Because the speech was on LP in KZSC’s library, I used to make mixes of it for the amusement of Santa Cruz. The best one combined Henry Threadgill’s “Can’t Wait Til I Get Home” and instrumental mixes of Queen’s “We Will Rock You.”
How well did the horses swim?
The appropriate record for observing John Cale’s birthday this year is The Academy in Peril.
In "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology", @historiamagoria.bsky.social introduces a new tribute film that she recently released.
niche-canada.org/2026/03/06/t...
#envhist #histtech #cdnhist #genderhistory #history
This is the happiest Fugazi has made me since they helped WRCT pay off our transmitter. Top-shelf help the helpers people.
On this Bandcamp Friday, Fugazi have released these sessions with Steve Albini to benefit Letters to Charity. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
"Our curious leader is covered in sin /
And when I grow up you know I want to be like him." -Howard Devoto beggarsbanquet.bandcamp.com/track/our-cu...
Certainly it's consistent with what we've seen the past 35 years.
Why Larry Summers held any job in academic administration or policy after 1991 is beyond my understanding. Harvard's (more than charitable) summary of the World Bank memo on pollution. www.harvardmagazine.com/2001/05/toxi...
Interesting timing.
Said street has been "green" (plowed 0-1 hours ago) since I started monitoring the NYC Plow Map last night. plownyc.cityofnewyork.us/plownyc/
Woman and dog walk down the middle of the street on a very snowy morning in Brooklyn.
This morning’s dog walk made possible by DSNY’s constant plowing.
Spend some time with the Jackson Oral History Project to remember the life and work of Rev. Jesse Jackson. ctschicago.edu/jackson/
Is this a lab at MIT?
The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/701... Copper thefts affecting Little League baseball in California.
One of my favorite SCTV episodes was the writer's strike when bad soap actors portrayed by Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, and Andrea Martin suddenly had to improvise. archive.org/details/sctv...
Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...
In 1995, Congressional Republicans eliminated the Office of Technology Assessment - Congress' source of non-partisan scientific & technical advice. Now Republicans have fired or pushed _10,000_ PhD scientists out of the executive branch (over 100Kyrs of experience).
www.science.org/content/arti...
See also: anyone who says more training and banning masks for ICE would be enough for them to vote for increased DHS funding.
It isn’t enough. Those types of reforms make the violence easier to witness (from a far away position of privilege), but they don’t actually make it stop.
NEW: One of Pope Leo XIV’s top U.S. allies, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, is calling for the defunding of ICE.
Tobin says the “lawless organization” is a “machinery of death.”
This marks the first time a senior Church leader has called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.
A functioning democracy uses taxes to provide services to the people. Too often, critical services and the workers who perform them are not recognized. This video gives an idea of how sanitation workers serve New York residents.
Nation's largest nurses union repeats calls for ICE abolition, pledges to do "everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people."
It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
Every video I’ve seen directly contradicts the DHS narrative.
They say he approached the officers armed and ready to “massacre law enforcement.”
In reality, he was recording ICE then after they shoved a woman, he got in between them.
They then surrounded him and killed him.
If you are looking to understand the NRA's stance over the past year, Alexandra Filindra's book is a fine place to start. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Hard to deny this.
