nanaslugdiva
@nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app
The gold standard of Black. Also an academic in the social sciences.
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Age verification? My first game console was Intellivision.
Age verification? My first game console was Atari
Age verification? My first computer game was zork.
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Age verification? My first game console was Intellivision.
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making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert
February 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June
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I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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If anyone has a grade 1-5 teacher in your network who is a Luddite or AI Hater and who would be willing to be interviewed for Season 2 of the podcast, please put them in touch! Our DMs are open. The guest can be anonymous, as we know that it can be dangerous to speak out against AI in these times. 😞
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 AM
If anyone has a grade 1-5 teacher in your network who is a Luddite or AI Hater and who would be willing to be interviewed for Season 2 of the podcast, please put them in touch! Our DMs are open. The guest can be anonymous, as we know that it can be dangerous to speak out against AI in these times. 😞
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"In Irvine, California, ICE is moving into offices located next to a childcare agency. In New York, ICE is moving into offices on Long Island near a passport center. In a wealthy community near Houston, Texas, ICE appears poised to move into an office building blocks away from a preschool."
NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that ICE has or plans to open more than 150 facilities around the US, in nearly every state, many near major metro areas. @leahfeiger.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
"In Irvine, California, ICE is moving into offices located next to a childcare agency. In New York, ICE is moving into offices on Long Island near a passport center. In a wealthy community near Houston, Texas, ICE appears poised to move into an office building blocks away from a preschool."
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New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
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Ring's security defaults were so bad for a while, and people's cameras were being hacked so regularly that hackers on Discord created a "podcast" where they would hack into people's Ring cameras and terrorize people's children through the built-in microphones
www.vice.com/en/article/p...
www.vice.com/en/article/p...
Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air
In the NulledCast hackers livestream the harassment of Ring camera owners after accessing their devices. Hundreds of people can listen.
www.vice.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Ring's security defaults were so bad for a while, and people's cameras were being hacked so regularly that hackers on Discord created a "podcast" where they would hack into people's Ring cameras and terrorize people's children through the built-in microphones
www.vice.com/en/article/p...
www.vice.com/en/article/p...
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have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
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We are standing up against Oklahoma Governor Kevin Sitt's executive order that proposes to end tenure.
"We don't want our faculty to be controlled by whims of the government. We want them to follow truth and inquiry."
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social
"We don't want our faculty to be controlled by whims of the government. We want them to follow truth and inquiry."
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social
Oklahoma professors oppose Gov. Kevin Stitt’s order ending tenure
Oklahoma professors are strongly opposing Gov. Kevin Stitt's executive order that restricts tenure at regional universities and community colleges, fearing it will limit academic freedom and lead to…
www.4029tv.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
We are standing up against Oklahoma Governor Kevin Sitt's executive order that proposes to end tenure.
"We don't want our faculty to be controlled by whims of the government. We want them to follow truth and inquiry."
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social
"We don't want our faculty to be controlled by whims of the government. We want them to follow truth and inquiry."
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social
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Howard Lutnick must resign as Commerce Secretary because he lied about his close dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. After Epstein’s sex trafficking conviction, Lutnick went into business with him! Of course there are many other reasons why Lutnick is unfit for public office, as this thread shows. 1/7🧵🧵🧵
Howard Lutnick, Trump's commerce secretary, faces calls to resign over Epstein ties
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a key member of President Trump's Cabinet, is facing calls to resign over new revelations about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
abcnews.go.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Howard Lutnick must resign as Commerce Secretary because he lied about his close dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. After Epstein’s sex trafficking conviction, Lutnick went into business with him! Of course there are many other reasons why Lutnick is unfit for public office, as this thread shows. 1/7🧵🧵🧵
Age verification? I still know how to use a rotary phone.
Age verification? I used to use one of these to open up a can of Hawaiian Punch like it was motor oil.
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Age verification? I still know how to use a rotary phone.
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Innocent people are rotting in these camps for months in horrible conditions, for no reason at all except to satisfy the sadism of that bald asshole. This is who we're supposed to negotiate Reasonable Guardrails with
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Innocent people are rotting in these camps for months in horrible conditions, for no reason at all except to satisfy the sadism of that bald asshole. This is who we're supposed to negotiate Reasonable Guardrails with
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Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
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He's that young CEO guy from Alien: Earth!! Omfg lol
mr beast would secretly smuggle a xenomorph to earth
February 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM
He's that young CEO guy from Alien: Earth!! Omfg lol
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There's a kind of intellectual malaise among a certain kind of socialist that just doesn't understand automation and I think probably comes from not having worked much on or around it.
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
This is the smart person’s “if wishes were horses.” Morozov repeatedly asserts that technologies have politics but he chooses to overlook here that technologies do also have material properties that circumscribe their politics. www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
Socialism After AI - The Ideas Letter
Morozov argues that socialist attempts to harness AI have merely treated it like earlier tools of capitalist production—as a neutral instrument that can simply be redirected. In fact, he says,…
www.theideasletter.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:37 AM
There's a kind of intellectual malaise among a certain kind of socialist that just doesn't understand automation and I think probably comes from not having worked much on or around it.
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
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What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.
“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.
I love how Black protestants were at 7% last year & still at 7%.
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 AM
I love how Black protestants were at 7% last year & still at 7%.
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Extremely or very confident Donald Trump acts ethically in office
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Extremely or very confident Donald Trump acts ethically in office
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
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I think the people at Columbia who enabled this, including the admin that Mahmoud Khalil implored to protect him and who at best did nothing, at worst entrapped him, should be ostracized.
Columbia will never be free of this stain.
When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 AM
I think the people at Columbia who enabled this, including the admin that Mahmoud Khalil implored to protect him and who at best did nothing, at worst entrapped him, should be ostracized.
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"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
Very annoyed at the people who decided to open the floodgates to online sports betting, it is absolutely a scourge. Great piece from Gabrielle Gurley on people spending hours a day on these predatory apps.
The Scourge of Online Sports Betting - The American Prospect
States and leagues must face up to the damage from app-based gambling for the next generation of bettors, most of them young men.
prospect.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
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If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
February 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
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