DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Has Left Los Angeles, ICE Carries On Taking Around 25 People This Week @eltragon.bsky.social
Shannon Doronio Chavez
@shanimales.bsky.social
Graphic designer, and educator interested in disrupting how we teach design, who has access to learn. Actively working on uprooting systemic oppression and supremacy in design culture and curriculum. @ImagoDEIsign on Substack
“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”
Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software.
Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to …
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A brilliant writer with some important reflections on the season in which we find ourselves as a nation. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Dangerous Déjà Vu: The Generation That’s Seen This Movie Before
“He’s trying to go back in time.” — Mom
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In the mid-1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell did something that no one like her had ever done: She became the first British woman to produce a fully illustrated herbal — a kind of encyclopedic botanical reference guide — for commercial sale.
The Exquisite Illustrations of a Pioneering Woman Herbalist
A Curious Herbal, the first modern edition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-century botanical guide, grants her the recognition that she has long deserved.
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Tech workers at The Washington Post are unionizing. These 300 workers are organizing with @wbng.org, and pushing for the first new union at the paper since Jeff Bezos bought it twelve years ago.
Homan is furious that Taco Bell has items “in Mexican.” Not Spanish—Mexican. It’s honestly impressive to be this racist and this dumb at the same time. How much you wanna bet the genius thinks that here in the U.S., we speak “American.” 🤣 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · last yr.What a fucking idiot.
Exactly this. We are the pawns in this “chess game”.
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · last yr."So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."
If the design problem solving process values research driven decision making, we should also be considering where our research paradigms are coming from, how they were developed, along with challenging the rules of “acceptable” research.
Levar Burton is gathering signatures for this petition to protect the Dept of ED, please sign & Share. Over 170,000 signatures so far! sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education
Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely ...
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Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927–2016), catalog cover for the Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc. publishing company, 1965. Lustig Cohen’s design career began quite unexpectedly… #WomenDesigners #Typography #GraphicDesign #ElaineLustigCohen #AkzidenzGrotesk #WomensHistoryMonth
More beautiful people and work from the Reverberations show at the @fordfoundation.bsky.social gallery: slide #2 artist Hone Bailey in person 🥰
Go see Reverberations, a physical manifestion of Polymode’s BIPOC Design History at the Ford Foundation Gallery NYC, open through May 3. Thank you to the whole POLYMODE / BIPOC design history family! 💜
Tesla isn’t going to survive. Sales are down nearly 50% in Europe. Keep the boycott going. Your protests are working. #3E #endoligarchy #boycotttesla
While it has been invigorating to see this next generation of activists get out there, it has also been extremely troubling to see young folks unkowningly put themselves and their communities at risk by not practicing protest safety. Spanish version coming soon! 2 of 2 #abolishice
I made this social media Zine, to help get the word out. Feel free to repost and share across platforms. 1 of 2 #fdt #Primos #March4Democracy #AbolishICE #BlackDisabledLivesMatter #ProChoice #NotLikeUs #BLM #soloelpueblo #immigrationreformnow #endfamilyseparations #landback #freepalestine #nohate
Jay Graber, @jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app joined @maribel-wadsworth.bsky.social on the #KMF25 stage for a timely conversation on the social network’s rapid growth, unique algorithm and how journalists can leverage it effectively. Watch the full conversation here: kf.org/419MKgK
www.reddit.com/r/50501/ Nearly 150k members, protest coverage, organizing and street journalism here #saveamerica #nokings #fdt #doge #musk #bitcoin #magats #chingonas
They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
"Grand Theft Government": Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts
“Grand Theft Government”: Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts
Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs,...
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FDT since 2015. Coffee and anti-fascism. #Americans #fascism #fdt #graphicdesign #adobeexpress #fdt #coffee #grwm #ootd #faceyoga
Here, I spoke to undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry, and some orgs who support them, about what everyone is facing right now www.eater.com/24359357/und...
For Undocumented Restaurant Workers, Everything Is in Question
President Trump’s threats against undocumented immigrants put America’s entire food chain at risk.
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“Origins” an essay capturing the roots of my design teaching practice is now available on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/imagodei... #DEIinDesign #designeducation #designisstorytelling
Sharing life giving sustenance on day 16 of the end of the world: www.nts.live/shows/radio-... #petshopboys #NTSRadio #RIPUSA #danceflorresistance
Radio Jiro: Pet Shop Boys Special 3rd February 2025
Playing Synth Pop, House. Radio Jiro is the two hour show of artist Jiro Bevis, every 4 weeks, Monday 2-4pm. The show features a wide variety of sounds from across the globe with previous specials cov...
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