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A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten, starved, and sexualized—sparking fears of a new Elsagate wave. wired.com/story/dozens-o…

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 is what established Corporation for Public Broadcasting – go read it – nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

If the Trump admin succeeds in undoing Constitutional checks and balances to dramatically expand executive power, his team and the GOP will never allow an election process that could put a Democrat in the oval office. True conservatives would resist this along with true patriots

wow. a pretty amazing, accurate and hallucinatory attempt to capture the feel of the Trump moment. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

The U.S. has a $300B annual trade surplus in services. Movies are a service. Putting tariffs on services opens a massive can of worms where we would simply be hurting our service exporters (Netflix, Google, Goldman Sachs, Skadden Arps, etc.) in exchange for nothing.

going to the US in this day and age means getting your shots...measles, flu, etc...

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadumit…

Abstract for my seminar at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT) on Wed 11th June. "Drawing on Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality', this talk will argue that an important role for the contemporary university is to resist AI..." danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract.…

Harvard University set to launch FREE college courses online for every US Citizen. Highlighting basic U.S. Government, understanding the Constitution, and How to recognize a Dictatorship takeover 101. Harvard University.

Lovely essay that explores how “the repetitive reproduction of the past brings about the slow cancellation of future”.  How pause & reflection have become revolutionary acts in an AI driven culture that valorizes “the eternalisation of present” through suspension of temporality.

crypto bros complaining their strump purchases didn't by them direct access. They want more corruption. Basically complaining that trumps price is too high. Next time try a plane.

This is one of the signs that the era of state interception of private communication is giving way to an era of full integration between state and platform surveillance theintercept.com/2025/05/22/int…

Al Jazeera English The same people planning to rummage through foreign students' social media, looking for 'wrong speech.' MAGA; free speech for me, but not for thee. thetimes.com/us/american-po…

Something so sad about this. Administration using this child for media coverage even as it cuts the medical research funding at the institution where his doctors develop experimental treatments like the ones that helped keep him alive. usatoday.com/story/news/edu…

Providing historical context isn’t exactly a strength of mainstream news outlets but this is what they should be doing every time