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we’re told to value cohesion right up until someone asks to be paid, housed, or listened to.
as long as “social cohesion” is indistinguishable from “shut up and do what you’re told” the *only* moral response is to refuse.
as long as “social cohesion” is indistinguishable from “shut up and do what you’re told” the *only* moral response is to refuse.
February 10, 2026 at 1:54 AM
we’re told to value cohesion right up until someone asks to be paid, housed, or listened to.
as long as “social cohesion” is indistinguishable from “shut up and do what you’re told” the *only* moral response is to refuse.
as long as “social cohesion” is indistinguishable from “shut up and do what you’re told” the *only* moral response is to refuse.
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Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages?
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages?
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Yes!
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Yes!
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For MAGA, this form of cross-racial solidarity and anti-authoritarian “neighborism” is acutely dangerous. Trumpism as a political project stipulates that whiteness would override other forms of solidarity. If not, then what do they have to offer with their vastly destructive policies?
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
For MAGA, this form of cross-racial solidarity and anti-authoritarian “neighborism” is acutely dangerous. Trumpism as a political project stipulates that whiteness would override other forms of solidarity. If not, then what do they have to offer with their vastly destructive policies?
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I saw this painting for the first time at Somerset House (Zak Ové's Get Up, Stand Up show) and it stuck with me.
The Cotton Bowl, 2011
Hank Willis Thomas 🖼🎨
The Cotton Bowl, 2011
Hank Willis Thomas 🖼🎨
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I saw this painting for the first time at Somerset House (Zak Ové's Get Up, Stand Up show) and it stuck with me.
The Cotton Bowl, 2011
Hank Willis Thomas 🖼🎨
The Cotton Bowl, 2011
Hank Willis Thomas 🖼🎨
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Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing
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A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
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I think he probably disdains it because it goes against the idea of this place he doesn’t want to exist: that people live publicly, together & care about public services.
February 9, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I think he probably disdains it because it goes against the idea of this place he doesn’t want to exist: that people live publicly, together & care about public services.
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This article too! There's so much stepping up going on, it's incredible. www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...
The Women Holding Minneapolis Together
In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the fron...
www.glamour.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This article too! There's so much stepping up going on, it's incredible. www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...
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The underfunding of social infrastructure has also led the philanthropic/nonprofit sector in the US to grow to fill in the gaps. And while supporting that sector might seem like a way for privileged people to do good with their money, it gives privileged people huge power over that sector, as well.
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The underfunding of social infrastructure has also led the philanthropic/nonprofit sector in the US to grow to fill in the gaps. And while supporting that sector might seem like a way for privileged people to do good with their money, it gives privileged people huge power over that sector, as well.
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In the US, and because of how we underfund social infrastructure, public institutions are heavily privilege dependent--their reputations and resources hinge on the support they get from affluent (White) people, which hinges on letting those people break rules.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Avoiding Us versus Them: How Schools’ Dependence on Privileged “Helicopter” Parents Influences Enforcement of Rules - Jessica McCrory Calarco, 2020
As privilege-dependent organizations, U.S. public schools have an interest in catering to higher-SES White families. But, what happens when privileged families’...
journals.sagepub.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
In the US, and because of how we underfund social infrastructure, public institutions are heavily privilege dependent--their reputations and resources hinge on the support they get from affluent (White) people, which hinges on letting those people break rules.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Having spent almost two decades studying how US institutions cater to people with privilege, this does not surprise me at all.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.
As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
www.politico.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Having spent almost two decades studying how US institutions cater to people with privilege, this does not surprise me at all.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Trump negotiators don’t approach Russia-Ukraine talks as “if we can get Russia to stop attacking, then there will be peace.” They approach it as “if we can get Ukraine to surrender, then we can make a lot of money.”
⚡️Zelensky says Russia presented $12 trillion economic plan to US, called 'Dmitriev package.'
President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as a proposed framework for large-scale U.S.-Russia economic cooperation.
President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as a proposed framework for large-scale U.S.-Russia economic cooperation.
Zelensky warns of 'risk' US, Russia could strike bilateral deals on Ukraine without Kyiv
"We clearly state that Ukraine will not support even potential agreements about us without us," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
kyivindependent.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Trump negotiators don’t approach Russia-Ukraine talks as “if we can get Russia to stop attacking, then there will be peace.” They approach it as “if we can get Ukraine to surrender, then we can make a lot of money.”
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From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality
It is common to hear that Americans no longer inhabit a shared reality. To a large extent this is true, especially in an era of social media manipulation, but we did not share a reality in simpler …
lithub.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
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Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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We’ve been freaking out about this over here. Not least because HOW they figured it out is so cool.
Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk in the UK. buff.ly/1miYEUJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
We’ve been freaking out about this over here. Not least because HOW they figured it out is so cool.
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Sex between faculty and undergraduates was permitted and tacitly encouraged. He berated a consent activist. Title IX proceedings were known to have his scorn. He personally intervened on behalf of male students accused of violence against women, including the man who murdered my friend Caroline.
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Sex between faculty and undergraduates was permitted and tacitly encouraged. He berated a consent activist. Title IX proceedings were known to have his scorn. He personally intervened on behalf of male students accused of violence against women, including the man who murdered my friend Caroline.
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Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
A $50,000 Watch and Friendly Notes: One College Leader’s Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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Say what you want about the doctor-to-wellness-podcaster community, they will rise up to support a fellow bro.
Well... maybe not *directly* support him but just... meekly imply that only mentally unwell people expect powerful men to be held accountable.
Well... maybe not *directly* support him but just... meekly imply that only mentally unwell people expect powerful men to be held accountable.
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Say what you want about the doctor-to-wellness-podcaster community, they will rise up to support a fellow bro.
Well... maybe not *directly* support him but just... meekly imply that only mentally unwell people expect powerful men to be held accountable.
Well... maybe not *directly* support him but just... meekly imply that only mentally unwell people expect powerful men to be held accountable.
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If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick!
The back story on the way physical interventions to block virus transmission have been hacked as a side effect of power struggles in the information space is something that could have come out of one of your books, too.
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The back story on the way physical interventions to block virus transmission have been hacked as a side effect of power struggles in the information space is something that could have come out of one of your books, too.
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Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
Inquiring Minds 03: Mark Ungrin - Science, Pseudoscience and Public Policy
YouTube video by Deep River Public Library
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick!
The back story on the way physical interventions to block virus transmission have been hacked as a side effect of power struggles in the information space is something that could have come out of one of your books, too.
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The back story on the way physical interventions to block virus transmission have been hacked as a side effect of power struggles in the information space is something that could have come out of one of your books, too.
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Diana 🫳🏻🎤
Repeat this over and over and over.
Repeat this over and over and over.
And yet the Ford government will take over multiple school boards on the premise that they have mismanaged their finances.
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Diana 🫳🏻🎤
Repeat this over and over and over.
Repeat this over and over and over.
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Bad Bunny and Sir Ian McKellen and Anoushka Shankar all reminding us this week, in very different ways, just how important art is for a progressive future.
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Bad Bunny and Sir Ian McKellen and Anoushka Shankar all reminding us this week, in very different ways, just how important art is for a progressive future.
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"That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking....power is in our ability to think with each other"
Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:
www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
@themaybe.org
@alixdunn.com
Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:
www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
@themaybe.org
@alixdunn.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
"That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking....power is in our ability to think with each other"
Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:
www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
@themaybe.org
@alixdunn.com
Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:
www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
@themaybe.org
@alixdunn.com