“For me, the racism very much shows just how embedded and how tied anti-Blackness is with our ideas of work and labor and service and servitude.”

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all. Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

Innovations in capitalism from OpenAI www.ft.com/content/5f6f...

this is a very well-reported piece and if you didn't read it last year please read it this year

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Again, whoever does this should have to immediately give their job to the nearest adjunct, post-doc or senior grad student.

I agree. We need to start appropriately identifying these as extrajudicial killings and murders by agents for the state.

“A clear visual clue that the photograph was not taken in Portland was that the first officer’s shield is marked “Policia”, the Spanish or Portuguese word for police.” 🧘🏾‍♂️🧘🏾‍♂️🧘🏾‍♂️

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Imperial boomerang: www.dropsitenews.com/p/trumps-blu...

Literally I log online and almost every day, another one of my friends has been arrested or fired in America. Because we are a bunch loudmouth, non-white (often faggy) bitches lol

The guy buying the Portland Trail Blazers is using a fortune "that was built on predatory lending. ... He made lots of profit ... on the backs of low- and poor-credit individuals.” And now the team is poised to ask for public money to stay in Portland. www.propublica.org/article/tom-...

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Challenge to leaders of private elite universities: work with others. Cherminsky is right ofc. But elite privates think they’re way too special to follow anyone else’s lead. They are convinced they’ll win more by going it alone (and going along).

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

Illegal Chicago Raid Makes ICE The Only Jackbooted Fascists In The Building www.wonkette.com/p/illegal-ch... By Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

The way this made me laugh! 🤣

A Reagan-appointed judge has issued a scathing ruling rebuking the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestine students. Judge William G. Young called the case AAUP v. Rubio “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court”

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

This is not who he means, but increasingly it is the long-time readers and subscribers to the Post that don't trust it. There is no real business model here, since Murdoch already owns the market Bezos is going for. It is very much about establishing a working relationship with the Trump admin.

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others: we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Talk about a chilling effect. Most universities prohibit recording faculty members, and you would think that even stronger protections apply to recording other students.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

This is kinda incredible that renters from multiple units in a realtor's portfolio are organizing for tenants' rights.

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

The reason they create devices is not to solve a problem but instead to build something that makes you a more perfect stream of data for them to monetize. www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

This should really exist here

Two-thirds of Costa Ricans perceive that the arrival of foreigners is driving up land prices and the cost of living, and 84 percent see the need for a law to control the sale of land with high scenic value, reports Álvaro Murillo. beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invita...

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the disciplining of one goon on a squad of goons means very little but I am glad to see it. we need to continue publicizing the brutal tactics of ICE as much as possible www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

War is peace, freedom is slavery, regulation is the antichrist.

War criminals are proposing a war criminal as head of.... Gaza. It would be precious comedy if it were not so tragic www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

Same for Zuckerberg

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

the AGI and data in question:

Fantastic new @stand.earth report on Microsoft's environmental impacts. Under its current investments, its energy consumption could grow to more than 105 TWh (a bit under the total power consumption of the Netherlands, for scale) by 2030 So much detail in this report: stand.earth/resources/gl...

Good afternoon, I deleted my academia dot edu profile because of its AI shift (including pablum podcast summaries of articles) and finally put together a website with the assistance of my primo. Check it out: ericvazquezphd.com

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

Cornelius Taylor, a homeless man in Atlanta, was killed when the city tried to clear his encampment. His death epitomizes the country's approach to homelessness: criminalize it and push it out of sight. Here's who he was and what he meant to those who loved him: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...