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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund | Linktree
We formed in 2020 & began paying out immigration bonds for IL, IN, WI, and KY.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
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October 25 is the date of the Council of Elrond and, therefore, the date on which Frodo utters one of my favorite lines in all of literature.
“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.”
That’s all we can ever do, I think: decide what to do with the time that is given us.
“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.”
That’s all we can ever do, I think: decide what to do with the time that is given us.
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
October 25 is the date of the Council of Elrond and, therefore, the date on which Frodo utters one of my favorite lines in all of literature.
“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.”
That’s all we can ever do, I think: decide what to do with the time that is given us.
“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.”
That’s all we can ever do, I think: decide what to do with the time that is given us.
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
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Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?
October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?
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As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.
Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open
"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.
organizingmythoughts.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.
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Recognizing and resisting the crushing norms around sex don’t just liberate asexual people. They liberate everyone. Spotting and rejecting the restrictive norms around romance don’t just liberate aromantic people. They liberate everyone.
Aspec ideas are good for you, too, actually.
Allos embracing aspec ideas is a good thing for everyone.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Recognizing and resisting the crushing norms around sex don’t just liberate asexual people. They liberate everyone. Spotting and rejecting the restrictive norms around romance don’t just liberate aromantic people. They liberate everyone.
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A thing can be both hilarious and worrisome. That's absolutely a thing. Complexity exists, even in spite of social media.
I am talking, of course, about Chief O'Brien's chronic shoulder issues on Deep Space 9.
I am talking, of course, about Chief O'Brien's chronic shoulder issues on Deep Space 9.
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A thing can be both hilarious and worrisome. That's absolutely a thing. Complexity exists, even in spite of social media.
I am talking, of course, about Chief O'Brien's chronic shoulder issues on Deep Space 9.
I am talking, of course, about Chief O'Brien's chronic shoulder issues on Deep Space 9.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
August 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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Becoming someone who values “food and cheer and song above hoarded gold” isn’t just about sitting back and enjoying your own cozy ‘hobbit life’ — it means ensuring that no one else is left without these same comforts, even when that makes you uncomfortable in the process. 🤎 #teawithtolkien
August 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Becoming someone who values “food and cheer and song above hoarded gold” isn’t just about sitting back and enjoying your own cozy ‘hobbit life’ — it means ensuring that no one else is left without these same comforts, even when that makes you uncomfortable in the process. 🤎 #teawithtolkien
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.
August 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.
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one of the saddest things about video games using generative AI for bulk environmental decals and posters and stuff is they’re such cool opportunities to expand lore and sneak in jokes and leaving a computer to spit out generic malformed gibberish just smacks of not giving a shit
July 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
one of the saddest things about video games using generative AI for bulk environmental decals and posters and stuff is they’re such cool opportunities to expand lore and sneak in jokes and leaving a computer to spit out generic malformed gibberish just smacks of not giving a shit
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l once heard ska described as "what plays thru the proletariat's head when they realize that despite their identity, they're cogs in the capitalist machine, and organizing their labor power while dismantling systemic oppression is the only path toward liberation" and nothing is more accurate
July 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
l once heard ska described as "what plays thru the proletariat's head when they realize that despite their identity, they're cogs in the capitalist machine, and organizing their labor power while dismantling systemic oppression is the only path toward liberation" and nothing is more accurate
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
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anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :
July 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :
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maybe instead of asking socialists whether billionaires should exist we should be asking billionaires whether poverty should exist
July 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
maybe instead of asking socialists whether billionaires should exist we should be asking billionaires whether poverty should exist
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angry every day that of all countries the U.S. thinks it has the moral standing to say who should or should not have nuclear weapons. ask the 38,000 children who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the U.S., of all nations on the earth, has any right to pose as a moral arbiter here
June 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
angry every day that of all countries the U.S. thinks it has the moral standing to say who should or should not have nuclear weapons. ask the 38,000 children who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the U.S., of all nations on the earth, has any right to pose as a moral arbiter here