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Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.
Reno’s Gay Rodeo is back - High Country News
Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.
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6/ The human cost of South Africa's wars was catastrophic:
One study estimated over 1.5 million dead, over half of them children under five; half the populations of Mozambique & Angola displaced; and tens of billions in economic destruction that set the countries back decades.
One study estimated over 1.5 million dead, over half of them children under five; half the populations of Mozambique & Angola displaced; and tens of billions in economic destruction that set the countries back decades.
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
6/ The human cost of South Africa's wars was catastrophic:
One study estimated over 1.5 million dead, over half of them children under five; half the populations of Mozambique & Angola displaced; and tens of billions in economic destruction that set the countries back decades.
One study estimated over 1.5 million dead, over half of them children under five; half the populations of Mozambique & Angola displaced; and tens of billions in economic destruction that set the countries back decades.
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5/ All of this was enabled by powerful Western states.
The US, UK, France, and West Germany saw Pretoria as a bulwark against the Soviets and provided political cover, strategic alignment, and the necessary resources for South Africa’s military machine to operate.
The US, UK, France, and West Germany saw Pretoria as a bulwark against the Soviets and provided political cover, strategic alignment, and the necessary resources for South Africa’s military machine to operate.
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
5/ All of this was enabled by powerful Western states.
The US, UK, France, and West Germany saw Pretoria as a bulwark against the Soviets and provided political cover, strategic alignment, and the necessary resources for South Africa’s military machine to operate.
The US, UK, France, and West Germany saw Pretoria as a bulwark against the Soviets and provided political cover, strategic alignment, and the necessary resources for South Africa’s military machine to operate.
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Apartheid South Africa waged endless regional wars under a “total strategy,” claiming it was fighting the Soviets while feeding off Western backing.
Israel now does the same with Iran.
But Pretoria’s militarism only brought isolation, economic strain & accelerated collapse.
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Israel now does the same with Iran.
But Pretoria’s militarism only brought isolation, economic strain & accelerated collapse.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Apartheid South Africa waged endless regional wars under a “total strategy,” claiming it was fighting the Soviets while feeding off Western backing.
Israel now does the same with Iran.
But Pretoria’s militarism only brought isolation, economic strain & accelerated collapse.
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Israel now does the same with Iran.
But Pretoria’s militarism only brought isolation, economic strain & accelerated collapse.
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I will never forgive those who aided this. Quislings, careerist, cowards.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I will never forgive those who aided this. Quislings, careerist, cowards.
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Israeli forces raided a Syrian village and opened fire when they were confronted by residents on Friday, killing at least 13 people, Syrian officials said, in the deadliest Israeli attack since its troops seized a swath of southern Syria a year ago.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
Israeli forces kill at least 13 people in southern Syria raid, officials and residents say
Israeli forces have raided a village in southern Syria, killing at least 13 people, according to Syrian officials.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Israeli forces raided a Syrian village and opened fire when they were confronted by residents on Friday, killing at least 13 people, Syrian officials said, in the deadliest Israeli attack since its troops seized a swath of southern Syria a year ago.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
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I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
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Mohammed Ibrahim is free!
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
“Israel is the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes children in military courts, according to a 2013 Unicef report.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
“Israel is the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes children in military courts, according to a 2013 Unicef report.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mohammed Ibrahim is free!
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
“Israel is the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes children in military courts, according to a 2013 Unicef report.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
“Israel is the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes children in military courts, according to a 2013 Unicef report.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I was lucky enough to go hear Arlo in concert a couple of times in late 80s, early 90s. I have good parents.
It’s been 60 yrs since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.👮🏻♂️
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
It's been 60 years since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.
Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massachusetts 60 years ago and his tale became the unnofficial song of Thanksgiving.
www.boston.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I was lucky enough to go hear Arlo in concert a couple of times in late 80s, early 90s. I have good parents.
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It’s been 60 yrs since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.👮🏻♂️
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
It's been 60 years since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.
Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massachusetts 60 years ago and his tale became the unnofficial song of Thanksgiving.
www.boston.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It’s been 60 yrs since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.👮🏻♂️
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
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I returned to Watt’s legacy this summer in a separate piece that recalls the “wise use” agenda, a framework of resource dominance that effectively laid the groundwork for Project 2025’s approach to federal lands and waters.
bsky.app/profile/dust...
bsky.app/profile/dust...
The sagebrush rebel revival, my latest in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...
The sagebrush rebel revival
Dustin Mulvaney traces the current deregulatory bonanza that the Trump administration has unleashed on public lands and waters to the Wise Use movement of the 1980s and the Sagebrush Rebellion that pr...
thebulletin.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I returned to Watt’s legacy this summer in a separate piece that recalls the “wise use” agenda, a framework of resource dominance that effectively laid the groundwork for Project 2025’s approach to federal lands and waters.
bsky.app/profile/dust...
bsky.app/profile/dust...
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your reminder that the jewish federations and other pro-israel groups were the actual impetus behind the government’s forced sale of tiktok to a major donor to friends of the idf
Why is Sarah Hurwitz suddenly doing so many media hits and why is every single one of them basically a caricature of the pro Israel view?
"I'm sorry if this is a graphic thing to say, but … when I'm trying to make arguments in favor for Israel … I'm talking through a wall of dead children."
"I'm sorry if this is a graphic thing to say, but … when I'm trying to make arguments in favor for Israel … I'm talking through a wall of dead children."
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
your reminder that the jewish federations and other pro-israel groups were the actual impetus behind the government’s forced sale of tiktok to a major donor to friends of the idf
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Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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MSF denounces yet more bloodshed in #Gaza.
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
MSF denounces yet more bloodshed in #Gaza.
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
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Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Whenever I'm down on the cowardice and idiocy of TTU, I can remember that at least it isn't this place. A perfect clip. wait for the guest speaker...
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Whenever I'm down on the cowardice and idiocy of TTU, I can remember that at least it isn't this place. A perfect clip. wait for the guest speaker...
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#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
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University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
academicjobsonline.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
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academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
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In Idaho's Clarkia fossil beds, ~15-million-yr-old leaves are sandwiched between rock. When exposed, the leaves momentarily retain their original colors—red, copper, sometimes even a chlorophyllic hue—before oxidizing and fading.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Idaho's Clarkia fossil beds, ~15-million-yr-old leaves are sandwiched between rock. When exposed, the leaves momentarily retain their original colors—red, copper, sometimes even a chlorophyllic hue—before oxidizing and fading.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
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When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
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But that is a different thread.
My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
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My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
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November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
But that is a different thread.
My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
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My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Didn't realize he's an AI hustler too, just evil upon evil
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Didn't realize he's an AI hustler too, just evil upon evil