6 months' rent credit and repairs from Emerald Equities—and now they're exploring how they might turn the buildings into a community land trust. Kudos to @cvhaction.bsky.social for this win.

thinking about how FESTA/SOSTA and the crackdown on OnlyFans is followed by techbros getting in on the game by inventing the fiction that this very intimate labor is now automated. With this plus Sora they are getting the makings of a monopoly.

Justice Kavanaugh laid out the framework for how racial profiling is permissible by federal agents leading to what has now been coined as the “Kavanaugh Stop,” by professor Anil Kalhan. The full story: lataco.com/kavanaugh-st... By @eltragon.bsky.social

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

ppl keep responding with guesses of what she’s making an allusion to and anyway my point is just that making allusions without actually understanding the original reference is how you end up thinking that all it takes to be Joan Didion is a pair of sunglasses and a weather report

Darlings, please remember your alt text! Turn on the setting so you can't post images without it. (It's how I got into the habit.) It takes an extra 20 seconds to be inclusive. Do the thing.

The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.

Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)

It’s not complicated. The last NU board chair was the board chair of General Dynamics, which makes the shells for Istraeli tanks. No pro publica style investigation needed, journalists and faculty (and student speakers at the encampment!) have been screaming this for years. No one cares.

These fascists are weak. What they fear above all else is when people stand in solidarity together, and say to them “fuck you.”

If we can get all of Bret Stephens’ salary redirected to lazy pizza reviewers I will fully support the effort. You need at least 18 months to figure out what the four cheeses are in that four cheese pizza, you need a laboratory

beautifully said

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Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

20 years of doing the dork forest - here’s the best guests with shitty audio from 2009 before the pre recording began. @frankconniff.bsky.social and eddie pepitone jackiekashianinc.bandcamp.com/album/free-f...

At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.

With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…