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"It's just words." Famous last ones.

#longread

"I can't read!"

Excellent haul of schadenfreude today

"In the past, Ono had condemned systemic racism & argued for the necessity of DEI [...] Ono emphasized his ideological evolution, which ultimately failed to convince the board" Board said hm you're *new to hatin niggas and we're lookin for someone *true to hatin niggas. good luck on the job market!

I'm in Anthropology News' latest issue on signal/noise thinking about static interference and ethnographic listening, drawing from research on Congolese two-way radios:

laugh out loud

I swear this is 80% of their ideology.

BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies. Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted class certification and prelim. injunction in a lawsuit challenging the policies.

Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea’s presidential election. He left school at 13 to work in factories, where he suffered an injury that left him disabled. Undeterred, he studied at night to become a human rights lawyer. Now he's the President.

So grotesque

Coverage of student walkout in support of Marcelo Gomes, the high school junior that ICE kidnapped on his way to volleyball practice Saturday morning. I'm pulling the photos out in the comments bc I want to make sure you guys can see the signs & shirts that these kids made.

I mean, his name....

Josephine Baker off to the shops - BOTD

I would have guessed it was older! But not by much.

One benchmark for the total chaos of the Elon Musk experience is how the company that is *putting hardware into people's brains* is so far down his list of priorities that it doesn't even make it into the roundups of which companies he's neglecting www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

Don't fuck with academics

If I ever say these words, I am being held hostage and forced to do things against my will.

Criminal

Perfection

Good article #longread

I always wondered about this

Hits "want to visit" so hard

Love this. Good people stepping up when the system fails our kids.

Bloop!

If you're wondering, I looked it up—this is Pritzker at Chicago Pride in 1993, the year he earned his law degree.

The horror stories