@freefall.bsky.social
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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the price of train tickets in the united states is nauseating after experiencing a country with good rail infrastructure
October 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
the price of train tickets in the united states is nauseating after experiencing a country with good rail infrastructure
No travel experience more unpredictable in comfort or hospitality than the @amtrak.com replacement bus, yeesh
October 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
No travel experience more unpredictable in comfort or hospitality than the @amtrak.com replacement bus, yeesh
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Historical novel about Black Revolutionary War veteran Ichabod Twilight when?
If that’s not a name for a well-researched Bildungsroman, IDK what is
If that’s not a name for a well-researched Bildungsroman, IDK what is
October 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Historical novel about Black Revolutionary War veteran Ichabod Twilight when?
If that’s not a name for a well-researched Bildungsroman, IDK what is
If that’s not a name for a well-researched Bildungsroman, IDK what is
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Morning walk
Touching grass is not enough
I need a runaway truck ramp
I need a runaway truck ramp
September 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Touching grass is not enough
I need a runaway truck ramp
I need a runaway truck ramp
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For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.
See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
Click on the link to the ToC text, go to your Account - top right (as In sure you know), scroll down and delete away
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.
See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
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I know there’s a lot of horrors to fight but if you have bandwidth I can personally attest that PSLF is literally life-changing and it by design benefits people working for the public good (and not just educators!). It’s only been a handful of years since Biden-era changes made it actually WORK.
The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service
A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I know there’s a lot of horrors to fight but if you have bandwidth I can personally attest that PSLF is literally life-changing and it by design benefits people working for the public good (and not just educators!). It’s only been a handful of years since Biden-era changes made it actually WORK.
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Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
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Ok, first post!
Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile - Ja Soa Schmarrn (number 81/100)
This is an Edward Ka-Spel project. The record is allegedly playable, but we've had this for nearly 30 years and we haven't played it, at least not that I can recall. More info here: www.discogs.com/release/1705...
Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile - Ja Soa Schmarrn (number 81/100)
This is an Edward Ka-Spel project. The record is allegedly playable, but we've had this for nearly 30 years and we haven't played it, at least not that I can recall. More info here: www.discogs.com/release/1705...
July 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ok, first post!
Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile - Ja Soa Schmarrn (number 81/100)
This is an Edward Ka-Spel project. The record is allegedly playable, but we've had this for nearly 30 years and we haven't played it, at least not that I can recall. More info here: www.discogs.com/release/1705...
Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile - Ja Soa Schmarrn (number 81/100)
This is an Edward Ka-Spel project. The record is allegedly playable, but we've had this for nearly 30 years and we haven't played it, at least not that I can recall. More info here: www.discogs.com/release/1705...
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yuniya edi kwon and amazingly talented friends performing the world premiere of _silver through the grass like nothing_, a meditation on illness, bardo, and Buddhist śarīra, at the Monheim Triennale.
July 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
yuniya edi kwon and amazingly talented friends performing the world premiere of _silver through the grass like nothing_, a meditation on illness, bardo, and Buddhist śarīra, at the Monheim Triennale.
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is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
June 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
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Have you ever seen a Tibetan typewriter? This one is held at the Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde of the University of Vienna - and it's still in working order! Read our latest blog post for the full story and a close-up view.
www.bdrc.io/blog/2025/06...
www.bdrc.io/blog/2025/06...
June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Have you ever seen a Tibetan typewriter? This one is held at the Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde of the University of Vienna - and it's still in working order! Read our latest blog post for the full story and a close-up view.
www.bdrc.io/blog/2025/06...
www.bdrc.io/blog/2025/06...
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You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.
June 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.
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Ordinary Germans did not come out in numbers to try to block the troops taking their Jewish neighbors away, so this moment is giving me a lot of hope and pride. Americans aren't ready to capitulate to fascism
June 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ordinary Germans did not come out in numbers to try to block the troops taking their Jewish neighbors away, so this moment is giving me a lot of hope and pride. Americans aren't ready to capitulate to fascism
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no no, this is correct and good. let it cook.
June 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
no no, this is correct and good. let it cook.
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ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans
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whistlebloweraid.org
June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans
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I wrote a thing! about hysterectomy and human flourishing and @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social’s new book
I don’t know how many of you wanted to know things about my rectum, but @mpgphd.bsky.social did, so there
getting Marie Kondo involved was her idea, I am living for it
I don’t know how many of you wanted to know things about my rectum, but @mpgphd.bsky.social did, so there
getting Marie Kondo involved was her idea, I am living for it
there are no words for how delighted I am to share this @lissaharris.bsky.social for @religiondispatches.org piece with y'all
check out our review of @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social's forthcoming (real soon) *Get It Out*!!
religiondispatches.org/since-youve-...
check out our review of @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social's forthcoming (real soon) *Get It Out*!!
religiondispatches.org/since-youve-...
Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of 'Choice'
Last I checked, my uterus was in a jar in Schenectady. An ignoble end for a thing that was once burdened with glorious purpose, like an old prizewinning racehorse going off to the glue factory. It’s b...
religiondispatches.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I wrote a thing! about hysterectomy and human flourishing and @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social’s new book
I don’t know how many of you wanted to know things about my rectum, but @mpgphd.bsky.social did, so there
getting Marie Kondo involved was her idea, I am living for it
I don’t know how many of you wanted to know things about my rectum, but @mpgphd.bsky.social did, so there
getting Marie Kondo involved was her idea, I am living for it
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TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
ok then... deleted all our songs that we uploaded to Soundcloud and now closing account:
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
(open the link and search for the word "train")
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
(open the link and search for the word "train")
Terms of Use - Listen to music
soundcloud.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
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Anyang Museum in Henan Province finished restoration on a local tomb mural depicting a black and white cat (note the bell collar!).
Belonging to official Zhao Yigong, the tomb was completed in 829 CE; it's thought to be the earliest Chinese tomb mural of a domestic cat.
#caturday
Belonging to official Zhao Yigong, the tomb was completed in 829 CE; it's thought to be the earliest Chinese tomb mural of a domestic cat.
#caturday
April 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Anyang Museum in Henan Province finished restoration on a local tomb mural depicting a black and white cat (note the bell collar!).
Belonging to official Zhao Yigong, the tomb was completed in 829 CE; it's thought to be the earliest Chinese tomb mural of a domestic cat.
#caturday
Belonging to official Zhao Yigong, the tomb was completed in 829 CE; it's thought to be the earliest Chinese tomb mural of a domestic cat.
#caturday