D B *free Palestine*
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If Qatar 🇶🇦 or whoever had given Trump an oil tanker instead of a jumbo jet.
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If Qatar 🇶🇦 or whoever had given Trump an oil tanker instead of a jumbo jet.
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Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
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When they say "competency," but they mean "obedience."
I'll say it again, when we offload our critical and creative capacities to a "co-intelligence" for the sake of convenience, all we have left to offer the prevailing social order is our obedience.
I'll say it again, when we offload our critical and creative capacities to a "co-intelligence" for the sake of convenience, all we have left to offer the prevailing social order is our obedience.
In related news, the Canadian Sociological Association is instructing its members to be open to working "in collaboration" with AI and to cultivate "the ability to use it as a complementary 'co-intelligence' rather than view it solely as a threat."
So that's how things are going in higher ed.
So that's how things are going in higher ed.
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
When they say "competency," but they mean "obedience."
I'll say it again, when we offload our critical and creative capacities to a "co-intelligence" for the sake of convenience, all we have left to offer the prevailing social order is our obedience.
I'll say it again, when we offload our critical and creative capacities to a "co-intelligence" for the sake of convenience, all we have left to offer the prevailing social order is our obedience.
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America is the only country actively trying to kill its citizens while also asking them to feed as many words and images of themselves into a program before death so their avatars can be owned forever in a data center poisoning what was once their people's land.
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
America is the only country actively trying to kill its citizens while also asking them to feed as many words and images of themselves into a program before death so their avatars can be owned forever in a data center poisoning what was once their people's land.
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It's no wonder the first thing people did with Sora was generate disrespectful images of MLK. It's a symbol of a desire to reduce black people to a product. We're told AI can do anything and yet all it produces is racism and non-consensual porn.
December 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's no wonder the first thing people did with Sora was generate disrespectful images of MLK. It's a symbol of a desire to reduce black people to a product. We're told AI can do anything and yet all it produces is racism and non-consensual porn.
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Once again gesticulating wildly at my “imperialism generates fascism” sign for the ostensible antifascists who think they can strategically duck this issue
Everybody repeat after me:
Hands off Venezuela
Hands off Venezuela
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Once again gesticulating wildly at my “imperialism generates fascism” sign for the ostensible antifascists who think they can strategically duck this issue
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I think AI is, among many other things, a form of hegemonic decay 🤷🤷🤷
Source: www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/c...
Source: www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/c...
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I think AI is, among many other things, a form of hegemonic decay 🤷🤷🤷
Source: www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/c...
Source: www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/c...
Tristram Shandy
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Tristram Shandy
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There's a lot more to say, and we have some creative ways that might help you fight back that aren't great for posting on twitter.
Join our rapid response student debt organizing call
happening December 17th to learn more and join us.
RSVP:
debtcollective.org/event/rapid-...
Join our rapid response student debt organizing call
happening December 17th to learn more and join us.
RSVP:
debtcollective.org/event/rapid-...
December 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
There's a lot more to say, and we have some creative ways that might help you fight back that aren't great for posting on twitter.
Join our rapid response student debt organizing call
happening December 17th to learn more and join us.
RSVP:
debtcollective.org/event/rapid-...
Join our rapid response student debt organizing call
happening December 17th to learn more and join us.
RSVP:
debtcollective.org/event/rapid-...
need a Hegseth AI Uncle Sam t-shirt now
December 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
need a Hegseth AI Uncle Sam t-shirt now
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New: The Trump administration has struck a deal with the state of Missouri to end the SAVE Plan — the most affordable plan available to working class borrowers.
Much to say here, but tangible advice: do not voluntarily withdraw from the SAVE plan right now.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Much to say here, but tangible advice: do not voluntarily withdraw from the SAVE plan right now.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Trump administration strikes deal to end Biden’s student loan repayment plan
A settlement between the Trump administration and seven states could soon end the Save program that lowered payments and offered quicker loan cancellation.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New: The Trump administration has struck a deal with the state of Missouri to end the SAVE Plan — the most affordable plan available to working class borrowers.
