It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism
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unraveling racism. ask me about my farm.
Some motherfuckers need to read Winner. Like, it’s been clear from the jump that AI adoption has been a political project or in service too political projects and those projects have been universally shitty extensions of white supremacy and other structures of oppression.
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Open Measures@openmeasures.io · 5d agoNEW: Our researchers have discovered that users of a far-right imageboard notorious for coordinated harassment campaigns have developed at least three custom AI tools meant to help them "dox" their targets. openmeasures.io/soyjak-ai-do...
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...
University of Maryland pharmacy instructor detained in Dallas
Federal officials detained an instructor from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy last week.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 6d agoAmeaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
Feel like not enough ppl have experience living in any of the British colonies (even post-independence) and seeing British officers (and the indigenous overseers) in their khaki shorts.
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 6d agoI suppose many are… ‘familiar’ with my opinion on this matter (and academia is by and large more casual than The Office), but I think shorts can be styled professionally and when it’s very hot it’s silly to proscribe shorts
finally, the Democratic party has a plan.
I regularly pick up scripts for my mother and don't need to show ID.
Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social · 6d agoThe trouble with this messaging is that everyone has picked up a prescription for themselves or a loved one, without ID, except apparently Republican electeds
@irishrainforest.bsky.social may be of interest?
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 6d agoSome historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...
Nice thread. It's reminding me to find my copy of Bernal's Black Athena...
Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · last wk.Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.
It is going to be easier for Democrats win by telling the racist white women to fuck off than by telling Black people, Hispanic people, and queer people to fuck off.
If anyone knows someone (or knows someone who knows someone) who can get this distributed on this side of the Atlantic, that'd be awesome, thx. Not only a (video/artisitc) balm for our time, but literally an intervention against climate destruction.
Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2w agoWatch this gorgeous short trailer for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, and you'll be ravenous for the rest. One reviewer captured it: "With its endlessly alluring imagery, this [film] is an invitation to fall in love." vimeo.com/1211649058/7...
@ilhanmn.bsky.social The interaction is a funny (to me) story. I've met more than a few "famous" people, but it was the first time I was literally mute.
Jeremy Dauber@jeremydauber.bsky.social · 2w agoRandom question: what celebrity have you met in real life who was dramatically better looking than ypu thought they were based on on screen appearance?
Just wanted to give a shout-out to @kendrawrites.com who is getting dog-piled (since like *early* this morning) because she uses a car to get her father to doctor's appointments. This white (so-called) progressive self-righteousness is really tiring.
For a century, African musical heritage was recorded, boxed, and shipped to museums abroad. In Nairobi, a new generation of archives is bringing cultural memory home — and putting it online. africasacountry.com/2026/07/from...
From colonial storage to open access
For a century, African musical heritage was recorded, boxed, and shipped to museums abroad. In Nairobi, a new generation of archives is bringing cultural memory home — and putting it online.
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*dusts off his bittorrent client*
Chloe "in ✈️ at home" Adams@addamschloe.bsky.social · last mo.piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time
Technically, they’re Remains now.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
This 'graph caught me: "Hiring new workers has also turned into a quagmire for companies in large part thanks to AI, making the recruiting of qualified candidates extremely difficult." I'm now wondering if the AI being used to "optimize" online recruitment filters out problematic candidates?
Futurism@futurism.com · 2mo agoThe work "slopification" is real.
