We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes and Awards. Congratulations to all!

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' people.com/trump-says-i...

🚨🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨 The 2026 Queer/Trans Histoy Conference is now ready for your registration! See email sent on 3/3/26 for more details!

More info at: shorturl.at/xcUP3 and submissions due 3-16-26!

Out in May is this labor of love collecting the letters Eduardo Costa and Scott Burton sent between NYC, Buenos Aires, & Rio in the 70s. Patrick Greaney & I have been working closely with Eduardo on this beautiful book about art life, queer life, and daily life. asterismbooks.com/product/magi...

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

Our current budget is approximately $100 Million an hour.

It is kind of suspicious that the only people I see actively defending LLMs as morally neutral seem to have very specific career incentives to do so. Especially in the academy!

The number of people killed in five days of US‑Israeli attacks on Iran has topped 1,000, state media says, as the conflict engulfs the region. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.news/eepp99

Gemini told him to commit an act of terrorism at the Miami airport to intercept a delivery of a large humanoid robot body for it, telling him to "to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses"

Signed? How ‘bout you?

We are excited to invite you to hear Erica Moiah James, Assoc Prof @univmiami.bsky.social present "Haptic Archives & the Critical Work of Tenderness in #GlobalCaribbeanArt" as part of the #ArtHistorySpeakerSeries @elonuniversity.bsky.social. Big thanks 🎉 to @kringelberg.bsky.social for organizing!

In our latest, we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence www.patreon.com/posts/152164...

Persian, made in Shiraz, Iran Laila and Majnun at School, ca. 1570 From a copy of the manuscript Khamsa (Quintet) by the poet Nizami (1141-1209) Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

“While the East was cold, for locations with long term records like NYC, DC, Philly & Boston, winter 2025-26 only ranked in the range of a top 25-50 coldest — it just seemed particularly brutal because of global warming and the trend toward milder winters in recent decades.” — @wxmanms1.bsky.social

Nested thread:

An anti-ICE protest outside the Whipple Federal Building was declared unlawful on Sunday, resulting in multiple arrests.

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

Already under CIA observiation for her community activism, Eartha Kitt was blacklisted in the U.S. for nearly a decade (1968–1978) after publicly criticizing the Vietnam War at a 1968 White House luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson. Kitt was forced to work in Europe and Asia during that time.

The last-minute campaign spending by Phil Berger is absolutely off the charts. Just through February 15, Phil Berger has spent $2.36 million on his campaign, while Sam Page for NC Senate has spent just $54,000 - a 43:1 ratio.

all of you fucking losers using Claude, this is what you got us you fucking loser fucks

It is weird that a far more robust digital database was launched at Brown University last year, but somehow didn't get a mention in the piece. See stolenrelations.org

h/t @ladyhistorian.bsky.social

Can't miss a golden opportunity to kill more children

Uptick in 3pers at the racist transphobic bro-wery yesterday and now that has me wondering

In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves. She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Rest in power, Nurul Amin Shah Alam. After a year in custody, Border Patrol released a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee who was legally blind and didn't speak English at a donut shop. On February 25, he was found dead. He had a right for care, dignity, and safety. We demand answers and accountability.

In closing its museum, which exhibited the work of scores of Chicago and underrepresented artist and stands as an important part of art and art historical training, DePaul University shows its lack of commitment to the full range of the arts. www.depaul.edu/news/dpam-20...

We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes! Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal. Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.

Eligible voters of North Carolina: 3 P.M. ET TODAY is the deadline for registering to vote in the statewide primary election at early voting sites, where you can register & cast a ballot on the same day. You can find the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote

And this was true before yesterday.

Well, this fucking sucks.

_Make Cheese Not War_ is both a great title and a solid maxim

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

Yikes, I just discovered I zeroed out my checking account because I’ve been buying groceries for 10+ households and the mutual aid donations are spent. I’m fine (I have a credit card) but if you want to send my block more grocery $$$, my Venmo is Aren-Aizura

...a beautiful and handsome genius who is as stunning as they are wise

Do. Not. Obey. In. Advance.

Bhattacharya has been Trump's most loyal foot soldier in MAGA's vile war on DEI Jay's NIH canceled Duke hematologist Charity Oyedeji's $750,000 grant on how to assess & avert disability for people with sickle cell disease, most of whom are Black They said it was "DEI" which they were banning 1/2

I'm giving a keynote lecture titled, "Why the Underground Railroad Matters," at the Barnes Foundation tonight. The event is in person and virtual. www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/tal...

Truly a shameful decision by @depauluniversity.bsky.social - the closing of DPAM will be a tremendous loss to the university but also the broader arts community in Chicago depauliaonline.com/83058/news/d...

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