Since ICE invaded Raleigh, NC, walkouts and protests have broken out, and more than 600 volunteers have signed up to help keep residents safe in the city.

Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”

Very Extra broadsides are my favorite letterpress genre to make. You can tell this one isn't done yet from there still being significant white space. (Uses my recent acrylic PC & wood skeleton lasercut blocks, which both came out well, as well as my wood Luddite lasercut block) #DHmakes

Good question!

people keep saying that SpaceX is not like Elon's other companies but I increasingly question that

coming back to this for how it illustrates the effectiveness of “good debt” as social control…. it works for you as long as there’s other people who are rated worse than you. But once you’re in the mush pot, you may realize those high debt levels kept you vulnerable all along.

Not to rain on the dragging of Larry Summers, but I expect we might look back at this moment with some ambivalence. Summers was sacrificed in part because technofeudalists believe they no longer benefit from economic epistemology. We have reached the bitter end of orthodox economic reason. 1/

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Remember this? The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

my early am writing time (I KNOW ok) is imperiled because bluesky culture starts earlier than twitter did

This right here!

Calling @theferocity.bsky.social!!! ASSSEMBLE THE POETS, S!!

a) these changes illustrate how the “smartness” in what’s framed as an individual smart or dumb choice (your major/grad degree) is determined by structural factors in how they’re rewarded, not their intrinsic value b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight

Reclassification targeting what are largely female-dominated fields

"Corruption is the Achilles' heel of authoritarians," says @adambonica.bsky.social, explaining why opposing corruption (including the legal kind) should be the center of anti-Trump/Democratic politics. So many insights here. newrepublic.com/article/2030...

Several Colorado university faculty councils say school leaders should adopt a so-called mutual academic defense compact to counter the Trump administration’s push to reshape higher education. The compact originated at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Businesses get free training for their labor out of the debt we put everyone in.

very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...

I tried to read the one yesterday so I’m sparing myself today's

This sounds less like educating kids and more like training a generation of good compliant worker-consumers.

as gsu partners with google to open the "AI Innovation Lab" to train teachers to "recruit" public HS students to "to participate in a daily curriculum focused on AI/ML literacy, problem-solving, design-thinking and mentorship"...

This was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that ED plans to transfer so many programs to the Dept of Labor.

Looks like they are in Carrboro today--this is the spot day laborers wait for work

I had to explain to my higher ed policy students how comfortable I had to become "seeming crazy" to people simply because I took people seriously when they said they were going to do something and paid attention to their trial runs in the states

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

This same Rick Hess? The one who dismissed concerns about the very things happening now as a "freakout"? www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

oh hm!! same guy, just a year ago, certain the president would NOT claim executive authority to dismantle the Dept of Education...

CBP reportedly pulling out after a week in Charlotte.

For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out

The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor

Perfectly said: "Alice embodied the difference between an intellectual & an academic. She was as excited & sophisticated about philosophy as anyone I’ve ever met, while being totally unencumbered by the petty bullshit of academia. She did not gatekeep knowledge; she shared it with the generosity..."

"EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!" is going to rattle around in my head for a while, and that makes me a little happier.

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

NEW: Scientists used historical tidal data to predict that future storms in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook will produce surging waves reaching at least 11 feet. The area’s yet-to-be-built flood protection system is only 10 feet. With @nyamnews.bsky.social

People are calling me stupid for calling this terminological misuse out. Think about what is enacted: "in a cultish atmosphere, jargon does just the opposite: Instead, it causes speakers to feel confused and intellectually deficient. That way, they’ll comply." — Montell doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Well, it's official. Second printing of "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is sold out. Next printing in Jan! Will post will sales or live, or sign up here: www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

watch out mr thermodynamic theory of value; cause labor theory of value about to kick your ass like it always does

Amusing to see the rhetorical flourish that betting against AI is betting against thermodynamics. That's exactly backwards! Thermodynamics is AI's enemy! Don't take my word for it, ask Nvidia, they readily admit that energy constraints are the biggest problem for data centers.

He’s not betting AGAINST thermodynamics, man. He’s betting ON thermodynamics. Like, yes, thermodynamics tends to win!

If you or your caregiver are working at time of cancer diagnosis, it almost seems unfathomable how people can make it financially work. Often “good” insurance doesn’t correlate with coverage, and while there are some good support programs out there it can be a full time job in itself to set up.

Honored to have been added to this long-running collection of AI horrors, in case that’s something you need

As someone who's actually read some Smil (and, having a formal background in anthropology and archaeology, Leslie White before him), I must emphasize: What

I think we're starting to realize that while knowledge may equal power, power definitely does not equal knowledge.

... so if we do not hyper-focus on the Panic of 2008 when we consider the AI boom, we can look to the next prior bubble, the dot com bubble, and find far more similarities with the AI boom, which is more akin to the great 19th century railroad investment bubbles than to a real estate bubble. 2/2

The hospital bills insurance almost $300,000 each time I go to treatment. I am there almost weekly.