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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...
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Donate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene Dong
Hello everyone, my name is Irene. I'm writing this on behalf of my friend, fellow MIT studen… Irene Dong needs your support for Help Matthew Graduate From MIT
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
No more new Wiseman movies. Kind of can't believe it 💔
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wondering if anyone knows of any on-site organizing near detention centers to connect non-English-speaking people who've been detained, moved across state lines, and then released in the middle of nowhere--in, for example, rural Texas or Louisiana--with translators, resources, ways to get back home?
Many of those released after questioning have been left on the streets of Texas without money and identification, which were confiscated by authorities. Family and friends have tried to help them make their way back home.
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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Jazmine Ulloa

Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Call the Hudson River Park Trust & tell them to terminate their contract with ICE to house vans in their parking garage. I had to call a few times but finally got through. Person who picked up was supportive and is tracking # of calls! 212-627-2020 hellgatenyc.com/hudson-river... @hellgatenyc.com
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Hudson River Park Lets ICE Park Vans at Pier 40
A contract with the Trump administration has been a windfall for the park—plus more stories for your Wednesday.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
They're emboldened by their movement confreres in ICE and CBP. In NYC the community education council members pushing anti-trans school policies are Moms for Liberty activists whose other pet projects are segregation in schools, anti-"CRT," and book bans. ICE raid footage is inspo for them.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Magnificent
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I've been teaching @jpbrammer.bsky.social's excellent essay "Angry Person" in my composition class for a couple years now. Really tempted to switch to this one in the spring.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/01/2026
Want to help people in Minneapolis right now? Here are a lot of ways to help!
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@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A family member let me know about this church that is packing food boxes for families in the Twin Cities that can’t go to work because of the ICE invasion. Please join me in donating: www.dhhmn.com
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Página Principal | Dios Habla Hoy (DHH Church)
Dios Habla Hoy es una iglesia cristiana en Minneapolis que ofrece orientación espiritual, enseñanzas bíblicas y eventos comunitarios en inglés y español.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Absolutely. The context, in part, is increasing class sizes as the uni was defunded by the previous mayoral admin. Overburdened instructors, scrapped job protections. Just highlights genAI's role as a tool for dematerializing and controlling labor under the pretext of meeting very real needs
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
One of dozens of mentions in Schulman's ACT UP history of the NYT's active role in minimizing the AIDS epidemic and dehumanizing gays and activists. From there to Judith Miller to "Screams Without Words" to literally supplying language for anti-trans legislation, this is who they've always been
A photo in Sarah Schulman's history of ACT UP, "Let the Record Show," of a 1989 ACT UP protest against the NYT. The caption quotes the leaflet distributed at the protest: "Why did the Times, in its June 29 editorial (Why Make AIDS Worse Than It Is?) dismiss a new federal study finding a 33% under-reportage of AIDS infections in the US? This callous editorial assured its general readership that AIDS will be over soon, once infected members of undesirable risk groups die off."
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
These aren't mutually exclusive categories. Many trans women are lesbians. Many trans men are gay men (👋🏻). And yes, trans women are targeted with particular venom and intensity. But the idea that transmasc people aren't under threat is a fiction. "Irreversible Damage" etc.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app
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MTV REWIND - I Want My MTV
Celebrating 44 years of continuous music videos. Stream classic music videos 24/7.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
My first viewing of 2026 was Hud (1963), a gorgeous neo-Western whose rotten-to-the-core title character (Paul Newman, mesmerizing), at one point says, "This whole country's run on epidemics"
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'll be watching the livestream in my longjohns ☕
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Really touched by this. What a wonderful choice
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Donna Feledichuk Photographer 🇨🇦 @dfphotography.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Here is my most favourite photo of 2025. I’ve come to describe my images as capturing the moments between the moments. This image a pause in play, a small paw reaching up, tiny claws extended is absolute trust. I find these moments tell the story best. #bear #brownbear #wildlifephotography #Alaska
A brown bear cub reaching for its mom
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I had a surgery consult I'd waited 2.5 years for and also happened to land a job with an insurance plan this surgeon accepts
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Have you seen Return to Seoul? Curious what you might think
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of ELIZA, on questions regarding scientists' responsibility to the public
"There are as many ways to state these basic questions as there are starting points for coping with them. At bottom they are about nothing less than man's place in the universe. But I am professionally trained only in computer science, which is to say (in all seriousness) that I am extremely poorly educated; I can mount neither the competence, nor the courage, nor even the chutzpah, to write on the grand scale actually demanded. I therefore grapple with questions that couple more directly to the concerns I have expressed, and hope that their larger implications will emerge spontaneously."
