Emily Pothast
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For the third year in a row, we've gathered an ensemble of cosmic improvisers for a night of sounds conducive to dreams and other nocturnal visions. If you happen to be in the Bay, come join us!
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16 days ago
So so pleased to see this! Chloe deserves all the plaudits for this incredible album, such a honour to help put it out Huge thanks to
@emilypothast.bsky.social
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@thewiremagazine.bsky.social
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Charles Louis Richter
18 days ago
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Tristan Sturm
28 days ago
My piece in Jacobin published today on Peter Thiel's apocalyptic geopolitics w/ Rory Rowan (just 17 years after we agreed to write something together on the End!)
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Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power...
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/peter-thiel-palantir-apocalypse-antichrist
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Important piece of reporting by
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Inside the extended courtship linking Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and Israeli officials
A hacked trove of emails reveals the revolving door of political leaders, tech billionaires, and intelligence officers.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/23/extended-courtship-linking-jeffrey-epstein-peter-thiel-israeli-officials/
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If you happen to be in the Town o' Beans for
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Dave Itzkoff
2 months ago
We just live in a john carpenter movie now.
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Oldish news at this point, but I'm hono(u)red to have interviewed Natural Information Society for the 500th issue of
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Please take the time to read about how these orders effectively criminalize all dissenting political speech and activity, allowing Trump to take the same actions he has taken against foreign terrorists against any citizen suspected of being opposed to fascism
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition
Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-orders-targeting-antifascism-aim-criminalize-opposition
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy. A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the monarchy $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.
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ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-third-country-deportation-monarchy-eswatini-legal-black-hole-trump/
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KATU TV, a Sinclair-owned Portland station, has started broadcasting a livestream of the ICE building to let viewers decide if what is happening warrants a military presence. I just turned on the livestream and this is what I saw.
katu.com/watch
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Brandi Buchman
3 months ago
Today's word is plenary authority. plenary authority | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
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Frames
3 months ago
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.
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3 months ago
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
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Ro Khanna
3 months ago
Trump's NSPM-7 represses freedom of speech & association, investigating any organization with "anti-capitalism" or "anti-American" views. I ran a primary in 2003 against the Patriot Act & war in Iraq. NSPM-7 is a greater infringement on freedoms than the Patriot Act.
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Ro Salarian
3 months ago
I'm 30 minutes into watching Lost Boys for the first time, and there's no heterosexual explanation for every single moment of this so far. Every single person looks like someone in my friend group and my friend group is queer as hell.
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You guys I have a theory about where the political violence is actually originating.
newrepublic.com/post/201016/...
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GOP Official Calls for Democratic Congresswoman to Be Executed
As the nation talks about the rise of political violence, a Republican official blatantly called for Representative Pramila Jayapal to be hanged.
https://newrepublic.com/post/201016/republican-official-calls-democratic-congresswoman-jayapal-executed
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Ken Klippenstein
3 months ago
The new directive NSPM-7 targeting "anti-Christian," "anti-American" and "anti-capitalist" speech as terrorism is being taken very seriously by top DC law firms — but Congress is silent.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
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Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent
Domestic terror watchlist to double, sources say
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-alarms-law-firms-while
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Here's what appears to be a good legal explainer regarding the new 'antifa' executive order and NSPM-7, and how they are likely to be used.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Situation: The Nonsense and the Menace
Reading the president’s new orders on political violence and terrorism.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--the-nonsense-and-the-menace
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I do understand how we got here and I did watch it happen incrementally but it's still pretty disorienting to go from "free speech is the cornerstone of our society" to "if you say you do not like fascism you will be hunted down as a terrorist" but I guess them's the breaks!
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In other news from Portland...
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According to the Portland police, federal cops are are currently attempting to 'instigate' confrontations with protesters outside the ICE building.
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Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court
Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/09/federal-cops-instigating-confrontations-with-protesters-outside-ice-building-portland-police-official-says-in-court.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawNFR99leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvqlpBeadQ2zsX80GGsKNsnp2KDmSC43RP5S490DajFq2WLexCUR8fxThwb9_aem_QQAAod1sBP-pe4veStilMA
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Is this going to be the pretense for literal AI-powered witch hunts?
