Jesus is ripped!
15.02.2026 14:00
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Jesus is ripped!
Finally a Mary looking as tired as your average new mother
It seems a little unfair to make saints Catherine and Barbara spend their lives carrying around things meant to remind them of their own torture and murder.
St Catherine holding something the size of a cat but which looks like a pocket chicken with a dragon face
I’m enamored with this lil’ guy
😂
Damn.
Devilishly cute!
Echoes of Paris, 1871
@eichnercarolyn.bsky.social
Really enjoyed presenting to Solidarity’s “Lesson’s of the Paris Commune” event this evening. Great audience, informed questions, super interesting discussion. solidarity-us.org/socialist_or...
I wish there was a book that covered all three of those areas
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Under the common law, the arguments that aliens had no rights, that alienage was heritable to the children (Butts v Penny, 1677) had justified slavery in the colonies.
The 14th amendment was intended to secure, by constitutional amendment, against any resurrection of these claims.
The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing.
Half-mast, my ass.
NEW: Judge Jenkins ruled that the Trump administration’s effort to force states to assist their mass deportation efforts was a violation of the 10th Amendment and states’ rights.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago and Gov. Pritzker over the state’s sanctuary policies, saying it’s an effort to encroach on state sovereignty.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Outstanding news!
Thank you, Briony! That is super nice of you!
Why is public media important? Turn on KEXP and you’ll see why, 24 hours a day, human curation, humanity, creativity and never ever compromising. Right now, the station is all Ozzy all day. Anyone who isn’t should shut down.
Oh, congratulations!!
It was so good to meet you! I am sorry we didn’t have a chance to really talk.
#GCFHSResist
Speaking today on “Up Against the Patriarchy: Louise Michel & the Embodiment of Resistance,” at the Global Consortium on French History Conference “Resist!” 🗃️ @sfhs.bsky.social @thewsfh.bsky.social
I know!
Thank you for this thread. It is absolutely on the mark. And thanks also for pointing out the insidious conflation of Jews and Zionism.
I never hear of this Communard Crémieux!
When Joe Biden referred to "shylocks" in 2014, the ADL admonished him. I look forward to seeing the group similarly criticize President Trump for using the term today.
The shocking thing about Trump tossing off a “shylock” slur is he pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories, said he needs accountants with “funny little hats,” does dual loyalty smears, openly speaks of Good Jews and Bad Jews, hired neo-Nazis, and more, and media still says he’s opposing antisemitism.
We are only going to see more of this thanks to the USAID draw down
Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process.
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH