Fernando Domínguez Rubio
@fdrubio1977.bsky.social
Prof @ UCSD Wrote 'Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art museum’ 2020 Co-edited, Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair, 2025 Working on a new book "The Promise of Facts"
Israel has carried out a double tap strike on a car in central Gaza. The interior ministry says Gaza’s internal security chief and an officer were killed.
Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."
JUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.
New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it. Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture. Continue reading...
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Not worried about perverse incentives at all edition.cnn.com/2026/07/17/c...
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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Trump / Miller are now limiting student visas to 4 years. PhD programs typically run 5-6 years in many disciplines.
Trump administration tightens visa rules for foreign students
Students will need federal permission to stay longer than four years in the US and universities will lose the power to extend visas.
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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 11mo agoEvery single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power. Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.
These two are about to face one another in the 2026 World Cup final. Lionel Messi x Lamine Yamal. nyti.ms/4psDTTo
The dam is truly breaking when even the WSJ is reporting on this www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Pressure Builds Over Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners
Reports from Israeli groups and interviews with former detainees detail alleged violence, medical neglect and starvation.
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Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...
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Analysis | Graham Platner's implosion could have a chilling effect on a future faux-working-class, Nazi-curious rapist's ability to become a United States Senator.
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
The Washington Post, always finding new ways to fall even lower
BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo agoBREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."
Esto. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Live updates • Israeli cop filmed throwing stun grenade into car, trapping Palestinians inside
IDF soldier filmed throwing stun grenade inside car in East Jerusalem, trapping Palestinians inside. Israeli defense minister threatens Iranian leadership. Procession begins through Tehran for slain S...
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Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
Okay, but get ready to vomit with this classic: "Subsuming the fixed reality of gayness under the much more malleable banner of queerness undermines a core premise behind gay rights: that sexual orientation isn’t chosen." YES LET'S UNDERMINE THAT SAD RETROGRADE PREMISE UNTIL IT'S GONE💥🌺💥🌺💥🌺💥
"Because the word 'queer' can describe any departure from social norms, it becomes an open door through which almost anyone can walk" YES, HONEY, WALK THROUGH THAT DOOR👠🩰💥
Okay, but she does make one unintentional good point when she tell us that "'Queer' carries an adversarial charge that 'gay' does not, and that charge has a specific intellectual lineage" YES, HONEY, THAT'S WHY WE'RE QUEER⚡💫💋🌺🎉💥
Okay, so the author of some book called God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships wrote an op-ed in the tragic paper of record titled "I’m Gay, Not Queer" HONEY WE ARE SHOCKED JUST SHOCKED TO HEAR THIS👠🔥
Entrada gratuita a museos para residentes en episodios de ola de calor. Así, como ideíta.
Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreibwsxtosqddkiskx5oxonnai4ha7ygixfcqmnbsxb27z3q43jh4iu)
Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
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The shape of things to come Nuclear reactors taken offline in France, as extreme heat pushes river temperatures into danger zone. reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-reac...
Nuclear reactors taken offline in France, as extreme heat pushes river temperatures into danger zone
EDF has taken nearly 10% of its nuclear power capacity offline this week, to avoid overheating the rivers it uses to cool its reactors. Someone tell Pauline Hanson.
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