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· Jan 28
Donate to Supporting Chris After His Mom's Unexpected Passing, organized by Chris Roberts
Dear Friends, Family, Community, and More
I am writing to let yo… Chris Roberts needs your support for Supporting Chris After His Mom's Unexpected Passing
gofund.me
gofund.me/2576c66f
Please share/circulate as you are able:
I am facing tough times after the sudden loss of my mom in June.
I am managing a lot on my own and need help with expenses. Please consider donating or sharing his GoFundMe.
It means a lot.
Please share/circulate as you are able:
I am facing tough times after the sudden loss of my mom in June.
I am managing a lot on my own and need help with expenses. Please consider donating or sharing his GoFundMe.
It means a lot.
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it's hard to process how “AI girlfriends” that engage in full-on porn are now normalised and readily available in app stores
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's hard to process how “AI girlfriends” that engage in full-on porn are now normalised and readily available in app stores
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Don't miss your chance to see our documentary tomorrow! baltimorebeat.com/watch-the-ba...
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Don't miss your chance to see our documentary tomorrow! baltimorebeat.com/watch-the-ba...
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‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Tightrope of Hope: Surrealism v. Fascism
The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“TikTok’s reliance on attention-grabbing short-form video content, coupled with apps like Sora 2, has made it far easier for non-Black creators and bot accounts to adopt racialized stereotypical Black personas using deepfakes.”
The Viral ‘DoorDash Girl’ Saga Unearthed a Nightmare for Black Creators
A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer. The deepfakes that followed reveal a growing digital blackface problem.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“TikTok’s reliance on attention-grabbing short-form video content, coupled with apps like Sora 2, has made it far easier for non-Black creators and bot accounts to adopt racialized stereotypical Black personas using deepfakes.”
This a great point. One of the consequences of our exorbitant celebrity culture is that we see famous people primarily through the lens of their fame. *Why* they are famous has become largely irrelevant when compared with the fact of their fame.
Hence, the celebrity is above all, a “famous” person.
Hence, the celebrity is above all, a “famous” person.
I actually think it’s okay to take a ridiculous scandal seriously when it involves a wingnut conspiracy theorist in charge of things like vaccine policy and pandemic preparedness
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
She never misses a beat, of course, but Marina's first paragraph this week is *chef's kiss*
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This a great point. One of the consequences of our exorbitant celebrity culture is that we see famous people primarily through the lens of their fame. *Why* they are famous has become largely irrelevant when compared with the fact of their fame.
Hence, the celebrity is above all, a “famous” person.
Hence, the celebrity is above all, a “famous” person.
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An Iranian professor for the University of Oklahoma was released by ICE after spending three days in detention for what the agency has deemed “standard questioning.” Vahid Abedini was on his way to the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. when he was arrested.
ICE Detains Iranian Professor for 3 Days for “Standard Questioning”
“It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had,” the scholar said.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
An Iranian professor for the University of Oklahoma was released by ICE after spending three days in detention for what the agency has deemed “standard questioning.” Vahid Abedini was on his way to the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. when he was arrested.
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It is with sadness that we learned that Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa racist massacre, has died at the age of 111. Learn more about this event here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It is with sadness that we learned that Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa racist massacre, has died at the age of 111. Learn more about this event here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...
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Metaferia is an Ethiopian American interdisciplinary and research-based artist. Her solo exhibition “Syntropy” is on view at Praise Shadows Art Gallery through Dec. 19. It will also be the final exhibition in the gallery’s Brookline space.
Artist Helina Metaferia infuses solo exhibit 'Syntrophy' with research and activism
Metaferia is an Ethiopian American interdisciplinary and research-based artist. Her solo exhibition “Syntropy” is on view at Praise Shadows Art Gallery through Dec. 19. It will also be the final exhib...
www.wbur.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Metaferia is an Ethiopian American interdisciplinary and research-based artist. Her solo exhibition “Syntropy” is on view at Praise Shadows Art Gallery through Dec. 19. It will also be the final exhibition in the gallery’s Brookline space.
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Full disclosure: I’ve lost nearly 40 paid subscribers since leaving Substack and this newsletter is 2/3 of my income. If you want to support an independent trans journalist, this is a great way to do so. bit.ly/ooylsagseaso...
