The late, great Ossie Davis reading Frederick Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July" youtu.be/H-cVwuMmylA?...

brontosaurus with steps view 2, dinosaur park, route 23, ossineke, michigan, 1988

Anthropic moves to close loopholes that allow Chinese access to Claude ft.trib.al/B7JhGGr

This headline proves one extremely important thing: We need a style guide for how to write a.i. that distinguishes it clearly from the name Al. This is a fucking mess.

It would be very good if there was a law that would put law enforcement officials in prison for 10+ years when they lie under oath. Nothing is more corrosive to a society than police corruption.

Hearn says, very plausibly, that he was arrested just for touching a piece of blue coating that had already peeled off the surface. Which is a hell of a lot more believable than “Olympian randomly decides to vandalize national monument.”

This will only matter if you go to your institutions and organizations and tell them "get in the game"

“It even LOOKS hideous” “But you can’t taste it, right?”

I've said it before, & I'll say it again & again: When people have their first epistemic & ontological shocks— those shocks to what they thought they knew & thought was real— you have to guide them CAREFULLY to get them to move *Toward* prosocial consensus reality & *AWAY* from, e.g., conspiracism.

4/ "remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show." (In other words, "We are offering you some pretty poison, but don't blame - or sue - us if you get sick, because we did warn you that it's poisonous.") 🔹️The area is close to low-income, minority neighborhoods where there are higher

3/ exceed anything he has previously recorded from pyrotechnics displays." 🔹️Even the National Park Service advises wearing an N95, & says folks should "expect irritation symptoms" & to "avoid prolonged exposure." (Most of the folks who need to hear this likely never will.) One NPS document said to

That seems like… too many?

Independent journalist Desiree Townsend has, seemingly alone, been digging into what’s actually been happening with McConnell since he disappeared weeks ago. Thanks to her, mainstream news is finally saying he had a cardiac arrest & CPR before his sudden hospitalization: www.cnn.com/2026/07/01/p...

Independent journalist Desiree Townsend has, seemingly alone, been digging into what’s actually been happening with McConnell since he disappeared weeks ago. Thanks to her, mainstream news is finally saying he had a cardiac arrest & CPR before his sudden hospitalization: www.cnn.com/2026/07/01/p...

As I've said earlier today, it's much HARDER to live than to die. Dying is so easy, you can do it by accident. Life takes intention, energy, effort. I understand that folks are thinking about it right now. But I want to drag you out of that even if you're screaming that we should leave you.

Been getting some real fun queer people making fun of my attempts to highlight how disabled queers are at higher risk than abled queers. Does that make you feel good somehow? To tear down another vulnerable person? Is this helpful? Does this improve your life somehow?

Disabled people, aided by the Black Panthers, staged the longest sit-in in American history in 1987, winning 504 protections. Just 3 years later we orchestrated the capitol crawl, in which many wheelchair users crawled and pulled themselves up the steps of the capitol to win passage of the ADA.

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

One thing that is apparent to those of us who study social movements is how often they lose & how quickly those losses are forgotten when they have big wins. Go back and watch Milk & see how often he lost. It’s eye opening. 🗃️

I think there's a misunderstanding outside of academia about what plagiarism is. If a historian puts together an original hypothesis, finds support in a record, and writes it up, it IS plagiarism to just cite the record and the conclusion without citing the historian's publication.

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as a cartoonist and historian, I've seen many history comics that are VERY casual about citations. Citations are so important: they thank others for their work, tell the reader who you see yourself in relationship to and how you developed your thought, and provide roadmaps for future researchers.

Make sure to give your devices descriptive names

This is *absolutely* bananas; the wildest (not complimentary) thing you'll read about education today. And the names in the story (both real and fake) are amazing.

Tellingly, students -- tech savvy teens! -- also don't like 'em. A decade ago faculty were constantly told ebooks were the future. Every class I teach, maybe 2 or 3 students buy the ebook. The rest pick print unless the ebook is a lot cheaper. The # has never really budged.

Kinda wonder if ebook sales were juiced by hoarding and _some_ of this is folks aligning their purchases more to what they realistically are reading. Pew's trend has ebooks flatter (but that's weighted by person not amount read) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

This helped tremendously. Thank you.

It blows my mind that e-book sales are actually declining, even though e-book readers are better, more varied, and more capable than ever. But not better than printed books, it seems! I can't think of any other medium where the latest way to consume it hasn't won.

Another day spent arguing with insurance company people on the phone. It's like I have a part-time job I didn't sign up for and do not want. What I do want: every member of Congress to have this experience, month after month after year after decade.

The Heumann Perspective | Alice Wong youtu.be/MopiXOeIUHM

Crowdsourcing attacks on science. The next page of the participatory populist playbook.

MFT member says ICE targeted public institutions like schools. they would follow school buses to kidnap people in front of kids or use kids as bait like liam ramos. they used tear gas at roosevelt high school

i did a triple take at this line. the university of michigan apparently jeopardized a grad student's status and got him detained by ICE for almost a month on this basis, which i can only convey to non-academic folks as "absolute horse shit"

Happy last night of pride🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

"It only affects a few people" shouldn't be countered w/ "That's just 'first they came for' thinking." Yes, discrimination against a few is always an opening of the door for discrimination against more. BUT discrimination against a few matters in & of itself, b/c those few people are PEOPLE.

ME: So yeah, the Post Office ran great for a long time until this one political faction realized having a wildly successful and popular government agency undermined their goal of hollowing out all Federal agencies. Sorry about that. BEN FRANKLIN: Yes, yes. So this service is only for fans, you say?

shitty weather forecasts? blame elon and his merry band of dipshits because they gutted NOAA on the basis of “lol who needs to measure climate anyway” everything bad these days seem to be his fault, trump’s fault, or both

Mods are asleep. Post pinnipeds!

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

Without those federal dollars, the future is more uncertain than ever for these farms and the millions of hungry families they feed.  That is the pattern. Slash a program that feeds seniors and supports farmers, save almost nothing, and call it winning. www.kqed.org/news/1208897...

In California alone, it supported roughly 870 farms across more than 50 counties, moved 23 million pounds of food, and put over $60 million directly into local economies. For many, it was the most reliable buyer they had.

The Trump administration just killed a federal program that hundreds of small farmers relied on to survive, and the damage is already landing. The program paid farmers full market price for their crops, then routed that fresh food to food banks and the families who needed it.

There's no requirement to be in employment, employed in research or based at a university. Membership is free; costs of transport to events reimbursed. Training opportunities and funding opportunities, based at 9 regional UK hubs. It's not a solution to the crisis. But it's a resource for you. 2/2

Your June reminder that if you're a UK-based holder of an Arts, Humanities or Social Science (SHAPE) degree, or equivalent, within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of your PhD, you are warmly invited to join the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network. 1/2

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Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.

Services Australia is revealed as incapable of effectively managing some of the country's most complex legislation, despite having significant power to punish or affect ordinary Australians, Crikey's correspondent-at-large Rick Morton reports. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/30/s...

From the story: Scarlata and Gingras are concerned that papers by less prominent scientists have disappeared as well without anyone realizing. At a minimum, Gingras wants Planck’s papers restored.... “just put them [back] in the database. Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.” (4/4)

This example is absurd, but it's also Really Very Bad. Springer Nature apparently has bots withdrawing papers from its immense catalog, with no human oversight. They are abdicating their responsibility to preserve the historic record. (2/4)