Local officials allege U of M is being “deceptive” over its plans for the $1.2 billion “computation center,” which could bring few benefits and many costs to Ypsilanti Township.

From @insideclimatenews.org

Antifa must be stopped!

Patrick Henry is often treated as a second-string Founding Father. But, Drew Gilpin Faust argues, he made the Revolution possible with words that rendered it both desirable and inevitable:

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

The real news in this is the first sentence. “It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for…”

I would argue that it is very clear. I have, in fact, argued that it is very clear.

I’ve underestimated her before. Or more accurately I underestimated the commitment of the biggest loser billionaires in our country to floating her talentless career.

I was so honored when I found out Hanif Abdurraqib had selected one of my stories for The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025. But mine is just one of many excellent pieces featured in the anthology. I interviewed Hanif about his selection process. Happy pub day to all of this year's featured writers!

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

And they're all fuckin secrets!!!!

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Great news! Your spyware is about to stop pretending you get to choose when it spies on you!

“For us it is primarily and first and foremost an issue of protection of the park,” Vicksburg National Military Park executive director Bess Averett said. “During shutdowns or times when the park is not staffed, it’s really vulnerable to vandalism and relic hunters.”

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

This is something I wish my AI-cheerleading colleagues in archives and libraries fully understood: all the work we've done in the past 25+ years, all of it, is now actively being used to putting us out of business in the most dire fashion imaginable by the wealthiest people on the planet

we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

100% accurate assessment.