UCLA just sent riot police to beat up students who were screening a movie about how schools like UCLA sent riot police to beat up students supporting Palestine, on the one-year anniversary of UCLA calling riot police to beat up students supporting Palestine.
BREAKING: Prop 1A, the Seattle initiative that will implement a new tax on wealthy corporations to fund affordable social housing, is winning with 57.6% of the vote, according to preliminary election results.
Kudos to the Seattle Times. Many journalists I know have been waiting 2+ years on requests without answer. This causing harm to the public and their right to access information that belongs to them, and impeding accountability.
I don’t think people are connecting Chat GPT to the rise in fascism via creating a populace who’ve been propagandized on anti-intellectualism and against critical thinking. The more uneducated a populous is, the more malleable and easily manipulated they are.
THREAD. Something important is happening in U.S. media that I think is getting insufficient attention, and the controversy around the Los Angeles Times refusing to endorse Kamala Harris amidst her support of an ongoing genocide gets at it.
EXCLUSIVE: DIDIM, Turkey — Members of the Eygi family spoke to The Daily, remembering Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi for her dauntless commitment to humanitarian causes (via @schwaarzy)
https://t.co/IheLPMhOtY
Class time: Let's use the Overton Window to discuss how pagers-as-booby-traps is really bad for humanity, and how journalists are already failing at this basic test of ethics and morality.
All this NaNoWriMo stuff has got me good and angry, so here's a brief🧵on why I hate AI in writing. Like many authors, I had my brain utterly rewired by genre fiction in my teens, and from about the age of 12 I suffered the constant and urgent compulsion to write fiction.
1. I literally don’t even know who the @nytimes is for. Canceling my subscription, finally
If you want accurate coverage of Israel / Palestine + the Middle East at large, I recommend the following outlets:
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN was released 42 years ago this week. Acclaimed as the best entry in the Star Trek film series, and featuring one of the biggest movie deaths, the story behind the scenes doesn’t believe in no-win scenarios…
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