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Full disclosure: I’ve lost nearly 40 paid subscribers since leaving Substack and this newsletter is 2/3 of my income. If you want to support an independent trans journalist, this is a great way to do so. bit.ly/ooylsagseaso...
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If you’ve been waiting to upgrade to a paid subscription to Out of Your League, now’s your chance! It’s my annual birthday-season sale! Also makes a great gift for your queer, sports-loving pal. bit.ly/ooylsagseaso...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you’ve been waiting to upgrade to a paid subscription to Out of Your League, now’s your chance! It’s my annual birthday-season sale! Also makes a great gift for your queer, sports-loving pal. bit.ly/ooylsagseaso...
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I took the K-12 student certification to see how it works. Sample question.
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I took the K-12 student certification to see how it works. Sample question.
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women in an SF jail were forced to strip while sheriff’s deputies watched and filmed on body cameras missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-s...
‘Nauseated’: S.F. supervisors demand action after alleged mass strip search of women in jail
Supervisors want action after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly strip searched en masse.
missionlocal.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
women in an SF jail were forced to strip while sheriff’s deputies watched and filmed on body cameras missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-s...
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If you missed the screening of the @baltimorebeat.bsky.social documentary last week, you have another chance coming up at Lexington Market! baltimorebeat.com/watch-the-ba...
Watch the Baltimore Beat Documentary with From Baltimore With Love
On November 29 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Lexington Market (112 N. Eutaw Street), watch an encore screening of Baltimore Beat’s documentary, “The Beat Goes On: The Story of Baltimore Beat” and celebrat...
baltimorebeat.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
If you missed the screening of the @baltimorebeat.bsky.social documentary last week, you have another chance coming up at Lexington Market! baltimorebeat.com/watch-the-ba...
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
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What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
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Letitia Wright, Simone Ledward-Boseman and Michael B. Jordan gather for the reveal of Chadwick Boseman’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
(via Variety)
(via Variety)
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Letitia Wright, Simone Ledward-Boseman and Michael B. Jordan gather for the reveal of Chadwick Boseman’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
(via Variety)
(via Variety)
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Since September, I’ve been back on campus to attend classes. But it feels very uncomfortable to pass by the roundabout. I still don’t understand how this could have happened, and why so much violence was necessary. Why were the police there, why was the dog there?’ www.voxweb.nl/bericht/stud...
Student bitten by police dog tells their story: 'My leg is permanently disfigured' - Vox magazine
During the police intervention on campus on May 7, a student was bitten in their left leg by a police dog. In September the student returned to campus with mixed emotions. 'I’m lucky I didn’t lose my ...
www.voxweb.nl
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Since September, I’ve been back on campus to attend classes. But it feels very uncomfortable to pass by the roundabout. I still don’t understand how this could have happened, and why so much violence was necessary. Why were the police there, why was the dog there?’ www.voxweb.nl/bericht/stud...
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Well worth a read. It’s so sad what AI is doing to students’ ability to think for themselves👇
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Well worth a read. It’s so sad what AI is doing to students’ ability to think for themselves👇
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🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Oregon program experiments with direct cash payments to assist homeless youth, the history and current fight of an Oregon farmworkers union and more.
Find a vendor in your neighborhood to purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Find a vendor in your neighborhood to purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Oregon program experiments with direct cash payments to assist homeless youth, the history and current fight of an Oregon farmworkers union and more.
Find a vendor in your neighborhood to purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Find a vendor in your neighborhood to purchase this week's issue: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
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Tickets for this virtual event are $5 (or free for low/no-income participants)
🗓️Monday, Dec. 1 at 4-5:30 PM ET: Join @haymarketbooks.org for this rescheduled virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with our co-founder
@dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social's Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts. Learn more join:
@dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social's Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts. Learn more join:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communitie...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Tickets for this virtual event are $5 (or free for low/no-income participants)
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"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”
one of the most predictable, and atrociously violent outcomes of all this incel shit.
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
one of the most predictable, and atrociously violent outcomes of all this incel shit.