The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
Donna Ramone 🪒🍰
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Arab, Friend, and noted Loud Person. Probably in Salt Lake City. @razorcake.bsky.social Yr Not Alone.
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli: “Syria is Gaza on steroids, and that is the next war, with absolute certainty. “There is no avoiding it.”
Boy I’m so glad we’re razing the institutional press so we can outsource knowledge production to easily-gamed syntax extruders controlled by three massive tech companies.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2mo agoIsrael is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
having poisonous, irrational, shrieking, bloodthirsty hatred for muslims of any stripe is, sadly, no blocker to being welcomed back into polite liberal society in america. example 572838593
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo agoAP Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia’s war and wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain sounds its missile alert sirens for a second time as #Iran retaliates over US strikes.
I don't use this word lightly, but this is evil.
Sara R. Fagerlie, PhD, CHCP@cancercommunicator.com · 2mo ago"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
For two decades I've been too lazy to code and deploy this tool, but here: this takes a sequential pdf and returns an imposed zine version: humaniterations.net/imposedonline/
Zine Imposer
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It’s nice to see people happy together about something positive. It seems like a small and insignificant thing, but it’s not.
“You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me.“ 1/2
At a contentious meeting, Box Elder County OK'd a massive data center project backed by celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/utah-data-center-final-vote-box/
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...
AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
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This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
I much prefer being around people who try to improve things, even if they ultimately aren't successful, rather than folks who assume nothing will ever change.
YEE-HAW! It's time for a rootin' tootin' POSTER DEBUT! Salt Lake City's GRID ZINE FEST is in two months! Are you ready to saddle up? 2026 poster art by Felix Phoenix, www.instagram.com/thingfromthe...
I live and die by the mantra DONT POST but I just want to shout out @devintoshea.bsky.social on the new QAA podcast episode talking about Pynchon and making my day a whole lot brighter despite all the *waves hand around*.
Islamophobia and loving billionaires is a bipartisan agenda in this country
bongodave@bongodave.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe corporate Dems hate her guts, as much as any Republican. They try to primary her out every election.
Not the most important thing here, but a more common term for someone coming to the United States with nothing and becoming a millionaire with an influential job is "The American Dream."
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 8mo agoTacit acknowledgement they've lost control of the narrative plus saving face via lawfare
Trump pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation yesterday. In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.
to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
We made a resource zine on Friends of the Library groups over at @librariesftp.bsky.social: www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...
Talked about "Creepy Ephemera: American Christmas" by @donnaramone.bsky.social over at the I Love Zines YouTube channel with Missy and Billy! youtu.be/gO2kw9b2hVo
LTAM 3 - Creeepy Ephemera: American Christmas
YouTube video by I Love Zines
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First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at: —Nigeria—tonight’s strikes —Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr) —Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Iran—3 strikes —Iraq—1 strike
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoTrump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
