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Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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“MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN” graffiti in East Austin.

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#signsoflife Seen on the streets of east austin. 2025-02

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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I'm old enough to remember when the courts ruled that the president didn't even have the authority to cancel student debt. What was that, fifty, maybe sixty years ago? My how time flies.

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Playing on repeat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9E...

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Masha Gessen offers up a typology of all the different ways that people "obey in advance": 1. responsibility for others 2. To serve a "higher purpose" 3. The pragmatism of picking and choosing one's battles 4. The "if-I-don’t-do-it-someone-else-will argument" 5. The zeitgeist argument

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Saw No Other Land today with some friends. Nothing to say to one another afterwords. I think we all just needed to go home to be with our thoughts. It is a devastating film. Devastating to be witness to this age of indifference.

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It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

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Print Guns Not Money. Might as well be “Print Guns Not Books” … while reading moves to the cloud these libertarians are working to put more guns into the world. There’s a materialism for you!

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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

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@thorharris.bsky.social

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Go ATX!!!

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Trying not to lose the thread. This mural really captures the sense of living in the funhouse mirror labyrinth that characterizes the latest anti-social lurches in the USA.

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“Ineffective Altruism”: The art of setting a house on fire, funding a garden hose, and declaring the fire unfixable.

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Excellent article in The Guardian about Greenland Actor Miké Thomsen prompts agreement from around the table when he says: “Ownership, it’s not in our mentality. To own land, we don’t, we’re not, I don’t even know how to say. It’s just,” he pauses, “not in our mind.” #greenland #nativesky

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An intended side effect of the “shock doctrine” is burnout. Sharing some resources on burnout here as I look for coping and organizing strategies. activisthandbook.org/wellbeing/bu...

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Working on some new designs with my students for the Greeting the Anthropocene project.

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On the rise of fascism in Europe: "I cannot refrain from adding that at the hour in which I speak, old and mortal shivers are trying to substitute themselves for those which are the very shivers of knowledge and of life." (Breton 1935)

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sending post cards from the Julie Speed exhibition at Ballroom Marfa.

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UT Austin president Jay Hartzell’s list of words to watch out for:

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At the Friendly Rio Mart, weird new Austin thrives with experimental music performances and punk shows.

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Super excited to be invited by the New York Academy of Science to present on the work of the Giga Cities collective. ... a good time to explore hype and satire now that His Most High Excellency, the Tsar of DOGE, Elon Musk has consolidated power. www.gigacitiescollective.net

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I have been waiting for a long time to see such an exciting project and set of collaborations: thetyee.ca/News/2023/08...

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