And they spew forever chemicals (pfas) into communities. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/data-...

Vouching for the Seydou Keita exhibit featuring #photography/ #textiles at @brooklynmuseum.org on the transition from French colonial rule into independence in Mali. He was the state photographer when media was censored and cameras basically banned. Gorgeous work. #artsky #museumsky

Genuinely baffled by people who sincerely believe that being against AI data center development means you're a NIMBY. Might as well call the Standing Rock protesters NIMBYs too. A data center is not a house or park. It doesn't improve the community. It's purely infrastructure for extracting value.

Happy Wednesday and Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! It’s been 310 days with no state budget so let’s spotlight 3 classrooms in honor of that embarrassing statistic.

You can preorder my book — disorienting phenomenology: queer space and trans life — now!

so the most moral ai company in the universe is now going to be buying time at the data center famous for actively poisoning a black neighborhood?

George Zoley, the CEO of GEO Group — which detains 21,000 people in ICE custody — complained on an earnings call today about "fundamentally unconstitutional" lawsuits about conditions in immigration detention www.huffpost.com/entry/prison...

I’ve been compartmentalizing off and on all day but my old pal Fred died and I was going to join some other old pals celebrating his retirement WITH HIM this weekend and now we will never talk again and I’m very very sad.

Concrete sun tunnels and shimmering pools of water: the monumental land art of Nancy Holt | Art | The Guardian

finding this shit on my Mac was a pain in the ass, btw I guess recent OSes hide the library folder? anyway, here's how I finally located the weights.bin file open finder > command + shift + G search for "~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default"

@huffpost.com is hiring two more politics reporters, come work with me! job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzfeed/job... job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzfeed/job...

Yale University Press is having a spring sale, which means my book is currently 50% off for May yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... As World Atlases of Public Art go, I think it’s a really good World Atlas of Public Art

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Epstein did have OB-GYNs on call! www.thecut.com/article/the-...

the uline fascists are trying to juice rightwing extremist voter turnout, the same way karl rove and bush did with anti-gay initiatives in the 2000s

We are all being forced to subsidize shitty business choices

I’ll add that while I was the war powers attorney at the State Department during the Obama administration and Trump 1.0, neither administration took the position that the War Powers Resolution was unconstitutional.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

FYI: No matter what happens to mifepristone, you can still get abortion pills in the mail.

The government just made it easier to detain and deport people with DACA. Our communities deserve to understand what is happening. Join us on Wednesday, May 6 from 7 to 8pm EDT for our HIH Community Call. Text HOME IS HERE to 787-57 to stay connected and get the latest updates.

True liberation will come in a world where freedom cannot be bought. Until then, support us in bailing out Black mamas and caregivers who cannot afford their bail. #FreeBlackMamas at bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026

Good morning, Bluesky. Here is your weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins. Bluesky still deserves better leadership. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ Unban Link.

Retirement funds and pension funds and insurance funds are already a trillion dollars or more deep into private credit. Every single major data center funding deal has involved insurance or pension money. Even the Anthropic private equity deal. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-...

Please join me and the amazing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Mia Bay, and Rosemary Ndubuizu for a virtual discussion of our books and the fight to live and move freely. May 7th at as part of the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series. www.eventbrite.com/e/unequal-ho...

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

Based on the specs for the Caterpillar G3615B, 864 of these machines would emit up to 9.15 MMTCO2e per year. There doesn't account for the 120 gas & diesel backup gens or the additional phases of this project. When fully developed, this data center could emit 25.55 MMTCO2e annually.

Incredible things are happening www.reddit.com/r/popculture...

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

It was inspiring to see Charlotte come together to stand up against corporate greed last week. No corporation is too powerful to silence North Carolinians. #peopleoverprofits #no2ratehikes

The fact that an “intellectual” uploaded his entire manuscript to a chatbot and then, having anthropomorphized it into a flattering woman, found himself completely dazzled by it is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever read.

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Here’s the school privatizer playbook: —> Frame schools that struggle with poverty and the effects of institutional racism as failing —> Divert their funding to charters and private schools —> Document the results as additional “evidence” of failure —> Repeat #nced #ncpol

If Josh Kline's essay about NYC artist precarity is theory, the press release for SoiL Thornton's show at Swiss Institute is praxis; they left the previous gallery configuration up and diverted the production budget to battling their eviction notice—and then turned the documentation into a work

Nice discussion of reasons to be skeptical here: hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

Yes but the BBC took up some space explaining the computational method, so it would have been fair to do so with the art history method too. The implication is that art history is fundamentally connoisseurial rather than methodological.

Robert Ebert’s review of Downfall in 2004 was as absolutely masterful as the movie itself. #history #wwii #skystorians #extremism

There’s a contempt for the study of art history in this, that somehow it’s all just surface level guess work and only science can offer an absolute answer. Portraits are difficult to read and identify - I say this as a former National Portrait Gallery curator.

Wait until these folks hear about art history! A whole discipline! That would tell you how stupid this is even faster than ML could do it!

completely forgot to post about this but if you happen to be around Washington Square Park in a few hours I’m reading some new stuff as part of the CLMP indie lit fair www.clmp.org/event/vital-...

On May 2, 1844, pioneering mechanical engineer & inventor Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, ON, Canada. Best known for creating an automatic lubricating oil cup in 1872 after he settled in the Detroit area, McCoy went on to earn 50+ patents. Learn more: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

Within 24 hours of being incarcerated, Black mamas and caregivers often lose their jobs and struggle to find employment upon returning home. This #MayDay, we’re bailing out our people to prevent their lives from being further destabilized. #FreeBlackMamas: bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026

We’re organizing with 13 Black-led organizations all across the U.S. this Mother's Day to help Black mamas and caregivers return home to their families. #FreeBlackMamas today by giving to break open a cage: bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026 2026 Partners: nationalbailout.org/partners26

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Desperately seeking short feminist pieces about the various (endless) calamities of the present. Please submit @feministstudies.bsky.social

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," 1974

Great news!!!

FAO, WFP and Lebanon gov't say 1.24 million people 'expected to face food insecurity' at crisis levels or worse.