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We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk
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This might be the single best thing that has been written to date about the technologies marketed as AI.
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Nick Posegay
4 months ago
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
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Barberskum Med Duft & The Ontario Witch Balls
4 months ago
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jesse jarnow
4 months ago
love that marshall allen is entering a new far-out experimental phase at age 101. long jams inside dreamy/almost-dubby atmospheres on "the onniverse orki" with the ade ilu ensemble & the arkestra's dm hotep (pairing well with the recent ghost horizons collection)
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The Omniverse Oriki, by Marshall Allen
3 track album
https://hightwo.bandcamp.com/album/the-omniverse-oriki
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Grading student papers and I keep getting startled by the uncanny quality of "AI"-assisted prose. The difference between a paragraph written by a human and a paragraph written by an LLM is like the difference between a photo of a human face and a photo of a latex Halloween mask of that face.
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Hausu Mountain
5 months ago
🗿🌋 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼 𝗟𝗮𝘃𝗮 - 𝙐𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙚𝙞 - reviewed in the new issue of
@thewiremagazine.bsky.social
by
@emilypothast.bsky.social
🥳 Consider subscribing to the greatest music magazine in the world. We love our digi subcription and all the rare Aphex photos we can pull up. 𝙐𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙚𝙞 comes out next Thursday!
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After some 8 years of contributing to the magazine, my household finally has a physical subscription of The Wire. In this one, I reviewed the new Pharaoh Overlord.
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Excited to read this!
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Nabalkattu
5 months ago
Wake up honey new Sumerian underworld myth just dropped, translated by the Assyriologist Jana Matuszak!
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As the dominant narratives around Gaza shift, please don't forget that the Israeli historian Raz Segal called it "A Textbook Case of Genocide" less than one week after Oct. 7, 2023. We knew what was happening. We just lacked the political will to stop it.
jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-c...
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A Textbook Case of Genocide
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
5 months ago
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When the couple buying you drinks at the Coldplay concert gives you that look 😏
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Justin🦩Boldaji
6 months ago
This is genuinely the news every day
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Excited to read this book!
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In the past week I watched The Shrouds, Superman, and finished Andor. What struck me about all three is how the realities of actual surveillance fascism have effectively surpassed the ability of screenwriters to imagine dystopian uses of technology in the service of domination and control.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link
6 months ago
cnn editor: u got that story on ice? cnn reporter: sure did boss, real fuckin hypernormalized, just like u asked cnn editor: first of all, i love it
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Analysis: Meet the new national police force | CNN Politics
The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren’t afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers, and pluck nonviolent undocumented immigrants off the street is about to become the best-funded federal police ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-cbp-police-los-angeles-immigration
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Kat Abughazaleh
6 months ago
Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police:
newrepublic.com/post/197612/...
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Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined
It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.
https://newrepublic.com/post/197612/congress-ice-trump-budget-immigration?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Bluesky
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Anthony Oliveira
6 months ago
But the day and hour when the Venga Bus shall come, no man knows - neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but My Father only.
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Noah Shachtman
6 months ago
If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
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Kat Abughazaleh
6 months ago
happy zohran day to all who celebrate
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Dr. Bradley Onishi
6 months ago
A reminder that the apocalypse is what alot of people in Trump’s orbit want.
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Weekly Roundup: Iran, the End Times, and Christian Nihilism + Appeal to Heaven Flag at the SBA
Podcast Episode · Straight White American Jesus · 06/20/2025 · 52m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/straight-white-american-jesus/id1441649707?i=1000713875782
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During his lifetime, most Americans disparaged MLK's protests as violent. Whether we agree on today's methods is immaterial. Even if these protests were 100% peaceful, media orgs would find a way to blame the protesters for violence brought against them.
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It is important for all Americans to understand how the same right-wing think tank responsible for Project 2025 is behind the plan that has been used to crush the movement for Palestinian rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plan to Crush the U.S. Palestinian Movement (Gift Article)
Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.VtLU._-HpNk61hGx-&smid=url-share
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Molly Quell
8 months ago
The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
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Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3
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ACLU
8 months ago
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
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I interviewed the wonderful Quinton Barnes for the new issue of The Wire.
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