Mihaela Pacurar
@mihaelapacurar.bsky.social
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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
October 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
www.chron.com
September 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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“Humanity has never faced a more deadly carrier of disease and bacteria than children, and their total removal is a massive medical breakthrough and a milestone in the management of illness in this country,” — Jane Christiansen, CDC spokesperson
CDC Successfully Eradicates Children
ATLANTA—Hailing its success as a major victory for the public health and safety of all Americans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday that it had successfully eradicated ch...
theonion.com
September 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM
“Humanity has never faced a more deadly carrier of disease and bacteria than children, and their total removal is a massive medical breakthrough and a milestone in the management of illness in this country,” — Jane Christiansen, CDC spokesperson
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100% This world of nation-states is utterly and structurally incapable of responding to climate emergencies. Instead, it maintains the enormous inequities between rich and poor (within and across nation-states) and, in so doing, it fuels climate disasters, literally.
We need another system
We need another system
This planet will live for millions and millions, billions more years.
What we're collectively doing is threatening our time on it.
The glacial ice and land that separated, crossed international borders. Because nothing else besides us cares about our differences and borders. #Nepal #ClimateSky
What we're collectively doing is threatening our time on it.
The glacial ice and land that separated, crossed international borders. Because nothing else besides us cares about our differences and borders. #Nepal #ClimateSky
What caused Nepal flood? Scientist says it was enormous landslide, glacier fall
An "enormous" landslide that triggered the fall of at least part of a glacier down the Himalayas caused the severe flash floods that devastated Nepal Wednesday.
abcnews.com
August 28, 2026 at 7:41 PM
100% This world of nation-states is utterly and structurally incapable of responding to climate emergencies. Instead, it maintains the enormous inequities between rich and poor (within and across nation-states) and, in so doing, it fuels climate disasters, literally.
We need another system
We need another system
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The last time men forced women back into the kitchen we put shrimp in Jello. We’ll do it again!
August 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The last time men forced women back into the kitchen we put shrimp in Jello. We’ll do it again!
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Numbers update:
The history class I’m about to teach this semester has a 10% larger enrollment and university tuition is also 10% higher than two years ago.
My class will generate about $160,000 of revenue for the university. My pay will be under $7K or approximately 4%.
Humanities fund uni sport
The history class I’m about to teach this semester has a 10% larger enrollment and university tuition is also 10% higher than two years ago.
My class will generate about $160,000 of revenue for the university. My pay will be under $7K or approximately 4%.
Humanities fund uni sport
August 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Numbers update:
The history class I’m about to teach this semester has a 10% larger enrollment and university tuition is also 10% higher than two years ago.
My class will generate about $160,000 of revenue for the university. My pay will be under $7K or approximately 4%.
Humanities fund uni sport
The history class I’m about to teach this semester has a 10% larger enrollment and university tuition is also 10% higher than two years ago.
My class will generate about $160,000 of revenue for the university. My pay will be under $7K or approximately 4%.
Humanities fund uni sport
When you dismantle the design team and try to replace it with an unpaid intern (and call that “we’re hiring”)
Harvard University Press Marketing and Design Intern — Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press seeks a creative, detail-oriented Marketing and Design Intern for Summer and Fall 2026. This role supports the digital marketing and design teams in promoting HUP books and au...
www.hup.harvard.edu
August 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
When you dismantle the design team and try to replace it with an unpaid intern (and call that “we’re hiring”)
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This is why Dems are reluctant to run on retribution, despite its popularity. They want the power he accrued and the surveillance infrastructure he formalized. Period.
July 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
This is why Dems are reluctant to run on retribution, despite its popularity. They want the power he accrued and the surveillance infrastructure he formalized. Period.
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We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away
July 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM
We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away
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the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...
May 25, 2026 at 8:44 AM
the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...
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Google was once so good it became a verb and now is at best an inconvenience
May 19, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Google was once so good it became a verb and now is at best an inconvenience
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What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online:
The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it.
It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it.
It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
May 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online:
The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it.
It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it.
It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Every time a man kills his family I am reminded how little this country cares about children. Not here, and certainly not overseas, where we're bombing schools or supporting other regimes that also bomb schools and traumatize while generations en masse
April 20, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Every time a man kills his family I am reminded how little this country cares about children. Not here, and certainly not overseas, where we're bombing schools or supporting other regimes that also bomb schools and traumatize while generations en masse
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Minnesota authorities say they are investigating federal agents for possible criminal charges, including kidnapping, after they pulled a St. Paul man out of his home in January into below-zero windchill wearing nothing but boxers and Crocs.
Ramsey County investigating federal agents for possible kidnapping charges in Hmong man’s detainment
The agents pulled Scott Thao from his St. Paul house in his underwear when the windchill was below zero.
bit.ly
April 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Minnesota authorities say they are investigating federal agents for possible criminal charges, including kidnapping, after they pulled a St. Paul man out of his home in January into below-zero windchill wearing nothing but boxers and Crocs.
Viktor Orbán to join Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
April 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Sarah Jaffe interviewing Kathleen Weeks in Dissent last week: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
April 5, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Sarah Jaffe interviewing Kathleen Weeks in Dissent last week: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”
April 7, 2026 at 12:49 PM
do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”
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This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others.
It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.
It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.
The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM
This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others.
It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.
It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.
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Kill your heroes. Kill your gods. Keep their ideals. Help the living.
March 18, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Kill your heroes. Kill your gods. Keep their ideals. Help the living.
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“[AFA-CWA] said it may be happening now on other airlines without the crew's knowledge. ‘At a very minimum, we believe airlines must demand notice, then must advise crew, and must ensure they are not helping the government violate constitutional rights,’ the union said.”
EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance video obtained by an activist shows Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being taken to a detention center in Texas via a Delta Airlines flight, the morning after ICE allegedly used the boy as bait.
gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...
gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...
Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.
gillianbrockell.com
March 16, 2026 at 1:26 PM
“[AFA-CWA] said it may be happening now on other airlines without the crew's knowledge. ‘At a very minimum, we believe airlines must demand notice, then must advise crew, and must ensure they are not helping the government violate constitutional rights,’ the union said.”
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I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
so its gonna be in the 70s this week and then next week its back to the 30s? what the fuck
March 9, 2026 at 4:09 AM
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
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Also, isn't *every* Pixar movie basically therapy?
The full WSJ article getting passed around is bewildering. They cut gay elements from Elio because "We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy," and it lost $100 million.
Inside Out 2, which is a movie about a teen girl's feelings, was their biggest hit at $1.7 billion.
Inside Out 2, which is a movie about a teen girl's feelings, was their biggest hit at $1.7 billion.
March 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Also, isn't *every* Pixar movie basically therapy?