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice in Chains
American Water by the Silver Jews. An illustration of a pink road surrounded by and stretching into a black landscape, the horizon low beneath a grey sky.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I now get why "It's not worth it bruv" is the transatlantic standard for fight deescalation. It actually works! Just intervened in a fight in my neighborhood park. 20 minutes of talking to both guys as they kept goading each other. Only thing that consistently cooled the temp was "It's not worth it"
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Randi Weingarten's account labeled "Harper's Signatory"
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952): Well I can't make love to a bush!
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Sara Brinton @sarabrinton.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I'm remembering this story, a particularly bizarre and cackhanded instance of this tendency: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Click through for phone numbers and scripts demanding Yuanxin and Fei's immediate reunification and release
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Trans people need to be careful about talking about DIY. Yes talk about it in the general sense, quote the facts and figures but be careful. Don't give away sources to cis folks. Don't talk to journalists about the details. They're coming for it.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Can't remember who said "We fund what we value, we police what we don't," but after a recent English dept email exchange about using genAI to "support" students with accommodations I'm thinking, "we shove genAI into what we don't, resulting in more policing in those arenas and of everyone."
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Totally. Ideally music streaming would be a public utility that enables user curation without collecting user data. In the meantime I want any company that collaborates with mass deportation and the rest of this fascist agenda to feel pain.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Really happy with my switch to Qobuz. They pay artists well, aren't doing evil shit, specialize in high-res audio, their collection seems as good as any platform's, and they easily transfer your library/playlists over. Plus they're human-centered! Playlists and reviews & write-ups by actual people
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Immigration Coalition @immigcoalition.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
STILL MISSING!! The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location. WHERE IS YUANXIN? Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation." Not my book, but I worked on it as an editor. Dazzling, acrobatic scholarship.
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Depth Effects by Brooke Belisle - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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claudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Kind of creating an "advising moment" for vulnerable educators who surely don't need this particular lesson at this particular moment
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
True. I'm seeing responses that redirect the negation to a different audience: Frame: This instructor graded in a discriminatory way Negation: The instructor's standards were fair but she should have known better than to apply them to this type of student--and you, reader, should know better too
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It's interesting to watch people who were collectively so impressed by the message discipline displayed by a currently ascendant leftist politician so utterly fail not to waltz into an obvious trap
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Yes. Another instance of the left's lack of message discipline/failure to understand the rhetorical occasion. Drives me (a trans academic w/plenty of opinions re grading) up the wall. The right doesn't voluntarily concede on procedural details, not when the stakes are this high, or frankly ever.
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
And 2) "The empty brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer"
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
So good. And would make a great trio of readings on the fundamentally embodied nature of consciousness/cognition/"intelligence" with these two pre-chatgpt essays: 1) "Artificial intelligence research may have hit a dead end"
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Why A.I. research may be going down a dead end
"Misfired" neurons might be a brain feature, not a bug — and that's something A.I. theories can't take into account
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de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 25/11/2025
this is mesmerizing
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
But it’s also, frankly, extremely NYT for these writers and their editor not to have proceeded in this particular instance from a basic principle of editorial necessity coupled with a duty to preserve these highly vulnerable interviewees’ dignity. 9/9
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
NYT's stylebook apparently doesn’t include guidance on this area (as many style guides do when it comes to when it’s appropriate or necessary to mention a subject’s gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.). 8/
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
That this info is publicly accessible through DOCCS is beside the point: this particular story is just a completely inappropriate and distortive rhetorical context for reporting this information. And privacy is all about when, how, and by whom something lived becomes information. 7/
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It’s basically ensuring that the first Google result a potential employer pulls up will be a story in the paper of record that includes a conviction history. More broadly, it proceeds from and guarantees the notion that incarcerated people are not entitled to privacy. 6/
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James @thelaterjames.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
While some papers are doing important work with the “right to be forgotten”—fielding requests by people with arrest records to remove their names from archived stories about their arrest—others like the NYT are pulling this harmful, retrograde shit. 5/
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