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I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....
The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....
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The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!
The thing about the people who insist that AI will "revolutionise" my teaching in history classrooms if I would just be open-minded is that there is existing tech that I do already teach with.
I use digital mapping tools to map the Black Death, annotation technology, 3D printing to build exhibits.
I use digital mapping tools to map the Black Death, annotation technology, 3D printing to build exhibits.
September 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!
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rejecting AI isn’t a failure to prepare children for an “inevitable” future, it’s a vital statement of belief in our agency to chose a future for them, rather than letting it be dictated to us by a small group of the richest men, who are increasingly - I wish this was just hyperbole - openly fascist
I am so pleased we have Daniel Susskind writing for us today about LLMs, parenting and learning (and not just because he mentions my little project PlotLines). It’s essential we have informed, balanced dialogues about GenAI’s strengths and weaknesses www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI
A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
rejecting AI isn’t a failure to prepare children for an “inevitable” future, it’s a vital statement of belief in our agency to chose a future for them, rather than letting it be dictated to us by a small group of the richest men, who are increasingly - I wish this was just hyperbole - openly fascist
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
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We couldn't see this coming? The Kennedy Center is on the Potomac waterfront. He probably wants to put a crappy golf resort there. He's using slumlord tactics -- cause a property to degrade, then declare it derelict in order to circumvent laws governing what can/can't be done with it.
#KennedyCenter
#KennedyCenter
August 26, 2026 at 1:23 AM
We couldn't see this coming? The Kennedy Center is on the Potomac waterfront. He probably wants to put a crappy golf resort there. He's using slumlord tactics -- cause a property to degrade, then declare it derelict in order to circumvent laws governing what can/can't be done with it.
#KennedyCenter
#KennedyCenter
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Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
August 25, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
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Lmao "Um being an obsessive creep is actually Republican's culture and it's low-key problematic for you to make fun of it"
August 21, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Lmao "Um being an obsessive creep is actually Republican's culture and it's low-key problematic for you to make fun of it"
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So when you say:
"Don't sell through Amazon. Sell through bookshops."
What I hear is:
"Please surrender more than half of your already tiny income, because that makes me feel better about where I shop."
That's not solidarity with workers, Comrades.
"Don't sell through Amazon. Sell through bookshops."
What I hear is:
"Please surrender more than half of your already tiny income, because that makes me feel better about where I shop."
That's not solidarity with workers, Comrades.
August 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM
So when you say:
"Don't sell through Amazon. Sell through bookshops."
What I hear is:
"Please surrender more than half of your already tiny income, because that makes me feel better about where I shop."
That's not solidarity with workers, Comrades.
"Don't sell through Amazon. Sell through bookshops."
What I hear is:
"Please surrender more than half of your already tiny income, because that makes me feel better about where I shop."
That's not solidarity with workers, Comrades.
How do individuals protect ourselves against the fallout from this in our investments?
August 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
How do individuals protect ourselves against the fallout from this in our investments?
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Tales of everyday corruption.
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
August 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Tales of everyday corruption.
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Sometimes I’m reminded that many people still assume that the United States is still overwhelmingly the global leader and innovator in drone technology (both military and civilian), and hoo boy
August 7, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Sometimes I’m reminded that many people still assume that the United States is still overwhelmingly the global leader and innovator in drone technology (both military and civilian), and hoo boy
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Reminder: By these standards, the Epstein Files have to be a MASSIVE SCANDAL.
JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
August 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Reminder: By these standards, the Epstein Files have to be a MASSIVE SCANDAL.
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[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
July 30, 2026 at 6:21 PM
[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
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If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.
Funny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974
July 30, 2026 at 2:52 AM
If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.
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Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
March 17, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
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At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch.com
July 25, 2026 at 4:02 PM
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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sun tzu says shit like "don't set yourself on fire" and "feed your troops" and apparently those are lessons we have to keep re-learning.
June 17, 2026 at 2:11 AM
sun tzu says shit like "don't set yourself on fire" and "feed your troops" and apparently those are lessons we have to keep re-learning.
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While we’re on the subject, I also think it’s weird freak behavior to be an adult who makes Hating Children For Merely Existing their entire personality.
July 19, 2026 at 10:50 PM
While we’re on the subject, I also think it’s weird freak behavior to be an adult who makes Hating Children For Merely Existing their entire personality.
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Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
July 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
If Beshear fails to meet the deadline for calling a special election because of this obvious farce, he deserves to lose his governorship. Govern or step down.
July 17, 2026 at 8:11 PM
If Beshear fails to meet the deadline for calling a special election because of this obvious farce, he deserves to lose his governorship. Govern or step down.
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Trump's declassified election intelligence pretty clearly shows that China *could have,* but didn't, meddle in the 2020 election to help Biden win.
But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.
But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.
July 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Trump's declassified election intelligence pretty clearly shows that China *could have,* but didn't, meddle in the 2020 election to help Biden win.
But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.
But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.
Wow; a 5th-century East Germanic tribe snuck in and cut a 250-foot… 300-foot… 350-foot… 900-foot gash in a pool that is under 24-hour surveillance, without being spotted.
Trump: "We drained the beautiful 'Reflecting Pool' today in order to fix the scars and damage that was done by the Vandals 2 weeks ago. We wanted to wait until after July 4. The slashes were 300 yards long, and the floor of the pool was cut and then pulled upward, with great force, by these thugs."
July 14, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Wow; a 5th-century East Germanic tribe snuck in and cut a 250-foot… 300-foot… 350-foot… 900-foot gash in a pool that is under 24-hour surveillance, without being spotted.
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Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
www.404media.co/henrico-virg...
www.404media.co/henrico-virg...
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their…
www.404media.co
July 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
www.404media.co/henrico-virg...
www.404media.co/henrico-virg...
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i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
July 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
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Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
July 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.