Part 1 (of hopefully no more than 2) of a history of inflatable architecture up now. medium.com/archival-fut...
Inflatable Architecture: A Brief-ish History of Buildings Supported by Air (Part 1)
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, architects, artists, and countercultural collectives seemed to simultaneously become captivated by the…
medium.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Part 1 (of hopefully no more than 2) of a history of inflatable architecture up now. medium.com/archival-fut...
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🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy:
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
FINAL DRAFT, How to Archive a Protest Zine.pdf
drive.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy:
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
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LAST SHOW OF THE YEAR: What's on these #VHS tapes? Could there be commercials, home movies, weird stuff? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live at 7pm EST on Twitch.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
LAST SHOW OF THE YEAR: What's on these #VHS tapes? Could there be commercials, home movies, weird stuff? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live at 7pm EST on Twitch.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
finally optimized my YouTube recs to the perfect smooth mix of abandoned house explorer vids, makeup tutorials, and rallycross behind the wheel POVs w/ an emphasis on Michèle Mouton archive footage. Occasionally a software tutorial throws a wrench in the algorithmic works.
youtu.be/KBP9aqbzERs?...
youtu.be/KBP9aqbzERs?...
Michèle Mouton REACTS to her Victory at the 1982 WRC Acropolis Rally
YouTube video by DirtFish
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
finally optimized my YouTube recs to the perfect smooth mix of abandoned house explorer vids, makeup tutorials, and rallycross behind the wheel POVs w/ an emphasis on Michèle Mouton archive footage. Occasionally a software tutorial throws a wrench in the algorithmic works.
youtu.be/KBP9aqbzERs?...
youtu.be/KBP9aqbzERs?...
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@katelynburns.com has a fantastic article about the OU essay scandal. This includes tweets from the essay authors mother calling for trans people to be kicked out of academia. It is important to acknowledge the trans issues within this scandal & how the right
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
@katelynburns.com has a fantastic article about the OU essay scandal. This includes tweets from the essay authors mother calling for trans people to be kicked out of academia. It is important to acknowledge the trans issues within this scandal & how the right
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization
22 years after the victory against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, what can we learn from the networks that gave rise to that movement?
crimethinc.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Germany has the most data centres in Europe — but the boom is pushing its energy grid to breaking point. In hotspots like Frankfurt, power is already maxed out, reports Sarah-Indra Jungblut. Read our new investigation with AlgorithmWatch!
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buff.ly/oyFTK8k
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Germany has the most data centres in Europe — but the boom is pushing its energy grid to breaking point. In hotspots like Frankfurt, power is already maxed out, reports Sarah-Indra Jungblut. Read our new investigation with AlgorithmWatch!
buff.ly/oyFTK8k
buff.ly/oyFTK8k
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New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
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A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...
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Another aspect of all this New School chaos: when 87% of your classes are taught by adjuncts – already a culture of overwhelming precarity – these 🪓 just exacerbate an already pervasive instability. I have friends directing pgms who have no idea how to respond to + care for their adjunct colleagues.
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Another aspect of all this New School chaos: when 87% of your classes are taught by adjuncts – already a culture of overwhelming precarity – these 🪓 just exacerbate an already pervasive instability. I have friends directing pgms who have no idea how to respond to + care for their adjunct colleagues.
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I'm sure I'm not the only person to say this, but just look at the new org chart ontology here: school funding under the Dept of Labor, conveying that education is solely abt job training; language programs under the State Dept because statecraft is of course why we learn languages...
The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. https://to.pbs.org/4a1sm7z
Education Department offloads programs to other agencies as Trump accelerates plan for its closure
The Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.
www.pbs.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I'm sure I'm not the only person to say this, but just look at the new org chart ontology here: school funding under the Dept of Labor, conveying that education is solely abt job training; language programs under the State Dept because statecraft is of course why we learn languages...
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Think about how much of that scholarship was enabled by funding from institutions like the NEH, the NPS, and the Smithsonian, all gutted by Trump, and (relatively) extant academic job & funding opportunities for people to do the work (all basically gone now).
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Think about how much of that scholarship was enabled by funding from institutions like the NEH, the NPS, and the Smithsonian, all gutted by Trump, and (relatively) extant academic job & funding opportunities for people to do the work (all basically gone now).
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The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
It’s getting colder which means it’s time for me to notice that a distressing number of people don’t know that you’re supposed to cut the threads that hold the vent closed on the back of a new coat.
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It’s getting colder which means it’s time for me to notice that a distressing number of people don’t know that you’re supposed to cut the threads that hold the vent closed on the back of a new coat.
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Higher education is exactly the same.
Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Higher education is exactly the same.
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Every sector of the 🇺🇸 economy & polity is exactly like this. Ronald Reagan & his lazy, selfish, juvenile talking point & his acolytes’ worn copies of Atlas Shrugged have done untold damage to our politics & society.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Every sector of the 🇺🇸 economy & polity is exactly like this. Ronald Reagan & his lazy, selfish, juvenile talking point & his acolytes’ worn copies of Atlas Shrugged have done untold damage to our politics & society.
"Since taking power, the Trump administration has created a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S....
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Since taking power, the Trump administration has created a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S....
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Videos show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Videos show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Some cell-site simulators may have advanced features allowing law enforcement to intercept communications. "
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Some cell-site simulators may have advanced features allowing law enforcement to intercept communications. "
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and without needing to involve the phone company at all. Cell-site simulators can also log IMSI numbers, (International Mobile Subscriber Identifiers) unique to each SIM card, of all of the mobile devices within a given area.
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
and without needing to involve the phone company at all. Cell-site simulators can also log IMSI numbers, (International Mobile Subscriber Identifiers) unique to each SIM card, of all of the mobile devices within a given area.
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Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general search of all cell phones within the device’s radius, in violation of basic constitutional protections. Law enforcement use cell-site simulators to pinpoint the location of phones with greater accuracy than phone companies
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general search of all cell phones within the device’s radius, in violation of basic constitutional protections. Law enforcement use cell-site simulators to pinpoint the location of phones with greater accuracy than phone companies