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Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 36 minutes ago • 26 comments

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

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DPLA is transitioning its metadata aggregation work to the Free Library of Philadelphia -- Is there a news item somewhere with any details? In the latest DPLA newsletter there's a tease in the subject line but just an oblique mention in the fourth bullet point: dp.la/news/%f0%9f%...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 19 hours ago • 215 comments

When it comes to targeting immigrants, the administration wants as many numbers as it can get and for those numbers to be as big as possible. They don’t care if the numbers are inflated, quite the opposite. They don’t care about potential value; they care about the immediate value of The Numbers.

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Yep. The narrative is “we are kicking out criminals,” and they don’t care if the “criminals” are grad students who got a speeding ticket. They seriously appear to be running some kind of script that runs foreign students against law-enforcement databases and auto-terminates if there’s a match.

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

submitted 21 hours ago • 353 comments

this photo of a charred haggadah (the book jews use at the passover seder) from governor shapiro’s house breaks my heart. www.thedailybeast.com/pictures-cap...

submitted 20 hours ago • 57 comments

It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

submitted 20 hours ago • 60 comments

I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b...

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.

submitted 1 day ago • 556 comments

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

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"We walk among you, but you do not 👀 us. We are your neighbors, but you do not know us. We work with you, but you do not respect us. We are the silent majority, the undervalued + underrepresented, the stoic + strong. We are the ppl who buy Red Delicious 🍎, and we are done living in the shadows."

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New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state. Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

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"What if the ambition @ the ❤️ of communications technology was not to steer our systems away from noise, but to respond to perturbations + disturbances with something like curiosity? How might our relationship to noise — as an antidote to our rush to “solve” + “settle” — become a signal itself?"

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"The Philadelphia School District’s plans of becoming a national leader in reviving a nearly extinct system of school libraries + certified school librarians now appears to be in jeopardy," thanks to Trump's gutting of the Institute for Museum + Library Services

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...the Franklinia Alatamaha... disappeared in the wilds of coastal GA, saved from total extinction only by its living descendants [at Bartram's Gardens]... Centuries later, the still extinct-in-the-wild 🌳 will soon decorate the front garden of Carpenters’ Hall, home of the 1st Continental Congress."

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Such a fascinating project: adaptive reuse transforming steel mills into quantum computing facilities — speculative technologies-meets-speculative-real-estate-development promising disenfranchised communities a brighter future, new architectural typologies evoking different infrastructural eras...

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Elon Musk seems to have the US Marshals Service on his team. Marshals have: --helped DOGE get inside a federal agency --prodded judges to move faster on Jan. 6 cases --deputized Musk's private security team I talked with experts about why this is unusual www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

I mostly don't care abt (or actively dislike) AI/art stuff, but this is an interesting insight? "In the kind of painting that interests me, the edge is one of the main events, one of the signifiers of the painter's painterly intelligence" + style... The machine 'simply has no idea what an edge is'"

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I learned through Blackbird Spyplane abt this exhibition on the "spatial dynamics of penal environments" — Prison Times — @ Milan Design Week. It's good to understand the whole (increasingly lucrative!) industrial complex and know who's involved, but the "showroom"-style display feels fetishistic

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Looks like a ⭐ show at the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social: The title "refers to the 2nd Int'l Congress on Education of the Deaf, held in Milan in 1880[, where participants decided] that oral education - [communicating] through lip reading and speech - should replace sign language in Deaf schools."

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The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now, The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

I've been preparing this all week, and I'm 🤗 to have a project that includes Arendt, Sara Ahmed, Trump's Mar-a-Lago dinner bribes + tiny desk theatrics, Eric Adams' Table of Success, gifs of the tablecloth trick, French barricades, the Iftar table, and the DC Public Library's District Catalogue :)

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"The Prado hopes that actually knowing exactly how many people are in these crowded scenes will help us better understand these paintings" As I said in a lecture I gave at Miami Uni yesterday, projects such as this are neither devised to answer art historical questions, nor will they. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Afghan women in the U.S. are going to be deported back into the arms of the Taliban. This is monstrous. www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Uncountable scientific papers, patents, full classrooms, new ideas, new startups, new communities, new music, new art, new ideas, leaders and parents and founders and Americans, erased by one sad dipshit who can't stand to be in the company of his betters

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There has never been and never will be a birthrate induced shortage of human beings on this planet. There are many reasons one might want children, as I do. It is simply not the case that anyone in particular has a responsibility to consider having children to perpetuate the existence of humanity.

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Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

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