Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

This would be, in every way, worse than a Netflix-WB deal. No point in preserving the integrity of the theatrical experience for a company funded by a right-wing ideologue. I don't believe there's a world in which Larry Ellison funds One Battle or Sinners. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/b...

This situation has a Goodhart’s law feel to it. “Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.” The regularity here is the current signal of reputation systems. The pressure is AI-based exploits. They’ll devalue those systems.

A lot of 1990s photos of Oasis look like this to me.

This might actually be the most peak "dead internet theory" example I've ever seen. An AI bot writing a hit piece on an open source maintainer because they rejected its AI slop pull-request.

Oh it got better. Ars Technica used ai to write a story about it me it made quotes up. arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

The trump administration and the tech oligarch Epstein class are the greatest threat to Americans' free speech rights in our nation's history

Prashad has never cared when sexual violence was carried out—even on a mass scale—by state actors he supports and so it’s quite hard not to see his letter criticizing Chomsky as hypocritical, and a mere matter of damage control

My nutrition app suggested I eat more pussy.

Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees' constitutional rights #ICEOUT #Whipple #FDT #Epstein #GTFO thehill.com/regulation/c...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

if you're optimistic you'd expect a Taiwanese American alpine skier competing for Guinea-Bissau would have a wholesome story behind it, but instead he and his daddy are just colonizers. god i hate my people sometimes and Taiwan needs to be called out more for its neocolonialism

“Over the past week, I've watched websites sending TikTok data about cancer diagnoses, fertility and even mental health crises. It's part of a tracking empire that extends far beyond the social media platform.”

Uk folk. Our public services shouldn’t be open to a secretive profit-hungry probably insecure US tech firm. I just signed the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive Palantir. So could you? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

How do you say "I fucking hate you and never want to see you again as long as I live?" in Seattle Speak? "We should hang out some time!"

With Syria’s Kurdish regions under siege from jihadi militias, more than 300 activists have mobilised a ‘People’s Caravan’ to Rojava in solidarity — and to denounce their abandonment by Western powers.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Reminds me of this perfect picture of litter, cum, and recyclable. Oh, and there's also a sign. Source: Telegram (Dec 2019)

I assume Thomas Massie is getting death threats. Every Democrat and every Republican that crosses Trump (eg. Raffensperger) gets them. Only Massie knows how credible they are. However, still jarring to see these half-performative, half-serious statements being issued by a sitting Member of Congress

Chinese dissidents have issued such notarized statements for the past two decades, in case they later die under mysterious circumstances and authorities rule their deaths as "suicide", a practice more commonly known as "suicided" (被自殺). The term "suicided" is banned on the Chinese internet.

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

This is an incredible labour of love. Do read the thread as well as it has some important points to know.

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

Guess it's that time of the year to wheel this out... 😏

It bears repeating that the only reason Congress wasn’t massacred that day is because of a series of tactical errors on the part of the coup forces, not any sort of broad strategic restraint Morally and strategically it would have been fully justifiable to turn on the leaden fire hose

WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side. Will DHS retract the prior claims?

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Sadists all the way down

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Nazi shit.

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas. As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She replied: “To get out of here.”

New: Remember Miko, the Google-affiliated AI touchscreen toy robot for young children? Turns out that until yesterday, you could listen online to the audio files for its LLM-generated responses to kids, no password or anything necessary.

bitches say they're "becoming Chinese" yet can't tell me the actual name of the xue hua piao piao song

Dozens Arrested After Throwing Dildos at ICE Outside Whipple Federal Building

Good morning, U.S. East Coast; I have a present for you:

And with one ketamine-fuelled post, Elon has extended the lifetime of "Asians are white adjacent" for another 2 decades

You cannot credibly claim to defend human rights while openly minimizing or making light of mass human rights violations committed by the Iranian state. (4)

While individuals like Calla gained prominence for progressive advocacy on Palestine, their positions on Syria, Ukraine, the Uyghurs, and now Iran reveal a pattern of supporting any regime they perceive as going against the west. (3)

The tragic reality is that many self-styled Western “anti-imperialists” have used Palestine as political cover for commitments that consistently center despots over victims. (2)

Parts of the Palestinian activist movement in the US have unfortunately been overtaken by campist politics that have utilized Palestine for broader ideological projects. This is the co-founder of Palestine Action US. (1)

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

The exact thing that antizionist/non-Zionist Jews have been warning would happen, is happening — thanks to the Israeli government's insistence that Israel, by definition, speaks for world Jewry and that any criticism of Israeli's policies is antisemitism. This inevitably LEADS to antisemitism.

Antisemitism is alive and well on the left. And if you're a leftist tempted to reply with a no-true-Scotsman "liberals not leftist" argument, consider that antisemitism is alive and well among both leftists and liberals and your comment does not help anyone.

Like I said a couple years ago, leftist antisemitism is getting worse. Like, we're at the Naming The Jew stage and next I guess will be the triple parentheses

I think a lot of non-Jewish leftists on here think antisemitism isn't an issue bc it's not expressed the same way as it is on the right But I've talked to other Jewish leftists on here & we're like...very aware of how quiet gentile mufos get re: posts about antisemitism. It's noticeable.

nothing will convince me shit like this isn't partly downstream from watching Bradley Cooper shoot an Iraqi kid with tears in his eyes

ALERT: A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...