Much to say here, but tangible advice: do not voluntarily withdraw from the SAVE plan right now.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Much to say here, but tangible advice: do not voluntarily withdraw from the SAVE plan right now.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
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That moment when a student puts things together from the readings that I didn’t see or foresee. That’s everything.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
That moment when a student puts things together from the readings that I didn’t see or foresee. That’s everything.
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Five more tents arrived today! We’ll be getting those out ASAP.
Truly can’t express how grateful we are for y’all. We can only do what we do because of your continued support.
Truly can’t express how grateful we are for y’all. We can only do what we do because of your continued support.
All 9 tents we received from y’all went out today, along with a camping kit for each & three carts!
Thank you everyone who ordered off our wishlist! These are life-saving supplies!
Love & solidarity 🖤🏴
Thank you everyone who ordered off our wishlist! These are life-saving supplies!
Love & solidarity 🖤🏴
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Five more tents arrived today! We’ll be getting those out ASAP.
Truly can’t express how grateful we are for y’all. We can only do what we do because of your continued support.
Truly can’t express how grateful we are for y’all. We can only do what we do because of your continued support.
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Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
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This is what I want everywhere, every state, every level of school. Great faculty across all disciplines, dedicated to teaching.
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is what I want everywhere, every state, every level of school. Great faculty across all disciplines, dedicated to teaching.
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Those 5 words your loved ones want to hear:
pozole at the tamale 🫔 shop
pozole at the tamale 🫔 shop
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Those 5 words your loved ones want to hear:
pozole at the tamale 🫔 shop
pozole at the tamale 🫔 shop
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I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think.
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My sense now is that a conversation we need to be having across various technological regimes is what intentional opting out looks like in a social form where opting in to various tools is compulsory or coerced.
December 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My sense now is that a conversation we need to be having across various technological regimes is what intentional opting out looks like in a social form where opting in to various tools is compulsory or coerced.
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Luddites, frame-breakers, Captain Swing rioters, women amassing in Manchester streets to demand potatoes (e.g. 1812)— all these were organized countermovements to a gathering universal commodification, c. 1750-1840. For that reason they call out now for our closest & most sympathetic form of study
Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites on JSTOR
David Linton, THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter 1991-92), pp. 404-413
www.jstor.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Luddites, frame-breakers, Captain Swing rioters, women amassing in Manchester streets to demand potatoes (e.g. 1812)— all these were organized countermovements to a gathering universal commodification, c. 1750-1840. For that reason they call out now for our closest & most sympathetic form of study
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I’m so old, I remember when National Review was pro-states rights and local control…though states rights to do what, we may ask. bsky.app/profile/seth...
In 1958 Bill Buckley was desperate to find more subscribers for his fledgling “conservative” magazine. And so he reached out to the White Citizens Councils (which had formed to oppose Brown v Board) to get their mailing list. Hunting where the anti-14th Amendment ducks were.
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I’m so old, I remember when National Review was pro-states rights and local control…though states rights to do what, we may ask. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here
Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here
made cookies with multi colored sprinkles made with all the artificial dyes out of pure spite today
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
made cookies with multi colored sprinkles made with all the artificial dyes out of pure spite today
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I guess I never considered how much political pull the manufacturers of very tiny gravestones must have but they are clearly the most influential lobby in the current administration. Them and the rapists’ organization
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I guess I never considered how much political pull the manufacturers of very tiny gravestones must have but they are clearly the most influential lobby in the current administration. Them and the rapists’ organization
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A useful summary for showing there are no universal values here, that liberty, democracy, cooperation, etc, are irrelevant to the vision and policy plan
To the extent that 'the West' or 'civilisation' have any meaning, it's mere white identitarianism
To the extent that 'the West' or 'civilisation' have any meaning, it's mere white identitarianism
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A useful summary for showing there are no universal values here, that liberty, democracy, cooperation, etc, are irrelevant to the vision and policy plan
To the extent that 'the West' or 'civilisation' have any meaning, it's mere white identitarianism
To the extent that 'the West' or 'civilisation' have any meaning, it's mere white identitarianism