Deborah YZ
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Let's see what happens. Social media, like many things, dosage really matters.
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Making waves:
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
🧪
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Making waves:
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
🧪
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
🧪
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This is so good. So inspired by Coates. Particularly to see a guy with such a huge brain leading with his heart.
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is so good. So inspired by Coates. Particularly to see a guy with such a huge brain leading with his heart.
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Refusing to Choose Is a Choice. “You can say ‘all are welcome,’ but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves.” [kottke.org]
Refusing to Choose Is a Choice
I recently found this quote on social media and quite liked the sentiment:
You can say “all are welcome,” but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves. The smart sheep will go somewhere
kottke.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Refusing to Choose Is a Choice. “You can say ‘all are welcome,’ but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves.” [kottke.org]
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i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view
September 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view
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The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
presswatchers.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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If you’re in the Bay Area (and even beyond), just a heads up that the new community space we’re opening up in Oakland has opened up memberships ahead of our October open.
We’ve got so much good programming on tap.
Way more info here:
www.thelocaleconomy.com
We’ve got so much good programming on tap.
Way more info here:
www.thelocaleconomy.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you’re in the Bay Area (and even beyond), just a heads up that the new community space we’re opening up in Oakland has opened up memberships ahead of our October open.
We’ve got so much good programming on tap.
Way more info here:
www.thelocaleconomy.com
We’ve got so much good programming on tap.
Way more info here:
www.thelocaleconomy.com
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I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine
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my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Ruth Asawa at SF MoMA. What a Queen
June 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Ruth Asawa at SF MoMA. What a Queen
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👍🏻✊🏻🙃 Good
@nickkristof.bsky.social on proven, specific,viral anti-autocracy resistance methods around the world. Like mockery & humor, focusing on corruption and individual victims. And how non-politicians (e.g Walesa, Havel, Aquino) become movement leaders. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
@nickkristof.bsky.social on proven, specific,viral anti-autocracy resistance methods around the world. Like mockery & humor, focusing on corruption and individual victims. And how non-politicians (e.g Walesa, Havel, Aquino) become movement leaders. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
👍🏻✊🏻🙃 Good
@nickkristof.bsky.social on proven, specific,viral anti-autocracy resistance methods around the world. Like mockery & humor, focusing on corruption and individual victims. And how non-politicians (e.g Walesa, Havel, Aquino) become movement leaders. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
@nickkristof.bsky.social on proven, specific,viral anti-autocracy resistance methods around the world. Like mockery & humor, focusing on corruption and individual victims. And how non-politicians (e.g Walesa, Havel, Aquino) become movement leaders. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
Behold, this amazing group of ladies who just won @npr.org Tiny Desk competition: youtu.be/IBOPNgYJ9_w?...
Ruby Ibarra - Bakunawa ft. Ouida, Han Han & June Millington (Live) Tiny Desk 2025
YouTube video by Ruby Ibarra
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May 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Behold, this amazing group of ladies who just won @npr.org Tiny Desk competition: youtu.be/IBOPNgYJ9_w?...
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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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Always a good idea. Also, working for public institutions like museums, libraries, schools.
If you want to make a positive difference in the world, consider working in state or municipal govt or running for local office. There has never been a better or more critical time
May 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Always a good idea. Also, working for public institutions like museums, libraries, schools.
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April 30th is International Jazz Day. Why not try the following:
1. head to thejazztome.info
2. click on a year
3. click on a cool looking album cover
4. click "listen to this album"
5. read about the album you're hearing
Jazz fandom offers an incredible payoff to the curious. #jazzsky #musicsky
1. head to thejazztome.info
2. click on a year
3. click on a cool looking album cover
4. click "listen to this album"
5. read about the album you're hearing
Jazz fandom offers an incredible payoff to the curious. #jazzsky #musicsky
The Jazz Tome – Jazz liner notes, reviews, and ephemera
thejazztome.info
April 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
April 30th is International Jazz Day. Why not try the following:
1. head to thejazztome.info
2. click on a year
3. click on a cool looking album cover
4. click "listen to this album"
5. read about the album you're hearing
Jazz fandom offers an incredible payoff to the curious. #jazzsky #musicsky
1. head to thejazztome.info
2. click on a year
3. click on a cool looking album cover
4. click "listen to this album"
5. read about the album you're hearing
Jazz fandom offers an incredible payoff to the curious. #jazzsky #musicsky
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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
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The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #earthday #climatechange
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #earthday #climatechange
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Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?
April 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?
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The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be All. “Now that lunacy has installed itself in Washington for the next four years, the time has finally come for Europe to once again try its hand at hosting the spirit of the age.” (via @jeffjarvis.bsky.social) [zeit.de]
Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All
Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.
www.zeit.de
March 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be All. “Now that lunacy has installed itself in Washington for the next four years, the time has finally come for Europe to once again try its hand at hosting the spirit of the age.” (via @jeffjarvis.bsky.social) [zeit.de]
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To preserve our humanity, I think it's important to be offline more. The truth is we can get all the news we need in one or two sittings a day, and then decide what to do about it, one day at a time. Platforms like this one can be helpful, but like everything else in life, dosage matters!
March 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
To preserve our humanity, I think it's important to be offline more. The truth is we can get all the news we need in one or two sittings a day, and then decide what to do about it, one day at a time. Platforms like this one can be helpful, but like everything else in life, dosage matters!
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Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
February 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...