spotted on the way to class today

As long as AI requires a massive waste of natural resources and theft from artists, there is no such thing as an ethical use of AI.

that fiber artistry and lacework and “women’s work” are what led to the invention of computer programming is so incredibly beautiful and makes me cry whenever i think about it

They blew up Ramia today. This beautiful, tiny village full of life that centers my ethnography of life-as-resistance through endless seasons of war in South Lebanon. On the left is a photo I took of Ramia and its marj in 2008 during my days of fieldwork there after the last war-

not these elementary school kids voting to name their school after the butch lesbian janitor who does the work of five men 😭

The internet is no longer forever. You need to become your own archivist for whatever you are passionate about, because at some point this decade there is going to be a major purge and I strongly suspect >80% of global digital content will simply disappear.

CLICK-IT LINE: We ask that you not cross our digital picket line by playing any of the NYT Games (Wordle, Connections) as well as not using the Cooking App. You can continue to read @Nytimes news content.

ELECTION DAY STRIKE: We are back out on the picket line today. We know this is a hard day to be on strike for our members but we want to be clear: We are here because of the decisions of @NYTimes management.

sorry to be this person but the tweets are starting. please do not leave minorities in red states behind , you have no idea how hard we fight every single day to win against gerrymandering and undemocratic supermajorities. every day is an uphill battle we cannot win w/o community

A WARNING TO THE TIMES: Tuesday, we will be returning to work, after a successful Election Week ULP Strike. We clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to The New York Times. And now we’ll move our fight inside.

Forensic Architecture put out a 827-page report analysing Israeli military actions, demonstrating in practice the genocide, and it's been largely ignored. Findings include: "Between 7 Oct 2023 and 30 June 2024 approximately 83% of all plant life in Gaza was destroyed."

chat gpt only functions because of the labor of africans who were paid as little as $2/day and one chat gpt query releases 50-90x the emissions of a google search so i don’t think chatgpt gets *enough* hate actually

We've long suspected that Spotify was recruiting fake artists and juicing them in its algorithm and placing them on the most popular playlists. Liz Pelly collected the internal docs + other evidence to finally prove it.

I don’t want to be alarmist, but the Trump administration refusing to enforce a 9-0 Supreme Court order against violations of due process is the thing. We keep hearing “fascism won’t announce when it’s happened” but this is it. If this goes through democracy is dead

From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: "What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process." Welp.