China is expected to approve a sweeping "ethnic unity" law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights.
12.03.2026 03:00
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China is expected to approve a sweeping "ethnic unity" law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights.
Can’t stop laughing. Turned out there is something EU can do . And something for Venice Biennale to lose
Look at that.
www.reuters.com/lifestyle/eu...
Gonna send my cat to Grammarly. Imagine the shame density we could generate if we sent all the cats.
Still worth sending an email to expertoptout@superhuman.com saying you do not consent since Grammarly's language doesn't say it's gone for good
I think areas of preparation differ. Each generation gets different emphases. I found my students very good at identifying power structures, even silent and coercive ones. They especially excelled at thinking about competing motivations for actors (institutional, individual, or government).
Home security systems are safety theater. They make us feel like we’re in control, but they don’t actually reduce the risk of violence.
If anything, they’re a part of a broader, predatory industry that exploits our fears and *increases* the risk of violence to keep us spending money.
That's the trick of teaching as I see it: remembering what it's like not to know things and anticipating the questions students don't know they need to ask. A lot of colleagues have snipped about how long it takes students to do basic assignments, but everything takes longer when you're new to it.
I mean, actually they do. Everybody enters the world in ignorance. If we've been here a while, we have a responsibility to teach them. My college students generally didn't come to higher ed with a developed sense of genre, so it became part of my curriculum.
SJSU is a great place. It's a place where people can make their dreams come true.
This video of the damages to the Chehel Sotoun palace in Isfahan is hard to watch. The finest example of Safavid architecture, the palace is a marvel of art & architecture that has survived more than 400 years. It is unbelievable that the “most moral army in the world” has cared so little about it.
Always fun to unexpectly see a friend cited in research. Is this the academic equivalent of your sports team scoring? I feel like cheering
If you like Ethiopian food, you must visit Oakland
SJSU is also the alma mater of artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and playright Luis Valdez!
Go, SJSU! (which, I might note is the oldest public university in the western US, an animation powerhouse, as well as the alma mater of Amy Tan, not just "a college about an hour’s drive south of San Francisco")
This and all the clutch pearl culture war issues I’ve lived through barely survived one election cycle and set cause so much damage before they die
4 silver scaled fish, half pointed left, half pointed right in an ordinary earthenware glazed dish. Glassy dead eyes, glinting multicolored scales. Fabulous painting.
Detail of fish from Velázquez's Christ in the House of Mary adn Martha, 1618, oil on canvas. London, National Gallery
5x6 grid of colored squares on white wall
Detail Of colored square reveals multicolored handmade dots in a grid making up the variegated color of each one
The regularity perceived derives from the variations of the hand colored enamel dots.
Jennifer Bartlett, Binary Combinations, 1971. Part of the feminist “Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection” exhibition at @bampfa.bsky.social
Brb, going to the grocery store now
elaborate gold headdress w/ double hoop earrings. Round gold forms, feathers, leaves, three shooting stars off the top of the head. ELABORATE.
Still looking for a place to wear this.
Headdress worn by attendant to Queen Puabi. Ancient Sumerian, c. 2550 BCE. Discovered Royal Cemetary Ur, Iraq but held currently at the British Museum, London.
Gavin Newsom vetoed a 2023 bill that would have stopped the unscrupulous practice of county governments using foster children's benefit checks (e.g. social security survivor benefits) to reimburse themselves.
The bill was sponsored by @ib2real.bsky.social, himself a former foster child.
I voted for blue!
Terrible all around. The ICE suicide betting incentivizes torturing people for a monetary payout. Like admin officials betting on wars they can influence. It’s very direct.
I was thinking about the Christian condemnation of the Roma solders who drew lots for Christ’s clothes and how much worse the incentive to torture someone to suicide via betting.
Good case study. I'm glad it's in the curriculum! And I know I'm annoying about books, but seriously, what beats the codex?? Freaking fantastic technology with very minimal fail rate. Losing 1 page doesn't wreck the whole thing. Scrolls could never. And electronics, scared of sodas.
The ancient technology modern tech bros don’t want you to know: [click through to article] the CODEX.
I think precious few people, on either side of the US two party divide, think, truly, that children are people. :-(
