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• Post #4077456

  The whole column is worth reading, but just to expand a little on this comment about why the racist right is in such a frenzy about the #TheOdyssey cast: "[Black people don't belong, because] The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. SO MUCH work went into constructing this view of a "Western Civilization" stretching from the ancient Mediterranean (or even Mesopotamia) to the northern European/American present, much of it carried out...

• Post #3918958

  "A Harvard researcher who studies gambling regulation said it takes five to seven years after legalization for a country to become “painfully aware of all the misery that increased access wreaks on public health, public finances, and so on.” We’re at year seven, so, I suppose we’re right on time." - from Hanna Horvath https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-is-ruining-your-life-even #OnlineBetting #Gambling #SportsBetting #SCOTUS #Capitalism

• Post #3824547

  Journalist Steven Thrasher, PhD (The Viral Underclass, The Overseer Class) is suing Northwestern University and the US Government after NU terminated his appointment as the Daniel Renberg Chair for (ahem) Social Justice following GOP (and apparently trustee) pressure over his actions in solidarity with #Gaza and campus #GazaSolidarity protests. The Dean of the Journalism School and all of Northwestern's administration look like cowards and lickspittles in the face of threats to #AcademicFr...

• Post #3312748

  Trump's name is off the Kennedy Center, but it is prominently displayed at The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, open now in D.C.. Courtesy of the Institute for Primary Facts, the Trump-Epstein Reading Room displays all the currently available, partially redacted, Epstein files, bound into 3,437 volumes. You can confront the extent of the information our "justice" system has refused to act on, share thoughts on a response wall, call the DOJ directly, and se...

• Post #3084537

  So #Anthropic #AI is not only stealing author's work, it's destroying physical #books to do so. Anthropic is not the "good guy" of AI; it's just total contempt for human labor and creativity all the way down. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/inside-project-panama-2-million-books-scanned-and-destroyed-by-anthropic-ai-to-train-machines/articleshow/127870832.cms

• Post #3084536

  The American Historical Association has produced Authoritarianism 101: a series of modules on the #history of global #authoritarianism, including Practices of Authoritarianism, #Resisting Authoritarianism, and Visual Cultures of Authoritarianism, based on primary sources and expertise from #histodons throughout the world. Includes #LatinAmerica, #USPol, #Italy, #Germany, #Poland, #France, #Nigeria, #Japan, and many more. Designed for classroom teaching, but can also be perused by anyone interes...

• Post #2534331

  The #ProPublica Guild is asking supporters to send a letter to Paul Sagan, chair of the Pro Publica board, to direct senior management to agree to a fair contract - link below to send a letter, including suggested text (although I wrote my own). https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-propublicas-board-that-you-stand-with-its-workers #journalism

• Post #1900397

  From the editors of the Daily Pennsylvanian (UPenn's student newspaper): "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it." https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/03/penn-ai-dominance-education #AI #HigherEd

• Post #1869899

  One of several #MayDay events in #StLouis today - at Grace United Methodist on Skinker. Lots of support from drivers and pedestrians! #StL

• Post #1837796

  Workers at U.S. universities are joining the #MayDay action! Faculty and Graduate Student Unions are demanding "Fund Education, Not War and Deportation". More information and a list of events here - including by WashU's grad student union in #StLouis https://www.labor4highered.org/ #HigherEd #Labor #EpsteinBallroom #StL

• Post #1001750

  From independent journalist Marisa Kabas: "We must stem the idea being pushed by tech companies and their billionaire funders who’ve sunk too much into their products to admit defeat that the infiltration of AI into journalism is inevitable; because from my perch as an independent journalist, it simply is not." https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-to-accept-big-tech-s-ai-poisoned-future-of-journalism #AI #GenAI #journalism

• Post #701193

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