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Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
“I continued to meet with the stream of A.I. vendors, all promising their tools would be game changers. Collectively, the hordes introduced chaos into teams already stretched thin.” Good piece on the messiness and hype of AI implementation.
Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.
The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
nytimes.com
I will have a piece on Hindutva in an upcoming volume De Baets is editing. It is depressing that we have to do work like this now, instead of doing what we are meant to do (which is translate illegible letters from the Livros de Monções, the real righteous work).
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦@woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 4h agoI'm pleased to announce that @universitypress.cambridge.org has just published Antoon De Baets' Element "Censorship of History", no. 38 in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Downloadable free till Aug. 19. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
The historian urge to add 3 quotes of primary material to illustrate a point for fear that the reader won't believe them.
5 August – Rohingya Black Day Today, we remember the lives lost, the families displaced, and the suffering the Rohingya people have endured. Our pain has not ended, and our hope for justice, dignity, and a safe return to our homeland remains alive. We remember. We will not forget.
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
It’s really important to understand that the criminal legal system in the U.S. already produced the infrastructure to make ICE possible. If we ever rid ourselves of ICE the way to make it harder to revive it will be destroying and defunding the institutions it has borrowed so much from
The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org · 3h agoAdapting to public pushback, the Trump administration is pivoting to expand immigration detention bedspace nationwide.
This is called "gambling" or "betting," not "prediction." Media should use the correct terminology.
The Information@theinformation.com · 3h agoRobinhood generated $156 million from prediction markets in the second quarter, more than 10 times its total a year earlier. The business now brings in more revenue than stock or crypto trading. Read more insights: https://thein.fo/4xbhcFI
Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
nytimes.com
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 14h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.
Politico@politico.com · 9h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Just what those migrant kids need: a law firm that, atop its home page, boasts about its expertise in advising “companies on complex environmental, regulatory, and enforcement matters.”
Politico@politico.com · 18h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
Anyway, buy my book etc. etc. cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Flooded Pasts by William Carruthers | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its...
cornellpress.cornell.edu
William Carruthers@williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 20h agoJust saw this and the lack of context in this (really flimsy) show that this review notes seems to me pretty emblematic of the Met’s display of Dendur, which hasn’t ever gone into much detail about how the temple got there (or the place where it came from): news.artnet.com/art-world/gi...
🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...
Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report
A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.
epsu.org
A youth-led uprising in India has stirred hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners. Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.
A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners
Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.
dublininquirer.com
So the museum director swaps out artworks and historical objects for reproductions and color photocopies at the same time the show's longtime organizers and curators disavow the decision and quit the newly reopened museum? Meanwhile the same donors are also giving a wing at the Met.
Erik Inglis@allthebeset.bsky.social · yesterdayVery interesting story that could probably make a mini-series, with intersecting issues of aesthetics, authenticity, personalities and money www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
Under the new bill, a designated authority will be established to manage assets obtained with foreign funds if an organisation’s registration is cancelled. scroll.in/latest/10947... #FCRA
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
India increased levies on exports of oil products to bolster domestic fuel stockpiles while global supplies remained tight despite a pause in fighting between the US and Iran.
India Raises Fuel Export Tax to Build Stocks on War Concerns
India increased levies on exports of oil products to bolster domestic fuel stockpiles while global supplies remained tight despite a pause in fighting between the US and Iran.
bloom.bg
Per Ellis Bates at @votehub.com: Abdul El-Sayed is netting more votes in Dearborn in the primary than Kamala Harris received in 2024 El-Sayed 2026 primary: 15,899 votes Kamala Harris in 2024: 15,208 votehub.com/2026_mi_sen_...
Michigan U.S. Senator Democratic Primary
Michigan Democrats remain locked in a struggle between their moderate and progressive factions, leaving their path to holding the Wolverine State uncertain.
votehub.com
So much to #Unlearn in many subjects. Economics is the standout leader in needing to abandon disastrous, failed ideas theconversation.com/decolonizing...
Decolonizing economics means questioning where its ideas came from — and imagining new ones
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
theconversation.com
So El-Sayed is doing better with Black voters and worse with white voters than most people imagined? That’ll be fun for The Discourse.
They had ladders, another banner and a crowd for this drop. Say what you will, but in an era where you can get 30 years for moving a box of zines, this takes guts.
Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 14h agoa banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”
The board of a Michigan township agreed to rezone a terrain to make way for a data center. Residents opposed to the data center forced a vote on the matter, and they blocked the rezoning tonight: www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
zeteo.com
