Excellent work and a cautionary tale for everyone

You wouldn’t know it from corporate media, but there’s a mobilized, determined movement protecting San Francisco from a deepening crisis under a rising authoritarian government. Meanwhile, billionaires and their politicians do their best to erase or co-opt this work. Read my latest blog for more.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

gas leak journalism

The @karenhunter.bsky.social show welcomes Director of the award-winning documentary ‘Rhythms of the Land’ : Dr. Gail Myers! rhythmsoftheland.com #KarenRebels

Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robyn Archer's two Brecht albums have my enduring respect and admiration. Through his lyrics, Brecht provides a searing commentary on a period of profound trauma, bearing witness to the Nazi regime's soulless ventures and its systematic abuse of the human spirit. 1981 and 1982.

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Robyn Archer's two Brecht albums have my enduring respect and admiration. Through his lyrics, Brecht provides a searing commentary on a period of profound trauma, bearing witness to the Nazi regime's soulless ventures and its systematic abuse of the human spirit. 1981 and 1982.

My old Apple Mac laptop, partitioned (a little while back) with Linux. 2019.

Commemorative Fan Art Plate Of The Day 💚

Massive colony of 111,000 spiders from different species found deep inside a sulfur cave #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Yep, THELIBRARIANS is one of the year’s best docs! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

The Anishinabek Nation, a political organization that represents 39 First Nations in Ontario has renewed their state of emergency declaration. They say this is in response to an escalation in their public safety across all 39 nations.

As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" She did not respond.

Wrote this about the manufactured & hypocritical outrage concerning the pro Palestine hip hop outfit Kneecap www.counterfire.org/article/knee...

The UK media have suddenly woken up to the fact that Israel is not a paragon of virtue. My thoughts for @declassifieduk.org www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-media...

This really isn't the first dodgy @BBC edit but it's certainly the one that counts because delegitimising striking miners in 1984 or undermining Corbyn in 2019 apparently don't matter. Some thoughts for @LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Fun fact I learned from Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague": Dengue fever gets its name from the Swahili phrase ki denga pepo (“a sudden overtaking by a spirit”)—which tells you something about how painful it is. It's also called "breakbone fever." @insideclimatenews.org

Think the best music is all in the past? This playlist is here to change your mind. tinyurl.com/7vy6hcbu It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.

Think the best music is all in the past? This playlist is here to change your mind. tinyurl.com/7vy6hcbu It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

New research uncovers the surprising origins of contrails #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

"China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... 🤦Meanwhile, "US urges Europe to stick to oil and gas, not renewables" today.westlaw.com/Document/I49...

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean: "United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

We’ve become accustomed to believing that there is no other way except through violence. But that is patently false.

Chills. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-...

Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown. It's time to tax the rich. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

In interviews w/ Black mediamakers for my forthcoming book the observation that “woke” was a new stand-in/scare word for “communist” came up a lot. I began those interviews in Jan 2021. This piece is important AND we have to acknowledge how much of the play book was already in play before Jan 2025.

If Capital Strikes Against Mamdani, Organized Worker Power Can Strike Back truthout.org/articles/if-...

In potentially one of the greatest ironies of modern times, thanks to lighting contractors not being covered for taking down flags it may be the case that Kent's festive bulbs won't go up this year. Meaning Christmas might be inadvertently cancelled. By "patriots".

The BBC—despite its best efforts—simply couldn’t give the technofascists enough of what they wanted. Too much fascism in institutions will never be enough for those they are trying to appease. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...

Come on @theguardian.com : the BBC never lost the trust of the public! It just wasn't submissive enough to the powerful far right, oligarch clique that has seized control of US politics and wants to do the same here. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Lucid dreamers tend to have a larger anterior prefrontal cortex—an area in the brain that enables self-reflection or metacognition. Hence, these individuals are more likely to self-reflect and have a considerable degree of personal awareness when they are awake.

Portrait Assemblage and Thoughts. Drawing and watercolour. From sketchbook. Marc garrett, 1988.

In a chaotic kidnapping raid yesterday, ICE in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood shot a chemical munition into a family’s moving car. The shrapnel from the pepper ball/spray hit a baby. (11/8/2025)

Def worth the read. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #mamdani #academicsky #Bowdoin

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds

Portrait Assemblage and Thoughts. Drawing and watercolour. From sketchbook. Marc garrett, 1988.

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

"It's not a tomb. It's a town. And it will always be." Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.

Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member to access a playlist of Richard Dawson's favourite music (amongst many other wonderful perks)... Sun Ra, Circle, Nina Simone, Mr Bungle... find out what else the Geordie bard picked here: buff.ly/lddHOqL

"The first record I had of hers was Nina Sings The Blues, but it’s just the genius in everything she did. She can’t help but be truthful, it’s just so deep in her, through all of her demons and the mistreatment she had." #TanitaTikaram on #NinaSimone Sings The Blues buff.ly/pCBf22J

Forty Organizations Offer a Plan to Revitalize Rural America barnraisingmedia.com/forty-organi...

Comprehensive new research finds the BBC coverage of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is systematically biased against Palestinians and fails to reach standards of impartiality.

“Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages” at The Met Cloisters is a counterargument to pop culture depictions of the Middle Ages, dominated by cisgender regulations and gender-normative binaries.

The promise of change drives creativity everywhere. It’s no surprise that most neighborhoods where artists and the creative community live in New York City voted overwhelmingly for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

"Franklin led the team that created what has been called 'arguably the most important photo ever taken,' the celebrated Photo 51, which revealed the helical structure of DNA. When the structure was published in 1953, however, Franklin... was not among the authors." The (male) authors won the Nobel.

New interesting book: "Global Urban Policy. A Framework for Analyzing State and Society" edited by David Kaufmann & Mara Sidney. press.umich.edu/Books/G/Glob... #urban #sociology