Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
A lot of humanities maker spaces funnel back to traditional forms of scholarship (the essay, the monograph). I'm a part of that trajectory and glad for it. I'm also ready to think on what it would mean to count makings beyond canonical (or even primarily) linguistic forms as "on par" scholarship
It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.
It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.
I would not have guessed dice towers were this old
Skeuomorph Press continuing to be the absolute coolest.
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
The numbers are staggering:
Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.
Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.
LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.
there’s enough money to fund wars but apparently not enough to fund our educators & education system.
Due to personal reasons, I've decided to replace my hair with snakes & turn people who stare at me into stone.
1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
Peep show in a small box (about the size of a large index card, showing an author in a red coat, manuscript in his hand, dog at his side surveying the workings of a print shop.)
Today, thanks to the Houghton Library, I got to introduce students to an #18thcentury German peepshow showing the interior of a printing house. Take a peek! (It was hard to photograph & the photo fails to include the cat who joins the dog in the foreground as 1 of the spectators.)
#BookHistory
A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema. n.pr/3N9XSav
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.
I know there's a lot going on right now, but if you're voting in the Maine primary you should take a moment and read this about the "My 'not a Nazi T-shirt' is raising a lot of questions answered by my T-shirt" guy before casting your vote.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
call me a bleeding heart but i do not think the state should have the power to invalidate trans people’s identities and effectively imprison them. if you can’t legally drive in KANSAS how the hell are you meant to get anywhere
Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.
The British Museum photo shows a six-sided, cube-shaped die carved from rock crystal on a grey surface. The six sides are numbered one to six. The numbers are represented by circular incised markings, which comprise of a dark outer ring with a dark dot at the centre. Length: 9 - 13 millimetres, width: 9 - 13 millimetres. Display lighting casts a shadow beneath the die.
Timeless design!
Roman rock crystal gaming die marked one to six like modern dice 🎲 1st-2nd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
The way she talks about autism as "devastating to families" is really telling and super harmful. People like Casey view autism as a disease to be treated, and they view it through the "burden" it places on parents. Neurodivergence is not something acceptable to these eugenicists.
It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*
Phew! We can get more homework answers built more quickly for the homework factory. Those quarterly metrics for homework production aren’t going to meet themselves.
