“We found that the data centers that already exist affect nearby residents and the nation as a whole in five main areas: air quality, water quality, noise levels, land use and energy costs.”

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 5d ago

ICYMI: 5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole. theconversation.com/5-ways-data-....

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...

A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.

News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.

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Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊

Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · last wk.

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS & we can still stop it. Please call your Senator NOW & ask that they sign onto S.4814 & extend TPS for Haitians for 3 years. This will be a catastrophe for our neighbors who have been here legally!! Here's the call script! drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs...

Political reasons for tenure denials are a violation of faculty governance and academic freedom The best part? The president (Jim Davis) is himself not an academic, and got tenure not as a result of a formal review, but pro forma from the Board of Regents as part of his hiring contract

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

Very honored that our article on hammocks won this award from the RSA!

postmedieval@postmedieval.bsky.social · last mo.

the @rsaorg.bsky.social has announced the recipients of its 2025 Renaissance Studies Article Prize on the theme of ‘Renaissance Ecologies,’ and we couldn’t be happier that an article published in /postmedieval/ won first prize!!

Espero no equivocarme, pero creo que es la primera reseña disponible en español del libro de @marcynorton.bsky.social. Ya publicada en revista Historia de la PUC (Chile, Stgo.) revistahistoria.uc.cl/index.php/rh...

It’s here, finallly! We talk about the MEDIEVAL F-WORD!!! Of course we mean “feudalism.” Ada Kuskowski joins us to explain how the term is modern, not medieval, and what was really going on… Enjoy! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

The Medieval F-Word (“Feudalism”) with Ada Kuskowski

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · July 8 · 57m

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This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last mo.

14-year old girl arrested for speaking out against Data Centers in her community

Bounded or not, everything genAI produces is based on somebody’s words, and everything it produces is also not that person’s words

This is really good “Concentration camps are places where groups of people targeted based on their identity are imprisoned in violation of their legal and human rights.” They then go through these criteria and explain how Delaney Hall meets each one.

Ben Werdmuller@werd.io · 2mo ago

"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...

🚨 RED ALERT: Our national forests are under attack. Trump is moving forward with an illegal plan to completely destroy the US Forest Service. We need to flood Congress with letters TODAY. It takes 60 seconds to auto-send yours. Click, sign, and share: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service

Contact Congress today!

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"The authors of the Vanderbilt report lob a ton of accusations at humanities research, but they seem to have read almost no actual works of scholarship (and there’s growing evidence that they seriously mis-represented the claims of what little scholarship they supposedly read)." shorturl.at/h1vjN

Producing Epistemic Doubt About the Humanities For the Sake of Profit: AI's Version

The Center-Right's strategy to discredit cultural knowledge draws from the same playbook as Big Tobacco and Big Oil because humanist reason threatens their bottom line.

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Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.

Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

Ian Petrie@icpetrie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Editorial from our student newspaper: "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking"

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Emergency healthcare funds needed: A Twin Cities 18-yr old student, w/ parents unable to work because of ICE, suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. She is uninsured, has huge bills, and can't help support her family. Please help if you can. (I confirm this is genuine) www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

Donate to Support Anita’s Fight Against Leukemia, organized by Vicky Hidalgo

Hi, my name is Anita. I’m 18 years old, and I was just diagnosed with leukemia (A… Vicky Hidalgo needs your support for Support Anita’s Fight Against Leukemia

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“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6mo ago

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

...and if it's the same "prison" or detention center in Texas where ICE has been sending people, there isn't enough food, and everyone is crying and screaming, and people can't get their medications, and no one can get in to help them. A FIVE YEAR OLD.

Representative Seth Magaziner@magaziner.house.gov · 6mo ago

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused." Instead, an agent “took the child, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and used him as “bait”

The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month, according to school officials.

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Despite all the redactions in the documents released yesterday, there is no question that Epstein’s trafficking was overt as was his language of “purchase” and “slave.”

Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Epstein purchased her from her family in [redacted]. Epstein bragged he brought her to the United States to be his [redacted] sex slave.”

“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.

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