My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!

The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Turned in my final manuscript files so...

Coming out next year with @ucpress.bsky.social!

Marcel Ophuls has died. son of the great, Max Ophuls, and an incredible filmmaker in his own right. The Sorrow and the Pity is one of the best documentaries ever made.

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Here are a few tools to help you with that:
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just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak

This is a perfect way to prepare for whatever the State of the Union brings on Tuesday night — an event with Timothy Snyder about the threats of authoritarianism and what we can do to resist it! If you've read his book, you know this will be good. I signed up, join me! social.redwine.blue/s/ab7VmZ3M

I say again: any Republican in congress with an ounce of integrity would switch parties immediately. They are complicit, sadistic cowards. Every single one.

Never in my life have I seen something more repulsive than what Trump and Vance just did to Zelenskyy in the Oval.

Lecturing someone who is defending his country from a brutal dictator while siding with Putin at every opportunity.

Just absolutely shameful in every way.

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?

Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.

Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

To the extent that American men have specific problems linked to their gender this is caused by a lack of feminism, rather than its excess.

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

My friends, 2025 is going to be rocky. But one thing I know for sure is that some incredible people put a huge amount of care, craft, love and rage into writing books that will soon be published that are going to help us make sense of this broken and beautiful world.

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Join me and artist Alex Callender in NYC Chinatown for *nightgrass* - a talk on archival process and the circuits of racial capitalism in the US and Caribbean. December 14! Co-hosted by #DarkLab 🧪🌌